Content Management Techniques [Shady Khorshed - MVP]

Download SharePoint 15 Tech Preview SDK

2012-01-31T15:39:00.003+02:00

SharePoint 15 Technical Preview Managed Object Model SDK contains reference topics focusing only on types and members that are called by other Microsoft applications. This reference does not document the full SharePoint 15 managed object model. That documentation will accompany a later release of SharePoint 15.

Download Link : http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28768
Source : http://microsoftfeed.com/2012/download-sharepoint-15-tech-preview-sdk/

Top Rated SharePoint Sites for 2011

2012-01-10T14:28:00.000+02:00

http://www.fiatspa.com/en-US/Pages/Home.aspx

http://www.ataturkairport.com/en-EN/Pages/Main.aspx

http://www.volvocars.com/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.embraer.com/en-US/Pages/Home.aspx

http://www.sharpie.com/Pages/GlobalLanding.aspx

http://www.faurecia.com/Pages/Default.aspx

http://www.kempinski.com/en/Pages/Welcome.aspx

http://www.pousadas.pt/historic-hotels-portugal/en/pages/home.aspx

http://www.trincoll.edu/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.360-5.com/Pages/default.aspx

Source : http://www.topsharepoint.com/top-rated-sharepoint-sites-for-2011

SharePoint 2010 Developer Training Course

2011-12-11T12:36:00.000+02:00

SharePoint 2010 provides the business collaboration platform for developers to rapidly build solutions using familiar tools while leveraging a rich set of out of the box features. Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 make developers more productive and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server delivers support for application lifecycle management. Developers can integrate Line of Business data in SharePoint 2010 with read/write capability delivered by Business Connectivity Services. Sandboxed Solutions can be deployed to a shared hosting environment to limit the impact of unpredictable code to the other applications in use.

Download link : http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displayLang=en&id=6184
Source : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg620703

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (KB2460045)

2011-06-28T21:01:00.000+02:00

Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 contains new updates which improve security, performance, and stability. Additionally, the SP is a roll-up of all previously released updates.

Download Link : http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26623

Service Pack 1 for SharePoint 2010 Coming Soon…

2011-05-17T00:38:00.000+02:00

by sharepointblog@live.com on 5/13/2011 1:50 PM

Category: Service Pack SharePoint 2010

Author: Bill Baer, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

As we near the release of Service Pack 1 in late June 2011 we wanted to take a moment to share some of the important new functionality that will be brought to SharePoint 2010 with Service Pack 1. Service Pack 1 represents stability, performance, and security enhancements that are a direct result of your feedback and designed to extend the value you are experiencing with SharePoint 2010.

At this time we’re ready to share some of these improvements and as we move closer to late June 2011 we’ll be providing additional insight into additional functionality and specific fixes.

Site Recycle Bin

Service Pack 1 will introduce long awaited Site Recycle Bin functionality that enables self-service recovery of site collections and sites. In the past IT Professionals were tasked with restoring entire databases to recover deleted site collections and sites and would generally require expensive restore environments to support the task. Now in Service Pack 1 administrators can quickly and easily recover site collections and sites accidentally deleted by their owners in a process similar to that of the Recycle Bin we have for Lists, Libraries, and Documents.

Shallow Copy

If you’re using Remote BLOB Storage you’ve probably realized that when moving Site Collections (Move-SPSite) between content databases each unit of unstructured data (BLOB) was round tripped (I.e. uploaded and subsequently downloaded again) serially during the move. This operation was both time consuming and resource intensive. In Service Pack 1 we reduce that overhead by enabling “shallow copy” when moving Site Collections between databases where Remote BLOB Storage is used. New Shallow Copy functionality with the Move-SPSite CmdLet enables moving site collections between content databases without moving the underlying unstructured data, i.e. Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint Presentations, etc. significantly increasing performance and reliability for organizations using Remote BLOB Storage by simply updating the pointers to those objects in the destination content database.

StorMan.aspx

In SharePoint 2010 we removed StorMan.aspx (Storage Space Allocation) (seehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/982587/EN-US) which in previous versions of SharePoint enabled granular management and insight into storage. For example, the page would show you the top 100 documents or document libraries in terms of size. With that information end users could the page to clean up content from their site(s) by deleting the large content that they no longer needed. In Service Pack 1 we are bringing back an improved StorMan.aspx, enabling users to better understand where their quota is going and act upon that information to reduce the size of their sites.

