• Microsoft tech-ed in Dubai - March 2011

    For those of you who didn't register for the tech-ed, please do.  you'll miss a lot

    http://teched.ae/

     

  • Adopt and Deploy Lync with Device Replacement program- Preserving Customer investments

    Here is another program from Microsoft to help customers adopt and deploy Lync; Device Replacement.

     

    We are partnering with Vology (http://www.vds.com) & Cxtec (http://www.cxtec.com) to buy/replace/trade-in customers old phones…so we are helping customers preserve their investment.

     

  • Lync Server - Useful Links

    The Lync Server Open Interoperability Program is now available

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg131938.aspx

     

    Other useful Links:

    -        Hardware Requirements. Link

    -        Bandwidth Table. Link

    -        Lync New features – server side. Link

    -        Lync New features – Client Side. Link

    -        Port Requirements. Link

    -        Lync Server 2010 Protocol Workloads Poster. Link

    -        Architecture – Server Roles. Link

    -        Architecture – Topologies. Link

     

     

  • Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA - Registration

    Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA is back on January 22nd, 2011. This is the second annual SPSEMEA and promises to be a huge event with over 30 sessions, 4 simultaneous Live Meeting Channels and a public text chatroom open to participants and speakers.

    Registration for SPSEMEA began last Tuesday, January 11 and is free to the global SharePoint Community. There are over 30 SharePoint Evangelists, including 10 SharePoint MVPs, from around the world providing content you would normally only see at a paid SharePoint Conference. Tracks are set for SharePoint End Users and Business Managers on topics for "How We Did It: Real World Case Studies", "No Code/Assembly Solutions", "SharePoint Interface Branding", and "SharePoint for Business". The sessions will be recorded and made available two weeks after the event.

    Confirmed Presenters
     
    Agnes Molnar, MVP: Hungary
    Andrew Woodward, MVP: United Kingdom
    Ant Clay: United Kingdom
    Ayman El-Hattab, MVP: Egypt
    Brett Lonsdale: United Kingdom
    Chirag Patel: United States
    Chris Poteet: United States
    Christian Buckley: United States
    Coskun Cavusoglu: United States
    Daniel McPherson: India
    Dave Coleman: United Kingdom
    Derek Weeks: United States
    Eric Riz: Candada
    Fabian Williams: United States
    Geoff Varosky: United States
    Hossam Behery: United States
    Ian Woodgate: United Kingdom
    Jeremy Thake, MVP: Australia
    Jerry Yasir, MVP: Saudi Arabia
    Jim Bob Howard: United States
    Jose Antonio Morales: United States
    Laura Rogers: United States
    Mai Omar: Egypt
    Marc Anderson, MVP: United States
    Mark Rackley: United States
    Marwan Tarek, MVP: Egypt
    Matt Bramer: United States
    Michael Hinckley: United States
    Muhammed Nabil: Eygpt
    Nicolas Georgeault: France
    Nigel Price: United Kingdom
    Rackley Mark: United States
    Rutherford Wilson: United States
    Ruven Gotz, MVP: Canada
    Saifullah Shafiq, MVP: United States
    Sarah Haase: United States
    Symon Garfield: United States

    Toni, Isaac, Mark and I will be moderating the sessions, making sure everything is going smoothly. 

    We hope you'll join us for Live Online SharePoint Saturday EMEA. Please register in advance to guarantee yourself free access to some of the best presentations available, all aimed at SharePoint End Users.
    See you there.

    Ayman El-Hattab (@aymanelhattab), Egypt
    Mark Miller (@eusp), United States
    Toni Frankola (@ToniFrankola), Croatia
    Isaac Stith (@MrIsaac), United States

  • Feature and Solution Framework in SP2010–From Ignite Training

    As promised, here is another slide deck from SP2010 development training that I delivered last week to partners @ Microsoft Egypt.

    Today I’m sharing a presentation about the main building blocks of SharePoint; Features and Solutions.

    Your feedback is appreciated.

     

    View in brower (PowerPoint Web App)
    View on SlideShare
    Download from SkyDrive

    See Also:

    SharePoint 2010 as a Development Platform– From SharePoint Ignite Training
    SharePoint 2010 Architecture Slides–From Ignite Training