This is a small note. Please make sure that all servers belonging to the same farm are actually on the same time-zone. I had a very strange issue where performing any actions on a farm server would not be executed (as far as I saw it initially). I...

I found that it is very important to know what is new in Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 Group Policy Preferences, that is why I shared this information that I collected from Microsoft Documentation. With the release of Windows Server 2008 additional...

In the first part of this series ( here and here ), I started by some discussion regarding the basic definition that we will build upon toward achieving the Private Cloud Promises. In the second part ( here and here ) I discussed the Core Principles for...

I wanted to write a series about how to get SharePoint 2010 user profiles service and synchronization scenario working. So this is the first post of this series and I will talk about the configuration alternatives of the user profiles service. The user...

The scenario is simple; what have configured people search and allowed that to search using a custom metadata property that is being populated into the user profiles from an external system like a BCS system. For this post I assume that the user profiles...

The scenario is that you have configured a BCS system connecting to a WCF service. Now this service is not connecting to a reliable system and you have a failover node for it. But since BCS by default will keep waiting for the service to respond you will...

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...

This post explains how to configure Office Communications Server in a resource forest topology, in a resource topology, a single resource forest contains all Office Communications Server servers and disables user accounts for each logon enabled account...

In some OCS 2007/R2 Implementation scenarios without Enterprise Voice it is required that all user’s Telephone numbers in Active Directory to be populated to Office Communicator 2007/R2 though Office Communication Server 2007/R2 Address Book, so...

This step is important when decide to build a brand new Green Field Windows 2008 Active Directory service and want to start utilizing the new Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory by importing all organization users’ names and passwords into the Active...

The transition process from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 is a relatively straightforward process and involves the following high level tasks: 1. Prepare to upgrade and coexistence Exchange 2010 with Exchange Server 2007, this step include: a....

In the first part of this series ( here and here ), I started by some discussion regarding the basic definition that we will build upon toward achieving the Private Cloud Promises. In this post, I will discuss the main principles behind Private Cloud...

Cloud Computing promises to increase quality and agility of the IT Services while decreasing the associated costs. We will discuss how to achieve that in this series. The promise that cloud computing is based upon will change the way we plan, design...

For Environment with high percentage of clients are using Outlook 2003, and because there are some common client access considerations for outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010, then some preparations on client side should be done to cover all considerations...

One of the most important challenges that an organization can face is deploying or migrating operating systems to a bunch of computers. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) is a great product that can be used to automate the process of...

Before we start we have to keep one important thing in mind. ISA used to operate on 32 bit processors only. TMG operates on 64 bit processors only. So, Upgrade is not possible. What is possible though is migration. Migration involves exporting ISA’s...

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Many companies estimate that nearly 50% of their data resides only on someone’s laptop, which is often travelling or remote to any company datacenter. PC administrators are looking for a better way to protect and recover Windows® laptops...

Non-Microsoft backup solutions tend to take generic backup functionality and adapt it to support-specific applications. In contrast, Microsoft created DPM 2010 to leverage fully supported Microsoft technologies in order to provide continuous data protection...

Office 2010 works with many different Operating System Windows versions, however innovations in Windows 7 are seamlessly integrated with Office 2010 to help you work more efficiently. Here are just a few of the ways that Office 2010 and Windows 7 are...

Non-Microsoft backup solutions tend to take a generic backup functionality and adapt it to support-specific applications. In contrast, Microsoft created DPM 2010 to leverage fully supported Microsoft technologies in order to provide continuous data protection...

Non-Microsoft backup solutions tend to take generic backup functionality and adapt it to support-specific applications. In contrast, Microsoft created DPM 2010 to leverage fully supported Microsoft technologies in order to provide near-continuous data...

  I always use Windows Server 2008 R2 for my laptop, and I just installed DirectAccess and couple of updates. After that, I couldn’t connect to virtual machines itself and it gets me the following error   Cannot find the physical computer that...

If your company relies on Microsoft® Hyper-V™ virtualization technologies within your server infrastructure, who will you trust to ensure its protection and recovery? As part of the overall Microsoft Virtualization platform, System Center...