Archive for the ‘SharePoint’ tag
Saudi Arabia – “Deep Dive – SharePoint 2010” in Pictures
Riyadh SharePoint User Group recently organized “Deep Dive – SharePoint 2010” event at the Microsoft Innovation Center, Alyamama University, Riyadh. The event provided deep knowledge about SharePoint 2010, Administration, Development and Upgrade while providing live demos. This event gave quick “how to do” with SharePoint Lists and using Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint Saturday Arabia
Join SharePoint architects, developers, administrators, branders, and other professionals that work with SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint 2010 on March 27, 2010 for an exceptional “SharePoint Saturday” event. SharePoint Saturday Arabia is a free, educational, informative, & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs who are willing to share their great experience with Arabs. They are all about bringing great Arabic SharePoint content to the Arabia. Follow them on Twitter at #SPSArabia
Registration is now open for participation in Live Online SharePoint Saturday Arabia. By registering for this event, you are confirming you would like to view the live presentations, presented from 7:00am to 3:00pm (GMT+0), on March 27, 2010. In order to hear the presenters, you will need headphones or computer speakers. There will be no conference call dial-in phone numbers. The live blogging platform will allow for real time questions to be passed to the presenters. There will be multiple sessions running simultaneously so that we can present to a diversified audience with different technical needs.
Meet Valy Greavu – SharePoint Server MVP from Romania
Tell us who you are?
Hi, I’m Valy Greavu, known as Valy Greavu on the community, I am a lecturer professor at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, and also consultant for few companies from Romania, working in complex projects, based on SharePoint Technologies and associated: Active Directory, Security, Office Suite and others. Also I’m technical expert for implementing ISO 27001 standard in SharePoint environment. Since 2005 I was involved in Imagine Cup competition, former competitor, and finalist (2005, 2006) and now co-captain for IT Challenge section.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I awarded as a SharePoint MVP for 2009 and re-awarded for 2010.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
Most important for me is direct contact with technology, so I keep me on the last editions of the product, read blogs constantly and other product teams MVP, and most articles that appear on SharePoint. I also consider very important are issues of community users. They help me I create a basis for models of problems and their solving methods.
Double-Take Software showcased its latest innovations at Microsoft Tech Ed Middle East 2010
Double-Take Software, a leading provider of affordable Workload Optimisation products, demoed at Microsoft Tech Ed Middle East 2010. Double-Take Software provides affordable software products for high availability and data recovery. The company’s products and services enable customers to protect and recover business-critical data and applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint in both physical and virtual environments.
Microsoft Tech Ed was a perfect platform to promote Double-Take Software’s technologies and the company announced major shifts within the virtualisation domain with specific solutions for Windows 2008 and Microsoft’s Hyper-V. Event attendees had the opportunity to learn more about the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V architecture, discuss features for high availability for Hyper-V and find out how organizations can prepare disaster recovery solutions ahead of time by implementing this pioneering software.
Meet Majid Ardforoushan – SharePoint MVP from United Arab Emirates
Tell us who you are?
Hi, I’m Majid Ardforoushan, known as Neo on the community, I am a SharePoint Consultant, providing solutions based on SharePoint since 2001, founder of SharePoint Solutions Persia, a Certified Microsoft Partner. I provided Persian language for SharePoint 2001, 2003, 2007 and now I’m working 247 to support this language for SharePoint 2010, I had many many requests from Middle East, UK and US for this language and I did tons of efforts encouraging Microsoft for supporting this language, but since it’s not possible yet, I started for supporting Farsi by a local community in the Gulf region.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I awarded as a SharePoint MVP for 2009 and re-awarded for 2010.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
Being part of community, also I initiated a community for Persian speaking SharePoint experts worldwide, for writing about their experiences or sharing resources, this way we all work together to be on top of this technology.
