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• What is ECB?

  Are reading books/blogs/articles about SharePoint. sometimes we face the acronym ECB, What does it mean? ECB = European Central Bank KIDDING ECB = Edit Control Button This is a menu appears for items in SharePoint list/library, sometimes we call it context... Posted Oct 09 2008, 03:16 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, WSS, Terminology

• My Site link changed to to My OWA

  Out of nothing the My Site link changed (inside the My Site itself) to My OWA and redirects the user to his personal mailbox. Originally the link was like this Then suddenly it changed to look like this after tracing the issue I discovered that the control... Posted Sep 25 2008, 11:06 AM by marwan.tarek with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS

• SharePoint Performance optimizations

  Performance is perspective that all the developers forget during development and it pops up and the end of project (worst time). for SharePoint development there are a lot of areas to tune the performance (Code, caching, farm network design..etc) Below... Posted Sep 24 2008, 11:09 AM by marwan.tarek with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, Performance

• Relation between ViewFormPagesLockDown feature, LayoutsPageBase and UnsecuredLayoutsPageBase

  Recently i was reading the blog post Public-Facing SharePoint? Here's something scary... Please activate ViewFormPagesLockDown!!! and i want to highlight one piece of information when you activate ViewFormPagesLockDown feature (can be activated only... Posted Sep 09 2008, 01:24 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, Public-Facing sites

• Presenting @ DotNetWork.org: SharePoint WebParts development

  Posted Jul 20 2008, 05:55 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, Seminar

• The SharePoint Era: Egypt SharePoint User Group, International SharePoint Professionals Association and SharePoint Magazine launched

  WOW!!! I am glad to announce the launch of Egypt SharePoint User Group this is the first user group in Egypt dedicated for SharePoint, we will be focusing to SharePoint development, administrations and customizations, all what you need to know about SharePoint... Posted Jul 17 2008, 07:37 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, WSS, User Groups, ISPA

• Major Update: Availability of Infrastructure Updates

  Microsoft released major updates apply to: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Microsoft Search Server 2008 Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Microsoft Office Project Professional... Posted Jul 16 2008, 12:46 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, WSS, Fixes

• Saving common configurations for SharePoint components

  One of my colleagues has consulted me what is the best way to save common configuration for web parts provided that this configuration can differ from site to another. And my answer was create a custom list in each site has two columns key and value,... Posted May 27 2008, 03:40 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, WSS, Tools, Blog Posts

• Presenting at .network.org 4th gathering

  I will be presenting on 31th May in .network.org 4th gathering. They are active user group in Egypt and doing a great efforts in their gatherings, i will start with a series of MOSS sessions and my first session will be "SharePoint Development"... Posted May 22 2008, 04:52 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, Seminar

• SharePoint for Quality Engineers

  I have delivered a session for quality engineers in ITWorx , this session was main target to raise the quality engineers awareness level to be able to analyze if the reproduced issues are development issues or SharePoint misuse also to enable the quality... Posted Apr 01 2008, 04:55 PM by marwan.tarek with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Best Practices

  Microsoft had released a set best practices for many common types of customizations Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Microsoft says: "Customization , as used in this section, means any addition to, change to, or removal of the settings... Posted Mar 31 2008, 02:10 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, WSS

• Preformatted document libraries for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 [MS download]

  [Download from Microsoft] Brief Description Add preformatted document libraries to your Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site. Each library is configured with a Microsoft Office Word 2007 template that... Posted Feb 25 2008, 04:52 PM by marwan.tarek with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, WSS

• InfoPath form viewer webpart

  MOSS 2007 now provides a great service, InfoPath Forms Services "InfoPath Forms Services is a server technology that makes it possible for users to fill out InfoPath forms in a Web browser. Users don't have to have InfoPath installed on their... Posted Feb 25 2008, 03:54 PM by marwan.tarek with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, InfoPath

• Configuring People search

  In my current project all of the sudden the people search stopped working and the number of items in the scope were zero. I did some research and found that to enable the people search you need to add the following url to the content source (if your portal... Posted Jan 14 2008, 02:15 PM by marwan.tarek with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS

• SHAREPOINT PLATFORM: CuttingEdge club First Public Event [Mission accomplished]

  I would to thank all who attended CuttingEdge club first public event – SharePoint platform and their great reviews . It went very nice for the first event and audience liked the topic, since no public session for SharePoint in the IT community in Egypt... Posted Nov 29 2007, 01:23 PM by marwan.tarek with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, Seminar

• Set the return page when InfoPath form is closed on the browser

  In many secinarios i needed to set the page i want to open when the user closes the InfoPath form (browser enabled), after invistigating the browser enabled forms URL i found an intersting parameter, it is "Source". the standard form url will... Posted Nov 19 2007, 02:20 PM by marwan.tarek with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MOSS, InfoPath

• SHAREPOINT PLATFORM: CuttingEdge club First Public Event (Presenting there)

  I will be presenting at the first public event for the CuttingEdge club (by ITWorx ). This event will be mainly two sessions: Introduction to SharePoint by Marwan Tarek (myself) Advanced session by Mohamed Yehia The event will in Cairo Egypt in 24th of... Posted Nov 01 2007, 11:20 AM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS, WSS, Seminar

• White Paper: Working with large lists in Office SharePoint® Server 2007

  [via SharePoint Team Blog: Scaling to Extremely Large Lists and Performant Access Methods ] Summary: Microsoft performed performance testing against Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 to determine the performance characteristics of large SharePoint... Posted Jul 26 2007, 10:12 AM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS

• MOSS security white paper

  this white paper describes the MOSS security model http://www.jornata.com/presentations/MOSS_Security.pdf Posted Jul 15 2007, 01:29 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS

• Resources for Interoperability with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

  Great resources for interoperability with MOSS 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/interopmigration/bb544954.aspx Posted Jul 02 2007, 02:20 PM by marwan.tarek with | with no comments Filed under: MOSS