Microsoft New “Efficiency Launch” Roadshow

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People in middle east get ready for great road show of Microsoft.
Please find given below timing/locations as per your schedule/country.
I will attend session in Bahrain....what about you.

Abu Dhabi
Date: 23rd November, 2009 • Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Intercontinental Hotel Abu Dhabi, Dar El Ishtiqbal ballroom

Bahrain
Date: 11th November, 2009 • Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Sheraton Bahrain Hotel

Kuwait
Date: 17th November, 2009 • Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Marina Salwa Al Subah

Oman
Date: 15th November, 2009 • Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Venue: Shangri la Barr Al Jissah Resort

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Getting Started with SharePoint 2010 (Beta)

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Get Start with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 click here to gooooo....

SharePoint 2010: Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic

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A very good news for all.

SharePoint 2010 Hands-on Labs in C# and Visual Basic are available now.

Click here to view

Share Point Conference 2009

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Today was the 1st day of Share Point Conference 2009.
I really missed it:(
but you can get details/news/views here :)

SharePoint 2010 Beta MSDN Documentation

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Congratulations to all sharepointers.
I am really glad to announce SharePoint 2010 Beta MSDN Documentation is released now.
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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 - Good News for SharePointers

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In an interview of Chris Capossela, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Information Worker Product Management Group announce the timeline for realeasing Office SharePoint Server 2010.

Microsoft will begin releasing new versions of Office-related products this year. Exchange 2010 will be the first product.

Office 2010 — including Office Web applications, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 — will enter a technical preview in the third quarter of 2009 and will release to manufacturing in the first half of 2010.

Click here for more details on Microsoft Official site..

WOW.....waiting for next version :)

MOSS 2007 SP-2

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Post on Official blog of Microsoft SharePoint

Office Service Pack team announced Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 would be available on April 28th. It provides many fixes and performance improvements, as well as some new features. Also with the new service pack, Internet Explorer 8 will be added into browser support matrix as level one, and Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 as level two. We recommend every customer to start planning their patch window to apply this service pack. Please look out for more details on April 28^th.

For ref click here.....

MOSS 2007 - Packages of February Cumulative Updates

in MOSS 2007, Updates - on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 3 comments

Download Information
February Cumulative Update Uber Package for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Version: 12.0.6341.5000)

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961755

February Cumulative Update Uber Package for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Version: 12.0.6341.5002)

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961756

Detail description

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009

Description of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009

Meanwhile, if customer need to index Visio files,

there is a Visio iFilter hotfix which is not a part of the uber package.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960502

Notes:
After applying the preceding updates, run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard or “psconfig –cmd upgrade –inplace b2b -wait” in command line. This needs to be done on every server in the farm with SharePoint installed.

REF: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/03/09/uber-packages-of-february-cumulative-update-are-ready.aspx

Error: This form was customized not working with attachment

in SharePoint Designer 2007 - on Monday, March 09, 2009 - 2 comments

SYMPTOMS
When we use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to add a Custom List Form Web Part on a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site. Then, you try to attach a file by clicking Attach File in the custom form on the Web site. When you do this, you receive the following error message: "This form was customized not working with attachment."

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, follow these steps:

1. Apply hotfix 953749.

For more information about how to do this, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
953749 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953749/) Issues that are fixed in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Infrastructure Update

Click here for more details on msdn.

Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 - Feb 2009 CTP

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The tools provide item templates for List Definition, List Definition from Content Type, Content Type, Field Control, Web Part, Module, Root File, Template, Event Receiver, and List Instance. It provides project templates for Team Site Definition, Blank Site Definition, List Definition, Web Part and Empty. It works with Visual Basic .NET and C# languages and a comprehensive user guide is included.

Click here to download.

European SharePoint Best Practices Conference - 2009 (London)

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Who should attend?
The conference sessions are divided into 4 tracks in order to accommodate topics for SharePoint professionals at every level:

IT Pro
Developers and Designers
Information Worker
Information Architect/Taxonomist
Project Manager
Chief Information Officer

Event Speakers
Learn practical and productive SharePoint practices from the industry's leading authorities. Event speakers include:

Microsoft MVPs
Microsoft Product Team Members
Industry Experts

Specially two big guns of SharePoint Mr. Joel Oleson & Andrew Connell will be there.
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Get a free domain name and hosting from Microsoft

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13845_3-10160295-58.html

[RSUG Monthly Meeting] Advanced Topics in Administration and Development

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Riyadh SharePoint User Group is pleased to welcome you on 3rd public meeting on Thursday, February 12, 2009.
The purpose of this meeting is to dive into detailed topics of SharePoint that were initiated in the previous events. This time the topics will include web part development using Silverlight and SharePoint Designer, administration and upgrading Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. We will have Mr. Abdurrahman Al-Qahtani from Microsoft and Mr. Tariq Younas who is SharePoint consultant at SABIC.

First 5 Registered users will win Office Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 T-Shirt during the event. Attend and get chances to win handy gifts from Microsoft.

Meeting Details:

Speaker(s):

Tariq Younas SharePoint Consultant SABIC

Jerry Yasir SharePoint Consultant Ejada RSUG Community Lead

Abdurrahman Al-Qahtani - Technology Specialist – SharePoint Microsoft

Date: Thursday, February, 12, 2009

Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Location: Ejada – Al-Umam Commercial Building – Salah UD Din Street (Sitten) Malaz, Riyadh Office 604, 6th Floor

Meeting Agenda:

Agenda Item	Speaker	Start Time	End Time
Welcome Note and Introduction	Jerry Yasir	12:00 PM	12:05 PM
Upgrading WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0	Tariq Younas	12:05 PM	12:30 PM
Break (Tea and Snacks)		12:30 PM	12:45 PM
Developing Silverlight Web Parts for SharePoint 2007	Jerry Yasir	12:50 PM	2:00 PM
Using SharePoint Designer 2007 for building SharePoint web sites	Abdurrahman	2:05 PM	3:15 PM
Q & A / Closing / Tea / Giveaways Distribution		3:15 PM	3:30 PM

Registration:

To register for this meeting, click HERE or copy and paste the below URL into your address bar, and kindly fill out the registration form.

http://www.sharepointgroups.org/rsug/Lists/February2009Meeting/NewForm.aspx?RootFolder=%2Frsug%2FLists%2FFebruary2009Meeting&Source=http://www.sharepointgroups.org/rsug/Shared%20Resources/RegistrationSuccessful.aspx

Reminders:

For further inquiries or directions to Ejada:

Contact: Jerry Yasir 05 432 562 51

Or email

riyadhsug@windowslive.com

The final place for event can be changed based on the number of registered users so please enter your correct email in registration.

SharePoint Conference 2009 - October 19-22, 2009 - Las Vegas, NV

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Inside us all there is a code

in General, Microsoft Next Generation, Motivation, Videos - on Tuesday, February 03, 2009 - No comments

I just found very good and sparking video on YouTube. I really luv this Microsoft technology video. You must visit
Specially its start wording

"Inside us all there is a code.
A code that represents not what we are, but who we might become,
It is our potential."

Cheers.

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