Microsoft Egypt Open Doors, what to expect, meet us there #Microsoft #Egypt #Cairo #opendoors

it has been a while since the last blog entry, I so moved with this post and proud of it, we are so excited about the upcoming event for Microsoft Egypt open doors that will be held next Monday 20/2/2012.

I will not speak in the event, Microsoft has decided that this year speakers should be MSFTs, but we will have some cool demos to run in the demo area, my team and I will have some very cool demo to show you in the event, we have 3 main demos to run:

• I will be presenting Exchange/SQL workload on Hyper-v and the benefits/challenges of running those workloads on top of Hyper-v.
• Karim Hamdy and I will be presenting the DR site how to with Windows Data Center  2008 R2 edition, Hyper-v and Netapp for Active Directory, SQL, Exchange and Hyper-v workloads demystifying the building blocks for having a DR site for your main site on top of Hyper-v.
• Mai Fawzi, will be demoing large VDI workload on top of Windows Data Center 2008 R2 with Citrix Xendesktop.

We will be waiting for you in the event, will be also happy to speak to you with regarding any specific technical workload you have enquiry about.

you can register in this link: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=39-14-67-BB-B1-DE-12-3D-F4-CC-1B-89-E1-F2-07-4F&Culture=en-EG

See you there

#Microsoft Office 365 is now available in #UAE, #Kuwait, #Qatar, #South Africa, #Saudi Arabia, #Egypt and #Turkey

We all know that O365 has been released in Europe and USA, now it is our time, Microsoft has launched the program in selected countries and trials of it could be tested.

   

Got this Message this morning and would like to share it with you

Microsoft is delighted to announce the availability of Office 365 trial services to its MVPs, partners and customers in UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Turkey.

Microsoft Office 365 brings together online versions of our trusted email and collaboration software* with our familiar Office Professional Plus suite; it is designed to help meet your needs for robust security, 24/7 reliability, and user productivity in the cloud.

If you are in these geographies we encourage you to try Office 365 by signing up on our trial page.  We are currently working on the web experience, the way to activate the trial properly is to go to these sites and select the “Free Trial” button.

 

Enjoy

My gift to you in my Birthday–Why you feel unhappy in your current job #Egypt #IT #Jobs #careers

Today is my Birthday, I will start my first day in my 29th tomorrow finishing my twenties, it was an era for my started in Libya and ending in Egypt.

my gift back to you in by BD will be my own finding for why people are not happy in their current jobs not only IT but any job.

During the past years I found and met a lot of people who working in great companies (big ones also), getting huge pay checks and yet are not happy.

I involved in a lot of discussions during the past month with a lot of my friends and colleagues about the source of happiness and satisfaction in their current role and career path and how to find it.

my finding that a lot of people (specially in Egypt) believe that happiness in career will be gained with high salaries and career satisfaction achieved by working in bigger companies, but of course I can say and declare that this is a big fat mistake.

how I can be so sure, I found the answer 3 years ago when I was involved in Time Effectiveness training, that program lasted for 3 days that changed my life.

the Coach’s idea was to effectively manage your time, you have to love what you do, and to know what you love to do, take that very simple test:

assume that starting tomorrow money will not be used, what ever you want in your life will be given to you for free, you want a house here is a house, you want a car here is a one, no more bills or payments, no money is needed thus you don’t have to pursuit a career or a job anymore (if you work for the sake of money).

so going along with that assumption, if you decided to work (remember that in this job you will not be given a salary there are no need for money) so if you will work in a job where you will never be paid a salary or given a money what you will work?!!!

In the training and until that moment I wasn’t impressed, so I went with the coach and took the test (for the sake of not being a silly boy), and I gave it a thought and came back with the job that I will love to work for free, I will be a military sniper.

The coach then asked me, list 3 things you love about your new career that made you choose it over your current one and will make you happy working it for free, so I chose:

• Support, I love to provide support to my team and working with them in complex and adventurous plans.
• Accuracy, planning associated with the military sniper role.
• Knowledge, training required to be skillful in that role.

Then, The Coach asked the following question : Do you find the above 3 things in your current role?!

The question was shocking to me , I spent days thinking about my current role at that time (of course that was after the training completed) and if I can find any amusement in it and if it fits with the things I wish to have and willing to have and work for free for them.

at that time I found that my role has nothing to do with the above features ,benefits or items that thrills me and one month later I left that role pursuing a job that had those in it, leaving my role in that big company and sacrificing a salary that is double my current salary to find  happiness and satisfaction in career and life.

In our life, we used to have a compass that guide us when we were child, our parents were assisting and guiding us toward solutions for our simple problems like which sport shall we play, which school we should go to…etc, however when we grow up and our problems became a hell more complex we lose this compass and sometimes we lose or mix our dreams with needs and tend to ignore what amuses us and targeting the values of our society which encourages us to have the fanciest houses, the largest cars and biggest salaries which doesn’t bring happiness nor satisfaction to our career or life.

I hope that you will get the message, take the test and apply it to your current career or role and see if you can find happiness or satisfaction in it. if not I highly encourage you to pursuit another career or job that will make you more satisfied and happier because money will not bring any of them.

 

Thanks for reading my post and until next time.

Speaking on Wednesday 28/9 at Microsoft about VDI building blocks with #Microsoft,#Citrix & #Netapp #mvpbuzz #xendesktop

next Wednesday I will speak at Microsoft hero event about VDI building blocks with Microsoft, Citrix and Netapp solutions.

the session will be level 300-350 going from design to implementation, the session content will be:

No Marketing stuff , it is All Hot technical materials. so Drink a lot of Coffee , The session is for Arabic language speakers

 book your calendar, you can confirm your registration and share it on linedin or facebook:

Linkedin:  http://events.linkedin.com/VDI-Building-Blocks-Microsoft-Citrix/pub/785942

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215307091861783

- Introduction to Desktop Virtualization and what does it mean.

