Recovering Lost Mail/Mailbox Item.
Lost Mail Item / Mailbox This scenario is not a service failure but more of a userrequest (e.g. user requires recovering a mail item which he deleted and is nolonger in the mail deleted item...
View ArticleReset the DSRM Administrator Password
To Reset the DSRM Administrator Password Click, Start, click Run, type ntdsutil, and then click OK. At the Ntdsutil command prompt, type set dsrm password. At the DSRM command prompt, type one of the...
View ArticlePrepare SharePoint Farm – Part 3 Prepare NLB for SharePoint Web Front End WFE...
Part 1 - Prepare Windows Cluster Part 2 - Install and configure SQL Cluster part 4 - Install and configure SharePoint farm (3-tier) This post demonstrate a step by step NLB configuration , how to...
View ArticleCreating fine grained password policies through GUI Windows server 2012...
A quick description of fine grained password policies is that you can specify multiple password policies within a single domain. You can use fine-grained password policies to apply different...
View ArticlePrimary Site Failure and Backup Site Activation
Primary Site Failure and Backup Site Activation Activation of the Disaster Recovery site begins withverification of directory services and DNS resolution. Because the DR siteshould already...
View ArticleIntroduction to Managed Extensibility Framework
Most of the applications we use now a days allows you to add more functionality to it by downloading and installing additional components that extend the already installed application. These additional...
View ArticleModular Web Applications with MEF
A lot of times we are faced with a challenge of building a web application that should evolve with time. As the web application grows, maintaining and adding new functionality becomes harder and...
View ArticlePrepare SharePoint Farm – Part 4 Install and Configure SharePoint farm (3 -tier)
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...
View ArticleConfiguring IIS 7.5 Shared Configuration
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...
View ArticleUsing Offline Files for IIS 7 Shared Configuration
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...
View ArticleInternet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID–Part 1
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...
View ArticleInternet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 2
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....
View ArticleInternet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 3
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...
View ArticleInternet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 4
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,...
View ArticleInternet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 5
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...
View ArticleInternet Facing SharePoint 2010 Site with Windows Live ID – Part 6
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...
View ArticleConfigure Generic ESB Receive Port – BizTalk
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...
View ArticleDownload Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate Datacenter
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...
View ArticlePST Capture Tool Error 401 with Office 365
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:...
View ArticleCleaning up specific user profile properties in SharePoint and avoid indexing...
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...
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