Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

This gets asked enough it seemed worthy of a quick blog. I’m a big fan of organizing data by meta information (columns), instead of folders wherever possible. Being able to ‘file’ the document at the time of creation and editing is very valuable and often the ‘Information Panel’ won’t ‘be there’ in Word. So, here’s …

We’ve had this discussion around the office (at itgroove) and here are our predictions for SharePoint and other technologies in 2010…   Sean Says…   Demand for SharePoint is still on the lower crest of the tidal wave in my opinion. I expect we’ll see even greater demand and momentum in 2010, particularly with the …

As posted here as well… http://www.sharepointproconnections.com/Articles/tabid/149/nodeid/2008/SharePoint-in-2010–SharePoint-MVPs-Offer-2010-Predictions.aspx   Demand for SharePoint is still on the lower crest of the tidal wave in my opinion. I expect we’ll see even greater demand and momentum in 2010, particularly with the arrival and enthusiasm behind SharePoint 2010. 2007 has been around for some time … yet the convergence of …

Notes: Don’t ask why the SharePoint server is a DC. It is not recommended that a SharePoint Server is a DC, but in some situations we don’t have a choice… Don’t ask why we had to demote and then re-promote the SharePoint server as a DC. You should try to avoid a demotion/promotion of a …

Warning, this isn’t original blog content. But, I’ve been seeking all the right elements for a while now, after discovering one suggestion for getting rid of the Quick Launch element quickly and easily using a CEWP (blogged about that, here).   Alas, I found what I was looking for here, but I know next time …

As I’m always demoing SharePoint capabilities and content, constantly filling out sample lists and libraries can be pretty tiresome. So, I tasked (the benefit of a business owner is the ability to delegate, so I did… 🙂 the job of creating several stock SharePoint Lists and Libraries with some sample content, so that I (and …

I ran into this today and thought I’d share the solution as it wasn’t immediately obvious. Server names and IP’s have been changed to protect the innocent. 🙂   The Problem A customer was attempting to use the MOSS Manage Content and Structure” functionality but was getting a page that simply said “File Not Found”. …

SharePoint (MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0) is roughly 3 years old. Awesome product, awesome platform… But, it isn’t just the maturity of the product that has been the big pickup of interest/adoption in SharePoint. Newer/better browsers, more readiness by businesses to accept the web as a viable platform on which to do business (and store their data) …

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you set the Group Policy settings outlined in the reference link below, users will not be able to update their own zones. If you want to push out the Corporate Intranet zones via Group Policy, follow the instructions in this link… http://johnckirk.livejournal.com/224270.html PRO: This is great as you no longer need to …

Don’t mind me, just bookmarking something handy. A nice, simple tool for plunking in a URL, and having it size a browser to the rough presentation that would appear, based on a screen’s resolution. Here it is: http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/browser.html   I know (but did you know?), ya, you can do it in SharePoint Designer as well. …