- Benefits of VDI for corporates

- Building Blocks for VDI:

• Understand Hypervisor Requirements, Hyper-v, SCVMM
• Understand Connection Broker Requirements Xendesktop
• Understand application delivery requirements (Terminal Services and Xenapp)
• Understand VDI Type and OS Delivery Types.

- Get your VDI on the right track:

• Sizing your Hypervisor correctly Including Memory, Processor and Storage.
• Designing Operating System Delivery
• Sizing your application delivery infrastructure
• Sizing remote access and network
• Storage optimization matrix for VDI deployments (De-duplication, Thin Provisioning and Snapshots)
• Design backup and restore

- Lab for end to end solution implementation

See you there,

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

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 apps while retaining the ability to use your existing apps. See how web-connected and web-powered apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript have full access to the power of the PC.
Explore how the full power of hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 10 transforms your experiences with the web. See how the UI was designed to work seamlessly with a diversity of devices and form factors. BUILD is the first place to dive deep into the future of Windows.
If you are a contemporary developer, who thrives on the newest and coolest, who loves the freedom of the web and the power of all devices from mobile to desktop, you need to join us to help BUILD the future. Our approach means no compromises – you get to use whatever kind of device you prefer to run the apps you love.
Microsoft Egypt is inviting you to attend the Live Broadcast event on Tuesday September 13^th at our premises in Smart Village, Explorer Meeting Room.

Please register here (limited number) to confirm your attendance.

Agenda

5:00 PM – 5:45 PM		Registration, Coffee & Snacks
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM		Local Welcome Note from Egypt DPE Team
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM		BUILD US Keynote
8:00 PM – 8:15 PM		QA and closing

In 1995, Windows changed the PC. BUILD will show you that Windows® 8 changes everything

Our New Egyptian IT Pros Community online, Join now #Egypt #IT #professionals #newegypt #mvpbuzz

Dears,
we have started a new group that will focus on the IT professionals technologies in general not only Microsoft, we will be posting new sessions online from www.enadwa.com, you can follow us our activities on linkedin also http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular&gid=3891911 and twitter http://twitter.com/#!/egyptitpros

we will be posting our sessions schedule within few days from now. stay tuned as we have amazing events coming.

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

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 releasing a new hotfix to disable DST, however due to time limitation we might have a delay until we get that update, until further notice use the below steps to disable it.

As a workaround, to deactivate daylight saving settings and avoid adding an hour by the last Thursday of April, the “Automatically Adjust Clock for Daylight Saving” checkbox needs to be unchecked. Automated ways for Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows 2003 are listed below. Unfortunately, there is no automation in toggling this checkbox in Windows 2008 and Vista, it will need to be done manually.

Issue:

Windows Daylight Saving Time (DST) Will be canceled in Egypt 

Symptoms:

Your computer’s clock may start the daylight saving time (adding 1 hour) on the last Thursday of April at 23:59:59, and it may end the daylight saving time (deducting 1 hour) on the last Thursday of September at 11:59:59 PM.

However, in Egypt, daylight saving time has been canceled, and there is no need to add or deduct this 1 hour.  
The behavior will only occur if the Date/Time Properties settings are set to the following:

•	Time Zone is set to (GMT+02:00) Cairo. -and-
•	The Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes check box is selected.

Business Impact:

· Active Directory Replication fails.

· Users will be unable to join / logon to all Active Directory Domains.

· The Global Catalog server is unavailable, and the Exchange services cannot be started.

· Users are not able to access their e-mail as the Exchange Server services are down.

· The Free/busy calendar information will show the old time (One extra hour).

· Calendar appointments will be off by 1 hour.

Resolution:

          Any of following resolution can be used:

· Microsoft Windows7 and Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2

“Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes” can be disabled by using a built-in command line utility called Tzutil.exe:

- Tzutil.exe /s “Egypt Standard Time”_dstoff

The above command will clear the DST checkbox. You can run this command in a script file to force the change on all Win7/2k8 R2 machines. It’s recommended that you re-type this command rather than copy/paste from email.

· Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003

“Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes” can be disabled by using the below commands with TZChange.exe:

- reg.exe add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation /f /v DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet /t REG_DWORD /d 1   - TZCHANGE.exe /C "Middle East Standard Time"   - TZCHANGE.exe /C "Egypt Standard Time"

The above command will clear the DST checkbox. You can run this command in a script file to force the change on all Win7/2k8 R2 machines. It’s recommended that you re-type this command rather than copy/paste from email.

· Microsoft Windows Server 2008 / Vista

“Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes” checkbox needs to be manually disabled.

Prerequisites

The following list contains prerequisites for this solution:

• Windows XP SP3

• Windows 2003 SP2

• Windows 7 RTM

• Windows 2008 R2

Applies to

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, when used with:

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for Itanium-Based Systems

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, when used with:

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for Itanium-Based Systems

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005

• Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3, when used with:

    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

    Microsoft Windows XP Professional

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, when used with:

    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

    Microsoft Windows XP Professional

• Windows 7 Ultimate

• Windows 7 Enterprise

• Windows 7 Home Premium

• Windows 7 Home Basic

• Windows 7 Starter

• Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Edition

• Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit Edition

• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition

• Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems

Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter

Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

Windows Web Server R2 2008