Top Rated SharePoint Sites for 2009

The following sites are among the most popular SharePoint based sites in our directory for the year of 2009. The sites listed below are ranked based on the number of votes received from the visitors. It’s been a busy year for us at TopSharePoint.com, with more than 770 SharePoint based sites added to the gallery. We can frankly say it’s been one of the most satisfying years from a technology growth standpoint and 2010 is looking to be an even busier year. Listed below are the top 10 most beautiful and creative SharePoint based sites for 2009:

Ferrari

2. Kijken Kiezen & Kleuren

3. Conservation International

4. P&O Cruises

5. Choose Chicago

6. AMA

7. Hawaiian Airlines

8. Woods Bagot

9. Library of Congress

10. Cultura Online

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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

Part1

Part2

Part3

Part4

Part5

Part6

Part7

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”

Thank You

Many thanks to everyone who attend my session today, wish you find it useful and please don't hesitate in contact me for any questions or help. The video of the session will be available here soon.

SharePoint Day

Dear All,

Please accept my invitation to attend our gathering for SharePoint tech day, kindly find the details

Date: January 30th 2010

Venue: Dar Al Deyafa - Ain Shams University

Time	Topic	Speaker
11:00am – 12:00 pm	Approaches and best practices : Deploying SharePoint sites through multiple environments	Mohamed Khalil
12:00pm- 12:15 pm	Break
12:15pm – 1:15 pm	How to build Advanced Web Sites using SharePoint 2010	Shady Khorshed
1:15pm- 2:00 pm	Ask the Experts

Please confirm your registration here

Wish to see you all

Regards,

Playing with SharePoint 2010 installation

As you know that SharePoint 2010 needs windows server 64 2008 and I’m using windows 7 so I tried to find if I can install SharePoint 2010 on windows 7 or not, one of my friends “Ramy Abd Elmonaem” told me yes you can I sent me this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869(office.14).aspx and we tried both to install it because he did it on his laptop and it works, but unfortunately it doesn’t work with me I don’t know why? I did all the steps but failed to install it so what can I do now? I’ve a session after few days and I’ve to work on physical machine “because I hate the virtuals :)” so I decided to install windows server 2008 R2 on my laptop, Yes, I installed it beside windows 7 so I’ve now on my laptop both windows 7 and windows 2008 and I installed sharepoint 2010 on windows 2008 and it works now very well with me and I’m ready for my next session.

I was worry from installing windows 2008 on my small laptop because of the performance but I found it very fast and many of my friends like it as a very stable windows with very powerful tools.

So now I’ve windows 7 on my laptop for fun and windows 2008 server for fun too.