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Microsoft
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What’s New Series: Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2 RC1
In this What’s new post, I will highlight the new updates in TFS 2018 Update 2 RC. Microsoft have added a lot of new value to Team Foundation Server 2018 Update 2. Some of the highlights include: View pull request merge commit Help reviewer
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DevOps Series – Part 3 (4/4)
Monitor and diagnose an ASP.NET Core application on Service Fabric This post is part four of a series. It goes through the steps to set up monitoring and diagnostics for an ASP.NET Core application running on a Service Fabric cluster using
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DevOps Series – Part 3 (3/4)
This post is part three of a series and describes how to set up continuous integration and deployment for an Azure Service Fabric application using Visual Studio Team Services. An existing Service Fabric application is needed, the applicati
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DevOps Series – Part 3 (2/4)
Deploy an application to a Service Fabric cluster in Azure This post is part two of a series and shows you how to deploy an Azure Service Fabric application to a new cluster in Azure directly from Visual Studio. In this tutorial you learn h
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DevOps Series – Part 3 (1/4)
I’m cooking a new DevOps series Azure flavored! Let’s start cooking on the cloud 🙂 Create and deploy an application with an ASP.NET Core Web API front-end service and a stateful back-end service This tutorial is part one of a series. You w
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How Do I Series: Editor and Language Service Extensions
In this How Do I Series, I will post about the Editor and Language Service Extensions in Visual Studio. You can use editor extensions to add language service features such as outlining, brace matching, IntelliSense, and light bulbs to your
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Introducing Team Foundation Server 2018
I’m happy in this post to introduce for Microsofties and developers Team Foundation Server 2018 🙂 Microsoft have added a lot of new value to Team Foundation Server 2018. Some of the highlights include: Microsoft improved the Project Creati
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How Do I Series: Build and deploy to an Azure Web App
In this How Do I post, I will write about how can developers build and deploy to an Azure web app. Here’s a walkthrough on creating, publishing, building and deploying an Azure Web App using Visual Studio Team Services vNext builds. To keep
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How Do I Series: Creating a Visual Studio Extension with a Menu Command
In this How Do I series, I will show developers how they can create a Visual Studio Extension with a Menu Command. Let’s Start. Creating a Menu Command Create a VSIX project named FirstMenuCommand. You can find the VSIX project template in
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What’s New Series: Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 2 Release Notes
In this What’s new series post, I will summrize the updates in TFS 2017 Update 2. Here we go 🙂 Microsoft have added a lot of new value to Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 2. Some of the highlights include: Work items now have icons assoc
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How Do I Series: TFS Extensions
In this How Do I Series blog post, I will blog about how you can install extensions for disconnected TFS. While you’re disconnected from TFS, you can install free and preview extensions, but not paid extensions, by downloading them, uploadi
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What’s New Series: Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3
In this What’s new series I will write about the new features in TFS update 3. Let’s start. Microsoft announced the availability of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3. This is the newest version of Team Foundation Server
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How Do I Series: Configure Kanban Board in TFS 2015 (2/2)
In this post, Let’s Play with Kanban board and see how can we track work in progress and monitor metrics and fine tune. 3. Track work in progress Once you’ve configured your Kanban board to match how your team works, you’re ready to use it.
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How Do I Series: Configure Kanban Board in TFS 2015 (1/2)
I this post, I will show you how you can use Kanban board in TFS to maximize a team’s ability to consistently deliver high quality software. Kanban emphasize two main practices. The first, visualize the flow of work, requires you to map you
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (5/5)
This blog post is part 5 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. In part 5, we will play through How to setup a local build agent How to configure a build task How to con
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (4/5)
This blog post is part 4 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. In part 4, we will play through How to configure release environment and deployment workflow. How to conf
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (3/5)
This blog post is part 3 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. In part 3, we will play through How to setup your own internal nuget feed for Azure SQL Database. How to
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (2/5)
This blog post is part 2 of Automate Build and Deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. In part 2, we will play through How to configure a build definition for your database project How to enab
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DevOps Series – Part 2 (1/5)
In this post, The flavor of this DevOps series is SQL Server 🙂 I will start my new DevOps series writing about automate build and deployment of Azure SQL Database with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. One of key benefits o
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DevOps Series – Part1 (3/3)
In this Post, I will write about planning and traking work with Agile tools and DevOps feature (Build-Test-Release). Plan and track work with Agile tools Use Agile tools to plan and track work using Scrum and Kanban processes or a mix of bo
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DevOps Series-Part 1 (2/3)
In this post, I will take about how developer can develop code using their IDE of choice. VSTS supports two types of version control Git and Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC). Use Git, Team Foundation version control (TFVC) or both to
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DevOps Series – Part1(1/3)
in this Series I will walkthrough how we can Implement the development operations with TFS 2015, using Microsoft’s integrated tool set to speed the development and delivery of your software applications. Build better apps for any platform,
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Speak: Introducing Microsoft ALM and Team Foundation Server 2015 for KPMG ITA team.
