Category Archives: Conferences and Events

Speaking at Open Door Egypt 2, 3 November

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Microsoft will be hosting its new annual event Microsoft Open Door at the Fairmont hotel, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt for two days6 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 2010on November, 3rd (2:30 – 3:30 PM)

Developers track schedule

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

 

ITPros track schedule

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 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:

Developers track

ITPro track

TechEd Middle East Registration Opens

Registration is now open for TechEd Middle East 2011.  Tech·Ed is Microsoft’s premier technical education event providing the most 3comprehensive technical training on Microsoft’s suite of products, technologies, solutions and services and takes place in Dubai, March 8 – 10, 2011.

  • Hear about the future of Microsoft’s products and technologies directly from the Microsoft leadership team in the keynote
  • Choose from 200 technical sessions delivered by Microsoft and industry experts
  • Touch the technology through more than 40 PC-based instructor-led training labs
  • Ask your questions at the NEW Ask The Experts forum
  • Meet with product experts and see product demos at the Technical Learning Centre
  • Explore industry solutions at the Tech·Ed Expo

Benefit from the Super Saver registration fee of only $795 for all registrations before 31 December 2010.

www.teched.ae

Presenting tomorrow : “Delivering Business Intelligence Using SharePoint 2010 Excel Services”

Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting @EgyGeeks online UG. I’ll speak about SharePoint 2010 Excel Services from both the technical and the business perspective. If you have any questions or if you need me to cover anything related to Excel Services, don’t hesitate to leave me a comment here.

For more info, follow the hashtag #EgyGeeks on twitter.

Speaking tomorrow at Microsoft Technology Week

It might be a bit late, actually too late to announce it. I’ll be presenting tomorrow (June 16, 2010) at Microsoft Technology Week. The sessions will be held at Microsoft Egypt premise in Smart Village, Cairo. I’ll focus on SharePoint from the business perspective and the new features in SharePoint 2010. No code involved here. Oh, and attendance is free and no registration required.

SharePoint 2010 Community Launch in Photos

Last Wednesday, May 12th was a special day. We had fun celebrating the Egyptian community launch of SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. I have presented about “Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint 2010”, people were really excited to learn that they no longer need third-party tools for developing SharePoint Solutions. Finally Visual Studio 2010 is enough along with its great extensibility features!

I would like to extend a special thank-you to AvePoint and USPJA for sponsoring the event.

Here are some photos from the event:

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Drop by “Ask the Experts Panel” at SharePoint 2010 official launch by Microsoft Egypt

Tomorrow May 11th will be an interesting day, Microsoft will be hosting a launch event for Microsoft® Office 2010, Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 and Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 at Grand Hyatt Hotel – Laylaty Ballroom Time: 09:00 am – 05:00 pm

I will be there in the Ask the experts with my fellow SharePoint MVPs , Marwan Tarek and Shady Khorshied. If you have any SharePoint related questions, please drop by.

SharePoint 2010 Egyptian Community Launch: Transportation Updates

Since the announcement of the Egyptian SharePoint community launch, I have been receiving a lot of emails about the transportation details. Sorry for the delay, but we finally managed to get everything set.

There will be a pickup bus from Lebanon Square.
2:00 to 2:15 > Gathering in-front of Mo’men
2:15 to 3:15 > Moving to Microsoft Egypt
7:45 to 8:00 > gathering in-front of Microsoft
8:00 to 8:45 > back to Lebanon Square

Please if you have any problem regarding transportation, don’t hesitate to call Shady Khorshied on 010 19 11 216 .

I would like also to announce that AvePoint is sponsoring the event, stay tuned to their giveaways 😉

Test your LINQ knowledge

Yesterday, I stumbled upon LINQ Quiz, try to answer as much as you can from the 17 questions posted there, this will help you evaluate and test your LINQ knowledge.

Oh, and before you start writing LINQ queries against your SharePoint lists, you should take a look at this tool (LINQPad), I found it very useful to refresh my LINQ knowledge before diving deep into LINQ to SharePoint. Let me know what you think about LINQPad, I really love it!