Matthew McDermott, MVP

General ramblings from a SharePoint MVP about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.
Dec25

Speaking at SPC 2008

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.
3 Comments | Categories: Development, Office 2007, Training, Speaking Engagements

 
Dec12

Book Review: HTML Dog: The Best-Practice Guide to XHTML and CSS

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.
0 Comments | Categories: Books, XHTML, Web Publishing

 
Dec11

Office and SharePoint 2007 SP1 Available

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.
0 Comments | Categories: Office 2007, SharePoint 2007

 
Dec7

SharePoint Training Released

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.
2 Comments | Categories: Training

 
Dec7

"Could Not Load Type" Error

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.
3 Comments | Categories: Development

 
Dec1

December User Group Meeting

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.
0 Comments | Categories: User Group