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Matthew McDermott, MVP
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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© Matthew McDermott and AbleBlue, LLC., 2007-2010. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Matthew McDermott and AbleBlue, LLC. with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Wiring Up the LinkedIn Social Connector
I recently downloaded and installed the LinkedIn Social Connector for Outlook and noticed a problem, the Add option was not available. How do you fix it? While setting up my new company, AbleBlue, I had a “transition” account for email before swit ...
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Published: 6/15/2010 |
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Hard Disk Optimization on Hyper-V
In order to support my SharePoint 2010 demo environment I have become quite a fan on Microsoft Hyper-V. I admit that I did not enjoy the learning curve and that there are a few “features” missing that would make it significantly easier to use as a ...
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Published: 12/5/2009 |
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Windows Live Writer and Twitter
I just found a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that posts updates to Twitter when you publish a new post to your blog. Twitter Notify lets you format the tweet and prompts you when you publish a post. ...
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Published: 7/6/2009 |
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Adventure Works Travel Site and Hands-on-Labs
The Adventure Works Travel site and 10 Hands-On labs have been released to the SharePoint community. These developer oriented labs are available from The MSDN Code Gallery in the SharePoint on the Web Project. The kit comes with an installer for the ...
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Published: 6/23/2009 |
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Linux Browser Testing Made Easy
Every once in a while I have a client that requires more extensive browser testing. For most Windows-based browsers I have them installed locally or run a VPC with them installed. I am not a Linux expert by any means so the thought of standing up a ...
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Published: 5/25/2009 |
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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. ...
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Published: 1/29/2009 |
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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 ex ...
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Published: 8/30/2008 |
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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 ...
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Published: 8/13/2008 |
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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 ...
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Published: 6/14/2008 |
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