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May 23 Speaking at SharePoint Techday - KhobarLast Thursday I went to Khobar which is 450 Kilometers away from Riyadh in the eastern side of Riyadh. I was there to present at SharePoint Techday that was organized by SharePoint Geeks (the only SharePoint User Group in that region). Although it was a long travel of around 4 hours but we were able to reach there around 9:45 PM (You can calculate at what time we started the travel :)) I presented "Advanced SharePoint Feature Development" topic and got a feeling that everyone loved it. I was pretty fast as I had only 1 hour for 4 full demos for Feature Development. I loved every bit of it and hopefully the audience (Around 80) has enjoyed it allot. Most of the attendees were basic level SharePoint pros so I have to make my session less technical which I hope I was able to do it. Lets wait for the face book.
another point to share is that Muhanad Omar was unable to make to the event so My fellow RSUG Lead Ali Nimer presented "using Variations in Web Content Management" very nicely and audience liked it allot. Fauzan Khan who is the lad of SharePoint Geek's presented "Developing SharePoint 2007 Workflow's with Visual Studio 2008" which went quite well. Another session was from Emad Abdul Aziz (Lead XAMLLight) who went on to present "Silverlight and SharePoint 2007". It was a good try but the bad thing was there was no Silverlight developer in the audience so he made it really basic for audience. He made interesting demo with a Story board.
May 22 FW: Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2Few days back I saw this error message on my notebook that My SharePoint Serve installation is going to expire in few days. So I thought I have installed a trial version by mistake but looking at the blog given below has shown me the real thing. Read this and make sure you do the needful very soon.
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May 15 Riyadh SharePoint User Group Meeting - May 2009 RecapSo finally we have successfully conducted our May meeting for Riyadh SharePoint user Group. Riyadh SharePoint User Group has proved to be successful in getting people attention and time for attending our events. They not only learn SharePoint for free but also take lot of gifts from Microsoft. This time I was really doubtful on the number of attendees but my doubt was cleared when I saw around 40 People attending our event. This event was special for me because for the first time we have spent almost 30 minutes discussing some questions asked by the attendees. Ali Nimer again did fantastic work by starting the meeting with first session about Multilingual Development for SharePoint. Later Muhanad presented an interesting session about scripting SharePoint installations. There was no demo in his session but information was very useful. I did my Event Handlers session and demo and later Amjad finished it off with his workflow session. He was unable to do any demo because his VM crashed ;}. But overall everything went very well. Later there was a draw for XBOX and one of our regular attendee Alla Barqawi won it. There were so many interesting giveaways that were given to the audience and for the first time almost everyone has something to take home :) Now we have to plan our June 2009 Meeting so I am planning something new. There will be change in the presenters this time as many of our fellow SharePoint Developers wanted to get involved in presenting so I will try to give chance to some new presenters. Ali Nimer will surly continue with something interesting to continue. I will upload the pictures for the event tomorrow in fellow up blog. The tentative date for the next month meeting is 18th of June 2009. Update Event Pictures are available below. Public Meeting 6 - May 14 2009
Technorati Tags: Riyadh SharePoint User Group,RSUG May April Cumulative Update PackageDownload Information Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 April cumulative update package Office SharePoint Server 2007 April cumulative update package Detail Description Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 April cumulative update package Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 April cumulative update package Installation Recommendation for a fresh SharePoint Server To keep all files in a SharePoint installation up-to-date, the following sequence is recommended.
Please note: Start from April Cumulative Update, the packages will no longer install on a farm without a service pack installed. You must have installed either Service Pack 1 (SP1) or SP2 prior to the installation of the cumulative updates. Cool Picture for understanding Service Packs and Updates.
May 12 Microsoft Office 2010 Technical PreviewVIA
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May 04 Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products Will Redefine How People WorkPressPass: What are you announcing today? Capossela: We’re announcing that Microsoft will begin releasing new versions of Office-related products this year. Exchange 2010 will be the first product in this lineup, entering beta for customers to download today. Exchange 2010 will become available in the second half of 2009. 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. WAO so we will have our hands dirty of SharePoint and Other Office products in September or October hopefully :). Read the full Press Release from below. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx May 01 SharePoint Tech Days 2009 at KhobarI will be presenting at SharePoint Tech Days 2009 at Khobar. SharePoint Tech Days 2009 is organized by SharePoint Geeks and will held on 20th of May 2009. I will be presenting "SharePoint Feature Framework". It will be great opportunity for me to present in front of new audience. This event is right after RSUG Public Meeting which is on 14th of May so will have busy weekend in may. The great thing about the event is that I, Ali Nimer and Muhanad Omar (MVP SharePoint Server) will be traveling together which will be quite a Fun. Khobar is around 400 KM from Riyadh. As the Event will begin at 8:30 we have to leave Riyadh early morning to reach in time. Lets home it goes well. If you are living in Khobar please feel free to register and visit us. for more details and registration click the banner.
