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    March 24

    Sharepoint development toolbox

    While digging in the internet gold mine called blogs found this very nice post on Joris Poelmans blog, he compiled a list of the tools any Sharepoint developer really need to make his/her life easier, thank you Joris for this nice post.
     
     

    Build and Packaging Tools

    CAML/Search Tools

    Visual Studio Optimisations

    Content/Config Replication

    SharePoint Extensions

    Testing Tools

    Inspection Tools

    Governance/Manageabilty

    STSADM and Powershell Tools

    Doodles 4 Google

      

     
    For the first time in the middle east, On March 20th Google  asked the orphant childern to draw Google doodles reflects "My Egypt" theme, the drawings were wonderful,you can go now vote for the doodle you like and it will be displayed in Google Egypt home page on April, 3rd 2009
     
    samples of the draws and there are many other beautiful drawings
       
     
    March 18

    Egypt SharePoint User Group First meeting - 9th April By Joel Olson & Mike Watson

     Dear Egypt SharePoint User Group member,

    You are cordially invited to the first Egypt SharePoint User Group meeting planned for 9th April Sponsored By Microsoft and Quest  with very exciting and famous speakers

    Joel Olson
    SharePoint Expert Speaker & Blogger, 8 year SharePoint veteran Microsoft IT Architect. Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect and he maintains a popular blog. Prior to Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was a part of the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007. He would later design the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments.

    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. Before moving to Quest Software, Mike was instrumental in planning and deploying Microsoft Managed Services and Microsoft Online, as well as Microsoft Services efforts such as MOSSRAP (MOSS Risk Assessment Program) and SLM (Service Level Manager).

     

    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 Egypt
    Smart Village – KM 28 Cairo/Alex desert road
    Ground Floor, Room Explorer 1 & 2

    Registration Required here (Attendance is free) Any updates will be sent to registered users and on Group twitter

     For Egypt SharePoint User Group updates follow Follow EGYSUG on Twitter.

    March 11

    Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) v2.0 released

    From Microsoft sharepoint blog
     
    "Microsoft and HiSoftware are pleased to announce the release of the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS) v2.0.  The AKS v2.0 provides an accessible development framework and significantly reduces the level of effort and knowledge needed by customers and partners to improve the accessibility of SharePoint based sites and applications.

    The AKS v2.0 follows on from the success of the AKS v1.0 and v1.1 which have been downloaded by more than 4000 organizations in fifty countries.  The AKS v2.0 is intended to be a community based project which other individuals and organizations can contribute to and is released today under the Microsoft Public License.

    Key Features in the AKS v2.0

    The AKS v2.0 introduces the following:

    • Smart Control adapters which greatly reduce the amount of custom configuration previously required for AKS control adapters.
    • The Web Part Zone Control Adapter, a special Smart Adapter that modifies the output of SharePoint so that it does not use tables for layout of the Web parts.
    • HiSoftware’s Compliant Code Engine (HCCE) to assist organizations in creating code that is compliant to standards-based HTML or XHTML.
    • Examples of remediation to comply with WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
    • French language version of AKS 1.0 components."