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...
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Saturday, 13 Mar 2010 08:38.
Feb11
Catapult Systems is taking the most popular in-person events and producing a series of web casts. SharePoint 2010 Webcast Series Wednesday, March 17th - 11:00am CST: Managed Metadata Wednesday, March 31st - 11:00am CST: Social Computing Wednesday, April 14th - 11:00am CST: Search Wednesday, April 28th - 11:00am CST: Improvements in Document & Records Management Wednesday...
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Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 09:35.
Nov18
I am upgrading my Silverlight demo code from the old beta to beta 2 and see that there are a few new considerations for the deployment of ClientAccessPolicy.xml files. In a previous post I demonstrated how to do this for SharePoint 2007. The heartburn that I get with that approach is any site collection owner or designer can drag the file into the site collection and open the site up to unwanted ...
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Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009 03:04.
Jul2
At Catapult we recently implemented Unified Communications all the way to our phones. I love the functionality and reach provided by the UC solution. I love getting voice mail in my Inbox. I have to be more careful about my Communicator Status, but that is easy. We needed an easy way to enable calling and lookup inside the company. We already had People search so I decided to add the ability to c...
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Thursday, 2 Jul 2009 10:56.
May20
My second breakout session at Tech•Ed ‘09 has been posted on Tech•Ed Online. I loved that the audience awoke early enough on the last day of the conference to attend my session at 0900! Coffee in hand they endured my jokes, dog photos and screaming flying monkeys. I forgot to mention that you can follow me on Twitter @MatthewMcD (I currently have 97 followers…can we make it to 100?) and look m...
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:01.
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 ...
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Thursday, 16 Apr 2009 12:01.
Sep27
Every so often I get asked about creating a corporate phonebook or mobile phonebook for SharePoint. I have been doing a lot of planning sessions this week and needed something creative to do, so here's something fun.
I decided to create a lightweight people search page for mobile devices.
I created the page starting with an regular ASPX page. After adding a web part zone I dropped a Peopl...
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Saturday, 27 Sep 2008 09:00.
Aug8
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...
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Friday, 8 Aug 2008 06:59.
Aug5
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...
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Tuesday, 5 Aug 2008 02:58.
Jun2
I'll be presenting my Social Networking talk at the Austin SharePoint User Group meeting June 11th, 2008 from 6 to 8 pm.
Social Networking and User Profiles for Business
SharePoint offers many features that facilitate personalization in the corporate environment. Organizations are often eager to adopt the features yet spend little time exploring the extent to which personalization and profi...
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Monday, 2 Jun 2008 09:57.