It has been a long trip since MOSS 2007 released and everybody started to envision how SharePoint 2010 will look. Microsoft Products team had listened to a lot of our comments as MVPs and to the community feedback and here it is very powerful platform for the business collaboration.

I remember when I first started working with SharePoint, it was SharePoint 2003 OHHHH! It is long trip but i really enjoyed it.

Happy SharePoint release

Read details here

I’m really glad to announce that Registration is now open for participation in Live Online SharePoint Saturday Arabia. Live presentations, presented from 7:00am to 3:00pm (GMT+0), on March 27, 2010.

http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/arabia

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.

As you register, we would very much appreciate it if you would spread the word to your SharePoint colleagues.

Register NOW to reserve you place

Now the sessions recordings are available, more than 20 hours of SharePoint session WOW!

Download SPS EMEA Recording here

My session available for download here SharePoint 2010, Getting Ready!

Make sure the Office Live Meeting client is installed before the meeting:

• Download here

Start Office Live Meeting and join the meeting with the following information:

        Meeting ID:     39052fa12f894a0d9159cebc019e7db7

        Entry Code:     9849

        Location:       meet:sip:kailashk@microsoft.com;gruu;opaque=app:conf:focus:id:39052fa12f894a0d9159cebc019e7db7%3Fconf-key=9849

Enjoy.

Date: January 30th 2010

Venue: Dar Al Deyafa – Ain Shams University

Speaker: Mohamed Khalil

11:00am – 12:00 pm Approaches and best practices : Deploying SharePoint sites through multiple environments

Speakers Shady Korshed

12:15pm – 1:15 pm How to build Advanced Web Sites using SharePoint 2010

1:15pm- 2:00 pm  Ask the Experts

About the Speakers

Mohamed Khalil (MCSD.Net, MCTS) is Technology Expert at OMS with over 6 years experience working with complex projects on Microsoft technologies. Mohamed is still very much a hands-on developer, and has participated in several large-scale web initiatives including e-commerce, WCM, intranet, back-end integration and workflow projects. Past client engagements include Bank of Scotland Plc, Microsoft Technology Center-UK, Kaplan Financial, AMCOR Artenius , and Bunzel Chemical. With a background in ASP.Net/Content Management Server/Corporate Portals, Mohamed’s current main area of focus is building public websites on MOSS and he continues to learn with every project.
Shady Korshed is a SharePoint MVP who has participated and joined huge successful projects in Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 and MOSS 2007.  Shady is into research, investigation in technologies and he is also ready for a challenging game in chess.

Please Register here

I will be presenting About Getting Ready to SharePoint 2010.

Waiting for you

Event Home: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/emea/default.aspx
List of Speakers: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/emea/Pages/speakers.aspx
List of Sessions: http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/emea/Pages/meetings.aspx

Registration: http://20100123-spsemea.eventbrite.com/

Register now, check the event time at your time zone.

Thanks for all who contributed to make this happen especially my wife Mai

Happy new year

Now let’s discover how to write PowerShell script to access SharePoint objects and perform some operations

Create Site collection

The following PowerShell script will Create 10 Site collections under sites managed path from the team site template

We used New-SPSite cmdlet inside for loop and passed as parameters the site URL, Site owner, template id and site language

cmdlets used: New-SPSite

Add items to Announcements list

our second script is to add items to announcements list which can be helpful if you want to add a lot of items in a list for demo or development or testing purposes

In this script we retrieved the web object then through object properties we retrieved the list by its title and through for loop we added new item in each loop.

cmdlets used: Get-SPSite, Get-SPWeb

SharePoint Saturday EMEA available NOW!

First SharePoint Saturday event to be broadcasts in EMEA time zone (8:00am to 5:00pm London time)

Date: January 23, 2010

Time: 8:00am to 5:00pm London time

Registration is now open

It will online event and for free, you will need headphones or computer speakers. There will be no conference call dial-in phone numbers.

Join Facebook group here