Dec25
I am happy to announce that I will be presenting three topics at the SharePoint Conference 2008 in Seattle March 3-6.
Advanced Search Configuration and Management
Organizations intending to implement a search solution in SharePoint often approach this "technical problem" by asking "What do we need to index?". While this approach may yield results they are usually less th...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 25 Dec 2007 06:48.
Dec12
I have been working on updating many of my "fundamental" skills lately. CSS and XSLT are two indispensable SharePoint skills that I find most SharePoint professionals lack. (Don't get me started about basic HTML!) I recently picked up a book on CSS and the only good part of that book was that the author referenced HTML Dog. For all I care the other book could have only been one page ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 12 Dec 2007 06:57.
Dec11
You've been asking (dare I say begging) for the Service Pack. Well, it's finally here!
Windows SharePoint Services V3 SP1
MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1
SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Office Suite SP1
Microsoft Office Visio 2007
PLEASE: Read the directions carefully and review the guidance in Deploy Software Updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For example ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 11 Dec 2007 11:50.
Dec7
Microsoft has released the first edition of SharePoint 2007 training. It comes in two flavors, the "Standalone Edition" for desktop playback and the "Portal Edition" for installation on your SharePoint Server.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102488011033.aspx
The Portal Edition installs as a solution and comes a 30 page installation guide…read the gu...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Friday, 7 Dec 2007 12:00.
Dec7
Recently I was working on a method to get a Flash file to read from a SharePoint list (more on that later…). I had a working solution, so I created my solution package and deployed it to our test servers. Rather than seeing my spiffy new application page (_layouts/catapult/spiffy.aspx) I received the following error:
"Could not load type."
Without going into all of the other solut...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Friday, 7 Dec 2007 06:27.
Dec1
Topic: Show and Tell: A Guided Tour of a Successful SharePoint Installation
Please join us for the third meeting on Wednesday, December 12th, for a Show and Tell: a guided tour of a successful SharePoint installation (whose installation to be disclosed at the meeting, but it is a place you've heard of if you live in Texas!).
Registration and More Information...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 1 Dec 2007 08:17.