Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

This question came up on Experts-Exchange.com today and after a few minutes of consideration, here’s my suggestion to the problem – simple, effective and customizable … and better yet, no code! More importantly, I hope this helps inspire ideas and creativity, by demonstrating how simple this really was, to implement.   The Business Requirement   …

Internally, we are using SharePoint blogs very effectively, to replace common sharing of information (in our case, typically about technology like ‘how I fixed this or that’. Using Microsoft Word 2007 as our blogging tool (and if you don’t have Microsoft Word 2007, you could use Windows Live Writer, which is free), and SharePoint (MOSS …

I was enabling some 3rd party web server statistics software today (Smarterstats by www.smartertools.com) on a SharePoint server and it was necessary to make sure all the appropriate fields necessary for returning all information, in all reports were set. For Smarterstats (and in general this can apply to all webstatistics software), the following are necessary …

Ok, here’s the situation (my parents went away on a week’s vacation… no wait, that’s the Fresh Prince)…   I have a MOSS 2007 Server. The maximum upload size was long set to larger than the default 50MB (100MB) in Central Administration. The base OS is Windows Server 2008.   I was working away happily …

Well, I’m not allowed to say much, being under NDA. But, it is important to write *something* right? So, here it is, nice and short.     A Sneak Peak of SharePoint 2010 has been released at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com, including an overview and brief demonstration of what to expect for the IT Support and Development Professional. …

Here’s another one that comes up now and then…   Did you know you could save emails directly into a Document library (such as in our business case, our Clients Documentation library)? While it may not be necessary all the time, if something was said (technical details) or stated (warnings to the client), it may …

Guru sounds nice. Not sure I believe it.  But I’ll take it.  Nice to be recognized anyways.  Nobody is an ‘Expert’ in SharePoint (Guru, or otherwise) but if someone wants to pin that to me, I’ll wear it.  Got a free T-Shirt, which one should never turn down… 🙂     itgroove

This was an interesting discovery, as I try not to work after 10pm (when my automated, scripted Site Collections are due to run).   When I tried to save a document to a document library, I was greeted with the following two issues:   When saving to a document library, I got… You do not …

This is a great resource and I know I’ll have trouble finding it later, so I’m bookmarking it here on my blog: http://blog-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2009/05/data-view-conditional-formatting-using.html   In particular, it was useful today for me, to figure out how to show some differing icons in dataview webparts based on today’s data plus the next 7 days, etc. Some …

Although there are a number of techniques and places to look to clear disk space on a Windows server, including pruning SQL transaction logs, removing HIBERFIL.SYS, moving the pagefile to another drive, one of the most effective I’ve found has been removing HTTP logs that get accumulated daily (particularly if you have turned logging on, …