Join us for the June 10th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group!

June Program Description

The Nielsen Norman Group Report: Intranet Design Annual 2009: Year’s Ten Best Intranets was awarded to Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a developer of computer and graphics processors, for their intranet. This intranet, based on SharePoint, was designed for enterprise organization with large amounts of documents and mission-critical applications. Come join the team responsible for this incredible intranet and walk away with lessons learned from this award winning design you can apply to your organization as well.

UPDATE: OK, The video is back up!

While I was hanging out at Tech•Ed 2009 I was interviewed by David Tesar from TechNet Edge about Corporate Social Networking and SharePoint. Right now it’s the feature on the TechNet Edge site. If it rolls off the home page you can go directly to it here.

If that link does not do it, there is a SharePoint tag that should make it easy to find.

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 particular flavor of Linux to support testing was not appealing. Then I found UNetbootin the Universal Netboot Installer. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

This utility enables me to format a USB stick with my choice of Linux. The default installation is non-persistent, which can be an advantage. If you want to make your installation persistent you can follow the directions on Live USB Pen Drive Persistence. Bottom line is you copy the casper-rw file and change the configuration file adding the persistence directive.

I have been really wanting to spend time on Silverlight lately. I am a real visual learner (and teacher) so Silverlight and SharePoint are a natural fit for me. I want to build up a few posts about the joys and sorrow of getting started. So here goes:

1. Make sure that the post you are reading pertains to your version of Silverlight. I wasted a lot of time on Beta 2 posts while I was troubleshooting. A few things have changed.

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Have you taken a look at SharePoint.Microsoft.com? Look at the Silverlight navigation and image rendering. Cool! Looking forward to a “How we did it post on the SharePoint blog.”

My second breakout session at Tech•Ed ‘09 has been posted on Tech•Ed Online. I loved that the audience awoke early enough on the last day of the conference to attend my session at 0900! Coffee in hand they endured my jokes, dog photos and screaming flying monkeys.

I forgot to mention that you can follow me on Twitter @MatthewMcD (I currently have 97 followers…can we make it to 100?) and look me up on Facebook.

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

Partner Search Information: https://www.quickstartmicrosoftsearch.com

Performance and Capacity Planning: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262574.aspx

CodePlex Search XSL Examples: http://sctxsl.codeplex.com/

Microsoft iFilter Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter

My Image iFilter

A number of folks have been asking me about the iFilter I used to extract the facial information from the images. I built my demo on the beta version of the IFilter Shop. They also have a WMV filter that can be used for video metadata.

I had a chance to sit in on the MVP SharePoint Panel Discussion here at Tech•Ed yesterday. The AV folks here at TechEd must be burning the candle at both ends because they already posted the session on Tech•Ed Online.

Microsoft SharePoint MVP Development Panel Discussion

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 files that are outside of the control of the search team. The tips and techniques are presented as patterns that can be used in many different search situations.

I will be presenting at Tech•Ed 2009 in LA, May 11-15, 2009.

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 files that are outside of the control of the search team. The tips and techniques are presented as patterns that can be used in many different search situations.