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

 
Oct26

Life After SharePoint Conference 2009

Wow, anyone in attendance at the 2009 SharePoint Conference will tell you, there was a LOT going on. I don’t want to rub your nose in it, it is a simple fact, being at the conference, experiencing the nerdy goodness of ITF collaboration and sharing, seeing the SharePoint Fairy (#SPFairy) granting geeky wishes and stealing the attention from the conference floor, or rubbing elbows with the folks w...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 26 Oct 2009 02:31.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2010, People who Rock, Development, Administration

 
Oct12

Catapult Webcast: Overview of Windows Server R2

Join us for this technical webcast as we discuss the new features and improvements in Windows Server R2 and how it brings virtualization enhancements within Hyper-V including Live Migration. We will also explore the management improvements such as: Better Together with Windows 7 (Branch Cache & Direct Access) Platform Scalability Power Management Built-in File Classification Engine ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 12 Oct 2009 10:20.
0 Comments | Categories: Administration, People who Rock

 
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

 
Sep18

Easier Silverlight Development against SharePoint

I have been spending quite a bit of time lately working with Silverlight 3 and SharePoint. One of the first big shifts for me is that Silverlight Development is Client development. Silverlight runs in the browser, but it runs on the client, so no SharePoint Object Model code. You have to access all of the goodness that is SharePoint through its web services. Once you get started on your project ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 18 Sep 2009 11:55.
0 Comments | Categories: Development, Silverlight, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007, People who Rock

 
Jul9

Azure Explanation for the Code Phobic

I found this great video explaining Azure. What is Windows Azure? http://blog.smarx.com/posts/what-is-windows-azure-a-hand-drawn-video I love the hand drawn approach to teaching. Just goes to show that the simplest teaching techniques are sometimes the most powerful. The key to his success IMO is the 5 hours he spent up front. Clear, concise and clever. Very memorable. Enjoy!...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 9 Jul 2009 04:44.
0 Comments | Categories: People who Rock, Development, Training

 
Feb26

Stump the Panel

Join us for the March 11th meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! Stump the Panel! March Program Description: This month we're going "Back to Basics" with a Stump the Panel Session. SharePoint experts Matt McDermott, Brad Freels, Coan Dillahunty, Bruce Weatherford, and Janet Taylor will be answering your toughest questions! We will be giving out $10 Starbucks gift...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 26 Feb 2009 01:23.
1 Comment | Categories: Speaking Engagements, People who Rock, User Group

 
Feb4

Vista prompt me no more!

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.
3 Comments | Categories: Administration, Office 2007, SharePoint 2007, People who Rock

 
Jan29

SPDisposeCheck is loose!

Paul Andrew has just announced that the SharePoint Disposable Object checking tool SPDisposeCheck has been released into the wild. Jump over to: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2009/01/29/spdisposecheck-v1-3-1-is-released.aspx and have a read. If you are a developer and don’t know about the issues related to disposable objects in SharePoint then have a read of Roger Lamb’s blog post on the...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 29 Jan 2009 01:05.
0 Comments | Categories: Development, People who Rock, Tools