As I was working on customizing a SharePoint Calendar, someone asked me if it’s possible to add a Publishing Image Field to a SharePoint Calendar called “Event Image” to display the current event picture. I decided to write this post...

  Introduction Larger IT organizations are likely to have a proliferation of SQL Server installations that are not fully known to the internal IT department. Furthermore, some of these installations may be in various stages of repair because they...

What is SQL server consolidation it can be defined simply as reduce the number of physical SQL servers, by migrating/moving different SQL databases running on different servers into one high performance server machine. Early in the process of...

What is Divisional Portal? A divisional portal is a SharePoint Server 2010 deployment where teams mainly do collaborative activities and some content publishing; for example it can be used for hosting an Intranet Portal with multiple Departments. In...

    Introduction Most of us have worked with Visual Studio deployment projects to create setup projects for components we developed. In many cases we used the custom user interface dialogs that come with Visual Studio to take extra parameters...

So, I finish the deployment of a multi-server SharePoint farm, and I setup the Search Service Application; I was able to configure Search and browse the admin pages in central admin successfully. After trying to browse the search admin main page from...

  Introduction Our world is becoming globalized, distributed/clouded more and more. That is very true especially for IT in both consumer and enterprise space. Some examples would be Amazon AWS, Google Documents, Windows Azure Services, Office 365...

Introduction I had a requirement to migrate an existing native boot Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that was booting from an attached VHD on a physical machine to be a virtual machine in Hyper-V. The problem is that this machine had multiple boots and...

Introduction I was developing a WCF based solution that required services to be authenticated using ADFS 2.0. The requirement was that the clients will be using client based certificates to authenticate to services. If you have a complete AD CS solution...

In this post series I started here with a release date announced in Windows Server Blog (by the way it was announced yesterday (1st of August) that Windows Server 2012 is RTM today), then I start highlighting the main areas of enhancements that I will...

In this post series I started here http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/07/10/windows-server-2012-part1-release-date.aspx with a release date announced in Windows Server Blog and highlighted the main areas of enhancements that I will focus on...

I was so excited when I read today that Windows Server 2012 Release Date (RTM version) is the first week of August 2012 and the product will be generally available to customers worldwide in September 2012 as clearly announced in Windows Server Blog here...

After you setup SharePoint application and "My Site" then start to import user profile, you might need to cleanup information that was imported or prevent certain properties from being displayed anywhere in your application. This would happen in a scenario...

This blog post will focus only on specific problem when using Microsoft Exchange PST Capture Tool with Office 365. So if you need more information about PST Capture Tool, check the following URLs: Download the PST Capture Tool: http://www.microsoft.com...

Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC): Takes you beyond virtualization Delivers the power of many servers with the simplicity of one Opens the door to every app on any cloud Enables the modern work style http://technet.microsoft...

one of the great capabilities provided by the ESB is the ability to create a very scalable yet dynamic receive port , this port can be as generic to accept any XML message without the need to pass the itinerary , in other words we can create a web method...

Logging Out Of the Website When the user logs in to the site using Windows Live authentication, he is effectively logging in into all Windows Live powered site, examples are Hotmail, SkyDrive…etc. When logging out of the website, the decision becomes...

Registration A public facing website can have services and content that it wants to make available only to users that are authenticated. In this case the user is requested to register on the website and provide some information before given access to...

Creating a Custom Claims Provider When Windows Live is used as the authentication provider, anyone with a Windows Live ID can login to the website. This could be any Windows Live domain (Hotmail, live, etc..) or a custom domain hosted on Windows Live...

Sharing Cookie between HTTP and HTTPS In this part of the series, I’m going to cover how to allow SharePoint to use the same authentication cookie over HTTP and HTTPS. When Windows Live authentication is used, the user is redirect to a Windows Live login...

  Overriding the Authentication Provider Selection Page In the first part of this series, we saw how we register and configure our SharePoint site to use Windows Live ID as an authentication provider. Right now our site has two authentication providers...

In this series of post I will talk about how to allow Windows Live users to login to an internet facing SharePoint 2010 site. Most of the information can be found online, but I am putting them here in a form of a series to make it easy for who ever wants...

In my previous post, we’ve seen how we can configure shared configuration for multiple IIS servers in a farm. We used a shared folder on one of the servers to save the configuration, and pointed the rest of the IIS servers to that folder. The problem...

Making a website highly available requires that it gets deployed on multiple servers so that if one server fails for some reason, the other servers can still serve the website for the users. This setup is usually called a server farm. On IIS 7, each website...

In previous posts , we have configured windows cluster, SQL cluster, and NLB for the WFE servers. Part 1 - Prepare Windows Cluster Part 2 - Install and configure SQL Cluster Part 3 - Install and Configure NLB on WFE In this post we will perform...