I have been asked this question several times during the last month and I have tried to shed some light on that during my session at OpenDoor Egypt. Today, I stumbled upon a good MSDN article that concisely answers this question :
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Who Are We?
Set of cooperative Industry Geeks who targets cooperating with community to avail high-end sessions to the Microsoft technical community in Arabic.
Who are MS3arab Co-Founders?
Other Key Members
Our Target Audience
Our Host
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Microsoft moved forward considerably on the 2010 Social Software for the Workplace Magic Quadrant. Microsoft maintained its #1 position on the Ability to Execute axis and moved forward rather substantially on the Completeness of Vision axis, overtaking IBM 
and several other competitors there and coming very close to Jive.
Also it’s worth mentioning that there are two competitors who are NOT present in the 2010 Social Software for the Workplace MQ: Google and Cisco.
Google was dropped from this Magic Quadrant for 2010 due to the demise of Wave and Gartner’s lack of confidence in Google’s commitment to the enterprise. Cisco, on the other hand, despite a year of heavy marketing of Quad to analysts and customer elites failed to meet the bar for market presence.
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PDC Cairo Local Event/MS3arab Community Launch was phenomenal with great enthusiastic attendees and speakers. I would like to thank all those who participated in making this happens (including Egyptian MSP’s). I would like to leave you for now with some photos from the event.
I have received some questions via mail about the new community (MS3arab), the process of registration and more. I’ll leave this to another detailed post, stay tuned ….
SharePoint Saturday Arabia Online event is back!
Following from last successful event, this online event is scheduled for DEC 11, 2010.
Last March, we hosted the first instance of SharePoint Saturday Arabia and it was a success, thanks to our speakers and sponsors. It was a ten hour event with 15 Speakers, including 8 MVPs, and two simultaneous sessions running every hour. We had 750 registrants and around 150 attendees( Recording from the first event are still available here http://www.endusersharepoint.com/2010/04/05/sharepoint-saturday-arabia-wrap-up-recording-and-bonus-videos/ )
This is the second event and we are hoping for the same success and enthusiasm from our audience.
In the spirit of giving back to the SharePoint Community, the event admission will be free of charge, supported by people volunteering their time to speak on their favorite SharePoint topic.
We are now taking speaker submissions. Please download the speaker submission form. There are some new questions on there that you might not have seen if you have participated in previous SharePoint Saturday events since we are dealing with multiple timezones and continents.
We will take submissions only for 2010 material. Presentations will last one hour with possible Q&A continuing through the live blogging platform.
Register here http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/arabia
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Microsoft will be hosting its new annual event Microsoft Open Door at the Fairmont hotel, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt for two days
2nd and 3rd of November 2010.The event will have two tracks; one for Developers and the other for ITPros.
I will be presenting “Developing Office Business Applications with Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010“on November, 3rd (2:30 – 3:30 PM)
| TUE NOV 2nd – Day 1 8:30 AM 10:00 AM Registration 10:00 AM 11:00 AM Keynote 11:00 AM 11:30 AM Break 11:30 AM 12:30 PM Building Modern Line-of-Business Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 12:30 PM 12:45 PM Break 12:45 PM 1:45 PM Overview of the Windows Phone 7 Application Platform 1:45 PM 2:45 PM Lunch Break 2:45 PM 3:45 PM Lap around the Windows Azure Platform 3:45 PM 4:15 PM Break 4:15 PM 5:15 PM IE9 for Developers |
| WED NOV 3rd – Day 2
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Registration 10:00 AM 11:00 AM Microsoft Office 2010: Developing the Next Wave of Productivity Solutions 11:00 AM 11:15 AM Break 11:15 AM 12:15 PM Overview of Microsoft Web Platform 12:15 PM 12:30 PM Break 12:30 PM 1:30 PM Software Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 1:30 PM 2:30 PM Lunch Break 2:30 PM 3:30 PM Developing Office Business Applications with Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 3:30 PM 3:45 PM Break 3:45 PM 4:45 PM Jump into Microsoft Silverlight and Become Immediately Effective 4:45 PM 5:00 PM Break 5:00 PM 6:00 PM SQL Unplugged 6:00 PM 7:00 PM Introducing Microsoft Lync 2010 |
| TUE NOV 2nd – Day 1
8:30 AM 10:00 AM Registration 10:00 AM 11:00 AM Keynote 11:30 AM 12:30 PM Realizing a Dynamic Datacenter Environment with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Partner Solutions 12:30 PM 12:45 PM Break 12:45 PM 1:45 PM Business intelligence: Creating the right cubes for Microsoft Office Excel and Excel services 1:45 PM 2:45 PM Lunch Break 2:45 PM 3:45 PM SharePoint 2010 : The new era of digital media platform 3:45 PM 4:15 PM Break 4:15 PM 5:15 PM Windows 7 + MDOP: Optimized Desktop Solutions 5:15 PM 5:30 PM Break |
| WED NOV 3rd – Day 2
9:00 AM 10:00 AM Registration 10:00 AM 11:00 AM Deploying Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization v1 to Solve Windows 7 Application Compatibility 11:00 AM 11:15 AM Break 11:15 AM 12:15 PM Business Ready Security: Exploring the Identity and Access Management Solution 12:15 PM 12:30 PM Break 12:30 PM 1:30 PM Introducing Microsoft Lync 1:30 PM 2:30 PM Lunch Break 2:30 PM 3:30 PM Upgrading from Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007 to Exchange Server 2010: Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned 3:30 PM 3:45 PM Break 3:45 PM 4:45 PM Microsoft High Performance Computing Server 4:45 PM 5:00 PM Break 5:00 PM 6:00 PM SQL Unplugged 6:00 PM 7:00 PM Introducing Microsoft Lync 2010 |
Registration:
A host header is a third piece of information that you can use in addition to the IP address and port number to uniquely identify a Web domain or, as Microsoft calls it, an application server.
In SharePoint 2010, You can apply host headers at two different levels :
The following code snippet programmatically creates the host-named site collection with the URLhttp://training.sharepoint.com in the SharePoint Server 2010 Web application with the URLhttp://sharepoint
SPWebApplication webApp = SPWebApplication.Lookup(new
Uri(“http://sharepoint“));
SPSiteCollection sites = webApp.Sites;
SPSite Site = sites.Add(“http://training.sharepoint.com”, “Training”,
“Training Site”, 1025, “STS#0”, “domain\ayman”,
“Ayman El-Hattab”, “ayman@aymanelhattab.com”, “domain\marwan”,
“Marwan Tarek”, marwan@marwantarek.net, true);
You can also use PowerShell to achieve the same results, for more info refer to :http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx
Gartner recently published a report by Jim Murphy, Gene Phifer, Ray Valdes and Eric Knipp: the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. In the report, Microsoft not only maintains its Leadership ranking but moves into the #1 position on the report – highest on both the Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision axes – overtaking IBM.
Five vendors dominated portal selections during the latter part of 2009 and into 2010: Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Liferay. Microsoft SharePoint is a consideration in more Gartner portal inquiries — over 70% — than any other vendor.
Source: Gartner (September 2010)
A couple of days ago, SAMS announced the release of “SharePoint 2010 Unleashed” book, the successor of “SharePoint 2007 Unleashed”, one of the best-selling SharePoint books. This really means a lot to me since I’ve contributed to the book by writing Chapter 9, “Managing and Maintaining SQL Server in a SharePoint Environment”. I’m really excited about this and looking forward to writing a complete SharePointy book very soon, would you like to join ?
I would also like to thank Michael Noel for this great opportunity and for the great writing tips he provided me with… Thanks Michael and I really wish to see you again in Cairo.
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