SharePoint TechFest: A bit of steak with the sizzle

SharePoint Techfest 2009 was a well-attended event with some good speakers, including Rory Richardson and Joel Oleson.  Joel's talk was an excellent overview of the high points that a good SharePoint implementation needs to hit to be a success.  To date, I've only heard of a handful of those, and the savvy individuals responsible for each were in attendance yesterday.

The high point -- of the sessions I attended -- was SharePoint Search Challenges and Tricks, by my former associate (and MOSS MVP) Matt McDermott.  Aside from the usual (yet pertinent) look at search scopes, custom iFilters, and external content sources, Matt gave us a look at some lesser-known features, like crawling large files outside of SharePoint by using DFS in conjunction with Server Name Mappings.  There was also some great demo integration with the tagging abilities of MS Live Photo Gallery, and of course the usual cameos by his canine companions.

Maybe we'll have a new release to celebrate when we do this again next year!

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