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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Jul24

Outlook 2010 Suggested Contacts

I noticed the yesterday that I had a HUGE number of duplicate contacts on my phone. I also noticed that I had all sorts of contacts that just did not belong. I sync my iPhone from our company Exchange Server from Outlook so of course I blamed my updated iPhone.   Then I took a closer look at the Contact Groups that were being synchronized with my phone. I noticed a new group “Suggested Contac...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 24 Jul 2009 10:35.
6 Comments | Categories: Office 2010

 
Jul23

Outlook 2010: First Impressions

I have been using Office 2010 for about a week now and here are some first impressions of Outlook 2010. Installation The installation was a breeze. You have the option to run 2010 along side 2007 as long as you use the 32 bit version of 2010. I opted for the 64 bit version so I had to uninstall all of my Office 2007 applications before beginning the installation. Following the installation I la...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 23 Jul 2009 11:07.
6 Comments | Categories: Office 2010

 
Jul13

SharePoint 2010 Get your sneak peek right here!

Just in time for your summer viewing pleasure Microsoft is unveiling some of the new workloads for SharePoint 2010. Head over to the newly revamped Microsoft SharePoint Product site and catch Tom Rizzo, Paul Andrew and Richard Riley as they demonstrate just a few of the new capabilities of SharePoint 2010. Each video has a different audience. General information an technical overview from Tom, IT...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 13 Jul 2009 08:41.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2010, Training

 
Jul9

Azure Explanation for the Code Phobic

I found this great video explaining Azure. What is Windows Azure? http://blog.smarx.com/posts/what-is-windows-azure-a-hand-drawn-video I love the hand drawn approach to teaching. Just goes to show that the simplest teaching techniques are sometimes the most powerful. The key to his success IMO is the 5 hours he spent up front. Clear, concise and clever. Very memorable. Enjoy!...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 9 Jul 2009 04:44.
0 Comments | Categories: People who Rock, Development, Training

 
Jul6

Windows Live Writer and Twitter

I just found a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that posts updates to Twitter when you publish a new post to your blog. Twitter Notify lets you format the tweet and prompts you when you publish a post. ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 6 Jul 2009 04:30.
2 Comments | Categories: Social Networking, Tools, Web Publishing

 
Jul6

Book Review: Take Back Your Life

I love BEING organized…I hate GETTING organized. I made a promise to myself (dare I say a resolution) in January that each month I would take one step closer to getting myself organized. Actually this was a good time for me because I have been planning on updating my home computer infrastructure so it made sense that I would also get my home office and electronic files all backed up and secure. M...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 6 Jul 2009 10:01.
5 Comments | Categories: Books, Office 2007, SharePoint 2007

 
Jul2

Add “Click to Call” to SharePoint People Search

At Catapult we recently implemented Unified Communications all the way to our phones. I love the functionality and reach provided by the UC solution. I love getting voice mail in my Inbox. I have to be more careful about my Communicator Status, but that is easy. We needed an easy way to enable calling and lookup inside the company. We already had People search so I decided to add the ability to c...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 2 Jul 2009 10:56.
0 Comments | Categories: My Sites, Search, Social Networking