Thanks to all 50 of the great attendees of our March 2012 Public meeting. It was a great experience. My buddies Megren and Mostafa both worked very hard to arrange everything before I joined them. According to the attendees the session where great and they learnt lot of things from them. I was unable to take pictures but below are some I was able to do in the lunch and in the end.
Thanks to all those smiling faces. You will ask me where AM I ? Actually "I am taking the picture!”
I have been awarded SharePoint Server MVP Award for 3rd Year in a Row. I would like to Thank
Microsoft for the award as well as Thank you very much to my family and friends to supported me in these 3 years. Thanks to all the community members who spend their weekends with us and Share their ideas and thoughts. I am sure nothing will change and we will continue to provide you information about SharePoint.
Hi Everyone,
We are back, First of all happy new year and we hope that each and every one of you is doing well. We have been off for a while due to some Microsoft events happening in region so frequently. But we are back and this time we are not going away :).
The Riyadh SharePoint User Group Leads are pleased to announce our User Group meetings to be held on 2nd Feb , 2012 at the Prince Sultan University, Riyadh. This meeting has been named as “SharePoint Search Day”. We will try to cover each espect of SharePoint 2010 Search from the perspective of an Architect, End User, Administrator and Developer. In the end of the day you will surly understand som of the new concepts and technologies involved in SharePoint 2010.
You will also have chance to win some cool prizes T-Shirts, Books and USBs. Our Sponsor Axceler will also demo one of their cool SharePoint 2010 Migration Tool and distribute free gifts to you so stay tuned.
Please note that the Registration is must. It will help you to keep updated about event details.
This is an initial Invitation and the event title, descriptions and place of event might change.
Speakers
Ahmed Abuabdou
Lead Solutions Developer at Al-ELM
Ahmed enjoys exploring new operating systems, platforms, technologies and programming languages, and considers programming as a hobby. He has been involved with big e-learning SharePoint portals in Saudi-Arabia and is an active member in RSUG.
Jerry Yasir – SharePoint MVP
Founder and President RSUG, SharePoint Consultant at EJADA
Jerry is SharePoint Server MVP, Trainer, Founder of Riyadh SharePoint User Group (RSUG.NET), Co-Owner of SharePoint Pakistan User Group and Sr. SharePoint Consultant at EJADA, Saudi Arabia. RSUG is one of the biggest SharePoint community in Saudi Arabia with over 1500 members. He holds a Master degree in Computer Sciences and has over 8 years of experience working in Microsoft Technologies including SharePoint, Microsoft .NET and Project Server. He is a regular speaker at Microsoft events and community related events around the world. He is currently responsible of developing and managing many large scale SharePoint implementations in Saudi Arabia.
He is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and also holds MCPD, MCTIP and MCTS for SharePoint 2010 Admin and Development, and MCTS WSS 3.0 & SharePoint Server 2007, MCPD, MCITP (EPM 2007) and MCSD.NET
He can be found at @ https://jerryyasir.wordpress.com/
Mostafa Absy
Sr. SharePoint Developer – Bank Al Bilad
Mostafa has over 4 years of Experience working on Microsoft Technologies Specially SharePoint and .NET. He specilizes in developing complex solutions using XSLT, JQuery and Content Query Web Part.
Megren Al-Shaiq
SharePoint Team Lead – Bank Al Bilad
A Saudi National, started his IT career in 2002, When he began learning the programming by using VisualBasic 6.0 plus SQL 2000, After that He upgraded to Visual Basic.NET and SQL 2005. He has got Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP). He is also MCTS for SharePoint 2010, he has extensive skills on the websites development using ASP.NET, ADO.NET and C#, Silverlight and AJAX. Currently He has been working on SharePoint 2010 with extensive experience of Working with InfoPath and SharePoint Designer workflow at Bank Al Bilad. You can find more information about me at http://www.megren.net
Ismail Enjreny Ismail Enjreny
Development Manager, SURE
Has more than 5 years experience within portal and SharePoint, now working as development manager of SURE Technologies in Riyadh – KSA also He is MCITP certified as SharePoint 2010 administrator. also I am proud to announce that my book “Learn SharePoint 2010″ is published now in Arabic Language. My blog is http://SharePoint4Arab.blogspot.com
Event Agenda
Benefits & Features and SharePoint for End Users- Megren
50 Minutes
In this session Megren will explain the concepts of SharePoint Search for End Users, How users can search information, People using Basic and Advanced Search capability. It will also highlight how users can tweak Search and Search results web parts to improve the results and how to use Enterprise search.
