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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May27

AMD's SharePoint Intranet: Winner, 2009 Ten Best Intranets

Join us for the June 10th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! June Program Description: The Nielsen Norman Group Report: Intranet Design Annual 2009: Year's Ten Best Intranets was awarded to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a developer of computer and graphics processors, for their intranet. This intranet, based on SharePoint, was designed for enterprise organization with large a...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:53.
0 Comments | Categories: MVP, User Group

 
May27

TechNet Edge Social Networking Interview

UPDATE: OK, The video is back up! While I was hanging out at Tech•Ed 2009 I was interviewed by David Tesar from TechNet Edge about Corporate Social Networking and SharePoint. Right now it’s the feature on the TechNet Edge site. If it rolls off the home page you can go directly to it here. If that link does not do it, there is a SharePoint tag that should make it easy to find. Right in the...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 08:12.
2 Comments | Categories: Social Networking, Speaking Engagements, SharePoint 2007

 
May25

Linux Browser Testing Made Easy

Every once in a while I have a client that requires more extensive browser testing. For most Windows-based browsers I have them installed locally or run a VPC with them installed. I am not a Linux expert by any means so the thought of standing up a particular flavor of Linux to support testing was not appealing. Then I found UNetbootin the Universal Netboot Installer. (http://unetbootin.sourcefor...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 25 May 2009 07:52.
0 Comments | Categories: CSS, Tools, Web Publishing

 
May21

Up and running with Silverlight

I have been really wanting to spend time on Silverlight lately. I am a real visual learner (and teacher) so Silverlight and SharePoint are a natural fit for me. I want to build up a few posts about the joys and sorrow of getting started. So here goes: Make sure that the post you are reading pertains to your version of Silverlight. I wasted a lot of time on Beta 2 posts while I was troubleshoo...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:47.
2 Comments | Categories: Silverlight, Development

 
May20

New Look to SharePoint.Microsoft.com

Have you taken a look at SharePoint.Microsoft.com? Look at the Silverlight navigation and image rendering. Cool! Looking forward to a “How we did it post on the SharePoint blog.” ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 03:29.
1 Comment | Categories: SharePoint 2007, Web Publishing, Silverlight

 
May20

OFC315 Social Networking and User Profiles for Business

My second breakout session at Tech•Ed ‘09 has been posted on Tech•Ed Online. I loved that the audience awoke early enough on the last day of the conference to attend my session at 0900! Coffee in hand they endured my jokes, dog photos and screaming flying monkeys. I forgot to mention that you can follow me on Twitter @MatthewMcD (I currently have 97 followers…can we make it to 100?) and look m...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:01.
0 Comments | Categories: Development, My Sites, SharePoint 2007, Social Networking

 
May15

OFC317 Search Challenges and Tricks

I really enjoyed the session and thanks to the attendees for your kind comments. (And sorry to the guy from Florida that I teased!) The fine AV folks at Tech•Ed online have posted the recording of my talk: OFC317 Search Challenges and Tricks Links Microsoft Enterprise Search: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch P...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 15 May 2009 07:40.
6 Comments | Categories: MVP, Search, SharePoint 2007, Speaking Engagements

 
May13

TechEd Panel Discussion

I had a chance to sit in on the MVP SharePoint Panel Discussion here at Tech•Ed yesterday. The AV folks here at TechEd must be burning the candle at both ends because they already posted the session on Tech•Ed Online. Microsoft SharePoint MVP Development Panel Discussion...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 06:39.
0 Comments | Categories: Development, MVP, SharePoint 2007

 
May6

Speaking at TechFest in Dallas

I’ll be presenting my new talk for the first time at TechFest in Dallas. SharePoint Search Challenges and Tricks Abstract Many organizations struggle with SharePoint search configuration when it falls outside simple document search. This session presents strategies for handling special search scenarios like large files and images. This session also presents techniques for metadata tagging of f...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 07:14.
0 Comments | Categories: Speaking Engagements, Search, MVP