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MVP for SharePoint, My New Year’s Gift from Microsoft

This popped in my mailbox yesterday evening:

“Dear Mohamed Yehia,MVP_FullColor_ForScreen
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in SharePoint Server technical communities during the past year.”

I am very honored and proud to be part of the MVP community who are not only exceptional and passionate technology enthusiasts, but also a group of elite community leaders who spread and share their experiences and knowledge with their peers in the technical community.

I would like to thank all the people who have supported it me, special thanks to Marwan Tarek, Ayman El-Hattab, Shady Abu Yousef and the only and only Kailash Kylani.

 

The badge is up and its seems that 2011 has opened its arms right from the start. 

Wishing you all the best,

Mohamed Yehia
SharePoint MVP

SPSArabia–We Are Back

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SharePoint Saturday is Back!!! Mark your calendar, Dec 11th.  Free registration for all attendees.  Last time was success because of the support we had from the SharePoint community and the prestigious speakers that honored us .  We are hoping this time for a more successful and more impactful event.

A refresher on version 1:

 

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Saturday December 11th , 2010  

 

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Registration is free for all attendees.  So what are you waiting for, register here

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Call for Speakers

We are now taking speaker submissions for SP2010 material.  So download the speaker form from here 

 

Waiting for you…

 

See also:

SharePoint Saturday Arabia version 2– 11th December 2010
SharePoint Saturday Arabia is back –11 Dec 2010

 

Restrict Document Download in SharePoint

Have a document that you want to share with the team?  Upload it to a document library.  Want them to view it, enable Office Web Apps.  Don’t want them to download it. 

Here you go:

  1. Go to Library Settings
  2. Manage Permission
  3. Stop Inheriting Permissions
  4. Grant Permissions
  5. Check “View Only” which restricts download.

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Thanks to Phil King


Happy Sharing!!!!

 

BR,

Mohamed Yehia

SharePoint 2010 Content Organizer–Inside Out

Content Organizer is one the new cool features in SharePoint 2010 for Enterprise content management.  It allows organizations to control how content is organized within their enterprise portal.

 

Administrators can define routing rules based on the document’s metadata.  They are given the option to Send the document to another site, create a new folder, or redirect users to a Drop Off library.  They can also maintain the audit trails for the document before its being routed or create a new version for an existing document.

I encourage you to read related blogs posts on Share-n-dipity

There are some key limitations worth noting:

  • Only works on content types based on the Document content type.
  • Works on the Site collection Document content type.  Not on a modified version of the content type on a specific document library.

 

Enjoy!

BR,

Mohamed Yehia

SharePoint 2010 Available In Arabic Today

SharePointInArabicSharePoint Server 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010 are now available in Arabic, as a SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) and as a language pack as well.  It was announced, last week on Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog.  The server language pack applies to SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010, and Office Web Apps 2010, sweet!!.

 

 

 



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SPS Arabia

    1. Visit the download page of Server Language Pack or SharePoint Foundation Language Pack
    2. Change the language drop down to Arabic and click download
    3. Install the native Arabic language on all web servers
    4. Install the Arabic language pack on all web servers
    5. Rerun the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard

Unlike MOSS 2007, SharePoint Foundation 2010 language packs are not required for SharePoint Server 2010.

Check out TechNet for more details about deploying language packs: SharePoint Server or SharePoint Foundation

For a complete list of the available language packs and their release time frame, check out their post Language Offerings for SharePoint 2010 Products

 

BR,

Mohamed Yehia

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Get Office Web Apps Now on your SkyDrive

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You can get access to Office Web Apps on SkyDrive today. 

  • Change your location from your account settings to United Kingdom and save. 
  • Switch to your SkyDrive and you will get the new menu on the left.

Currently, Excel Web App is available.  Word, OneNote and PowerPoint are still to come.

Does anybody know exact dates?                     

This was a trick I learnt from member in EGYSUG, thanks Faisal.

Can’t wait to get my hands on the rest of the apps.

 

BR,

Mohamed Yehia

Why I love EGYSUG?

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I love the community, not any community but the SharePoint user community, particularly in Egypt, the Egypt SharePoint User Group.  I love all attendees, regular members, speakers and of course the organizing committee.

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I am proud to be part of this group and to be around such marvelous people.

With every event in EGYSUG, I am privileged to know new interesting people.  Its an outstanding, splendid and overwhelming experience.   I get the chance to talk to them, assist them, share my expertise with them and most important learn from everybody.  I think this what it’s all about, about sharing and learning from others.