11-30 to12:20
Prayer Break (12:20 PM to 12:45 PM)
SharePoint Search Components and Administration – Ismail
50 Minutes
Ismail will explain the components of SharePoint Search like Crawler and Query, Crawl DB etc. He will also explain various feature of search that can be configured using Search service applications.
12:45- 01:25PM
Searching Enterprise Data – Ahmed
50 Minute
This session will provide a way to access your Busines data resides in SQL Server, Oracle etc using SharePoint Search and how you can use it inside Lists. What is the Indexing mechanism and what are the ways to access LOB data.
1:30-2:20 PM
Developing Custom Search Web Parts – Mostafa
50 Minutes
SharePoint Server search includes great object model that developer can use to develop custom components. In this session Mostafa will talk about how you can customize you search results and make customizations that are not possible through the browser
2:20-3:10 PM
Improving Search Relavance – Jerry
45 Minutes
In Search, relevance is about how closely the search results that are returned to the user match what the user wanted to find. Ideally, the results that are returned on the first page are the most relevant, so the user does not have to look through several pages of results to find the best matches for their search. This session will provide tips and tricks to tweak relavance.
3:10-3:55 PM
Note: Closing, Q / A and Raffle Draws and Lunch will be made after all.
Location: Prince Sultan University – Male Section
For Location Map (Click Here) or copy paste the URL below.
Google Map Zoom Out View (PSU in Center)
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Looking forward to see you. Please be on time :). 11:30 AM Sharp
Riyadh SharePoint User Group September 2011 event will held on 29th of September instead of 22nd. You can find more Information from http://rusgsept.eventbrite.com/
Windows Phone Camp
I am little bit back to blogging 🙂
For Registeration : http://rsugjuly11.eventbrite.com/
Hi Everyone,
First of we would like to thank you all who came to our monthly meeting for June 2011. Special thanks to those who registered but did’nt showed up 🙂
The Riyadh SharePoint User Group Leads are pleased to announce our User Group meetings to be held on July 28, 2011 at the Prince Sultan University, Riyadh.
We will be covering more development topics on SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7 Development. There will be 3 sessions of 1 hour each.
You will also have chance to win some cool prizes T-Shirts, Books and USBs
Please note that the Registration is must. It will help you to keep updated about event details.
Speakers
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Event Agenda
| Understanding the SP2010 Managed Client Object Model – Jerry | 50 Minutes |
| This session we will take a look at the SharePoint2010 Managed Client Object Model. We will present an overview of what the Client Side Object Model is, why it was introduced, what are the best practices for using it for developing client applications for SharePoint 2010. | 11-10 AM to 12:00 PM |
Prayer Break (12:00 PM to 12:30 PM)
| SharePoint 2010 JQuery, XSLT and Content Query Web Part – Mostafa | 50 Minutes |
| Mostafa will show how we can use JQuery in SharePoint 2010 and Customize Content Query Web Part. | 12:20 – 1:00PM |
| OData in SharePoint 2010 – Ahmed | 50 Minute |
| This sessions will learns you how to use OData with SharePoint 2010 Applications | 1:00-1:50 PM |
| How to use “Visual Web Part” using Visual Studio 2010 – Ismail | 50 Minutes |
| This sessions will learns you how to start working effectively with Visual Web Part + Visual Studio 2010, Best Practices and Most scenario you will need SharePoint 2010 project development cycle, Public properties, User Controls and others. | 1:50-2:40 PM |
For Registeration : http://rsugjuly11.eventbrite.com/
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