Matthew McDermott, MVP

SharePoint and the Seven Words

I am often asked by Human Resource folks about “obscene content” in a SharePoint environment. However the content gets in, they don’t want it to be found. There are utilities like Forefront that will perform content filtering for SharePoint, but most fall short of filtering “everything”. For example, Forefront only filters documents, not list items, publishing pages, content editor web parts, or ...

Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 07:40.

0 Comments | Categories: Search, Governance, Administration

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.

2 Comments | Categories: Administration

My Site Availability

I struggled with how to title this post because readers may not know that you have this issue (and if they do, how do you search for the issue?) On the My Site profile page just below the default profile information there is a web part that displays the users availability from Exchange. This web part connects to the Exchange Auto Discover Service to get the information. If the connection fai...

Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 8 Aug 2008 06:59.

8 Comments | Categories: Administration, My Sites

AAM and SSL Termination

Scenario A few days ago I knew nothing about SSL Termination, the Cisco ACE load balancer or Alternate Access Mapping. (OK, I lied, I knew enough about AAM to hate it. Mostly because I just don't get it.) I was struggling with the following scenario. Spencer Harbar and Shane Young lead me down the right path. SSL Termination and Load Balancing We use alternate access mapping to handle the...

Posted by Matthew McDermott on Tuesday, 5 Aug 2008 02:58.

1 Comment | Categories: Administration, MVP, My Sites, People who Rock

SharePoint Sync Job Failure

Recently I noticed on a situation where the sync jobs were failing on a MOSS implementation. Everything else was working great except for the features that surface the "Sites that you are a member of" and "My SharePoint Sites" in office. Looking into the ULS logs I found: OWSTIMER.EXE (0x07E8)                       0x040C    SharePoint Portal Server          User Profiles  ...

Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 16 Jun 2008 07:11.

0 Comments | Categories: Administration