Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

What is the Flame Virus? First off, if you haven’t heard anything about the Flame Virus, you may want to start here Here is what is important to you: Flame Virus (also called sKyWIper) was deployed in May, but may have been around since ‘07 The virus had a suicide command sent out this month, …

The other day a customer asked me if he should just let a domain name go. He felt that the website/domain he had wasn’t going to serve him very much in the future. Effectively, he was letting go of a hobby/talent and was thinking he probably wouldn’t need the site anymore; despite the fact it …

You can’t ignore it. The iPad has been a game changer in business. And that game is Angry Birds… In Small Business Land in particular, companies that can (sometimes) change directions on a dime, also have similar expectations of their technology. And that handsomely tactile tablet device, complete with its $0.99 cent apps (Angry Birds …

This one has come up enough that I figured I’d try and help folks get to the quick resolution of it. It presents itself in a number of scenarios but it also seems clear that folks aren’t sure what certs they should be trusting so I’m going to try to simplify the fix… The Issue …

Ok, maybe not scientific. But by my calculations, I have sent over 216,000 emails over the last 8 years (many with glorious colour), with just about all of them having a disclaimer on it that was complete nonsense and gibberish (by the way, I can’t take credit for writing it, nor will I, but I …

I shared this in the office this week to try and breakdown what SSL Certificates we choose, for which application/situation. Maybe it will help you too.   Cert Type How Expensive? Notes Standard SSL $ For one off, named URL’s such as portal.somewhere.com. Website SSL, Exchange 2003 Webmail, SBS 2003, SharePoint HTTPS sites Wildcard Certificate …

Publish InfoPath forms as anonymous in SharePoint 2010 I had a customer request today that had the following business requirements:     SharePoint 2010 InfoPath Web Based Forms Anonymous posting/submission of forms         By the way, this is not recommended of course. But sometimes you have to do what you have to …

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 …

For some reason lately, we’ ve been seeing a number of cases where User Profiles in Windows Server 2008 (seems to be mostly R2 but may be from SP1 of Windows Server 2008 as well) experiences cases where users cannot create local profiles. I’ve seen this on a dedicated Terminal Server and also on SharePoint …

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