 

All this was yesterday, in our launch SP2010 Launch party.  After the introduction by Kailash, Ayman El Hattab presented the new cool Visual Studio tools for SharePoint, Shady Korshed dug into Web Parts development in SP 2010, Hesham Mortada gave us a tour around the all new PowerPivot.  After we finally got streaming for the keynote I presented Office Web Apps and Marwan Tarek ended it up with the cool PowerShell cmdlets for SharePoint.  We had also quizzes and giveaways for our attendees. 

I really enjoyed the event.  I hope you did too.  See you sooooon!

Thanks for all the attendees and members for sharing your time with us.

Special thanks to the organizing committee.

 

Please stay tuned to our Facebook group - EGYSUG for photos and updates

You can also find my presentation on slideshare.net > mohdyehia > Office Web Apps

 That’s why I love EGYSUG

 

See also

Egypt SharePoint 2010 Launch Party

Ayman El Hattab - SharePoint 2010 Egyptian Community Launch: Transportation Updates

Kailash Kylani - SHAREPOINT 2010 AND OFFICE 2010 COMMUNITY LAUNCH IN EGYPT

Marwan Tarek - SharePoint 2010 Launch by Microsoft Egypt – I will be there

Shady Korshed - SHAREPOINT 2010 AND OFFICE 2010 COMMUNITY LAUNCH IN EGYPT

Egypt SharePoint 2010 Launch Party

Are you excited?  Finally the day has come, the day we all have been waiting for, SharePoint 2010 Release.

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We have it all : We have buses, we have speakers, we have a big screen and we have great giveaways!!

We will be waiting in Microsoft Egypt, buses will be in Lebanon Square, Mohandesin from 2.00 PM till 2.15 PM

Below is the updated agenda:

16:15 – 16:30 Introduction | Kailash Kalyani [Microoft]

16:35 – 16:50 PowerPivot in SharePoint 2010 | Hesham Mortada [Microsoft]
16:55 – 17:10 Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint 2010 | Ayman El-Hattab
17:15 – 17:30 Web Parts Development for SharePoint 2010 | Shady Khorshied 

17:30 – 18:00 Break

18:00 - 19:00 Virtual Keynote | Stephen Elop [Microsoft]
19:00 – 19:15 Office Web Applications | Mohamed Yehia
19:20 – 19:35 Windows PowelShell for SharePoint 2010 | Marwan Tarek

Follow us on twitter #SP2010Egypt, or track all SP2010 Launch Parties

We will try to broadcast the event.

See you all there

Thanks to our sponsors

USPJAcademy-109 AvePoint-Logo

 

 

 

BR,

Mohamed Yehia

SharePoint Saturday India - May 2010

As expected and follow up from the first event, this one was fantastic and well organized.  With the follow up emails and reminders, Rajendera and the rest of SPSIndia team did a great job.SharePointSaturday

I was in Senegal, connecting to my virtual machine hosted in Western Europe broadcasting to India.  It was a slow connection but everything went just fine. 

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With all the new fun in SharePoint 2010, today I presented “Word on the Server”  - The Word Web App and Word Automation Services. 

 

Hope you enjoyed the presentation and the event.  You can find the slides on slide share, Word on the Server and the code snippets on my SkyDrive > Public > SPSIndia

I had to the pleasure and honor to be part of this event, as a listener and speaker.  I would like to thank SPS India team and the sponsors for such an event.   I am sure the team will announce the availability of the resources to stay tuned to the SharePoint Saturday India site  - and follow #SPSIndia on Twitter.

 

Personal note :Meanwhile in Cairo, another great event was exploding on Twitter TEDxCairo, the first TED event in Egypt.  Everybody there was teasing with all those tweets and hastags #TEDxCairo.  I almost cried.

Au revoir from Senegal  (I will be back home next week)

Mohamed Yehia

Services in SharePoint 2010 Products

The new service application framework is one of new evolutionary changes in SharePoint 2010.  With this new architecture:

  • You can deploy only the services that are needed to a farm
  • Web applications can be configured to use only the services that are needed
  • You can share services across multiple Web applications within the same farm.

The table below gives you more insight about which services are shipped with SharePoint Foundation, SP 2010 Standard and Enterprise and which you can publish across farms.
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Additional services provided by other Microsoft products (click for larger view)

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Office Web Apps services comes with Office Client enterprise license.

You would need SharePoint Enterprise CAL to run Project Server 2010.

 

You can download a the original Visio file, here.

BR,

Mohamed Yehia

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