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.

End of support to MOSS 2007 without SP2

By Stefan Goßner

Here is some information from the Microsoft lifecycle page for WSS 3.0:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 11/12/2007 Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first. For more information, please see the service pack policy athttp://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/#ServicePackSupport.

WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP2 has been released on April 28th, 2009.

Based on the above listed information support for SharePoint servers without SP2 will end on April 28th, 2010. Be sure to evaluate Service Pack 2 now if you have not yet done and ensure to install it before the deadline.

As we had some support cases on this in the past: be sure to install SP2 not only for WSS and MOSS but also for all installed language packs for these products.

Reference

SDPS-SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Deep Dive with Jon Quist - Live meeting

Today I joined a live meeting presented by Jon Quist, Technical Lead for SDPS about (SharePoint 2010 Upgrade "Deep Dive") , the meeting was targeting any partner who wants to prepare early for leveraging SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS) to upgrade their customers from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.

Also Deb Bannon, Senior Product Manager & John Devaney, ContentMaster were part of the meeting and they describe more about benefits of SharePoint 2010.

The session took partners on a Deep Dive into the NEW SDPS 2010 Upgrade Planning Service, the latest offering from SharePoint Deployment Planning Services. Partners will learn how to navigate the SDPS partner site for the latest in upgrade best practices, tools, and methodology; and how to leverage the virtual machines for the offering. In addition, Jon dived into the deliverables for the Strategy Briefing Session, ADS session, and suggested POC activities.

It was helpful meeting and you can download the presentation from here

SharePoint 2010: Professional Developer Evaluation Guide and Walkthroughs

Brief Description
The SharePoint 2010 developer evaluation guide describes the SharePoint 2010 developer platform, including walkthroughs of some of the new capabilities for developers.

Overview
This evaluation guide is designed to give you an overview of the feature set and extensibility points for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and an understanding of how the professional developer can use these features and extensibility points to create comprehensive solutions. This guide begins with an overview of the types of solutions that you can build by developing on SharePoint. It then addresses the developer tools for SharePoint 2010, the new platform features, and the solution deployment enhancements. The guide concludes with six walkthroughs that show example developer customizations in SharePoint 2010. The goal of this guide is to provide a framework for an effective evaluation of SharePoint 2010 as a solution creation platform. This guide is intended for the professional developer, development lead, and software architect. An evaluation guide focused on the SharePoint 2010 product and an evaluation guide for the IT Professional are also available.

Download

Pre-register for SharePoint 2010 Beta

Pre-register today and get notified when SharePoint 2010 Beta becomes available in November.
http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

SharePoint 2010 (Beta) Developer Center

Now available at this URL
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee514561.aspx

Get Started Developing on SharePoint 2010

Use these ten modules to get started with development for SharePoint 2010 using Visual Studio 2010.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee513147.aspx

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek is live

It’s live: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx

There’s 10 features in the overview, 6 features for developers and 6 features for IT Pros. Each feature is highlighted in the videos, there are feature descriptions and screenshots.