Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Yippee! Easy Tabs 5 is out (in Beta, your mileage will vary) and looking good. I’ve actually deployed it in house, in production as I plan to simply replace the textfile holding the script with the final version when he has finished his masterpiece – one upload, all tickety-boo. So What? Easy Tabs is a …

The Issue This was an interesting discovery today. A customer had a document library, complete with columns that they wanted to have appear in the Document Information Panel (DIP, ala the Ribbon). I guess for the most part, I’ve never had more than 100 items in a column, so I never noticed, but it would …

I made this slide/picture for a customer the other day to try and demonstrate visually how SharePoint could/should/would be the GO TO platform for all upcoming and future business processes (try it in SharePoint first, then look at other products if the need came up) and eventually retrofit existing projects/processes into SharePoint as well. Anyways, …

As per the following link (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/archive/2010/06/17/live-chats-to-learn-more-about-sharepoint-with-the-mvp-experts.aspx), there will be an MVP expert chat that yours truly will be taking part of. Hope to see you there!   Join the event by going here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx   Event Description Q&A with the SharePoint MVP ExpertsDo you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you’re seeking answers? …

Ok this one is kinda lame… but alas, the fix is simple. My ultimate goal was to perform a backup of a SharePoint WSS database on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, with the intent of performing a database restore, to a new SharePoint 2010 Foundation Farm, so that I could perform a Database Attach …

Don’t mind me. Just stumbled across this great reference tonight for Calculated Column syntax examples and had to bookmark it for myself (or maybe you too). http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA011609471033.aspx   And for a list of Calculation Operators: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA011608661033.aspx?pid=CH011711541033   Great examples in there for stuff like:   Conditional Formulas Data and Time Formulas Math Formulas Test Formulas …

Ran into this the other day, when upgrading (in Place) a SharePoint 2010 environment. The following was logged in Central admin and the screenshots below were the fix (you could also modify your web.config directly).   Title Web.config file has incorrect settings for the requestFiltering element. Severity 1 – Error Category Configuration Explanation The requestFiltering …

Don’t mind me. I’m just storing some Feature and other GUID’s that I had to reverse engineer during SharePoint 2007 to 2010 Upgrades. Perhaps, when someone is googling, they will stumble across these and be glad that I did (so they can use the appropriate uninstaller and/or find the missing pieces they need:   ID …

Getting this?     Server error: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=177673   It may be because your environment is being upgraded right now from SharePoint 2007 (or WSS 3.0) to SharePoint 2010. I figured I’d take a second to post this. I know my environment is being upgraded (’cause I’m the one doing it) but I was surprised to …

    I have been preparing our itgroove Corporate MOSS 2007 environment for an upgrade to SharePoint 2010. Tonight was the night to complete the last little bits before the big (in place, I like to live dangerously) upgrade. I’ve done a few database attach upgrades already and those were too straightforward, so nothing like …