It was a true pleasure to conduct a session for my colleagues in the ITA team @ KPMG to introduce Microsoft ALM and Team Foundation Server 2015 to manage the application lifecycle and development practices through an awesome capabilities an
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How do I series:Storyboard your ideas using PowerPoint using Visual Studio Team Services
Hi folks, Today I would like to write about a very important activity we do at the beginning of each application development to illustrate the application mockups in smart and exciting way through TFS which is the storyboarding feature that
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How do I series: Connect to Visual Studio Team Services from Eclipse, Xcode, Visual Studio, and more!
Hi Folks, In my next posts in “How do I series” I will spot the light on Visual Studio Team Services. To get started to upload and share code after creating your Visual Studio Team Services account, you have to connect to your private Git r
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How do I series: Connect clients to on premises TFS 2015
In this post I will give you a quick steps to connect to TFS 2015 from any version of Visual Studio and other platforms such as Eclipse and PowerBuilder. Hope you get enjoyed 🙂 Visual Basic 6, Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio 2003 on W
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Speaking about Team Foundation Server 2015 Capabilities to manage enterprise applications development for Jordan Armed Forces
It’s a true honor and pleasure to take the opportunity through Microsoft Jordan Office to deliver a speak for Jordan Armed Forces IT development team at HQ premises, demonstrating Team Foundation Server 2015 and the product capabilities to
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Speaking about DevOps automation and development process customization using TFS 2015 @ Bank of Jordan
Today, I talk about how we can automate the development operations and customize the development process workflows in session conducted for Bank of Jordan IT development team.
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Visual Studio 2015 Release is here!
Hello Folks!, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10 @ Build Event, Welcome Visual Studio 2015! Everything we need to create great apps for devices or desktop apps, for the web and in the cloud. Write code for iOS, Android, a
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ALM MVP for the 4th year while introducing MVP award program!
Yesterday Oct 1st I received the beloved congrats email from Microsoft that I got the MVP award for the 4th time in Visual Studio ALM “Al Hamdulillah 🙂 ” while speaking on the stage introducing the MVP award program and Visual Studio ALM e
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Troobleshooting TFS 2013: Customize Bug States in MSF CMMI 6.0 Template in TFS 2013
Hello Readers, From few weeks ago, I was faced a problem in adding a custom state to the bug work item which placed in “MSF CMMI 6.0” template in TFS 2013. my mates in the ALM Rangers team (Vinicius Moura and Baruch Frei) was helping me sol
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presenting continous integration (Build – Deploy-Test) for Trust Insrance group Development & Quality Team
Today I was visited Trust Insurance group – Jordan Branch to present the power of TFS 2013 continuous integration (Build – Deploy – Test) for their development and quality team after their interest and believe in VS ALM so
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Surface Pro 3 in the Arena!
Hello Techies, cant wait to share with you the hottest Microsoft announcement for today “Microsoft Surface Pro 3 is produced” ! The new device is adding a new category to the computers family comes between laptop pcs and tablets. its a tabl
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ALM Lecture for Software Engineering Students @ Petra University
Today I was very excited to present a lecture @ Jordan University for software engineering students talking about the evolution of software engineering and the new trend @ the market which’s “Application LifeCycle Management” and how they c
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Making Team More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013
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ALM Lecture for Software Engineering Students @ Petra University
Today I was very glad to present a lecture @ my beloved university which I graduated from for software engineering students talking about the evolution of software engineering and the new trend @ the market which’s “Application LifeCycle Ma
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ALM workshop for N2V Startups
Hello, Today I as very excited to start a one day workshop for N2V Startups, N2V is a big incubator for Jordanian startups, the main objective was spread the awareness of ALM and how they can build a capacity for their development teams and
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Team Rooms in Visual Studio 2013
In TFS 2013, Brian Harry on behalf of Visual Studio Team introduced a new feature called “Team Rooms” that keep a record of things that happen in your team – checkins, work item updates, build failures, code reviews, etc. And you can have c
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ALM workshop for STS Jordan
Hello, Today I as very excited to start a two days workshop for STS Jordan application development team, one if the biggest software houses in Jordan and middle east to spread the awareness of ALM and how they can make their team more produ
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Meet Windows 8.1 Preview
In this post I will spot the light on only one of the cool features in Windows 8.1 preview, Actually a friend of mine since many years ago asked me about it and he still asking me until the day before Windows 8.1 preview. I think this post
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Visual Studio ALM training for MS Jordan Partners & Startups
Today I covered a full day free training workshop for Microsoft Partners and Startups in Jordan about Visual Studio ALM with some technical demos for developers and testers. Lab Links: Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Te
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 – TAGI
I covered today Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 for TAGI Telco Quality team as part of the ALM Awareness workshop tour for enterprises in Jordan. Lab Link: https://cmg.vlabcenter.com/lab/c3e05f0a-df
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 – Orange
