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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Apr24

MVP Chats: Take 2

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...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 24 Apr 2010 03:58.
0 Comments | Categories: MVP, People who Rock, SharePoint 2010

 
Mar11

Chat with the SharePoint MVP Experts

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.
0 Comments | Categories: MVP, SharePoint 2010, Speaking Engagements, People who Rock

 
Feb27

Panel Discussion at SXSW

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.
0 Comments | Categories: MVP, SharePoint 2010, Speaking Engagements

 
Jan11

Austin SharePoint User Group: Insights

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.
0 Comments | Categories: MVP, SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Speaking Engagements

 
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

 
Jun22

TechEd 2009 MVP Interview

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.
0 Comments | Categories: MVP, Speaking Engagements

 
May27

AMD's SharePoint Intranet: Winner, 2009 Ten Best Intranets

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.
0 Comments | Categories: MVP, User Group

 
May15

OFC317 Search Challenges and Tricks

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...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 15 May 2009 07:40.
6 Comments | Categories: MVP, Search, SharePoint 2007, Speaking Engagements

 
May13

TechEd Panel Discussion

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.
0 Comments | Categories: Development, MVP, SharePoint 2007

 
May6

Speaking at TechFest in Dallas

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...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 6 May 2009 07:14.
0 Comments | Categories: Speaking Engagements, Search, MVP