Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I’ve been asked this enough lately that I thought I’d take a moment to spell it out with some visuals. When the time comes to add some visual appeal to your SharePoint Dashboards (sometimes this goes a long way to adding interest in the site and/or helping folks find their ‘stuff’.   First, before starting, …

Microsoft quietly unveiled a new, slicked up SharePoint information site. Pretty slick looking, not a lot of new content on there (yet I imagine) but I like it.   http://sharepoint.microsoft.com    

Update: May 21, 2009 – Note, if you have MOSS (this won’t affect WSS only installs as there is no license to input), there is a glitch in SP2 (regardless of cumulative fixes) that reverts SharePoint back to a Trial license (gulp/guffaw!). Here’s the full court press release from the SharePoint team – http://blogs.msdn.com/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx It …

Ran into this on a new MOSS 2007 installation (on Windows Server 2008), not sure why exactly, as it was a simple, standard install done a dozen or more times but I digress… If you get this… Failed to resolve the site ID for ‘Office Server Web Services’ It can be resolved with this… stsadm …

Ok, long title but I wanted to be as descriptive as possible…   Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb507233.aspx   I had need today, as I often do, to help a client ‘clean up’ their SharePoint environment. They wanted a new SharePoint site (built on a sound infrastructure, etc. – my favourite) but wanted to bring across ‘some’ of …

I had a challenge tonight. We’ve created somewhat of a ‘Kiosk’ in a SharePoint site that serves as a kiosk for kids. So, we’ve gone through great efforts to restrict where people can click, etc. So, instead of allowing them to view knowledge base content (the list I happen to be working on) directly, I …

I’m often shuttling around content that a client wanted in a new location and sometimes, Saving a SharePoint list as a template (with content) fits the bill nicely. But with a (default) 10MB limit, this can be quite obtrusive. Thankfully, this can be modified (up to a maximum of 500MB) with the following syntax (note …

Ok, there can be a number of reasons for your search to break, but due to a number of recent situations and patches, here’s a new one cropping up quite a bit lately. I’m outlining the symptoms I ran into tonight (your situation may differ).   The Issue   Search is busted. All of a …

Well, gotta love the power of smart friends. I’m more of an SMB/SharePoint Infrastructure guy, however, I do some SharePoint Development (not really in .NET, think of me as the go between, in Designer). Anyways, I needed to know how to create a ‘back’ button on a Specialized SharePoint site that was acting as a …

Microsoft Office Sustained Engineering released the date for the arrival of SP2 for SharePoint – April 28, 2009 (reference: http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2009/04/16/service-pack-2-for-the-2007-microsoft-office-system-due-to-ship-april-28th.aspx)   Some of the big improvements (at least from my perspective) coming include: Revised/improved documentation and knowledge base articles The Microsoft Save As PDF or XPS add-in has been built into Office applications in SP2. …