I covered today Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 2012 for Orange Telco Quality team as part of the ALM Awareness workshop tour for enterprises in Jordan. Lab Link: https://cmg.vlabcenter.com/lab/c3e05f0a-
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 – Orange Telco
today it was Orange Telecom’s practical part of the ALM awareness workshops tour for the Enterprises in Jordan, my demos was focus on making developers more productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. I used Microsoft Visual
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 – Tala Abu Ghazaleh
Today I keep the practical part of the ALM awareness workshops tour for the Enterprises in Jordan with TAGI, my demos was focus on making developers more productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. I used Microsoft Visual Stu
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 – Arab Bank
Today I started the practical part of the ALM awareness workshops tour for the Enterprises in Jordan, my demos was focus on making developers more productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. I used Microsoft Visual Studio Vir
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Visual Studio ALM 2012 Overview – Orange Telecom
This is the third ALM workshop of the ALM awareness tour in cooperation with Microsoft Jordan for Enterprises and Companies to improve the ALM awareness for their development units and help them deliver a continuous value by using Visual St
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Visual Studio ALM 2012 Overview – Tala Abu Ghazaleh Institustion
this is the second ALM workshop of the ALM awareness tour in cooperation with Microsoft Jordan for Enterprises and Companies to improve the ALM awareness for their development units and help them deliver a continuous value by using Visual S
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{ALM Awareness Enterprises Tour} Visual Studio ALM 2012 Overview – Arab Bank Jordan
Today I start the first ALM workshop of the ALM awareness tour in cooperation with Microsoft Jordan for Enterprises and Companies to improve the ALM awareness for their development units and help them deliver a continuous value by using Vis
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OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 (Beta) is released
Last week, Brian Keller, Visual Studio ALM Principal Technical Evangelist @ Microsoft announced that OData access for Team Foundation Service has been enabled. Developers can now write applications for multiple device types (such as smartph
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Meet the new Microsoft Surface!
A feat of engineering and a work of art. One touch and you’ll recognize the thoughtful design and precision craftsmanship that make Surface a joy to behold. The unique VaporMg casing delivers a high-quality fit and finish that’s ultra-light
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Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is here!
Get Visual Studio 2012 RC today and start preparing for the next generation of development. You can’t predict the future, but you can get there first! http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads
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Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 – Part 3
Hello my friends, Today I will close “Working with Workspaces in TFS Series” in how to use multiple workspaces to work on multiple branches: You typically create multiple workspaces to work on two versions of your software at the same time.
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Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 – Part 2
Hello my friends, I will talk in this post about creating a Workspace manually as the end part of “ Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 Series“, let go! You should create a workspace manually if you plan to work with version-controlled file
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Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 – Part 2
Hello my friends, In my last post I was talking about workspaces in TFS 2010, lets continue today talking about how to get files quickly by using the default workspace, lets go! When you work on files that are under version control in Team
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Working with Workspaces in TFS 2010 – Part 1
Hello my dears, First of all, please accept my apology for being late in writing a new post, I was a in a long business trip and I am so happy to catch you again through a new post, I will take today about dealing with workspaces which is s
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Working with Team Foundation Server – Part 4
Hello my dear readers, After adding a new solution to the new team project, Our solution is ready for work items, lets start! You can create work items directly inside Visual Studio using the Team Explorer, through the web front end, and th
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Working with Team Foundation Server – Part 3
Hello my dear readers, In my last post I create a new team project, now it’s ready to hold source control and other stuff, lets add our solution( which we’ve created in part 1) inside the team project source control: At this point you can u
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Working with Team Foundation Server – Part 2
Hello my dear readers, In my last post I stop writing at the beginning of creating new project, let’s create it! After entering the data, click Next on the project creation wizard: The Agile template is the default but you can also select C
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Working with Team Foundation Server – Part 1
Hello my dear readers, This month I will start a new wave of Team Foundation Server learning series, In my earlier posts, I start introducing VS ALM and TFS 2010, now I will start writing about working with Team Foundation Server 2010. so l
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Inroducing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 3
Hello again My friends, In my last post I was start talking about TFS 2010 deeply and we talked about the product architecture, and know that TFS is a server product which be used through client application. In this post I will show you som
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Inroducing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 2
Hello again My friends, In my last post I was introducing TFS 2010 product in a general overview, let’s go in this post deep dive to know more about this great product! So What is Team Foundation Server? Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a se
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Introducing Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part1
