Microsoft Gulf Community blog is an Excellent blog for the Gulf community, you will find interesting posts by our community leads and news about upcoming events within the region. I encourage all of the Gulf Dev and IT Pros to visit the blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msgulfcommunity/

If you are within the Gulf region, It will be also valuable for you to profile yourself in our database, you can do so by following the below steps:

1. Go to the Microsoft Profile Center
2. Sign in with your LiveID
3. Update "My Personal Information" to make sure that your country is one of the Gulf countries: UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen
4. Update "My Business Information" to make sure that the "primary role" is correct, select "Developer, Solutions Architect, ..." whatever matches

YOU ARE ALL SET!

Lot are asking about DPM 2010 resources, here is a compilation of some links

Planning a System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Deployment

Deploying System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

Data Protection Manager 2010 Operations Guide

Data Protection Manager 2010 Troubleshooting Guide

TechNet library for DPM 2010

Enjoy!

The System Center Service Manager – Exchange Connector connects Service Manager to Exchange for processing incoming emails related to incidents and change requests. The emails can update the incident action log or change the status of an incident to resolved or closed. Incoming emails with special keywords allow a change request reviewer to approve or reject a review activity and activity implementers can mark activities assigned to them as completed. The SendEmail solution allows analysts to send messages to users via email from the console.

Feature Summary
This release is compatible with Service Manager 2010 SP1. It contains the final set of features for this version, including

• Create incident from email
• Update incident action log from email
• Resolve or close incidents from email
• Approve/reject change requests from email
• Update change request “action log” from email
• Mark manual activities completed from email
• Add email file attachment to work items as attachments
• Send notifications to users from the console

Download the connector from here

Kuwait
February 1, 2011
Venue: JW Marriott, Kuwait City

Agenda:

09:00         Registration
09:30         Welcome and Introduction
Adel El Hallak, System x Market Segment Manager, IBM Middle East & Africa
09:45         Intelligent Servers
Andy Nehme, Business Development Director, GCC, Intel Corporation
10:30         Next Generation of x86 Systems
Derek Yuill, Field Technical Sales Specialist, System x,  IBM MENA
11:15         Tea Break
11:30         Microsoft Virtualization Technologies
Mohamed Baher, Kuwait DataCenter Solutions Specialist, Microsoft
12:15         Live Demonstration on IBM Systems
Mohamed Baher, Kuwait DataCenter Solutions Specialist, Microsoft
12:30         Q&A
13:00         Networking and Lunch

See the details of this news and other exciting news coming out of CES; please see the CES Virtual Pressroom here