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Publishing Page Settings Errors

I often find that after I migrate a site from one URL to another the publishing pages retain their reference to the original page layouts. This causes a problem when you try to open the Page Settings page. Fellow MVP Gary Lapointe has written a nu ...[Read more]

Published: 3/29/2008 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post

Top Reasons for My Sites

The genesis for this post was a conversation I had during SPC following my presentation on Social Networking with MOSS. SharePoint offers many features that (when properly configured) enable and facilitate social networking "inside the firewall ...[Read more]

Published: 3/17/2008 | 7  Comments | 0  Links to this post

ECMS305 Advanced Search Configuration and Management

My second presentation at SPC2008 was Advanced Search Configuration and Management. I presented in "the BIG room" and what a thrill that was. The AV folks were true professionals, the stage was amazing, and the audience (though a bit sma ...[Read more]

Published: 3/11/2008 | 5  Comments | 0  Links to this post

SXSWI Panel Discussion

The panel discussion was GREAT. Turns out that Jeff Eaton (the Drupal guy) has quite a following! Just to show you how diverse the panel was here is a picture of me and Mike Essl (http://mike.essl.com and Mr. T and Me) I am the one on the left. ...[Read more]

Published: 3/11/2008 | 1  Comment | 0  Links to this post

Light Up IE with Open Search

In my Search presentation at SPC I demonstrated how to tap into Internet Explorer and Firefox's search capability to detect open search definition files on the server. The technique is quite simple and the resulting effect very powerful. Open sear ...[Read more]

Published: 3/7/2008 | 2  Comments | 0  Links to this post

CSC 303 Social Networking and User Profiles for Business

Here are the links and code for the talk I gave today. Links My Blog http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew   Social Networking with MOSS http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/488d329d-306a-436d-a9fa-4b1e4037c8a61033.mspx ...[Read more]

Published: 3/5/2008 | 6  Comments | 0  Links to this post

CKS:EBE Is Loose!

Well, after a significant final push the CSK:EBE Team has released version 2.0 of the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition! The details are on the SharePoint Team Blog. After I get my life back after the conference I'll write more ...[Read more]

Published: 3/5/2008 | 0  Comments | 0  Links to this post