Mahmoud Magdy

Register for #Microsoft #Egypt Windows 8 BUILD Event #IT #mvpbuzz

by Mahmoud Magdy 7 September 2011 Anouncements

BUILD is the event that shows you how to take advantage of the future of Windows. Get insight on creating touch-centric user experiences, fast, fluid, and dynamic applications that leverage the power and flexibility of the core of Windows, used by more than a billion people around the world. Learn how to create powerful new [...]

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Tagged as: Egypt, events, IT Events, Microsoft

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NetApp and VMware View 5,000-Seat Performance Report #Netapp #vmware #vdi

by Mahmoud Magdy 5 September 2011 Citrix

I got evolved in the past few months in designing and implementing large VDI solution, that will be weird for an Exchange MVP but I love the virtualization technology and couldn’t resist the temptation. one of the most ugly parts of the VDI project is the storage design, in fact every VDI architect knows that [...]

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Tagged as: Citrix, Cloud, design, iops, netapp, performance, storage, vdi, vmware

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Book review: Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook #Microsoft #Exchange #Exchange2010

by Mahmoud Magdy 18 August 2011 Book Reviews

Have been reading Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook for the last few days and couldn’t stop until I finished it, summary it is amazing book. The book is written into cookbook style so it doesn’t waste your time in useless introductions and chapters it goes directly into PowerShell introduction chapter and after that goes into [...]

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Tagged as: cookbook, E14, Exchange, Exchange 2010, PowerShell

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Disabling Day/time Savings #Microsoft #Windows #Egypt #DST

by Mahmoud Magdy 27 April 2011 Windows

The Egyptian government announced on Wednesday 20 April 2011 that summer daylight saving time (DST) will be canceled in Egypt. By default, all windows platforms configured with Egypt time zone (GMT+02:00) Cairo will start the DST by the last Thursday of April by adding one hour at 28 April 2011 @ 23:59:59. Microsoft will be [...]

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Tagged as: DST, Egypt, Microsoft

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Lync Client Virtualization the full story

by Mahmoud Magdy 27 April 2011 Citrix

if you have been reading carefully, Citrix released a document the article published here http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128831 . by that time, I knew internally that Microsoft didn’t support Client virtualization for OCS/Lync. although if you have been reading and even attended Citrix Xenapp 6 or Xendesktop training you will hear a lot about Lync/OCS client virtualization delivery [...]

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Tagged as: Citrix, Lync, Lync 2010, Microsoft, virtualization, xenapp, xendesktop

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Automating #Linux Machines #provisioning on #Microsoft Hyper-v #Cloud using #opalis #hyperv

by Mahmoud Magdy 24 April 2011 Cloud

I was assigned the task by one of my customers to automate their Linux machines provisioning on their Hyper-v cloud they are running, they still evaluating the Hyper-v Cloud capabilities, and they were wondering if they can automate the Linux machines provisioning into Hyper-v Servers. They currently still evaluating it, so the process for the [...]

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Tagged as: automation, Cloud, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Opalis, provisioning

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Register for my Second Arabic Webinar about Microsoft Exchange Server

by Mahmoud Magdy 22 February 2011 Anouncements

Due to the demonstrations and revolution was running in Egypt last month we didn’t manage to do the second session, we are back and you can meet me in the second session, you can register here, registration is mandatory but takes less than 30 second. you can register here see you. Share this post:

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices, Book Review

by Mahmoud Magdy 20 February 2011 Book Reviews

as an Architect and technology lover, I rarely find a new interesting book to read, I have read a lot and that made my life harder now, I cannot find a book targeting experienced consultants/Architects those days. Most of the books explains the technology from scratch and overlooking the tricky parts since it assumes that [...]

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Tagged as: Best Practices, Book, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Review

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Exchange 2010 SP1: The Troubleshooters has been released

by Mahmoud Magdy 19 January 2011 Exchange

Today, Exchange PG team announced on msexchangeteam.com as set of troubleshooting scripts that will help you aiding common errors in your Exchange organization, the set of scripts include: Content Index Troubleshooter(Troubleshoot-CI.ps1) Database Latency Troubleshooter(Troubleshoot-DatabaseLatancy.ps1) Database Disk Space troubleshooter(Troubleshoot-DatabaseSpace.ps1)grab your version and read more here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2011/01/18/457713.aspx Share this post:

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