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Welcome to the 4th and final part of this guide. The first thing you will notice after starting SharePoint Server 2010 setup is that you have 2 steps of the installation. First you start with the installation of SharePoint Server 2010 prerequisites and then move on to installing the product server components. Click on Install [...]

Welcome to the 3rd part of this guide. We have a vanilla cream Windows Server 2008 installation with Active Directory Domain Services and DNS roles installed and configured. The next step is installing SQL Server 2008.
First of all we need to mount the SQL Server image on the virtual machine drive. Using the Hyper-V Virtual [...]

Welcome to the second part of this guide. After creating the virtual machine using the Hyper-V Manager, we need to install Windows Server 2008 and configure both Domain Services and DNS roles.
If you remember from the previous post we instructed the virtual machine to load the Windows Server 2008 image. I remind you again that [...]

I’m so excited to get the green light of publishing content about SharePoint Server 2010 Being SharePoint MVPs. we had an early access to the Office 2010 bits, to both Server and Client products but we were asked not to share any of the information, even product screenshots until Microsoft officially launches SharePoint [...]

Back in previous versions of SharePoint (e.g. 2003 release) we had to have a full installation of SharePoint for a specific language, one language per installation, which meant that if we install an Arabic version of SharePoint on a specific server then we can only create Arabic sites on that installation, if we need another [...]

EventHandlers101
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Just had one super community night! NO, I’m not saying this because I was the speaker hehehe I had a rocking audience who had questions about everything. The session went on for 2 hours without any breaks! That was community spirit
The community night was about Business Intelligence & SharePoint, we discussed [...]

Excel Services 101
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Following up on my previous post (Installation & Configuration of MySQL, PHP, WordPress on IIS 7 and Windows 7 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta) it’s time to migrate my posts to the new blog. I had to sit back and think about a strategy. The question was: What is the common thing [...]

As a developer you can access SharePoint content using either Microsoft.SharePoint.dll (SharePoint Object Model) or web services. In this post I will be discussing the access using the object model and in the next post I will explain it using web services and JavaScript as well.
Let’s elaborate together more about a Site Collection Structure:

The highest [...]

I’ll be delivering 3 workshops:

Establishing a Project Management Office in your organization using Microsoft Office Project Server and Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server
Leverage Enterprise Data Asset using Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions
Build a Self Service Portal using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for the HR Department

I’ll be posting the source code and material used once we’re [...]

Before diving into SharePoint data protection and recovery practices, let’s elaborate a little bit about the levels of data recovery.
Logically we have 4 levels of data recovery:

Content LevelContent stands for uploaded files, lists and web parts. This level is the most common and happens when users delete or update content then want to roll back [...]

We all met the "View Source" functionality in browsers. You just right click the page, and click on "View Source"; Notepad (most probably) will launch up and display the page markup. If you are using a server side technology like ASP.NET, you will only get the HTML markup that renders the page in the browser. [...]

By default SharePoint imports the users from the current domain (domain which the SharePoint server is joined to). But if you work for a big corporate you might need to create more domains in your forest. Most practices will answer that with an Extranet, I would answer with: Import the entire forest
Extranet’s are [...]

Calendars
Navigation
We can navigate through the calendar by days, weeks, months, and years.
You can use the calendar for appointments, milestones, etc..
To open an existing event on the calendar, just click on it.
Managing Items
Adding New Items
To add a new event to your calendar, click on the New menu and click on New Item.

Updating Current Items
To update the [...]

Back to you with the second part of the training. In this part I will be covering document libraries. It took me a while to just try and simplify things as much as possible from an IT perspective, or as one of my colleges used to say: “Take of the technical cap and wear the [...]

One of my responsibilities is delivering SharePoint training to other departments. They just need to know what they are planning to use, no more or less! You can’t blame them for the fact that in Tatweer everyone is trying to outperform, yields they’re totally swamped with work I love this culture, every IT [...]

Sometimes you might need to configure the cache lifetime of the calculated values to days, hours, or to be handled during the session. This really depends on how frequent your users update the data. Some of my users change the data weekly and some they want the data to be recalculated every time to view [...]

To enable usage logging we have to go over 3 sections:

Enable usage logging for the farmLaunch the Central Administration site and click on “Operations”. Inside “Operations” click “Usage analysis processing” under “Logging and Reporting” section.

In the “Logging Settings” make sure to check “Enable logging” and specify the path of the log file. Move on to [...]

Went through this in work, just thought I would share it
Let’s start by creating our Excel sheet.

Nothing fancy, couple lf KPIs pull me back on track. Looks like I’m doing well with the games part! hehe
Now after creating the Excel sheet, we need to upload it.
Let’s create a Document Library and place it [...]

It started with this Document Library that contains important documentation. A group of people should be subscribed to it and alerts should be sent whenever documents where added, modified, or deleted. That’s the easy part. I used the “Alert Me” in the “Actions” menu of the document library.

More libraries where added to the site [...]

Sometimes I used to get confused big time about this. I had sites that had "Navigation" management and others that had the annoying stupid "Tree view, Top link bar, and Quick Launch" in Site Settings.
 
To get the "Navigation" management back again in your site, go to Site Settings, Site Collection Features, look for the "Office [...]

Once I was asked to remove the Sign In link and deploy the site over the internet. Removing that link was easy, I simply opened the master page and removed the “wssuc:Welcome” control. I ran into a speed bump, how will the content manager be able to sign in and populate content and then sign [...]

I’ve been meaning to do this blog for awhile and it’s a long one so better get a fruit flavored drink of your choice and curl up on the couch with your laptop for this one. Sorry, I do apologize for the rambling (and length) as this post has now encompassed a couple of hours [...]

Windows SharePoint Services SP2 does support the .NET Framework 2.0, CLR 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0; therefore you can build ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts using Visual Studio 2005 and deploy them on Windows SharePoint Services SP2; however, this process is not as straight-forward as it sounds here!
To leverage ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Windows SharePoint Services, [...]

A weird night!
We went to Barnnies, TCHE TCHE, Starbucks, and even to Zuqaq.. no place to sit!!! So my friend and I decided to go to Chili Ways (next door to Zuqaq) and start eating Zuqaq’s 1 MB bandwidth as usual with Channel 9 videos.
Now what relates all this to Sharepoint?
Simple answer, since I’m a [...]