Matthew McDermott, MVP

General ramblings from a SharePoint MVP about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.
Sep5

The loss of a legend

It saddens me to report that the SharePoint community has lost a legend. Patrick Tisseghem passed away suddenly in Sweden on Wednesday. If you have not heard of Patrick, he was a SharePoint MVP and GREAT GUY! He was a prolific contributor to the SharePoint community. The author of many SharePoint books, most recently “Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” and “Inside the Index and S...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 5 Sep 2008 10:24.
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Aug5

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.
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Jun4

Professional SharePoint 2007 WCM Development

I am very pleased to announce that Andrew Connell, MVP has released a book dedicated to the topic of Web Content Management Development. This book was a labor of love (you never hear that writing a book is easy…) by AC and a couple contributing authors like Spencer Harbar, Bob German, John Holliday and me. The content is great, here is a peek: Embarking on Web Content Management Projects ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 4 Jun 2008 08:02.
0 Comments | Categories: Books, Development, MVP, Web Publishing

 
Apr17

All work and no play makes Matt a dull boy

The 2008 MVP Global Summit has just wrapped up and what a phenomenal experience. This year was my second Summit and I have a much deeper understanding of how Microsoft uses our feedback to build better products. The MVP community meets once a year for several days of face-to-face interaction with the product group to provide feedback, share ideas and crack some of the geekiest deep technical jo...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 17 Apr 2008 02:24.
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