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SharePoint 2013 Preview Deployment - Failed to create the configuration database
On deploying 2013 on SQL Server 2012, you might get an error when running the configuration wizard...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 10/10/2012
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Disk Space Requirements
To be able to estimate the total disk space required by aSharePoint 2010 farm, you need to estimate...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 03/19/2012
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Farm Design Considerations
While designing large SharePoint farms, many considerations need to be assessed. Below are some...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 03/12/2012
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Confirm Farm Size after modelling
During the modeling step, first step in capacity management, you identify the expected use of the...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 10/17/2011
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Build New Environment Usage Estimates
After analyzing the use of the current environment, you are able to involve business sponsors/users...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 10/11/2011
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser Part 2
As mentioned in my previous post, you should run the log parser on logs for a specific day. You can...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 09/26/2011
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser
Log Parser is a powerful tool to extract useful usage information from IIS logs. It can be used for...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 09/22/2011
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Log Parser
Log Parser is a powerful tool to extract useful usage information from IIS logs. It can be used for...
Author: Date: 09/22/2011
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management: Check Current Enviornment Usage
As mentioned in my previous post, the first step in capacity management is modeling the SharePoint...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 09/19/2011
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management
SharePoint 2010 Capacity Management It is important to plan for your SharePoint environment...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 08/24/2011
SharePoint 2010 SP1
SharePoint 2010 SP1 is almost here. It is expected by the end of June:...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 06/09/2011
Migrating to SharePoint Host Name Site Collections 3
In my previous 2 posts on Host Named Site Collections, I laid out the powershell scripts to create...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 05/10/2011
Migrating to SharePoint Host Name Site Collections 3
In my previous 2 posts on Host Named Site Collections, I laid out the powershell scripts to create...
Author: Date: 05/10/2011
Migrating to SharePoint Host Name Site Collections 2
After the creation of host names site collections as per the script mentioned in my previous...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 05/10/2011
Migrating to SharePoint Host Name Site Collections
According to technet article https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx ,...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 05/10/2011
Migrating Forms Based Authentication Sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
Migrating Forms Based authentication sites from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 using database...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 05/09/2011
SQL Server Tips & Tricks: Create Bulk Queries 2
In my previous post, I mentioned that sometimes you need to create dynamic queries for SQL servers...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 05/08/2011
SQL Server Tips & Tricks: Create Bulk Queries
Sometimes you need to build bulk query to select, update or insert data to SQL tables. The selected,...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 04/10/2011
Tips & Tricks: SQL Server Mail Configuration
After configuring SQL Server database mail and testing it successfully, you could find maintenance...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 04/10/2011
Merge Replication Step by Step
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA In an earlier post, I mentioned Merge replication and...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 01/06/2011
SQL Merge Replication
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA A specific type of replication that is powerful for...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 12/04/2010
SQL Mirroring And Replication
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Database...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 12/04/2010
Configuring Windows Network Load Balancing
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Network Load Balancing (NLB) is commonly utilized with...
Author: Mohamed El AShmawi Date: 12/01/2010