My Dear Readers, Welcome to my new blog section “I Think ALM!”, In this section I will talk about Application Lifecycle Management using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ALM Solutions and the hero of ALM tools Visual Studio Team Foundation Serv
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Finishing Windows Server 2008 R2 & Active Directory Domain Services Introduction Tranining @ Petra University
In this training i was introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 features and how the student can configure the different types of servers using Windows Server 2008 R2 roles. In addition, i was introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory D
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Finishing Windows 7 Deployment Training @ Petra University
This free training course was part of MCITP courses as integration between Microsoft IT Academy Program and open course in the IT Faculty – Petra University. in this course I was introduce Windows 7, describing the numereos ways in de
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i Think Technology @ JUST
It’s my pleasure starting my first posts talking about my visits to the Jordanian Universities through Microsoft Universities Tour with my friends Mohammad Arrabi from Microsoft and Anwar Al-Yousef from JUNet, In my presentaion “i Think Tec
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Live@edu for Professors @ Hashemite University
In this session, I was talking about Live@edu platform services for professors and how they can use it to enhance their teaching ways in their classes like assigning home works, projects, set an exam schedule and home works reminders, shari
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Live@edu for Professors @ German Jordanian University
In this session, I was talking about Live@edu platform services for professors and how they can use it to enhance their teaching ways in their classes like assigning home works, projects, set an exam schedule and home works reminders, shari
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Live@edu for Professors @ Jordan University
In this session, I was talking about Live@edu platform services for professors and how they can use it to enhance their teaching ways in their classes like assigning home works, projects, set an exam schedule and home works reminders, shari
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Live@edu for Professors @ Balqaa University
In this session, I was talking about Live@edu platform services for professors and how they can use it to enhance their teaching ways in their classes like assigning home works, projects, set an exam schedule and home works reminders, shari
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Live@edu for Students @ Hashemite University
In this session, I was talking about Live@edu platform services for students and how they can use all of these services to communicate, collaborate and share their knowledge with their colleagues, friends and professors in the institute. Th
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Live@edu for Students @ Jordan University
In this session, I was talking about Live@edu platform services for students and how they can use all of these services to communicate, collaborate and share their knowledge with their colleagues, friends and professors in the institute. Th
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Live@edu for Students @ Balqaa University
In this session, I was talking about Live@edu platform services for students and how they can use all of these services to communicate, collaborate and share their knowledge with their colleagues, friends and professors in the institute. Th
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Live@edu for Professors @ Al-Hussien University
In this session, I was talking about Live@edu platform services for professors and how they can use it to enhance their teaching ways in their classes like assigning home works, projects, set an exam schedule and home works reminders, shari
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Overview of Windows Azure Platform
In this session I was focusing on give the audience an overview about Windows Azure Platform, the cloud computing platform from Microsoft, and talking about the benefits of cloud computing and highlights for the main products and technologi
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i Think Technology @ Tafila Technical University
It’s my pleasure starting my first posts talking about my visits to the Jordanian Universities through Microsoft Universities Tour with my friends Mohammad Arrabi from Microsoft and Anwar Al-Yousef from JUNet, In my presentaion “i Think Tec
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i Think Technology @ Yarmouk University
It’s my pleasure starting my first posts talking about my visits to the Jordanian Universities through Microsoft Universities Tour with my friends Mohammad Arrabi from Microsoft and Anwar Al-Yousef from JUNet, In my presentaion “i Think Tec
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i Think Technology @ Jordan University
It’s my pleasure starting my first posts talking about my visits to the Jordanian Universities through Microsoft Universities Tour with my friends Mohammad Arrabi from Microsoft and Anwar Al-Yousef from JUNet, In my presentaion “i Think Tec
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i Think Technology @ Balqaa University
It’s my pleasure starting my first posts talking about my visits to the Jordanian Universities through Microsoft Universities Tour with my friends Mohammad Arrabi from Microsoft and Anwar Al-Yousef from JUNet, In my presentaion “i Think Tec
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i Think Technology @ Aal AlBeit University
It’s my pleasure starting my first posts talking about my visits to the Jordanian Universities through Microsoft Universities Tour with my friends Mohammad Arrabi from Microsoft and Anwar Al-Yousef from JUNet, In my presentaion “i Think Tec
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i Think Technology @ Mutah University
It’s my pleasure starting my first posts talking about my visits to the Jordanian Universities through Microsoft Universities Tour with my friends Mohammad Arrabi from Microsoft and Anwar Al-Yousef from JUNet, In my presentaion “i Think Tec
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i Think Technology @ Al-Hussien University
It’s my pleasure starting my first posts talking about my visits to the Jordanian Universities through Microsoft Universities Tour with my friends Mohammad Arrabi from Microsoft and Anwar Al-Yousef from JUNet, In my presentaion “i Think Tec