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Written by Sean Wallbridge While my attitudes and approaches to things sometimes change, here are a few things that I believe lead to a happy consultant, business and customer. Keep your inbox tidy (and your work life less cluttered and stressful). Emails should get one of the following actions: Acted on immediately, if it takes …

Being a Windows Phoneite, Phoner… Phonee?  As well as a SharePointer…? (English is hard)  I’m a big fan of anything that integrate the two of them together.  I came across a number of recently created SharePoint apps written specifically for Windows Phone 8.  In the link below, you’ll find the blog of the author who …

What SharePoint 2013 introduced the concept of 3rd party Apps, which can be remotely added to your SharePoint farm (via the Microsoft SharePoint Store). In order to set this up, an administrator needs to configure SharePoint and their organization’s network settings to allow this integration between their SharePoint farm and the App Store. There are …

  A couple of weeks ago I needed to buy a new lawnmower. I bought a Honda mower from a company that I’ve bought other tools from in the past; they give great service, their prices are reasonable and the fellow I dealt with actually seemed to care about what my needs were. Anyway, I …

There are several tools out there which help you build mind maps, but the nice thing about this one is that it’s integrated right into your Word documents, PowerPoint, etc.  It does cost a nominal $2.99, so it’s not free, but it does come with a free trial, so you ultimately have nothing to lose. …

Yes, you heard right.  It’s all covered in this post here, http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57582017-75/microsoft-frames-skype-in-outlook.com-inboxes/.  There’s a good video in the article (corny – sure, but it helps to show off the premise).

Be a beta tester, and make Facebook for Windows Phone be all that it can be. http://blogs.windows.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2013/04/30/join-the-facebook-for-windows-phone-beta-app-program.aspx

I recently got Access Services (2013) in place in our internal SharePoint 2013 environment.  The following is what I learned from trying to go through this install (for the second time — the first time was a failure because we hadn’t setup Apps properly). NOTE: In this article, unless otherwise stated, all references to Access …

This document available from Microsoft is a great reference point to know what each service application, content DB, system DB, and every other SharePoint 2013 DB is all about, and the estimated sizes each one can grow to.  The document is very large (over a meter tall – that’s over a yard for you American …

You may have heard stories of businesses hiring technology consultants to fix problems or create new solutions. Many of those stories end with the consultant not meeting the needs or expectations of the business. A feeling of disappointment and resentment – but you can prevent this. The reasons for failed technology projects are numerous; however …