Apr24
Microsoft is hosting another round of MVP Chat Sessions where you can ask deep technical (or ridiculously frivolous) questions of SharePoint MVPs like me, Bill English, Sahil Malik, Shane Young, Clayton Cobb, Asif Rehmani, Agnes Molnar, Darrin Bishop, Rob Bogue, Saifullah Shafiq, and Serge Tremblay.
You can use the link in the Chat Center on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.a...
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Saturday, 24 Apr 2010 03:58.
Mar11
Cross posted from: http://blogs.msdn.com/mvpawardprogram/ Do you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you're seeking answers? Do you want to tap into the deep knowledge of the talented Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals? The SharePoint MVPs are the same people you see in the technical community as authors, speakers, user group leaders and answerers in the MSDN forums....
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 01:58.
Feb27
Just when I thought I could not possibly squeeze another session into my schedule my friend George DeMet called and asked to join him on a panel at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin. Our panel will be Saturday March 13th at 12:30. The topic is “Bringing it All Back Home: CMS Communities” We’re going to compare and contrast the different CMS products and the communities that have grown up a...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 27 Feb 2010 11:15.
Jan11
Sid Atkinson, Sr. Lead Consultant, Catapult Systems, will provide an overview of the great new Business Intelligence features of SharePoint 2010. This session will cover the Insights Business Intelligence platform in SharePoint 2010. Microsoft made a significant investment in BI and has made available a broad range of tools and applications to service reporting and analytical needs. In this s...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 11 Jan 2010 08:09.
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.
Jun22
Heather Kostes, Business Group Lead from Microsoft interviewed me for the Microsoft MVP Program at Tech•Ed 2009. Of course I blathered on about Social Networking and Search. I love SharePoint because I enjoy showing clients how to use the tools they have to build business value. (I think that message came through…:) Anyway, it was a fun interview. It’s posted on the Microsoft MVP Award Progra...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 22 Jun 2009 01:27.
May27
Join us for the June 10th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group!
June Program Description:
The Nielsen Norman Group Report: Intranet Design Annual 2009: Year's Ten Best Intranets was awarded to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a developer of computer and graphics processors, for their intranet. This intranet, based on SharePoint, was designed for enterprise organization with large a...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 10:53.
May15
I really enjoyed the session and thanks to the attendees for your kind comments. (And sorry to the guy from Florida that I teased!) The fine AV folks at Tech•Ed online have posted the recording of my talk: OFC317 Search Challenges and Tricks
Links
Microsoft Enterprise Search: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch
Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch
P...
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Friday, 15 May 2009 07:40.
May13
I had a chance to sit in on the MVP SharePoint Panel Discussion here at Tech•Ed yesterday. The AV folks here at TechEd must be burning the candle at both ends because they already posted the session on Tech•Ed Online. Microsoft SharePoint MVP Development Panel Discussion...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 13 May 2009 06:39.
May6
I’ll be presenting my new talk for the first time at TechFest in Dallas. 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 f...
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Wednesday, 6 May 2009 07:14.