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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Feb28

Speaking at SharePointPro Summit

Better late than never seems to be my mantra these days. I have been working on presentations and posts for the many new features of SharePoint 2010. I am excited that I’ll be speaking at the SharePointPro Summit March 16-19, 2010 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. I am covering the following IP Pro Sessions: HITP03: Enterprise Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 introduces new f...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Sunday, 28 Feb 2010 06:56.
0 Comments | Categories: Administration, SharePoint 2010, Search, Social Networking, Speaking Engagements

 
Feb11

Announcing Catapult Systems Web Cast Series

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...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 09:35.
2 Comments | Categories: Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Speaking Engagements, Social Networking, Search, My Sites

 
Feb4

Better Best Bets with JQuery

I haven’t blogged in a while because I have been crushed with both project work and dog training. The project work has exposed me to some JQuery techniques that I have wanted to learn. I have also been reviewing the new features of SharePoint 2010 search and FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. There are some great new features coming out with both products, features that many of my clients ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 4 Feb 2010 01:48.
2 Comments | Categories: Search, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

 
Dec9

Adding Search Refinements in SharePoint 2010

I have been playing around with SharePoint 2010 Search this morning. I love the new UI. The search refinements panel is just begging to be messed with. In my case I wanted to add the file extension JPG as an Image Type refiner. Simple Refiner Tweak Here is how you add a file extension refinement. Put the page in edit mode. Choose the drop down menu for “Refinement Panel” and choose ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 9 Dec 2009 10:22.
4 Comments | Categories: Office 2010, Search, SharePoint 2010

 
Jul2

Add “Click to Call” to SharePoint People Search

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...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 2 Jul 2009 10:56.
0 Comments | Categories: My Sites, Search, Social Networking

 
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

 
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

 
Feb1

What happened to Search Administration?

What do you do when you open your Search Administration site and it looks like this? Or you open your Search Queries Report (SpUsageSSPSearchQueries.aspx) looks like this: Or every time you open the Search Query Report you see the following in your Event Logs: Error Details Event Type:    Error Event Source:    DCOM Event Category:    None Event ID:    10016 Date:      ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Sunday, 1 Feb 2009 08:36.
5 Comments | Categories: Administration, Search

 
Jan25

Crawling Special Circumstances

I recently helped a client with a crawl configuration that turned out to be a bit trickier than I expected. The client has a page that generates "hidden" links to a library of PDF documents. The URL to this page was simple enough: http://www.docs.company.com. This page had several links on it that categorized the folders and files to facilitate the crawl process. For example: http:/...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Sunday, 25 Jan 2009 07:00.
1 Comment | Categories: Search

 
Nov15

SharePoint and the Seven Words

I am often asked by Human Resource folks about “obscene content” in a SharePoint environment. However the content gets in, they don’t want it to be found. There are utilities like Forefront that will perform content filtering for SharePoint, but most fall short of filtering “everything”. For example, Forefront only filters documents, not list items, publishing pages, content editor web parts, or ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 07:40.
0 Comments | Categories: Search, Governance, Administration