Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

To our valued clients,   itgroove wants to let you know about an important security risk that has been discovered.   Microsoft has advised it partners and customers worldwide of a vulnerability in one of the backend fundamental components of SharePoint – asp.net – that can allow an attacker to penetrate and manipulate SharePoint installations.  …

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’ve seen these Event ID’s appear in situations where:   Active Directory was unhealthy (or a single DC, that a workstation was attempting to connect to was unhealthy) DNS Servers that a workstation points to, are unhealthy Combination of both (usually they are related)   Where workstations were not receiving GPO updates successfully, and workstations …

We ran into this little gem today at a client site (running SBS 2008) – thanks for the detail Avi. The client called, explaining how their Outlook clients were unable to connect to the server (Outlook stated it was ‘Trying to connect’ in the bottom right hand). Upon closer inspection of the server, all services …

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ‘built’ to be a SharePoint Guy).     I was awarded with …

First off, apologies to the original author of this content… I had tucked this away in an Outlook note probably 8 years ago (I’ve updated it a little as it references modems, thankfully of which, I haven’t touched one in nearly that long). I didn’t note the author at the time and if they want …

Larger companies deploying Enterprise SharePoint solutions should have formal planning sessions. But some businesses want to realize the immediate value of having their data available online and accessible from anywhere, at any time and on anything.   itgroove can  help companies implement Microsoft SharePoint quickly, in a protected fashion, delivered using best practices, and in …

Email has become the lifeblood of modern business and something in the order of 90% of global email traffic originates from Microsoft Exchange servers.  If your business email runs on Exchange, it can be argued that Exchange is the single most important and visible “service” inside your enterprise.  Keep your Exchange environment running at peak …

Small Business Server 2008   We are your Victoria and Vancouver Island SBS Experts   The best selling Microsoft  Small Business Server (SBS) has been a cornerstone technology for the small business market place over the last few years, especially so with the SBS2003 version.  However, as good as SBS2003 was, the needs of business …

Well, we’ve come across this in our office (thanks Robert for pointing it out) and we thought we’d share.   SBS2008 (Std & Premium) have been shipping with 2 server installation disks and each of these disks has a set of installation codes on back of the disk sleeve.  M$ screwed up with the first …