• A Small trick: How to extract a BizTalk BAM definition from an Excel sheet without installing Excel client

    This is a small trick that I have been doing for sometime now and wanted to share. The scenario is that you have prepared the BizTalk BAM definition and you ready to deploy it to the production environment, you run the bm.exe command and you see the situation;...
  • How to configure SQL Database mail to send emails using Office 365 (Exchange Online): A walkthrough

    Introduction SQL Server has a feature called database mail. This feature allows the database server to send emails to any external entity using SMTP server. The problem happens if you have installed an on-premise SQL server and an online (Office 365...
  • SharePoint Provider Hosted App Walkthrough: Part 1 Preparation

    SharePoint and office development model is changing to a new App model. This is the new development model for SharePoint. In this blog series I will walk you through creating a provider hosted SharePoint App that is hosted in an App part. This will show...
  • Office 365 Arabization – Part I

    In this article, we will answer the following questions: - How can we use Arabic in Office 365? What fields can be Arabic? - How can we manage Arabic users? Let’s start from the beginning, company wants to utilize Office 365 and everything...
  • SharePoint 2013 Backup with PowerShell and Task Scheduler for beginners

    You can do Everything with PowerShell - yes everything - and SharePoint is no exception. In this post for beginners, I will show you how to create tasks for the Task Scheduler to automate your SharePoint backups with PowerShell. First, to backup your...