New Face book group for SharePoint MVPS

I created a technical group on Face Book called “SharePoint MVPS” , I hope to share your problems and questions in this group and definitely we will do our best to get back to you with right answers

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

Content Deployment - Best Practices

Stefan Gobner “Escalation Engineer for SharePoint (WSS, SPS, MOSS) and MCM” updated his important article about “Content Deployment - Best Practices”, really this article is very useful and covers important problems in content deployment.
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WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint

Today, we are excited to announce the release of the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Toolkit for Office SharePoint Server 2007. The WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint provides sample code for producing WSRP conformant data from SharePoint lists and libraries. External portal platforms (e.g. BEA AquaLogic Portal, IBM WebSphere Portal, SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Portal etc.) can then render SharePoint data natively through their WSRP consumer portlets. The Toolkit is available now for download from the MSDN Code Gallery.

Read More > http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/12/05/announcing-the-wsrp-toolkit-for-sharepoint.aspx

Download > http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WSRPToolkit/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1943

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Microsoft Unveils New Enterprise Search Road Map

LAS VEGAS — Feb. 10, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today disclosed a detailed road map for its enterprise search products, including the introduction of FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business.

FAST Search for SharePoint, a new search server that will add the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, will be available as a part of the next release of the Microsoft Office system. For customers who are interested in the product, Microsoft also announced ESP for SharePoint, a special offering that allows customers to purchase high-end search capabilities today, with a defined licensing path to FAST Search for SharePoint when it becomes available.

“These two new products offer compelling, new choices for our customers,” said Kirk Koenigsbauer, general manager for the Office Business Platform Group at Microsoft. “FAST Search for SharePoint will combine high-end search with the broad portal, collaboration, content management and business intelligence capabilities of SharePoint. And FAST Search for Internet Business will deliver search capabilities tuned to drive more revenue through Web sites.”

“We now have the largest team of engineers and researchers in the world dedicated to enterprise search,” said Bjørn Olstad, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer. “They’re passionate about search and committed to pushing the limits of what’s possible. Today’s road map announcement is significant because it not only discloses what’s next from Microsoft, but it also provides a framework for delivering continuous innovation in the future.”
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SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag)

The SharePoint Diagnostic tool (SPDiag) version 1.0, included with the latest release of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit, was created to simplify and standardize troubleshooting of SharePoint Products and Technologies, and to provide a unified view of collected data. SharePoint Products and Technologies administrators can use SPDiag to gather relevant information from a farm, display the results in a meaningful way, identify performance issues, and export the collected data and reports for analysis by Microsoft support personnel. This white paper explains how to use this new tool.

It is released as part of the sharepoint administration toolkit v3.0

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Download sharepoint administration toolkit v3.0

SharePoint Conference 2009

An Important event for all SharePint related , it will be at Los Vegas, NV 19-22 October 2009.
SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the conference to learn about SharePoint “14”.
If you’re an IT Professional, an IT Decision Maker, an Architect or a Developer you’ll find a deep set of technical content to give you a kick start for SharePoint “14” and further your skills and knowledge with SharePoint Server 2007.
Event Site
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Integrating External Content Repository with SharePoint Server 2007

Learn to design, implement, and deploy a complete solution for integrating an external document repository with the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). This sample demonstrates the integration of external content repositories with MOSS so that external repositories may participate in MOSS workflows, utilize tasks lists, and extensible metadata.

The solution allows for the viewing and management of documents in an external repository through the MOSS interface. While some repository vendors have provided web parts that allow document browsing and viewing, this solution goes far beyond these basic capabilities to provide a complete integration of the repository. Using this architecture, end users will be able to create libraries in MOSS that surface documents from an external repository without copying them into MOSS. Furthermore, users will be able to maintain the documents by using MOSS capabilities such as check-in, check-out, edit properties, version history, and document upload/download. The solution also allows complete integration of external documents with MOSS workflows, list columns, task lists, and other libraries.

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Egyptian MVPs dinner

On last Tuesday Feb 3rd we had a meeting for the Egyptian MVPs @ Microsoft premises in smart village, really it was a nice meeting and for myself I met the new and old MVPs and we discussed many topics and we had a conference call with Baransel Dogan Middle East & Turkey MVP Lead, he discussed with us some issues and plans related to our activities and after that Mohamed Wahby Academic Relations Manager in MS Egypt and my previous MVP lead took us to a dinner @ Sushi Maro restaurant, once I heard sushi I got shocked “No Wahby I don’t like sushi” but he promised me that they deliver also meat and normal junk food so it’s ok but sushi no way :D

Sherif Toni and Mohamed Nar joined this event with us and really I wanna thank all of you and wish to see you soon.

How SharePoint Forms Work

Each list type generally has a set of display, edit, and new form ASPX pages (DispForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx, and NewForm.aspx) that are provisioned when lists are provisioned. These ASPX pages are provisioned into the “content space.”
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