New enhancements will improve the way you interact with information in SharePoint 2010. Service Pack 1 adds support for working with Office Web Applications using Internet Explorer 9 in native mode improving performance or with the Google Chrome browser (for a complete list of supported browsers for SharePoint 2010 see also http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526.aspx), support for Open Document Format documents, and more.

In addition to the new functionality Service Pack 1 provides, as with all Service Packs, it will include a number of fixes designed to improve your experience with SharePoint 2010 and will include all Cumulative and Public Updates through the April 2011 Cumulative Update.

The data below is an accumulated list of all 2010 fixes that have already shipped. These will be included in our Service Pack 1 release. This is a combination of Cumulative Updates and Public Updates. In addition to what is listed below, Service Pack 1 will contain more fixes in each product. Between now and the time of release, we will publish more details about the coming changes.

SharePoint Server 2010 February 2011 Cumulative Update
SharePoint Foundation 2011 February Cumulative Update
SharePoint Server 2010 December Cumulative Update
SharePoint Foundation 2010 December 2010 Cumulative Update
SharePoint Server 2010 October 2010 Cumulative Update
SharePoint Foundation 2010 October 2010 Cumulative Update
SharePoint Server 2010 August 2010 Cumulative Update
SharePoint Foundation 2010 August 2010 Cumulative Update
SharePoint Server 2010 June 2010 Cumulative Update (there was no consolidated update provided for June 2010)

SharePoint Foundation 2010 June 2010 Cumulative Update

Enjoy Service Pack 1. We made it for you.

To keep informed with up to date Service Pack 1 information subscribe to the CAPES blog athttp://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/.

Source : Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

5 Apps That Bring SharePoint to the iPad

2011-04-14T00:16:00.000+02:00

By Klint Finley

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Employees may be bringing iPhones and iPads into work, but that doesn't take Microsoft out of the game. SharePoint is still a wildly popular enterprise platform. An InfoTech survey on enterprise collaboration last year found that 73% of its respondents were using SharePoint. Maybe new collaboration and knowledge sharing platforms will eventually displace it, but for now it's an enterprise standard. Here are a few ways you can access it from the iPad and other devices.

Filamente

Filamente is a SharePoint client for iOS from Aircreek. It gives users a touchscreen optimized interface for SharePoint, the ability to upload files from a mobile device and offline access to resources. It costs $12.99 in the App Store.

Forms Central

Formotus offers a SharePoint client for iOS, Android and Windows Mobile called Forms Central. Like Filamente, it provides offline access to SharePoint data. It's free to download, but requires a subscription.

Mobile Entree

Instead of a native app, H3 Solutions offers a SharePoint plugin called Mobile Entree that enables SharePoint administrators to create touchscreen optimized interfaces for their sites. We covered Mobile Entree here last week as part of our iPad for business round-up.

Moprise

Moprise is an iOS SharePoint client. The free version allows users to view SharePoint documents, but not edit them. The paid version, which costs $5 a month per users, provides more features such as uploading new documents, and Quickoffice integration for editing. Moprise also offers customized installations.

SharePlus

SharePlus is an iOS SharePoint client from SouthLabs. The lite version allows users to view documents and send them by e-mail. Pro and enterprise editions provide additional features like offline syncing and list item editing.

Source : Read Write Enterprise

Accessibility and SharePoint 2010

2011-04-10T13:03:00.000+02:00

This is Tim McConnell, Program Manager on the SharePoint Foundation team. For the 2010 release, I’ve worked with SharePoint platform and partner teams to deliver powerful, reliable, accessible user experiences. Like Office, Office Web Applications, Windows, and teams across Microsoft, everyone in SharePoint strives to remove barriers that make software difficult to use. Sometimes improvements can be obvious, like the reorganized Ribbon user interface. However, some users may not notice changes that can transform another user’s experience. Accessible software respects the range of different users’ experiences, and it accommodates everyone.

Standards

As a starting point, SharePoint adopted the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, WCAG 2.0, and set a goal for Level AA. Becoming a W3C recommendation on December 11^th, 2008, WCAG 2.0 defines the expectations of and the techniques deployed in well-built, accessible Web sites. The SharePoint teams followed the spec’s developments, and we designed and tested SharePoint 2010 against the guidelines. WCAG 2.0 represents a modern, international standard that’s as valuable to developers as it is to Web users.

Core Investments

The four principles of WCAG 2.0 are Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. For each area, SharePoint has made key investments, and here I’ll scratch the surface to describe a few:

Perceivable

SharePoint 2010 delivers broad changes to describe content and media and to explain controls.
The redesigned masterpage leverages CSS and presents content in the appropriate sequence.