SharePoint Saturday Jordan 2010
After the great success of SharePoint Saturday events held worldwide, the Jordan SharePoint User Group has decided to host the first ever SharePoint Saturday in the Middle East. This will be the first happening of SharePoint Saturday in Jordan, but will definitely not be the last.
SharePoint Saturday Jordan 2010 will be the premier event for SharePoint 2010 content. With a international line-up of world-class speakers, including Joel Oleson and Michael Noel, this event promises to be a great one filled with exciting sessions presented for the first time in Jordan! Targeted for Developers, IT Professionals, and Information Workers, SPS Jordan is your premier event for SharePoint 2010 content, so make sure you register for this great event!
Microsoft Office 2010 will go public on June 15
Paul Thurrott, from WinInfo has confirmed that Microsoft plans to release Office 2010 on June 15 2010. Commenting in his weekly article he said “Office 2010 for Windows, meanwhile, will become generally available June 15, 2010″. Microsoft Office 2010 Release Candidate along with Office Web Applications was recently made available for download for technical beta participants through Microsoft Connect.
Moreover, customers who purchase Office 2007 between March 5, 2010 and September 30, 2010, Microsoft will allow them to upgrade to Office 2010 for free. Few days back, Rachel Bondi, Microsoft Office General Manager has officially announced the official Office 2010 pricing. Here are the prices:
- Professional – $499 boxed, $349 for product key
- Professional Academic – $99 boxed only
- Home and Student – $149 boxed, $119 for product key
- Home and Business – $279 boxed, $199 for product key
HP helps organizations reduce business risk with transparent records management using SharePoint
HP introduced a records management solution that enables customers to significantly reduce the business risks associated with the growing regulatory compliance and legal discovery demands. HP TRIM 7 – an advanced records management solution built on 24 years of experience and best practices – enables organizations to transparently manage all of their Microsoft SharePoint Server records in a single environment, regardless of the source. This includes documents as well as information found in SharePoint Server blogs, wikis, discussions, forms, calendars and workflows.
Widespread adoption of SharePoint Server provides the opportunity to consolidate and simplify the management of content stored across multiple SharePoint instances. HP TRIM 7 enables the transparent capture, search and management of all types of physical and electronic business information, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the upcoming SharePoint Server 2010.
“Deep Dive – SharePoint 2010″ by Riyadh SharePoint User Group
Riyadh SharePoint User Group will be organizing their next User Group event to be held on February 18, 2009 at the Microsoft Innovation Center, Alyamama University, Riyadh. The event will provide deep knowledge about SharePoint 2010, Administration, Development and Upgrade while providing live demos. This event will also give you quick “how to do” with SharePoint Lists and using Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010.
Why should you attend the event?
- If you are eager to learn and get ready for SharePoint 2010
- You want to win Windows 7 Ultimate
- You want to have chance to Win XBOX 360
- A Chance to Win 400 GB USB Hard Drive Include SharePoint 2007 and 2010 All Software Virtual PC and HyperV Images
- Cool Give Ways including Books, USBs, Reading Material etc.
- Chance to ask questions and get answers to your problems.
- Get SharePoint 2010 All Software Hyper V Image. (Bring your USB Disk with around 15 GB Size)
Microsoft on Google Buzz
Google Buzz, which seems to be a less confusing successor to Google’s “future of e-mail” Wave product is launched today. According to Dharmesh Mehta, Director of Product Management for Windows Live:
“Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation. We’ve done that. Hotmail customers have benefitted from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008.”
Mary-Jo Foley posted her views that Microsoft also has been working to integrate social networks from third parties not just into its Web-mail product, but also into its Outlook mail client, via the Outlook Social Connector that the company unveiled at the Professional Developers Conference in 2009. Microsoft is integrating the Social Connector into the Office 2010 product which is due out in the first half of this year. Microsoft’s Social Connector does a lot of what Buzz does, except with more of a business-centric focus. Microsoft’s Social Connector also provides regularly updated “activity feeds” for those in a user’s social connector via a connection with SharePoint 2010.
