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...
View ArticleSharePoint 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...
View ArticleHow to configure SQL Database mail so send emails using Office 365 (Exchange...
IntroductionSQL 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...
View ArticleA Small trick: How to extract a BizTalk BAM definition from an Excel sheet...
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...
View ArticleOffice 365 Arabization – Part II
In Part I we have answered the basic questions on how to have Arabic Office 365 tenant, in this article we will go through more advanced tasks in managing and administering Office 365.Users Bulk...
View ArticleOffice Web Apps OWA and SP 2013 - Resource not found when viewing excel files
After installing SharePoint 2013 farm with OWA server I’ve faced an issue when viewing excel files online, and the weird thing that it happens in excel files only! Power point and word were working...
View ArticleInfoPath 2010 Paging (without coding)
IntroductionIn this post I will try to show you how to implement a simple paging mechanism using InfoPath 2010. This approach is useful if you are considering a quick & fast solution to handle...
View ArticleError Object Reference when viewing timer job definitions in SharePoint 2013
During configuring one of SharePoint 2013 farms we faced an issue when trying to list the timer job definitions using central administration, this is caused after a power failure in data center which...
View ArticleOffice Web Apps 2013 multi servers (NLB) Installation and Deployment for...
This is a step by step guide on how to install Office Web Apps 2013 multi servers farm (using windows NLB and http) and how to configure it with SharePoint 2013.In my next post I will talk about how to...
View ArticleConfiguring SharePoint 2013 Search Topology
IntroductionWhen creating the Search Service application , a default topology will be built automatically where all Search components are assigned to the server which is running the Central...
View ArticleSharePoint Group Calendar, Adding default users
The ProblemOne feature of SharePoint is to create a calendar and make it a group calendar. This allows the user to see the schedule of list of people at the same time on the same view as per the image...
View ArticleFinding unused fields in InfoPath From
IntroductionAs I was working with one of the projects I had a customized InfoPath Form that has 100's of fields and multiple Views. As I was going though I had a concern that a lot of these fields were...
View ArticleOffice 365 Arabization – Part III
In Part II I’ve explained how to create bulk users using CSV file, and how to create the CSV file.In this part we will discuss some of the management tasks including password.Users Bulk Import with...
View ArticleWindows Azure – Remove Virtual Disks
This is very famous issue when you create many Virtual Machines on Windows Azure, after deleting the VMs the virtual disks (VHD files) are still there.So far there is no way to remove these VHD files...
View ArticleSecuring Dynamic Data ASP.NET SQL Azure Published Web Site with ACS and...
The Scenario I wanted to implement an Azure web site that is using the Azure Access Control Service and integrates with an external identity provider to authenticate and authorize users. At first I...
View ArticleSome users unable to create VMs in VMM 2012 SP1: “User or user role not...
This post describes an error that occurred during System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 deployment, with two VMM servers in cluster configuration.When using the VMM Console, some users (but...
View ArticleExchange 2013 Coexistence ECP “Your mailbox can't be accessed using the...
In a coexistence scenario, where you’re running Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 in the same organization, and your mailbox is still hosted on the Exchange 2007/2010 Mailbox server and...
View ArticleOffice 365 Arabization – Part IV
In previous parts I’ve explained users’ bulk creation (Part II) and bulk modification (Part III).In this part let’s talk about more advanced management tasks.Dynamic Distribution Groups:Dynamic...
View ArticleIs AD integration or manual SCOM agents installation required to allow...
Introduction:I observed that some IT professionals confused about System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 windows agents failover requirements, and the raised question was do I need to configure...
View ArticleInstall Active Directory in Windows Azure in four simple steps
Introduction:There is a very long and complex way to install Active Directory in Windows Azure environment described in details in Windows Azure documentation here...
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