Operable

Keyboard interaction has been a cornerstone in our feature evaluations to maximize device compatibility and usability.
Proper heading structures have been added to pages for informational, organizational, and navigational benefits.
Core to a trustworthy interface is a dependable focus, and we’ve invested heavily in protecting the users focus and in deferring control to the user agent wherever possible.

Understandable

Across SharePoint, we’ve improved language support, and we’ve integrated this information into our pages and into our advanced editors.
SharePoint supports browser settings to zoom content and operating system features to increase font sizes.

Robust

Our new design efforts let us declare DocTypes and specify CSS-standards rendering for our masterpages. This has dramatically improved our cross-browser support.
Broad investments were made to update our markup to be like well-formed XML, and the new rich text editor has clean markup and a function to convert its content into XHTML.

We’ve tested these principles with and without Assistive Technologies to verify their value for all users.

ARIA Integration

ARIA stands for Accessible Rich Internet Applications, and it specifies descriptive extensions for Web applications. Like WCAG, WAI-ARIA is from the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative. In a nutshell, ARIA allows an inaccessible element, such as a div with an onclick attribute, to surface itself as a button control. This can be done with a newrole attribute set to “button”—it’s that simple. SharePoint leverages ARIA in the Ribbon, in dialogs, in our new rich text editor, and elsewhere in the platform and in partner applications.

Examples of Accessibility Investments

Dialogs

In order to keep users in context for as long as possible, we’ve introduced in-browser dialogs. With a dialog, the experience of reading, editing, and creating SharePoint content moves more quickly. Since SharePoint dialogs do not open new browser windows, we’ve built in important accessibility features to help all users navigate successfully.

Focus: SharePoint describes its dialogs using multiple accessible techniques, and form dialogs will set focus on the first form element like they would after a navigation event.
Dismissing a dialog: depending on how a browser implements Access Keys, closing the dialog is a couple of key strokes away. For example, in Internet Explorer, a user can hit Alt+C to disregard a dialog; in Firefox users can hit Alt+Shift+C.
Confirming a dialog: when the necessary forms have been filled, users can hit Alt+O to accept the dialog or to submit the form.

The Ribbon

As the key component of the new SharePoint 2010 user interface, the Ribbon needs to deliver powerful, useful, and usable experience. We designed the Ribbon to be accessible from the beginning, and we took advantage of multiple tools and techniques to provide a rich experience.

Keyboard Support

Keyboard support comes from the ground up. Because the Ribbon is a complicated component, it has a simple link to skip all of its commands. To help users on keyboards and alternative input devices, the Ribbon provides hidden, in-context instructions that explain its structure and how it’s controlled. Each of the Ribbon’s commands and menu anchors appear within the page’s navigation order, so it’s always safe to explore either forwards or backwards.

Tab Access

Because the Ribbon appears at the top of SharePoint pages, it’s necessary to provide quick access. The Ribbon operates as a central control for all of the components on the page, so it’s impractical to navigate back and forth for every command. To accelerate Ribbon interaction, a new shortcut key combination, Ctrl+[, will jump the focus to the first available Ribbon tab. From there, users can move back toward the Quick Access Toolbar commands and the Site Actions menu, or users can move ahead to the other Ribbon tabs.

In the following picture, the Browse tab has been highlighted to demonstrate focus after entering the Ctrl+[ shortcut key combination.

Command Access

Similar to accessing Tabs, it’s also important to quickly access commands. For this SharePoint supports the Ctrl+]shortcut key combination. This shortcut works in one of two ways:

It selects the first command on the active Ribbon Tab.
It selects the last used command on the active Ribbon Tab.

To move between Groups of Ribbon commands enter one of the Ctrl+Arrow Left, Ctrl+Arrow Right, Shift+Arrow Left, or Shift+Arrow Right shortcut key combinations. These shortcuts will loop through the Groups to prevent users from accidentally navigating outside of the Ribbon. The shared use of Ctrl and Shift allows for maximum browser and Assistive Technology compatibility.

Enhanced Tooltips

Enhanced tooltips describe a command’s behavior and its availability without cluttering the user interface or slowing navigation. When trying to decipher small icons or to move between many rich commands, enhanced tooltips provide the extra bit of information needed to verify your actions.

