Jul6
I love BEING organized…I hate GETTING organized. I made a promise to myself (dare I say a resolution) in January that each month I would take one step closer to getting myself organized. Actually this was a good time for me because I have been planning on updating my home computer infrastructure so it made sense that I would also get my home office and electronic files all backed up and secure. M...
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Monday, 6 Jul 2009 10:01.
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.
Dec25
I am happy to announce that I will be presenting three topics at the SharePoint Conference 2008 in Seattle March 3-6.
Advanced Search Configuration and Management
Organizations intending to implement a search solution in SharePoint often approach this "technical problem" by asking "What do we need to index?". While this approach may yield results they are usually less th...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 25 Dec 2007 06:48.
Dec11
You've been asking (dare I say begging) for the Service Pack. Well, it's finally here!
Windows SharePoint Services V3 SP1
MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1
SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Office Suite SP1
Microsoft Office Visio 2007
PLEASE: Read the directions carefully and review the guidance in Deploy Software Updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For example ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 11 Dec 2007 11:50.
Nov20
In the previous post we created a web application to host our blog sites and built a Table of Contents with the TOC web part. We still have work to do to finish our home page. Our home page wireframe calls for a Recent Posts web part. In this post we'll cover the configuration of the web part and CSS to make it pretty. The summary of the steps are:
Create a "Recent Posts" rollup
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Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 20 Nov 2007 02:17.
Aug21
Those who know me, know that I am a keyboard and short cut junkie.
Here is a faster way to blog from Word. Create a shortcut with the following command:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.EXE" /t"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033\Blog.dotx"
Now you can create a blog article from Word without creating a document first!
Back to work!...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Tuesday, 21 Aug 2007 05:07.
Aug8
The infrastructure team has begun some testing on the Exchange 2007 migration. My mailbox was moved the other night and this is what I have noticed.
The Process
When the guys moved my mailbox I had to be offline for the move. They tested the migration and let me connect.
Outlook had no issues or changes required.
My phone detected the change and performed a complete resynchronization....
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 8 Aug 2007 05:31.
Jul7
We have several cases where IE and Office crash when connected to SharePoint sites. Usually related to document editing, saving, etc.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833714 speaks to the issue. The solution that we have found to work most often is the "reinstall SharePoint components" option.
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Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 7 Jul 2007 05:08.
Apr14
Did you know that in addition to all the great note taking features of OneNote 2007 you can search for the text contained inside images? You can add images (screen clips, photos, scans, etc) to your notes and after the note is indexed you can use the OneNote search feature to locate the text.
For example, I scanned Eric Russell's business card into OneNote.
When I execute a search for &q...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 14 Apr 2007 05:12.