Matthew McDermott

Matthew is a principal consultant for Catapult Systems. A Microsoft MVP (SharePoint Server), Matthew blogs about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.
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Sep27

Mobile People Search

Every so often I get asked about creating a corporate phonebook or mobile phonebook for SharePoint. I have been doing a lot of planning sessions this week and needed something creative to do, so here's something fun. I decided to create a lightweight people search page for mobile devices.   I created the page starting with an regular ASPX page. After adding a web part zone I dropped a Peopl...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 27 Sep 2008 09:00.
5 Comments | Categories: CSS, Search, My Sites

 
Sep5

The loss of a legend

It saddens me to report that the SharePoint community has lost a legend. Patrick Tisseghem passed away suddenly in Sweden on Wednesday. If you have not heard of Patrick, he was a SharePoint MVP and GREAT GUY! He was a prolific contributor to the SharePoint community. The author of many SharePoint books, most recently “Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” and “Inside the Index and S...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 5 Sep 2008 10:24.
0 Comments | Categories: MVP, People who Rock

 
Sep3

IIS Error

Often I blog things so that I can stop searching for them. I run across this error all the time...and then have to search for the KB with the fix. When opening IIS Manager you click on the Web Sites folder and receive the following error: The path specified cannot be used at this time. The only temporary solution I have found is to perform an IISRESET which is a drag, because the site is usu...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 3 Sep 2008 04:31.
4 Comments | Categories: Administration

 
Sep1

SharePoint Image Search (Part 4)

Introduction This is Part 4 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. In Part 2 I installed the XMP IFilter and demo...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 1 Sep 2008 05:00.
70 Comments | Categories: Search, Web Publishing