Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Yo, while I have generated a wildcard cert before (more expensive, supports any prefix such as www.itgroove.net, portal.itgroove.net, mail.itgroove.net) it has been a long while and I figured while it may seem obvious after the fact, the scary bit is wanting to make sure you have the CSR (request) format correct before you submit it …

I think Question/Answer blog posts are valuable as someone might stumble across this page and find the following layman’s info interesting or useful. This was a question I got from a customer today and my response to him. We’ll refer to him as Barney” 😉   Barney’s Email   From: Barney Sent: Wednesday, March 09, …

Ran into this the other day (And thanks to Darren M. for sharing his solution with me). Here’s the deal:   Problem When running SharePoint workflows (for example, the built in SharePoint 2010 Collect Feedback, Approval, Collect Signatures workflows), the edit task” ribbon button does not appear in the Word, Excel or other Office application …

What can I say? I prefer nice blue event logs when I check the health of my servers. This helps draw my attention (eyes) to the reds and yellows that might appear. And because I, like most others, connect to these servers via RDP (Remote Desktop), I end up with a bunch of clutter in …

Publish InfoPath forms as anonymous in SharePoint 2010 I had a customer request today that had the following business requirements:     SharePoint 2010 InfoPath Web Based Forms Anonymous posting/submission of forms         By the way, this is not recommended of course. But sometimes you have to do what you have to …

As is often the case for me in the SMB area, many of my customers don’t have access to the Enterprise Edition of SharePoint and thus we need to get ‘creative’. Well, there are two web parts in SharePoint Enterprise that are very useful and as such, I’ve had to find workarounds. Luckily, some nice …

Don’t mind me, I’m always seeking out these knowledge base articles in order to ensure my SharePoint environments run smoothly and to best practice. Part of that is making sure your Antivirus Software (whether it be Trend, Symantec, McAfee, etc.) plays nice. SharePoint Exclusions http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167 Take note of (BOTH) of the following sections: Folders that …

Hey there, A colleague asked a good question today about SQL and SharePoint, so I thought I’d share the answer.   The question was… Why are there so many accounts under SQL Logins related to SharePoint and are these correct? (to paraphrase)     The answer is… SharePoint manages these permissions, so long as we …

I don’t think I’ve written a blog post about a printer purchase before and it is unlikely that I’ll do it again. But I’m pretty pleased with my purchase this week (HP Wireless All-In-One Inkjet Printer (C310A) for several reasons:   I’m now able to print, using AirPrint from my iPhone (and Wendy’s) and my …

There may come a time when you want to move a SharePoint content database from one disk on your SQL Server to another. Perhaps you installed SharePoint in standalone mode and don’t like the location it chose or you just need to move some stuff around. The following assumes you are moving the database from …