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“SharePoint 2007 Tips, tricks and techniques” by Saifullah Shafiq, SharePoint MVP
Saifullah Shafiq, SharePoint MVP has published a new SharePoint book called “SharePoint 2007 Tips, tricks and techniques“. He have been writing technical programming articles/tutorials since 1999. His technical articles have been published on 62 different programming related web sites. He is also the founder of SharePoint Pakistan User Group, which is the first and only SharePoint related user community in Pakistan. Click here to view MicrosoftFeed interview with Saifullah.
SharePoint is a powerful collaboration platform. It gives users power to implement content management and search solutions. It helps in information sharing. SharePoint can be used to create sites quickly, sites that can provide complex business intelligence and records management solutions. This book is a recipe book that gives you ready-to-use recipes to implement complex solutions in your organization. It contains full length articles as well as small tips that will come in handy at some point during your development cycle. SharePoint learning curve is steep; books like these enable you to learn SharePoint quickly. Book contains tons of information on InfoPath. Remember, using InfoPath with SharePoint gives you a powerful platform to create business applications. You can create electronic forms easily with InfoPath and publish them in SharePoint where users from across the organization can easily access them. Browser-enabled forms is another excellent feature that InfoPath 2007 provides. Not only InfoPath but SharePoint integrates well with the Office 2007 suite. The book shows you how you can use products like Groove and OneNote with SharePoint. It also gives you examples on how to use it with Access.
You will find lots of walkthrough exercises in this book that will help you get up to speed with topics like web services, web service deployment and consuming web services. More information about this book is available at http://sharepoint2007tips.com. Users can download free sample chapters from the book site. Book is available in both paperback and ebook editions.
Pakistan – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch in Pictures
SharePoint Pakistan User Group recently arranged “SharePoint 2010 Community Launch” at University of Central Punjab, Lahore. During the event the speakers covered latest technologies like Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Team System and provided real world guidance on Developing Application on top of SharePoint 2007, ASP.NET, Exploring Implementation and Integration scenarios and getting ready for SharePoint 2010.
Tech-Ed Middle East : Registrations now open!
As reported by MicrosoftFeed that Microsoft’s premier technical education and networking conference TechEd is coming to the Middle East. So, public website is now Live for registration. Connect one-on-one with Microsoft insiders and IT peers, get your toughest questions answered and hear expert advice – right from the source, right in your region.
Only Tech·Ed combines knowledge, expertise, inspiration, connections and friendship all at the one event. Tech·Ed Middle East delivers the experience on which great careers are built. No other event provides such in-depth knowledge in such a short time. Get hands-on training via Instructor Led Labs. Connect with International and Local Technical Experts, Microsoft Staff, Partners, MVPs, community influencers and industry peers and see Microsoft product demos and participate in interactive sessions.
Starting a New Microsoft User Group or Community – Guidelines and Links
Creating User Group or technical groups is not easy step. It requires lot of time and resources to find people who are interested in working with you as volunteers and successfully creating a trust in your group members minds. But once everything is up and running the result is great. So while answering the question I was able to note down the things and resources to get help from. It is given below.
- Name the User Group and define your scope, objectives and target audience.
- Get Volunteer/Community Geeks on board – You need to define a Board build a relationship between the volunteers who are interested to be part of such a group and designate positions and responsibilities.
- Distribute Roles according to Skills and availability
- Create Check Lists of Tasks
- Design Group Logo and Moto
- Try to find a Local Microsoft Community Lead or MVP to guide you and present you some contacts.
- Do board meeting in the early weeks to discuss user group topics and vision for 6 months at least.
- Create a Facebook/Online Group Site and publish your Group with basic introduction to get peoples interest and on-board.
SharePoint Pakistan User Group – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch
SharePoint Pakistan User Group is arranging a “SharePoint 2010 Community Launch” that will be held on 5th of December, 2009 at University of Central Punjab, Lahore. Technical Communities play very important role in helping developers stay in touch with other developers, learn latest technologies and getting solutions to the problems they are facing in the their working environments This event will help reigniting the communities in Lahore as well as help restructuring SharePoint Pakistan User Group and related Microsoft User Groups.
The event will exclusively disclose the latest technologies like Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Team System and while providing real world guidance on Developing Application on top of SharePoint 2007, ASP.NET, Exploring Implementation and Integration scenarios and getting ready for SharePoint 2010.
