Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I ran into an issue tonight with a client’s WSS install where NOBODY was a Site Collection Administrator. Sure enough, the accounts were listed there (and I even validated/tried Farm Administrators, modifying in Central Admin, etc.). My account was there, but no matter what I did, I didn’t have the permissions I required – I …

Lots of info out there seems to differ, so this is what worked for me, for both scenarios (MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0). One thing for sure, since about September 2007, there is a lot of FUD.   MOSS 2007 – PDF Support (icon and search) Configure Search To Work   1. Stop the IIS …

I was looking for a comprehensive list of limitations to using FBA tonight (Forms Based Authentication) and I stumbled across a few good resources that I’m bookmarking for myself here (and if they’ve just helped you, then great). Links Extranet Collaboration toolkit for SharePoint – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc268155.aspx Yet to use it but looks promising for ‘next …

First off, don’t forget to check the good ole recycle bin and the 2nd stage recycle bin, when attempting to restore some list data, that may be all you need. But if that data is gone, and you aren’t using 3rd party tools like AvePoint, Idera, etc. that give you *granular* restore capabilities, you may …

As this is a frequently asked SharePoint question I get, I’m going to try and answer it as succinctly as possible. And as I’m a fan of screenshots (a picture is worth a 1000 words as they say), I’m going to use them as much as possible, to limit how much I have to type. …

Someone asked this tonight on www.experts-exchange.com and I figured I’d take me post/comment and blog it here as it’s come up before…   Title: Importing and linking a common contacts Outlook list to SharePoint   Question: We have a custom contacts folder underneath the public folders in Outlook that we use rather than the regular …

Nice to be the boss. I gave my man Dougie my requirements and the skeleton for a script and he produced the rest. Note: update, November 15, 2009, added support for Windows Server 2008 (now.exe replaced with date/t) for backing up the WID   Download the (updated) script hereNOTE: you use this at your own …

I got asked the following today and after some thought, I provided the following response. Perhaps this will help someone else, and/or solicit some other ideas (please leave comments/share!). The Business Problem/Requirement We are having a problem with the automatic versioning in SharePoint. We are transferring files from our old Document Management System (DMS) to …

This was a strange one today. Not sure what the brainstorm behind why the change in IIS (sigh, so much has changed in Windows Server 2008 IIS). I wanted to bind a SharePoint Web Application to a second (additional IP) address I added to my Windows 2008 Server. In Windows Server 2003, once this has …

Whew, long title… but I couldn’t think of a shorter way of succinctly saying what needed to be said… 🙂   Business Requirement A client wanted to create an InfoPath form, for vacation approval and other purposes and have it run within SharePoint. But a key requirement was that when the electronic form was launched, …