Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta

Pre-register today and get notified when SharePoint 2010 Beta becomes available in November.
http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center

Now available at this URL
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx

Get Started Developing on SharePoint 2010

Use these ten modules to get started with development for SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee513147.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek is live

It’s live: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx

There’s 10 features in the overview, 6 features for developers and 6 features for IT Pros. Each feature is highlighted in the videos, there are feature descriptions and screenshots.

SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery

Jan Tielens created an amazing customization using jQuery to the search field in MOSS, it uses autosearch while typing in the search field, great effort Jan

Read more in Jan's blog

How to customize MOSS UI - Videos

Simple and amazing video tutorials series of how to customize MOSS UI by emagination network

PART 1: MASTER PAGE OVERVIEW AND CUSTOM DESIGN EXAMPLES. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nd7D4JwYbM
PART 2: PREPPING HTML/CSS TEMPLATES FOR MOSS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu2MIGg1sfc
PART 3: PREPPING THE FILES IN SHAREPOINT DESIGNER. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ScHtsoLXtY
PART 4: BASE MASTER PAGE CODE OVERVIEW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07zT-ab671s
PART 5: USING THE BASE MASTER PAGE TO CREATE A CUSTOM MASTER PAGE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrtQduUwAC8
PART 6: CREATING A CUSTOM PAGE LAYOUT. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXoxqGgpB8g
PART 7: ASSIGNING THE MASTER PAGE AND CSS FILE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN70CjPy80Q
PART 8: CREATING A NEW WEB PAGE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga-ScG4626s
PART 9: TIPS FOR STYLING THE NAVIGATION CONTROL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_rWfdI8C-o
PART 10: CSS VARIATIONS IN A MOSS WEBSITE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYqYD0f9b0Y

Regards,
Shady Khorshed

How To Add Reusable Content

Pro: Easy to maintain, flexible

Con: Only available in Rich HTML publishing fields (NOT the CEWP)

To add a new Reusable Content item:

Select the text / html code that you’d like to repeat

From the top-level site, View All Site Content to

Find the Reusable Content List

Add a new item to the list

• Enter a name, description (if desired)
  
• Click to enter content
  
  
• To paste in HTML, click “Edit HTML” button
  
• Click OK

To insert a Reusable Content item in page:

Enter Edit Mode for page

Click to Edit Content in page content field

In Rich HTML toolbar, click “Insert Reusable Content” button

Choose the desired Reusable Content Item from the list

SharePoint MVP for the third time Woooooooooooooooo

I’ve received this mail from MVP team

Dear Shady Khorshed,Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

This is my third MVP award, 2 in SharePoint 2008 and 2009 and one in MCMS 2007
I’d like to thank all the people who helped me to achieve this award, Millions of thanks to:

Baransel Dogan
Mohamed Wahby

SharePoint meeting with Egypt SharePoint User Group

A technical gathering will be held in Microsoft Egypt for Egypt SharePoint user group

Speakers:Joel Olson

SharePoint Expert Speaker & Blogger, 8 year SharePoint veteran Microsoft IT Architect.
Session: 10 Steps to Successful Deployments
Description: Without a service definition, scope creep can ruin a deployment. Come spend time to hear the insights of SharePoint Joel on the 10 Steps to successful deployment from governance and building solid teams, to designing scalable information architectures.

Mike Watson

is a senior product manager at Quest specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability.
Session: Backup Demystified

Q&A Panel Ask the expert (Free discussion)

Date/Time: 9th April - 6:30 PM till 9 PM
Transportation: to be announced later

Location: Microsoft EgyptSmart Village – KM 28 Cairo/Alex desert roadGround Floor, Room Explorer 1 & 2
http://www.sharepointgroups.org/egysug/default.aspx

Thanks to the group owners for this initiative, good luck and go ahead guys (y)
See you all there

How MOSS Can Help Improve Business Processes

As one of the most widely used document collaboration tools, it is no wonder organizations want to understand how to build better business processes in SharePoint. Of course, not all documents are electronic. Organizations still deal with a vast amount of paper-based information. So you look for document imaging software to help you get those documents into SharePoint easily. But once they are there, how can you leverage the SharePoint environment to improve your business processes?

Business and IT professionals are increasingly looking at how to leverage their existing investment and knowledgebase in Microsoft SharePoint to achieve success with business process management (BPM) initiatives.

Mauro Cardarelli, director of Portals and Collaboration at Vitale Caturano, took the time to address questions on strategies for linking document scanning with SharePoint to eliminate business process bottlenecks. (Editor Note: This interview was conducted by eCopy)

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