How to customize MOSS UI - Videos

Simple and amazing video tutorials series of how to customize MOSS UI by emagination network

PART 1: MASTER PAGE OVERVIEW AND CUSTOM DESIGN EXAMPLES. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nd7D4JwYbM
PART 2: PREPPING HTML/CSS TEMPLATES FOR MOSS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu2MIGg1sfc
PART 3: PREPPING THE FILES IN SHAREPOINT DESIGNER. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ScHtsoLXtY
PART 4: BASE MASTER PAGE CODE OVERVIEW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07zT-ab671s
PART 5: USING THE BASE MASTER PAGE TO CREATE A CUSTOM MASTER PAGE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrtQduUwAC8
PART 6: CREATING A CUSTOM PAGE LAYOUT. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXoxqGgpB8g
PART 7: ASSIGNING THE MASTER PAGE AND CSS FILE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN70CjPy80Q
PART 8: CREATING A NEW WEB PAGE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga-ScG4626s
PART 9: TIPS FOR STYLING THE NAVIGATION CONTROL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_rWfdI8C-o
PART 10: CSS VARIATIONS IN A MOSS WEBSITE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYqYD0f9b0Y

Regards,
Shady Khorshed

How To Add Reusable Content

Pro: Easy to maintain, flexible

Con: Only available in Rich HTML publishing fields (NOT the CEWP)

To add a new Reusable Content item:

Select the text / html code that you’d like to repeat

From the top-level site, View All Site Content to

Find the Reusable Content List

Add a new item to the list

• Enter a name, description (if desired)
  
• Click to enter content
  
  
• To paste in HTML, click “Edit HTML” button
  
• Click OK

To insert a Reusable Content item in page:

Enter Edit Mode for page

Click to Edit Content in page content field

In Rich HTML toolbar, click “Insert Reusable Content” button

Choose the desired Reusable Content Item from the list

SharePoint MVP for the third time Woooooooooooooooo

I’ve received this mail from MVP team

Dear Shady Khorshed,Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

This is my third MVP award, 2 in SharePoint 2008 and 2009 and one in MCMS 2007
I’d like to thank all the people who helped me to achieve this award, Millions of thanks to:

Baransel Dogan
Mohamed Wahby

SharePoint meeting with Egypt SharePoint User Group

A technical gathering will be held in Microsoft Egypt for Egypt SharePoint user group

Speakers:Joel Olson

SharePoint Expert Speaker & Blogger, 8 year SharePoint veteran Microsoft IT Architect.
Session: 10 Steps to Successful Deployments
Description: Without a service definition, scope creep can ruin a deployment. Come spend time to hear the insights of SharePoint Joel on the 10 Steps to successful deployment from governance and building solid teams, to designing scalable information architectures.

Mike Watson

is a senior product manager at Quest specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability.
Session: Backup Demystified

Q&A Panel Ask the expert (Free discussion)

Date/Time: 9th April - 6:30 PM till 9 PM
Transportation: to be announced later

Location: Microsoft EgyptSmart Village – KM 28 Cairo/Alex desert roadGround Floor, Room Explorer 1 & 2
http://www.sharepointgroups.org/egysug/default.aspx

Thanks to the group owners for this initiative, good luck and go ahead guys (y)
See you all there

How MOSS Can Help Improve Business Processes

As one of the most widely used document collaboration tools, it is no wonder organizations want to understand how to build better business processes in SharePoint. Of course, not all documents are electronic. Organizations still deal with a vast amount of paper-based information. So you look for document imaging software to help you get those documents into SharePoint easily. But once they are there, how can you leverage the SharePoint environment to improve your business processes?

Business and IT professionals are increasingly looking at how to leverage their existing investment and knowledgebase in Microsoft SharePoint to achieve success with business process management (BPM) initiatives.

Mauro Cardarelli, director of Portals and Collaboration at Vitale Caturano, took the time to address questions on strategies for linking document scanning with SharePoint to eliminate business process bottlenecks. (Editor Note: This interview was conducted by eCopy)

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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.
Read the article

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

Download SPDiag
Download sharepoint administration toolkit v3.0