ARIA Integration

Behind the scenes in each of the three Ribbon examples are ARIA role attributes describing the structure and purpose of the Ribbon controls. Here’s a short list of attributes:

aria-labelledby – Rich control labels
aria-describedby – Rich control descriptions via enhanced tooltips
aria-haspopup – Notification information to warn when a control may pop-up another control
aria-multiline – Describes text fields for large amounts on content
And here’s a short list of ARIA roles used within SharePoint:
tabpanel – An expanded Ribbon Tab
tooltip – Ribbon tooltip content
button – An interactive button control
dialog – An interactive dialog

Each of these simple strings dramatically changes how browsers and Assistive Technologies communicate Web content to users. While a basic a anchor tag will work for most basic command scenarios, it’s better and more reassuring to fully provide ARIA’s role=”button” syntax for clear descriptions.

InfoPath Forms

Through investments made in InfoPath Forms Services 2010, form designers can easily design and publish forms with an accessible user experience.

Assistive Technology Friendly

InfoPath forms have been designed and tested to work with browsers and assistive technologies. Broad changes have been made to describe simple controls and complex controls with field validation and relationships.

ARIA Integration

WAI-ARIA has been used to further improve the user experience on assistive technologies: ARIA is used to notify the assistive technology of form updates, alerts, warnings, and other pop-up dialogs.

Keyboard Support

Users filling forms in IPFS 2010 have full keyboard support to access all necessary functionality. InfoPath has also done work to ensure that keyboard focus is maintained in a predictable manner during dynamic changes to the form.

Project Grid Editing

The ability to display and edit tabular data is a core component of any productivity suite. SharePoint is no exception. In SharePoint Foundation 2010 we have introduced a new JavaScript based grid control that allows users to modify SharePoint Project Tasks Lists, change Project schedules, and edit Access databases. From the very early planning stages of developing this control we began to craft requirements to ensure the control was accessible. The control has complex requirements around the support of Gantt Charts and hierarchy (for Project Server) as well as very large datasets, macros and custom user validation (for Access Services). In order to ensure accessibility for these features we made use of ARIA and robust keyboard shortcuts.

ARIA Integration

Like the Ribbon, ARIA is used to achieve support for these complex requirements. Here are additional examples of how Project uses ARIA:

aria-owns – enables focus element to be set in a input element that maps to the entire control
aria-activedescendant – enables virtual focus element to map to a specific cell within the grid
aria-multiselectable – indicates that multiple cell selections can be made
aria-expanded – indicate expand/collapse state within hierarchy
aria-busy – indicates if a row has not yet been downloaded from the server

Keyboard Navigation

SharePoint’s Grid control was designed to support keyboard navigation from day one. We know that frequently when dealing with tabular data whether it is datasheets, lists or projects, users often have many items to display on screen. Because of this we provide a simple link that allows users to skip the grid when moving through elements on a page. Additionally the Grid supports many of the keyboard shortcuts you have come to expect in desktop applications. Cell navigation can be easily performed by using directional arrow keys as well as traditional tabbing. Moving up and down within grid is easy with common shortcuts like Page Up/Page Down as well as support for Home/End and many others. Support is even present for complex selection and expanding dropdowns (Alt+Down). In Project Server the control supports changing Gantt chart zoom levels all through a couple keypresses (CTRL+* & CTRL+/), as well as expanding and collapsing hierarchy.

Conclusion

Thanks for learning more about the investments that we’ve made to make SharePoint an exceptional, versatile, and accessible web application and platform. Web technologies move quickly, and we’re always seeking new ways to present dynamic Web experiences that work for everyone. We’re proud of the richness that we’ve delivered, and we hope that you’ll discover SharePoint 2010 to be both powerful and usable.

Source : Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

My Post on The SharePoint Buzz Daily homepage

2011-04-04T11:44:00.000+02:00

The SharePoint Buzz Daily is one of the best SharePoint news sites, added my MVP post in its homepage, this is really great, so proud

http://paper.li/sharepointbuzz

SharePoint MVP for the 5th year in a row

2011-04-03T14:45:00.000+02:00

Dears Friends,

Great news, I’ve been re-awarded Microsoft MVP award in SharePoint for the 5^th time in a row.

This year has different taste specially after our revolution in Egypt which makes me very proud of my country.

Here is part of the mail that I got

Dear Shady Khorshed,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in SharePoint Server technical communities during the past year.

Thanks Microsoft for this award , you made my day

MVP Global Summit first day

2011-03-01T07:51:00.000+02:00

Today we had the first day at MVP Global Summit located in Microsoft main campus , Redmond.

Unfortunately all sessions under NDA even photography not allowed so i won't be able to share any information but wish to be able soon if we got permission from Microsoft.