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 thought of using Windows Live ID but it has a problem...

The Problem One 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 below. To configure the Calendar as a group Calendar...

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;...

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 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...

    Introduction Most of us have worked with Visual Studio deployment projects to create setup projects for components we developed. In many cases we used the custom user interface dialogs that come with Visual Studio to take extra parameters...

Introduction I had a requirement to migrate an existing native boot Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that was booting from an attached VHD on a physical machine to be a virtual machine in Hyper-V. The problem is that this machine had multiple boots and...

Introduction I was developing a WCF based solution that required services to be authenticated using ADFS 2.0. The requirement was that the clients will be using client based certificates to authenticate to services. If you have a complete AD CS solution...

Recently I was working on a very complex integration project using BizTalk Server 2010 stack. This project involved integrating with legacy IBM mainframe system. The integration involved working with BizTalk Adapter for Host Applications to call Mainframe...

In man occasions you would be faced by the need to move workflows you developed using SharePoint designer from one site to another. This might be the case if for example you developed and tested the workflow on a testing environment and now wants to move...

In part 1 of this series I showed you how to configure the virtual storage required for the cluster. In part 2 of this series I showed you how to configure two SQL instances on the created windows cluster. In this part I will show you how to configure...

In part 1 of this series I showed you how to configure the virtual storage required for the cluster. In this part I will show you how to create the SQL cluster as an Active/Passive cluster and in the next part I will show how to convert it to an Active...

Introduction In this series of posts I will walk you through the processes of creating an Active/Active SQL server cluster using Hyper-V and Microsoft iSCSI target software for virtualized SAN. The target is to create first a storage server hosted on...

So you have created many virtual machines in Hyper-V manager and suddenly you want to move one of them in a new HDD or just rename the folder holding it, you will find that this is not a trivial task! Hyper-V management service holds an open handle to...

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...

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...

Introduction The BizTalk ESB toolkit is an implementation of an enterprise service bus messaging standard. It allows for separation between message content, processes implementation, and process configuration. This is using what is called ESB itineraries...

Introduction You find yourself writing custom pipeline components in nearly all BizTalk related projects. So this is a common activity. And usually it will mean eventually you will need to extract data from the message coming on the wire using XPath statements...

Introduction Although the requirement I had was to add a custom page and customize the BizTalk BAM portal; this post actually applies to any web application that is using the compiled web site template. The BAM portal is the business analysis and monitoring...

This post will detail how to configure the ESB management portal on a multi-machine environment with minimal access configuration in mind. The environment consists of mainly three server roles: 1.        An active directory...

Problem Statement You have a requirement to display two list view web parts of two SharePoint lists. These two lists are linked together using a multi-valued lookup field in one of them. So for example you have a list called Companies and another called...

So you are implementing a custom BizTalk tracking solution using the BAM APIs. In this solution you need to track when the message arrives at the receive port exactly and even before the receive pipeline starts to execute. so simple right you just end...

SharePoint has a built in functionality to display the user information for any user that has a user profile imported using the user profiles service application. This page can be reached on the following URL: /_layouts/userdisp.aspx">/_layouts...

Writing a custom ListDefinition is something all SharePoint developers phase more than once in a development lifecycle. With the new enhancements to the development tools for SharePoint 2010 it became actually easier to do so. But the tricky part is how...