Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

There are so many sites out there keeping track of SharePoint builds. Many seem to stop at some point (they lose interest I guess) and end up out of date. I prefer to use what appears to me to be the most comprehensive lists as they are from the horse’s mouth (Microsoft Technet site) and …

As someone who often helps small businesses get rolling with SharePoint solutions based on Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0), hosted or not, there are some limitations that customers don’t always realize at first. First off, I try to provide a reasonably balanced overview of the differences between in house and hosted, here.   But, and …

Day 3. Feet healing, bought some sandals. Now my head hurts – open bar at the Huey Lewis concert was bad news for Sean. Great time, but forgot to hydrate. Owwweee     Enterprise Content Types and Managed Meta Data Tough focusing at first with my hangover headache. But, this is a wowee feature. Might …

Day 2. Feet hurt, tired of eating *out* already (Wendy would be pleased to hear that. Looking forward to Huey tonight     SharePoint Sites Session Pretty basic session. Probably should have signed up for something more technical but… Note Board – much like writing on the ‘wall’ in a FaceBook site. Will be interesting …

Yep, I’m in Vegas with the wife and kids and *sigh*, the Mother In Law (nah, she’s not so bad but I’m required by law to complain about her). I hope to see them sometime this week. 🙂     I saw the keynotes this morning and then attended the SharePoint Admin sessions. Here’s a …

Found this tip in an obscure place but felt it was worthy to show and explain in more detail. If you want to hide the Quick Launch Bar on a SharePoint page/site and would prefer not to customize pages in SharePoint Designer (i.e. this is quick and easy and tool free), this tip is for …

This is a common enough request that I thought I’d quickly create a video of it. Ignore my little typos as you see them. 🙂   Business Requirement I want to be able to see at a glance on my SharePoint Dashboard, the 5 latest documents that my department has worked on, in a particular …

Sometimes, migrating user content will be most convenient while on the Windows 2003 Server console. The problem is, IE6, IE7, etc. do not allow this to happen by default. This may also apply to other older Windows OS’s in certain situations. The Error   When trying to open this…   You get this… Your client …

For some reason, the August WSS 3.0 release was delayed for about 6 weeks. The August Cumulatives for SharePoint are now released (take time for pause, evaluate and then deploy of course).   August 2009 Cumulative Update for MOSS 2007: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973399 August 2009 Cumulative Update for WSS 3.0: http://support.microsoft.com/973400   The build number will be …

The Requirement A customer had quite the mess of a SharePoint farm. Efforts are being made to clean it up … but in the meantime, they required a backup of a SharePoint Content Database (from 5 days ago) to be restored into a new (temporary) Web Application to retrieve some old data. Typically, this would …