Now I faced this solution many times now and for many problems that I faced so I decided that I would blog about all the issues that I faced and where solvable by this same solution. The SENS service (or the System Event Notification Service) is designed...

Some people face issues with starting up user profile synchronization service. The main thing is that they find it hanging on “Starting”. They resolve this issue by changing the start type for the service to be “Automatic – Delayed...

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2012 Beta 1 has been announced earlier this month by Michael Niehaus . From the new features that come along MDT 2012 Beta 1, we will explore the new added Task Sequence template called “Deploy to VHD Client Task Sequence...

  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...

SharePoint 2010 SP1 is almost here. It is expected by the end of June: http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/05/16/announcing-service-pack-1-for-office-2010-and-sharepoint-2010.aspx

In my previous 2 posts on Host Named Site Collections, I laid out the powershell scripts to create Host Name site collections as well as creating managed paths under them. After that, these site collections can be handled using PowerShell scripts normally...

Users might lose access to their EFS private keys through cases, like corrupted user profiles, hard disk failure, OS reinstall etc. Now here are some important facts about EFS Keys before we start the comparison 1- A time valid certificate and...

If you are developing an ASP.NET application and required to have the password placed in the configuration file then you have seen this condition. The thing is that usually we would want to put the password encrypted and one way that existed since ASP...

There are already several standard and well documented methods for creating a NLB cluster for BAM Portal like here . The problem with all these methods is that they tend to be very complex and long. Usually you would end up missing some steps and it will...

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...

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...

After the creation of host names site collections as per the script mentioned in my previous article, you might find the need to create managed path and have separate site collections for them. [Note the technet article on managed path Host Name Site...

Using the ASP.NET SQL membership provider to authenticate and authorize calls to WCF services is not an uncommon scenario. But the problem is in the authorization part. Usually to authorize access to WCF service methods this is done using static hard...

In IIS 7.5 there is a new feature called the auto start provider. This feature allows you to load any custom web application resources to allow the application to provide better performance right from the first request.   Usually implementing an...

According to technet article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx , “Host-named site collections provide a scalable Web hosting solution with each site collection assigned to a unique DNS name. In a Web hosting deployment, each...

Migrating Forms Based authentication sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 using database attach method applies the general principles of database attach upgrade method; however, it includes some additional steps to cater for membership &...

In my previous post, I mentioned that sometimes you need to create dynamic queries for SQL servers and that one of the options is to write queries that dynamically creates the needed queries for you. Although this might seem unclear when describing...

When you try to migrate Windows XP SP 2 computer with ADMT, the migration fails and the error " ERR2:7711 Unable to retrieve the DNS hostname for the migrated computer 'v-test-mig.source.com'. The ADSI property cannot be found in the property cache...

  Symptoms : - When you install Forefront Protection for Exchange on Exchange 2010 HUB Server, after the installation Microsoft Exchange Transport Service stops and when you open forefront console, the console cannot be loaded.   Reason: - If...

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...

This is my first post so I thought to start with a strange case that I was working on last week. Customer environment as follows: - Exchange 2010, with CAS configured properly for Outlook Anywhere. - TMG configured to publish Outlook Anywhere.  ...

If you are trying to reproduce unique virtual machines, always check the generalize checkbox (or use SYSPREP /generalize) to make sure the machine gets a new SID, NIC GUIDs and other identifiers, if you don't, your AD DS will have the impression that...

Sometimes you need to build bulk query to select, update or insert data to SQL tables. The selected, updated or inserted data is dynamic and is selected based on data in many tables. An example of this is the following requirement: For each...

While doing custom development on SharePoint using Visual Studio, it is common to get "The security validation for this page is invalid". I give 2 simple steps to troubleshoot this issue, I assume that you did not yet go into playing with the Web Application...

On March 29 th we posted an announcement to the EHLO blog about removing Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 due to an issue that could result in database corruption. The Exchange Servicing team has fixed the reported issue with RU3 and is...