Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Found this free ActiveSync Testing tool (so you don’t have to blow away your own phone settings to test ActiveSync on behalf of users). Available in the APP Store as: ActiveSync Tester Vendor website: https://store.accessmylan.com/main/promo-testtool Figure 1 : looks like this and provides some diagnostic info after it attempts to connect

This is a silly one, but I did run into it at at customer. They had MS Office 2010 Student installed and then they installed a copy of Outlook 2010 after the fact. Apparently if you have two versions of Office 2010 installed (or some Upgrade scenarios) some of the integration tools cannot function. Simple …

A customer asked this today (and thought it might help others):   Hi Sean, Clive is having more than a few problems using Google Chrome on our SP sites. But didn’t you say that you use Chrome all the time? He’s discovered he can’t save anything. Did you have to do anything about SP’s security …

Thanks to Louis for putting this together. Yes we know this is hideous to look at, but Louis made a custom Theme picture that we thought makes it easier for determining where PowerPoint Office Theme Colours used to customize a SharePoint 2010 theme go. There were several other sources on the web that offer their …

Here’s a thread I had recently with a customer about why/how some of their emails weren’t getting to the intended recipient. Unfortunately, no matter what we did, the upstream email recipient’s (the receiver) system was rejecting the message – worse still it wasn’t even telling anyone it was rejecting it (oh thanks!) Anyways, I thought …

The next version (or renaming) of BPOS, the Microsoft Online Business Suite (SharePoint, Exchange, OCS which is now Lync) is looking pretty shiny. Looks to hit in early 2011 and also encouraging, it looks like Canada won’t be the forgotten stepchild that gets the products and services 6 months later this time.   Details This …

Ok, this isn’t for everybody. A third of you have sworn never to sign up for Facebook, a third of you are grumbling about getting off of Facebook (though I don’t see it 😉 and a third of you will be all over this…   But, the Facebook Social Connector for Outlook is out as …

Holy cow Microsoft…   While the placement does kind of make sense, this took me 10 minutes to find so clearly it isn’t obvious or intuitive… So I figured I had better save others the time as well…   Figure 1 : How to find the Document Information Panel in Word and Office 2010

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …

I got this query/business issue the other day… We have a problem with one of our user’s Outlook calendar’s.  For some unknown reason 2 weeks ago, certain (not all) appointments in the users calendar duplicated themselves.  I have read that it’s possibly a Blackberry related issue but not entirely sure. The user is masked_to_protect_the_innocent (one …