EDC 2008 is knocking the doors

Microsoft EDC
EDC 2008 is the biggest Developers Conference of the year in Egypt, and is a critical event for any developer who wants to see the newest as well as the next-generation technology. EDC is full of sessions and activities that help you to learn the current and the future of the Microsoft Platform and get to know people who are as passionate about software as you are.

Benefits of Attending EDC 2008
Egyptian Developer Conference is designed to help those who build, deploy, or operate solutions based on Microsoft technologies. It helps professional developers, designers, analysts and architects to learn the capabilities and the possibilities with the current Microsoft .Net Platform. It also helps technology managers evaluate the range of technologies to consider for the future growth and management of their ongoing IT systems needs and requirements.

Who should attend?
Whether you are an amateur developer, a "code-guru" or anything in between, you need to be at the biggest developer conference in the region. Code developers, webmasters, web designers, infrastructure architects, applications & database developers, hobbyists or just plain geeks: If your job title has even a passing resemblance to any of these, be sure to be there. This developer conference is your window into the future of the Microsoft platform and the software industry as a whole. After the event, you'll be more informed, more skilled, and more inspired than ever before.

When
Sunday April 13th

Attending fees
100 E.G.P

Please visit www.edc2008.com

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How to configure your SharePoint extended IIS Web App for working with Silverlight 2 applications

Patrick Tisseghem wrote an important article about using silver light with MOSS, it takes you step by step how to do it.
Thanks Patrick

Creating a Web Service Connection by Using the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor

Learn how to create a Web service connection for the Business Data Catalog in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using the Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

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How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Site for Performance

We had a technical discussion about enhancing the performance of the MOSS , the discussion contains optimizing the core.css and core.js also to optimize the menu by using alternatives menus and integrate it with sitemap provider, yet the guys did great effort to optimize a MOSS site from 900K to 200K and they are still working to optimize more and more, I’ll share the final results after validating the optimized components. Also MSDN has a useful article about MOSS optimization please check it here

How to: Enable incoming/outgoing email for SharePoint 2007

Simply check this video

Linking Sharepoint 2007 with Outlook 2007

Step by step how to integrate Outlook 2007 with MOSS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9CnBNVnBjk

How to change the Intranet URL to take new host header?

To do that Kindly follow the following steps

Open IIS

Right click on your site and select properties

Web site tab will be automatically opened

Select advanced

Select add

Type on TCP port 80

Add the host header name (http://intranet/)

Click OK

Open central administration

Click the operations tab

Under global configuration > Alternate access mappings

Click edit public URLs

Under Alternate Access Mapping Collection select your site

In the default field replace the url with http://intranet/

How to assign admins for specific site or list?

To Assign users to be admins for specific site or list do the following

1.       Login to the system with administrator user “sysadmin”

2.       Open site actions menu > site sittings > people and groups

3.       Select New> New Group

4.       Type the name of the group and under “Give Group Permission to this Site” select “Read - Can view only.”

5.       Click create

6.       Go to the site that you need to create the permission on it

7.       Open site actions menu > site sittings > people and groups

8.       Click from the left navigation “site permissions”

9.       You will find list of all the groups listed on the page

10.   From the top select actions > Edit permissions

11.   Click ok for the message that will prompt

12.   The page will has checkbox beside each group

13.   check the created group

14.   and from the top action menu select edit user permissions

15.   uncheck the read and check full control

16.   click ok

17.   add the users under this group