Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

A customer asked me to summarize my approach to helping people find my business (www.itgroove.net) online.   I used to do a fair amount of print advertising to build ‘brand’. But it was extremely expensive and had a short shelf life (before it hit the recycle bin). So, over the years, I’ve been bulking up …

Someone asked this on Experts Exchange today, so I posted my 2 bits. As someone who daily runs into a ‘gosh, that’s weird or new’ in technology, I find this simple but effective technical troubleshooting/research technique very useful. As simple as my comments might be, if you aren’t doing this ‘method’ when googling/investigating errors, etc. …

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ‘built’ to be a SharePoint Guy).     I was awarded with …

First off, apologies to the original author of this content… I had tucked this away in an Outlook note probably 8 years ago (I’ve updated it a little as it references modems, thankfully of which, I haven’t touched one in nearly that long). I didn’t note the author at the time and if they want …

Never mind the Shaw issues of late, keep in mind that the idiot George W and his ‘gosh, I like to muck with father time so we can find and sell more oil’ DST change the other day, may well be having a larger impacting/sweeping effect.   So, here’s my quick hit list for how …

Monday, March 09, 2009 4:51 PM This guide has been created to provide the necessary steps to ‘refresh’ a Sandbox Collection (Different Web Application) with Production Data, so that it can be ‘played with’ without breaking the Production Implementation.     Note on Authentication/Permissions: Ensure you perform these tasks with an account that has full …

Over the years, I’ve seen lots of talk on the use of long passwords and complex passwords, etc. and I’ve narrowed the noise down to two options, that we recommend to our clients (and I tend to lean towards the 2nd option). In order to maintain good security (and to satisfy management security concerns), we …

Another standard (and neat NotePad trick) at itgroove. Pop-up Change Control prompts for servers.   Here’s the deal… Installation 1. On every server, you place the (TWO) txt files (compressed in the ZIP), in the All UsersStartup folder (I’ve put a copy of these files on my Blog at: /wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/SharePointDox/Change%20Control%20Text%20Files/CopyToAllUsersStartUp.zip. – Windows Server 2003 and …