I was installing SharePoint 2010 on a new farm and after installation I started the configuration wizard and failed in step 5 , I got this error Failed to register SharePoint services. An exception of type System.TypeLoadException was thrown. Additional...

As you probably expected, the majority of SharePoint sites featured on this showcase are based in USA (approx. 40 percent). This article covers the Top 20 Best Rated US SharePoint sites. This cream of the crop list of US SharePoint sites is updated automatically,...

The following sites are among the most popular SharePoint based sites in our directory for the year of 2009. The sites listed below are ranked based on the number of votes received from the visitors. It’s been a busy year for us at TopSharePoint.com,...

We used to say “MOSS” for SharePoint 2007 stands for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server but now we can’t say that about SharePoint 2010 because it’s not under the office family anymore so it became Microsoft SharePoint Server. Also we can’t say “MSS”...

30th of Jan 2010 we had an event "Egypt SharePoint User Group" about SharePoint, I presented a session about "How to build advanced website using SharePoint 2010" with the technical preview version of the SharePoint, Hope to find it useful ,Here is the...

“Microsoft has a broad portfolio of Virtualization technologies and you talk about the concept of ‘from the Desktop to the datacenter’; what does that really mean?” The short answer is that there are many ways to approach virtualization, depending...

When you enable anonymous access to your site the ribbon row will appear for anonymous users but without "site actions" menu and it will be "Login" link but if you need to hide all this row you have to do the following 1- Open your masterpage with SharePoint...

1- Open Central Administration 2 - From the left menu select "Security" 3 - Under "General Security" select "Specify authentication providers" 4- Make sure that your site is selected and click on "Default" link 5- Under "Anonymous Access" select...

This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if a malformed sequence of machine instructions is run by an authenticated...

So you want to manage your VMM infrastructure while keeping an eye on your Hyper-V hosts security. looks like everyone wants to do that. So have you through before about using restricted Group group policy to limit membership for your local admins...

The Windows Server Performance team have done a really interesting post on how to optimize network performance inside of virtual machines by increasing the size of the VMBus buffers used by our network adapters. You can found it there http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/archive/2010/02/02/increase-vmbus-buffer-sizes-to-increase-network-throughput-to-guest-vms.aspx...

I've created a group on Facebook for SharePoint MVPs, we can communicate closer on this group so if you want to follow our activities join this group and share with us your problems, solutions and feedbackGroup Name: SharePoint MVPsGroup URL : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51462653406&ref=ts...

When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Components provide. Driver support for synthetic devices: The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and...

I was presenting a session about “How to build advanced website using SharePoint 2010” and while the demo I tried to create new announcement , survey, calendar etc then I found when I went to the create page that most of the features not included in the...

Many thanks to everyone who attend my session today, wish you find it useful and please don't hesitate in contact me for any questions or help. The video of the session will be available here soon. ...

Source Hello, my name is Vipul Shah and I’m a Senior Product Manager with the Virtualization Team. Due to its ability to drive down costs and drive up resource usage, Microsoft SQL Server consolidation is top of mind for our customers these days....

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When you perform a V2V from a VMware ESX 3.5  host and I get the following error: Error (12709) The operation on did not complete successfully because of the error:  Server sent disconnect message: type 2 (protocol error : too many authentication...

Dear All, Please accept my invitation to attend our gathering for SharePoint tech day, kindly find the details Date: January 30th 2010 Venue: Dar Al Deyafa - Ain Shams University Time Topic Speaker 11:00am – 12:00 pm Approaches...

As you know that SharePoint 2010 needs windows server 64 2008 and I’m using windows 7 so I tried to find if I can install SharePoint 2010 on windows 7 or not, one of my friends “Ramy Abd Elmonaem” told me yes you can I sent me this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx...

Most of the times you may need to host some VMs on the Perimeter host, After adding this host to VMM console you still can't connect to the VMs on that host. Your remote desktop connection failed because the remote computer cannot be authenticated..Certificate...

By Stefan Goßner Here is some information from the Microsoft lifecycle page for WSS 3.0: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 11/12/2007 Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of...

Gabe Knuth has wrote a very good article about Microsoft's Desktop Virtualization product line as of 2009 Last up in our rundown of the Big 5's desktop virtualization product lines is Microsoft.  This is probably the most ambiguous vendor, because...

This whitepaper defines the supported topologies and provides best practice recommendations for running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and SQL Server™ 2008 in a Windows Hyper-V environment or other hypervisor technologies.OverviewOffice Communications...

“If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.” – Bruce Schneier...