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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Oct29

Austin SharePoint User Group: SharePoint 2010 Preview

Matthew McDermott, Microsoft MVP, and Brad Freels, Microsoft Senior Technology Specialist, will provide a 2 hour overview of the great new features of SharePoint 2010. Including: Sites: UI Changes, Mobility Support, Office Client Support Communities: Social Improvements, My Sites, Activity Feeds Content: Enterprise Content Types, Metadata, Video Content Types Search: Phonetic S...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 29 Oct 2009 08:08.
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Oct26

Life After SharePoint Conference 2009

Wow, anyone in attendance at the 2009 SharePoint Conference will tell you, there was a LOT going on. I don’t want to rub your nose in it, it is a simple fact, being at the conference, experiencing the nerdy goodness of ITF collaboration and sharing, seeing the SharePoint Fairy (#SPFairy) granting geeky wishes and stealing the attention from the conference floor, or rubbing elbows with the folks w...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 26 Oct 2009 02:31.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2010, People who Rock, Development, Administration

 
Oct17

SPC09 Be There Virtually

By now the planet knows that the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference is sold out. Does that mean that you are going to miss all the good stuff? Not at all. You can attend the keynote address by Steve Balmer and Jeff Teper virtually. The keynote address will be streamed live at 9:00 Vegas time and available for viewing later from the Conference Web site. Go to www.mssharepointconference.com for m...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 17 Oct 2009 08:51.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Speaking Engagements

 
Oct12

Catapult Webcast: Overview of Windows Server R2

Join us for this technical webcast as we discuss the new features and improvements in Windows Server R2 and how it brings virtualization enhancements within Hyper-V including Live Migration. We will also explore the management improvements such as: Better Together with Windows 7 (Branch Cache & Direct Access) Platform Scalability Power Management Built-in File Classification Engine ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 12 Oct 2009 10:20.
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Oct9

Austin SPUG: Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint

Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint October 14th Program Description: SharePoint is a great platform on which to build and deliver solutions. The question, however, quickly becomes what to build, how to build it, and most importantly, how to ensure that what I build is successful. In this presentation, we discuss the SharePoint “Solution Quadrant,” which addresses the many types of solu...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 9 Oct 2009 08:13.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2007, User Group

 
Oct9

BackConnectionHostNames and DisableLoopbackCheck

Not to beat a dead horse, but if you are working with SharePoint and don’t know what the title of this post relates to, you need to educate yourself. If you have not run into an issue yet, just wait, you will. The usual scenario is “out of the blue” you can no longer browse your SharePoint site from the server desktop, though you can browse it fine from other machines on the network. You rec...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 9 Oct 2009 07:49.
0 Comments | Categories: Administration, MVP, People who Rock, SharePoint 2007