Don’t say “MOSS” for SharePoint 2010 and Say “Microsoft SharePoint Server”

We used to say “MOSS” for SharePoint 2007 stands for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server but now we can’t say that about SharePoint 2010 because it’s not under the office family anymore so it became Microsoft SharePoint Server.
Also we can’t say “MSS” because its reserved to “Microsoft Search Server” so welcome Microsoft SharePoint Server and goodbye MOSS

How to build advanced website using SharePoint 2010 - Videos in Arabic

30th of Jan 2010 we had an event "Egypt SharePoint User Group" about SharePoint, I presented a session about "How to build advanced website using SharePoint 2010" with the technical preview version of the SharePoint, Hope to find it useful ,Here is the session

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How to hide ribbon row when enabling anonymous access in SharePoint 2010

When you enable anonymous access to your site the ribbon row will appear for anonymous users but without "site actions" menu and it will be "Login" link but if you need to hide all this row you have to do the following
1- Open your masterpage with SharePoint designer
2- Find the ribbon row Search on "ribbonrow"
3- before the div that holds the ribbon add this tag

<sharepoint:spsecuritytrimmedcontrol id="SPSecurityTrimmedControl2" runat="server" permissionsstring="ManageSubwebs">

4- after the end of the ribbon div close the security tag

</sharepoint:spsecuritytrimmedcontrol>

5- Enjoy

How to enable anonymous access in SharePoint 2010

1- Open Central Administration
2 - From the left menu select "Security"
3 - Under "General Security" select "Specify authentication providers"
4- Make sure that your site is selected and click on "Default" link
5- Under "Anonymous Access" select "Enable anonymous access" checkbox
6- Open your site
7- From site actions menu select "Site Settings"
8- Under "Users and Permissions" select "Site permissions"
9- Click on "Anonymous Access" from the ribbon
10 - Select "Entire web site" Or "Lists and libraries"
11 - Click "Ok"
12- Enjoy

Follow SharePoint MVPs on Facebook

I've created a group on Facebook for SharePoint MVPs, we can communicate closer on this group so if you want to follow our activities join this group and share with us your problems, solutions and feedback

Group Name: SharePoint MVPs

Group URL : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=51462653406&ref=ts

How to find and enable all lists and components in SharePoint 2010

I was presenting a session about “How to build advanced website using SharePoint 2010” and while the demo I tried to create new announcement , survey, calendar etc then I found when I went to the create page that most of the features not included in the page so what will we do now?

The solution

Follow these steps

1. From site actions > site settings

2. Under site actions > manage site features

3. Activate “Team Collaboration lists”

4. Activate “Office SharePoint server publishing”