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Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Web Scheduler is now available !
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Author: Amr.Hamdy Date: 04/20/2011
Quick Tips for your indices, is it used? Is it overhead ? using dm_db_index_usage_stats
A quick overview about your indices that you should execute from time to time to make sure that 1....
Author: Wagdy Ishac Date: 04/17/2011
Replication From Oracle to SQL and back to Oracle
Have you ever tried the Replication from Oracle to SQL using the add Oracle publication feature in...
Author: Wagdy Ishac Date: 04/10/2011
Bringing the Transaction mode with SSIS into reality.
Isn’t it a desirable request to run your Data flow Tasks into Transaction Mode that rolls back...
Author: Wagdy Ishac Date: 03/20/2011
What do you Know about the SQL Server Data pages ?
SQL Server page is 8K so remember when you format your hard disk. Create it in a 64K clusters for...
Author: Wagdy Ishac Date: 03/15/2011
Exchange 2010 Interorg Freebusy without using Federation Gateway
As long as autodiscover and EWS is working. Create account without mailbox on both domains (i.e.ID:...
Author: Raymond Elias - volta82 Date: 02/27/2011
[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RTM
I'd like to announce the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 7 Service Pack 1, and Windows...
Author: sherif.talaat@innovation-hut.com Date: 02/19/2011
My Experience with Windows Phone 7
I've been using my New Windows Phone 7 for a couple of weeks now. I really love it! The huge...
Author: Amr.Hamdy Date: 02/13/2011
FAST Search installation and Configuration in 4 links.
For all the newbies in FAST server, here is a one stop shop to learn about FAST installation,...
Author: Muhammed Nabil Date: 02/07/2011
Microsoft tech-ed in Dubai - March 2011
For those of you who didn't register for the tech-ed, please do. you'll miss a lot...
Author: Amr.Hamdy Date: 01/18/2011
Adopt and Deploy Lync with Device Replacement program- Preserving Customer investments
Here is another program from Microsoft to help customers adopt and deploy Lync; Device Replacement....
Author: Amr.Hamdy Date: 01/18/2011
Lync Server - Useful Links
The Lync Server Open Interoperability Program is now available...
Author: Amr.Hamdy Date: 01/16/2011
Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA - Registration
Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA is back on January 22nd, 2011. This is the second annual...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 01/15/2011
Feature and Solution Framework in SP2010–From Ignite Training
As promised, here is another slide deck from SP2010 development training that I delivered last week...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 01/06/2011
Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA!
SharePoint Saturday EMEA is a loosely knit group of SharePoint evangelists from around the world. We...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 01/04/2011
SharePoint 2010 Architecture Slides–From Ignite Training
During my SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training for developers @ Microsoft Egypt, I delivered two...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 01/04/2011
SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform - From Ignite Training
Last week, I delivered “SharePoint 2010 Ignite training for developers” for Microsoft...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 01/03/2011
Applying BizTalk hotfixes/app updates and impact on environment availability
When you run BizTalk server you normally have plenty of mission critical applications running on it....
Author: khnidk Date: 12/31/2010
Top 7 IT Pro Pain Points Simplified with MDOP
Everyone is familiar with top 10 lists. There’s the top 10 best dressed, worst dressed, dog...
Author: ASadek Date: 12/23/2010
When to write a custom BCS connector?
I have been asked this question several times during the last month and I have tried to shed some...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 12/03/2010
Saudi Aramco Cloud Computing Forum
I was surprised that an Enterprise Customer will be the first to organize such a successful...
Author: Amr.Hamdy Date: 12/01/2010
Desktop Virtualization
Microsoft Desktop Virtualization solutions help companies to reduce their total cost of ownership,...
Author: ASadek Date: 11/30/2010
The Diagonal Warehouse Design
Have you ever been in a situation when designing your warehouse where you had some measures that...
Author: Wagdy Ishac Date: 11/29/2010
Microsoft leading the Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace through SharePoint
Microsoft moved forward considerably on the 2010 Social Software for the Workplace Magic Quadrant....