Technorati Tags: SharePoint Techdays Khober,SP TechDays 2009 Project Plan for Upgrading a MOSS Single Server InstallationFew weeks back I upgraded a SharePoint 2007 Environment from Single Machine to a Server Farm of 2 Front End Server and Project Server 2007 as a separate Application server. Another Challenge was that environment was in SP1 and customer wanted it to be at latest updates (Infrastructure). Another important point was Language pack as customer wanted to have Arabic added to the language. Customers was very much worried about loss of data as content was around 30GB and I have to make sure that everything is planned before I shutdown their environments. To make sure I do not miss anything I prepared a project plan with all specific steps as checklist. This project plan helped me in a great way that I was able to complete the upgrade is just 12 hours successfully without any data loss for the customer. I am attaching the project plan here. This can be used as an upgrade and can also be used as installation of a brand new MOSS Installation with Project Server 2007.
SharePoint (WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007) SDK Updated April 2009 (v1.5)
VIA Andrew Connell April 28 WSS 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 SP2Windows SharePoint Services
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April 20 RSUG Meeting - April 2009 HighlightsThe April 2009 version of RSUG Public meeting was completed on last Thursday. This time there were three sessions. Ali Nimer presented using Variations in MOSS web content management. I presented about Developing Custom Field Types and Muhanad Omar presented STSADM usage and extendibility session. Everything went very well and feedback was great. Some of the highlights are given below. All the related material has been uploaded to http://www.sharepointgroups.org/rsug under Resources Site
Click the link for more pictures Public Meeting 5 - April 16 2009 The Next RSUG Meeting will held on 14th May 2009 for more details see http://rsugmay.eventbrite.com Technorati Tags: RSUG Meeting April,Riyadh SharePoint User Group Public Meeting April April 16 Service Pack 2 of Office 2007 Clients and Server ProductsService Pack 2 will be available on April 28th April 04 Another Redesign ProjectFor next 3 months or so I will be involved in another complete redesign of a portal that I have built in the recent months in KSA. It was due to the fact that the initial design was done by old developers and the project was over 50% when I joined it and were not given option to redesign it from scratch. But as we are facing problems updating the portal everyday I suggested the company to redo the portal from scratch so that we can be able to fix the things that were managed incorrectly by the initial developers. Below are the biggest mistakes done by the initial architect of the portal
Based on the detailed analysis of the current environment we will be working on the following improvements
The good thing about all this is the high level of re-usability. Customer does not require redesign of the User Interface for custom applications but we have to update many custom application because of using SQL Server instead of SharePoint Lists. One of the interesting task during this will be a development of a SharePoint Site Template for my Events and Conferences. I remember that I built the same template in 2003 days for one of our customer and later we upgraded it the Portal 2003 to MOSS upgrade project. I will also be very busy in the RSUG Event. First there will be a Live Web Cast on using SharePoint Designer. You can see my last post to register for it. Later we have our monthly meeting on 16th of April. Things will get busy soon. Technorati Tags: Portal Redesign,SharePoint Development Best Practices RSUG - SharePoint Designer 2007 - Live Webinar InvitationYou are invited to the following event: http://rsugspd.eventbrite.com/ Can you attend this event? Respond Here For more information click here · Tying and Exposing, Application data in SharePoint using SharePoint Designer 2007 · Customizing Master Pages, CSS and Themes · Data view and Data Form Web parts using Data Connections · As well as answer those burning SharePoint Designer questions you may have Registration is Required. Can you attend this event? Respond Here http://www.sharepointgroups.org/rsug/
Technorati Tags: SharePoint Designer Free Webinar,SPD RSUG Webinar April 03 SharePoint Designer 2007 is Now FreeSHAREPOINT DESIGNER 2007 IS NOW FREE! Be sure to watch the video in the "Related Resources" below to learn more about details and future direction. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 provides the powerful tools you need to deliver compelling and attractive SharePoint sites and quickly build workflow-enabled applications and reporting tools on the SharePoint platform, all in an IT-managed environment. Download Free SharePoint Designer 2007 Technorati Tags: SharePoint Designer Free,SPD Free March 28 The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site - Silverlight 3Silverlight 3 Beta was unveiled at MIX09. It is a preview release which continues Silverlight’s track record of rapid innovation - introducing more than 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser, dramatic video performance and quality improvements, and features that radically improve developer productivity. Combined with the continued innovation in Visual Studio and Expression Blend, Silverlight 3 empowers .NET developers to create cutting-edge Rich Internet Applications and media experiences.
Riyadh SharePoint User Group March 2009 RecapFinally the RSUG March 2009 meeting is over. This time our session was speciall for multiple reasons.
1. It was fully sponored by Microsoft (Thanks to Microsoft :) ).
2. It was conducted at Microsoft Innovation Center at Alyamama University in Riyadh. (Amazing Arrangements)
3. There were 5 session to cover which include Development, SharePoint Workflows, Web Content Management, InfoPath and Content Deployment.
4. I presented Advanced SharePoint Features and developed a Real World Demo by deploying a master page to web site with stapling and activation dependencies.
Overall the event was great. Everybody loved it. There were handy giveaways for the session which were given to active participants and a 400 GB hard drive was given to one lucky particpant by draw.
For all pictures http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=19667&id=1127276167&ref=nf
March 25 Talking about 'Master Page cannot be loaded' Error : SharePoint - Design and Customization : SharePoint Products aWhat was the Error.
I renamed my web site home page master. When I tried to edit a page layout I got a red error in SharePoint Designer Design view that "This XXX Master page can not be loaded. Change the master page or fix the error in code view"
How to FIX this kind of thing.
Point to Rember : Always go to Master Page Selection page and select the Renamed master page :)
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