Mar13
It’s no secret that I am thrilled with the new social features of SharePoint 2010. I am most excited about the new Profile Picture handling. I strongly believe that the more we can show the faces of our colleagues to one another the more connected we will feel. Clearly Microsoft feels that way as witnessed by the many features that make use of the Profile Image like the Activity Feed and Colleagu...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 13 Mar 2010 08:38.
Feb28
Better late than never seems to be my mantra these days. I have been working on presentations and posts for the many new features of SharePoint 2010. I am excited that I’ll be speaking at the SharePointPro Summit March 16-19, 2010 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. I am covering the following IP Pro Sessions: HITP03: Enterprise Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 introduces new f...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Sunday, 28 Feb 2010 06:56.
Oct26
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.
Oct12
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.
Oct9
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.
Aug10
If you are looking for PowerShell resources to get yourself up to speed look no further than “Mastering PowerShell”. 20 Chapters of what appears to be (I honestly have not read the whole thing) a comprehensive work on the topic. The book is available Online and for download as a PDF. From the generous makers of PowerShell Plus. The table of contents: Chapter 1. The PowerShell Console Cha...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 10 Aug 2009 05:47.
Apr16
I will be presenting at Tech•Ed 2009 in LA, May 11-15, 2009.
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 files that ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 16 Apr 2009 12:01.
Apr16
Microsoft’s Office Sustained Engineering blog has announced the release date of Office SP2 including the Office servers. From my perspective I see the importance of the following ECM improvements: Enterprise Content Management (ECM) The performance and stability of content deployment and variations feature has been improved. A new tool has been added to the STSADM command-li...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 16 Apr 2009 09:32.
Feb4
Ever since moving to Vista and Office 2007 and MOSS everyone I know with this same configuration has complained about the constant prompting in Office 2007. Here is the scenario and the fix as detailed by one of our AWSOME Desktop Support Engineers at Catapult, Greg (Awesome-O) Tate:
What’s the difference?
I found a fix for the annoying Vista prompts in SharePoint, and both work well on domai...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 4 Feb 2009 03:04.
Feb1
What do you do when you open your Search Administration site and it looks like this?
Or you open your Search Queries Report (SpUsageSSPSearchQueries.aspx) looks like this:
Or every time you open the Search Query Report you see the following in your Event Logs:
Error Details
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10016
Date: ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Sunday, 1 Feb 2009 08:36.