Articles by Syed Adnan Ahmed (Articles: 14, Technical Blogs: 6)

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Virtual Machine	How to Sysprep Windows 2008 Servers 29 Nov 2009 Updated: 29 Nov 2009 Rating: 1.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 0.54 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,458 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The way we use to Sysprep windows machine are changed in Windows Server 2008. I should admit that it's lot simpler and less painful to Sysprep Windows Server 2008 than any of the previous versions of Windows.
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WPF	Best Practices for Project Server 2007 Deployment in a Large Server Farm with Office SharePoint Server 2007 5 May 2009 Updated: 13 May 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,660 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Best practices for Project Server 2007 deployment in a large server farm with Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Windows 2008 R2	How to Configure SSL Certificate for the Central Administration Web Site of SharePoint Server 2010 25 Apr 2010 Updated: 25 Apr 2010 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 51,330 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, I will explain how to install and configure self-signed SSL certificate for the central administration web site in SharePoint Server 2010. This procedure is also applicable for any other web applications for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.
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Sharepoint	How to configure PDF iFilter for SharePoint Server 2010 or Search Server 2010 19 May 2010 Updated: 19 May 2010 Rating: 4.53/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.33 Licence: CPOL Views: 177,091 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Steps to install and configure PDF iFilter on SharePoint Server 2010 or Search Server Express 2010
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C#	How to configure SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to search contents of list attachments 9 Jun 2006 Updated: 9 Jun 2006 Rating: 2.63/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 1.58 Licence: Not specified Views: 58,330 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes the process of configuring SharePoint Portal Server search to search the contents of list attachments.
XML	Extending SharePoint Server 2007 by using Features 12 Mar 2007 Updated: 18 Nov 2007 Rating: 4.72/5 Votes: 35 Popularity: 7.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 346,824 Bookmarked: 116 Downloaded: 1,682 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating and deploying an Event Handler Feature, which can be activated on Web or Site, Site Collection, Web Application or Farm Level
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ASP.NET	Encrypt Password Field in SQL Server, Registry Information & Query String 13 Jan 2003 Updated: 13 Jan 2003 Rating: 4.28/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 6.25 Licence: Not specified Views: 434,395 Bookmarked: 100 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to encrypt the database password field, registry information and query string.
	Steps Required to Install Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2 on existing SharePoint Farm 5 May 2009 Updated: 13 May 2009 Rating: 2.82/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 1.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 67,182 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Steps required to install Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 service pack 2 on existing SharePoint farm
	How to Install and Configure SharePoint Server 2010 RTM 24 Apr 2010 Updated: 24 Apr 2010 Rating: 3.40/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,124 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes step by step details of how to install and configure SharePoint Server 2010 RTM
	Wrapper API for using Microsoft Active Directory Services 5 May 2005 Updated: 5 May 2005 Rating: 4.51/5 Votes: 53 Popularity: 7.59 Licence: CPOL Views: 481,092 Bookmarked: 163 Downloaded: 9,928 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you develop web applications with Microsoft® ASP.NET and have the need to secure your site from unauthorized access, you have surely investigated the various authentication and authorization techniques that ASP.NET 1.x enables. This article discusses how to use Microsoft Active Directory Services
	Useful SQL Queries to Analyze and Monitor SharePoint Portal Solutions Usage 25 May 2006 Updated: 25 May 2006 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 5.76 Licence: Not specified Views: 189,879 Bookmarked: 49 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Some useful SQL queries to analyze and monitor SharePoint Portal solutions usage.
	Dynamic HTML Page creation & Search through Free Text and Meta Tags of HTML by Using Index Server 1 Aug 2003 Updated: 1 Aug 2003 Rating: 3.73/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.15 Licence: Not specified Views: 99,051 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 929 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article mainly focuses on the problem faced in jobs portal to provide the mechanism to employers/recruiters to search job seeker’s uploaded and created resumes on the basis of given template, and vice versa for the job seekers to search the jobs on the basis of the specified criteria.
IIS	How to Install and Configure MS Exchange Server 2007 on MS Windows Server 2008 8 Dec 2009 Updated: 8 Dec 2009 Rating: 4.43/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 95,243 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to Install and Configure MS Exchange Server 2007 on MS Windows Server 2008
	How to Configure SSL Certificate for SharePoint Web Application on IIS7/Window Server 2008 27 Nov 2009 Updated: 27 Nov 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,201 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The configuration of SSL certificate on IIS 7 (Windows Server 2008) is bit different than in IIS 6. This article describes the steps required to configure SSL certificate on SharePoint Central Admin web site.

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WPF	SharePoint Search crawl error on Windows Server 2008 Operating System [Technical Blog] 5 May 2009 Updated: 5 May 2009 Rating: 3.86/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,310 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. SharePoint Search crawl error on Windows Server 2008 Operating System
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Windows 2008	How to setup Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller on a VPC (Server) [Technical Blog] 5 May 2009 Updated: 5 May 2009 Rating: 3.29/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 54,361 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article will explain how to setup Windows Server 2008 Domain Controller on a VPC. Steps remain the same for physical machine.
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C#	How to Configure PDF iFilter 9.0 for 64-bit operating system on MOSS 2007 Server Farm [Technical Blog] 5 May 2009 Updated: 5 May 2009 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,531 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Before the release of PDF iFilter 9.0, you have to install Windows desktop search, PDF reader and iFilter 8.0 to configure PDF iFilter on MOSS 2007 environment. Now, Adobe has released PDF iFilter 9.0 for 64bit operating system, so configuration of PDF iFilter is a lot easier than before.
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ASP.NET	Comprehensive list of development tools for SharePoint Server 2007 [Technical Blog] 5 May 2009 Updated: 5 May 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,772 Bookmarked: 35 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I have tried to summarise the list of development tools that you require in your day to day development.
	Summary of sessions of European Best Practices SharePoint Conference 2009 [Technical Blog] 5 May 2009 Updated: 5 May 2009 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,032 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I wrote down my notes during the European SharePoint Conference held in London and decided to share best practices discussed in the sessions that I had attended.
	How to Configure SharePoint Treasure (Synonym) In MOSS 2007 [Technical Blog] 5 May 2009 Updated: 13 May 2009 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,892 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The concept of treasures in SharePoint world is not new. It was also used in SharePoint 2003. Treasures are like synonyms or similar words that you specify in SharePoint for keywords search.

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Syed Adnan Ahmed

Architect Version 1

Ireland

Adnan Ahmed is SharePoint Architect in Version 1(http://www.version1.com), the IT Consulting Company in Ireland and has involved with many large enterprises to help them realise real benefits of SharePoint 2007|2010.

SharePoint Architect | Blogger | IT Evangelist | MCPD SharePoint 2010 Developer| MCITP SharePoint Administrator 2010

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Articles by Syed Adnan Ahmed (Articles: 14, Technical Blogs: 6)

Articles: 14, Technical Blogs: 6

Average article rating: 3.87

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