Part 1: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/02/24/service-manager-2012-orchestrator-2012-integration-video-series-part-1.aspx Part 3: http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2012/03/06/service-manager-2012-orchestrator-2012-integration...

Windows Remote Management (WinRM) is a protocol for Windows operating systems which is implemented as a web service and is used for secure remote management of systems. Following actions depends on WinRM configuration; Windows Remote Shell command line...

In these demonstration series, I will show you the power of integration of System Center Orchestrator 2012 and System Center Service Manager 2012. I’ll cover a sample basic scenario that requirement of automated bulk user creation process. For those...

In Part 1 of this blog series Building Configuration Manager 2012 Hierarchy – Part 1 Installing prerequisites , we’ve configured and installed all features, roles and servers for Configuration Manager 2012. In this article, we will first start with the...

Symptoms: Error when moving mailbox: Cannot find a recipient that has mailbox GUID. The following snapshot shows the result of running New-MoveRequest:   The error is: Cannot find a recipient that has mailbox GUID Problem: The error is clearly saying...

Throughout this blog series, we will drive the installation of a greenfield configuration manager 2012 hierarchy composed of a central administration site (Tier 1 CAS), a primary site (Tier 2) and a secondary site (Tier 3). The below figure shows the...

These are a group of new Microsoft Private Cloud Videos: Video: Thought Leadership Series – Enabling Private Cloud Garth Fort talks about why you should consider converting your current datacenter infrastructure into a private cloud fabric.   Video...

On February 21 & 22 Microsoft Learning is running a 2-day virtual training event to help the world learn about the upcoming enhancements with the Creating & Managing a Private Cloud with System Center 2012 Jump Start . It is 100% free and open...

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...

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 is now released, Microsoft Exchange team promised a year-end SP2 release, and this week it delivered. It is not such a major update as Service Pack 1, but there are a small number of interesting new features that have...

When browsing the settings for the Search Service Application in SharePoint 2010, I received the error “Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {OFFICE14-0005-0000-0000-000000000000} failed due to the following error 8007042d”. I checked...

In many situations, customers have security teams and audit teams. They ask for granting users permissions to view audit web analytic reports, manage only security and permissions of users....etc. In most organizations, granting "site collection administrator...

You may face this problem after upgrading from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010.   During Implementation of Exchange 2010 the old transport rules will be copied from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 new location (the format and location of the transport...

This blog will explain the possible issues that you may face when using wildcard certificate in Exchange 2010, especially during the upgrade from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010.   In this scenario we will use tailspin.com domain. The normal upgrade...

I have got many requests on how to create Pin Authorization for specific users on lync to be able to dial international calls. Here’s a sample case scenario and print screen of the normalization rule that meets this case: - User has to type...

This is the first post in a series to take you through my learning experience to using the Windows Azure service bus. The Service Bus is a concrete implementation of the service bus pattern designed to operate at Internet scope within highly-scalable...

Visual Round Trip Analyzer (VRTA) is a tool that helps the SharePoint Administrator identify what is being downloaded at a web page level. One of the biggest complaints from users is the response time.   VRTA excels in showing the network round trip...

Introduction Hello again. In the first part we have done an introduction to TFS 2010 and installation according to dual-server topology. In this post, we will talk about migrating existing TFS databases into TFS 2010 platform. We shall start! Firstly...

I recently came across a requirement to implement a Windows Communication Service that acts as a message router across several other WCF backend services. This router service main functionality is to encapsulate the backend services and also to add automatic...

Usually when writing custom BizTalk pipeline components you find yourself wanting to extract specific values from the message passed using Xpath statements. You can do this either by XPathDocument or XDocument, but this solution would require loading...

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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...

    I’ve been configuring TMG auto client proxy detection and it was failing. After researching it online and internally, didn’t find anything useful. So when I installed the TMG client and run this test: C:\Program Files (x86)\Forefront TMG...

    Below are the operational tasks which should be done on a regular basis, . There is still work to be done on deciding who will perform each task. Daily Tasks The following tasks should all be carried out on a daily basis: Backup SQL Server...

Do not enable auto-create statistics on a SQL Server that is supporting SharePoint Server To ensure optimal performance, it is recommend that you set max degree of parallelism (MAXDOP) to 1 To improve ease of maintenance, configure SQL Server connection...