Direct Access feature was introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Client computers. Direct Access overcomes the limitations of VPNs by automatically establishing a bi-directional connection from client computers to the corporate network so...

  This Guide will explain the detailed steps required to do cross forest migration from source forest running Exchange 2003 to target forest running Exchange 2010. Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) will be used to migrate user accounts as well...

As desktop Experience feature is being relocated to be under User interface and infrastructure many people might believe it’s no longer there ! but it’s and below screenshot shows the exact location of desktop experience feature.

In this post series I will go through detailed step by step (with screenshots) related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007...

Here is the second part of Windows Server 2012 Direct Access blog series. Part1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/05/03/windows-server-2012-direct-access-part-1-what-s-new.aspx In the first post we discussed what’s new and what are the design...

In Part I of this guide I’ve explained the process of cross-forest migration and the differences between using ADMT first or using Prepare-MoveReuqest.Ps1 script first, I’ve also explained the migration scenario and the current environment. Starting from...

In this post series I will go through detailed step by step (with screenshots) related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007...

In this part of Cross-Forest Migration Guide we will solve the second challenge but before that let’s take a look again on the current environment:   Second Challenge: Move Mailbox Error: As explained in Part II, we will use ADMT first to migrate...

In this post series I will go through detailed step by step (with screenshots) related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007...

Installing SP2 is a relatively straightforward stuff and Exchange 2010 SP1 and SP2 servers can co-exist peacefully alongside each other for as long as it takes to roll out SP2. However, it is best practice to run a consistent service pack level across...

  In the previous post we have covered the document based forms; now we will use InfoPath to create the second type of list based forms to customize SharePoint 2010 List forms; this post is related to the main post of InfoPath Forms Options in SharePoint...

In this post series I will go through detailed step by step (with screenshots) related to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Installation and Configuration that IT Administrator or technical consultant will need to build Operations Manager 2007...

I started this blog series by giving an overview about Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting in this post Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part 1 “Overview” and then I went through Hosting Description in this post Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting – Part...

A very interesting feature of SharePoint 2010 is the Word automation services. Word automation services allows you to convert between multiple document formats which runs as a batch job. This is very useful in many server side scenarios where customers...

You may encounter an issue with SharePoint 2010 document libraries that prevents users from check-out or edit documents in the document library. The issue occurs when you break the security inheritance of the document library. Regardless of what permission...

  InfoPath is a powerful tool for creating data entry and information gathering forms; it can apply business logic to the collected data; with complex information structure. And the beauty comes when this forms technology integrates with SharePoint...

In this post series I am going through step by step into System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 starting from “ Pre-Build ”, then I continued with “ Installing Operations Manager Database ”, followed by another post “ Installing...

The User Profile Synchronization Service gets stuck on "Starting", and I browse the event log and notice the event 8306 "An exception occurred when trying to issue security token...". I checked the Security Token Service status and realized it was "Security...

Technorati Tags: Sharepoint.Infopath , 2010 , List based , document based , step by step Data capture Forms in SharePoint 2010 lists can be created and customized using InfoPath forms in two ways; List based Forms and Document based forms, we will cover...

    3 App-V Server Deployment 3. 1 Pre-installation 3 .1.1 Create AD groups Create the following groups in AD App-V Admins App-V Users 3 .1.2 Create content share Create shared folder on the management servers and share them with the below permissions...

iSCSI Software Target is now part of windows Server 8 Beta Roles and features, In this post i will walkthrough installing and configuring iSCSI software target. Important Notes : - iSCSI Target server now is integrated with Windows Failover clustering...

Introduction Recently, my engagements were related to SQL and 2 of which were to build SQL failover clusters on based on Windows 2008R2/SQL 2008R2 SP1 and Windows 2012/SQL 2012 SP1. In this post, I will share with you my SQL Server 2012 Failover clustering...

So you have created many virtual machines in Hyper-V manager and suddenly you want to move one of them in a new HDD or just rename the folder holding it, you will find that this is not a trivial task! Hyper-V management service holds an open handle to...

In real SOA implementation, you will be probably exposing many WCF Services that you need to secure. Many blogs are there around STS and WCF, but non of them which guide you through a basic implementation of a custom STS using Windows Identity Foundation...

The scenario is simple; what you want is to configure people search and allow that to search using a custom metadata property that is being populated into the user profiles from an external system like a BCS system. I will dedicate several posts for configuring...