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Matthew is a principal consultant for AbleBlue. A Microsoft SharePoint MVP, Matthew blogs about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management, Search and Social Computing.
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The MOSS Show Interview Part 2
My friend Hilton Giesenow from The MOSS Show posted Part 2 of his interview of me talking about Search and Social stuff in SharePoint 2010. You can listen to the interview online or download it for later. Episode 27: Enterprise Social (and Search) ...
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Published: 9/1/2010 |
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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 ...
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Published: 2/28/2010 |
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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 ...
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Published: 2/11/2010 |
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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 ...
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Published: 2/4/2010 |
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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 Tw ...
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Published: 12/9/2009 |
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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 ...
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Published: 7/2/2009 |
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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 Link ...
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Published: 5/15/2009 |
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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 ...
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Published: 5/6/2009 |
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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 follow ...
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Published: 2/1/2009 |
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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:/ ...
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Published: 1/25/2009 |
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