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 11/26/2010
Windows 7 Features - BranchCache (Series 2)
Driven by challenges of reducing the costs and complexity of Branch IT, organizations are seeking to...
Author: ASadek Date: 11/15/2010
Fun with Pipelining, Chaining & Linq – P2 (Actions from Text)
In a previous post I created a pipeline & executed it using extension methods &...
Author: khnidk Date: 11/08/2010
Windows PowerShell: Why You Should Care?
If you're one of the IT Pro guys whose their daily tasks are the administration of a set of...
Author: sherif.talaat@innovation-hut.com Date: 11/07/2010
Fun with Pipelining, Chaining & Linq – P1
This is a long series of entries around rules processing & chaining. Bear with me :-) Pipelines...
Author: khnidk Date: 11/06/2010
Windows 7 Features - Direct Access (Series 1)
What is DirectAccess?DirectAccess allows remote users to securely access intranet shares, Web sites,...
Author: ASadek Date: 11/04/2010
MEA Center of Expertise presenting in Microsoft Egypt Open Door 2-3 November
Microsoft Egypt is organizing its Open Door event on 2nd and 3rd of November 2010, it is big event...
Author: Marwan Tarek - MVP Date: 11/02/2010
Get Manager approval in SharePoint Designer 2010 - Step by Step
A fundamental condition that I always encountered when gathering workflow requirement is to get the...
Author: Muhammed Nabil Date: 11/01/2010
Engage in SharePoint 2010 Development
SharePoint 2010 provides a broad a unique set of integrated capabilities, within a unified...
Author: Mohamed Yehia Abdul Kader Date: 10/31/2010
Recursive and Folder-Scoped LINQ Queries in SharePoint 2010
As you might experienced in SharePoint 2007, a CAML query is by default non recursive. In other...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 10/24/2010
Invitation: Enterprise Developers Academy–Microsoft Egypt
Develop your expertise Get up to speed on all the latest tools available to enhanceyour skills and...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 10/22/2010
Creating a host-named site collection programmatically
A host header is a third piece of information that you can use in addition to the IP address and...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 10/22/2010
WIF's Claims to Windows Token Service
Windows authentication have been always fortified, which was for a good reason. Yet this...
Author: khnidk Date: 10/21/2010
Requirement gathering for SharePoint solutions - Introduction
It is a well known problem that developers working on a platform have the worst time in their life...
Author: Muhammed Nabil Date: 10/20/2010
SharePoint is leading Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals
Gartner recently published a report by Jim Murphy, Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes and Eric Knipp: the 2010...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 10/19/2010
On Kerberos
This one is not about how Kerberos work, rather it is about few things to watch out. If you want...
Author: khnidk Date: 10/16/2010
Microsoft Hyper-v and Vmware Vsphere footprints
The everlasting debate between Microsoft Hyper-v and VMware Vsphere . People always talk about...
Author: Mohamed Garrana Date: 10/15/2010
Cairo PDC10/MS3arab Community Launch
Since 1991, the PDC has been the epicenter of Microsoft’s biggest platform announcements. This...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 10/15/2010
TechEd Middle East Registration Opens
Registration is now open for TechEd Middle East 2011. Tech·Ed is Microsoft’s premier...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 10/12/2010
HW and SW inventory Collection From (Active Directory or Txtfile) into Excel sheet (Powershell Script)
i wrote this script a while ago , but i thought i'd reshare it . This can be very usefull if you are...
Author: Mohamed Garrana Date: 10/11/2010
Refreshing or Filtering Data in Published Excel Services Workbooks [SharePoint 2010]
This is Ayman El-Hattab, a Regional Technology Solution Professional (Collaboration Platform) from...
Author: Ayman El-Hattab Date: 10/11/2010
Welcome to Microsoft Center of Expertise (COEX) Blogging Experience
Who are we? We are a 60+ technology enthusiasts helping Microsoft customers around Middle-East &...
Author: khnidk Date: 10/11/2010