Matthew McDermott, MVP

General ramblings from a SharePoint MVP about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.
Aug30

SharePoint Image Search (Part 2)

Introduction This is Part 2 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. We concluded the post with an issue: images st...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 30 Aug 2008 12:00.
0 Comments | Categories: Search, Tools, Web Publishing

 
Aug13

SDPS and Microsoft RoundTable

I have been spending this week delivering a Microsoft sponsored SharePoint Delivery Planning Services session. If you are a Partner and you don't know about SDPS you should check it out. If you are a customer and have Software Assurance you should talk to your Partner or Microsoft about taking advantage of this great benefit. In a nutshell SDPS is a service provided by Microsoft to assist custo...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 13 Aug 2008 01:06.
2 Comments | Categories: People who Rock, Tools

 
Jun14

How does he do it?

One of my favorite stories from the 2008 SharePoint Conference happened during Dustin's presentation "SharePoint Designer: I didn't know you could do THAT!". Dustin was running through his patter and zooming the screen in and out. Every so often for emphasis he would zoom in and then draw a red circle for emphasis. One of my coworkers waved me over (for what I thought was a technical ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Saturday, 14 Jun 2008 08:50.
2 Comments | Categories: Web Publishing, Tools