Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

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 remember a study Microsoft did back before Windows 2000 was released and it was determined that 40% of all troubleshooting/technology tickets were related to viruses (and the software that supported it) and backups (and the software that supported it).  That was a big reason behind a lot of the stuff implemented in Windows 2000. …

This post is by Louis in our office and seemed like it could be helpful for others. A few nasty Malwares lately namely the XP Defender variants once cleaned leave a few lasting issues that are truly maddening. The main issue is whenever you try to open any application it asks you what you would …

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 …

I was enabling some 3rd party web server statistics software today (Smarterstats by www.smartertools.com) on a SharePoint server and it was necessary to make sure all the appropriate fields necessary for returning all information, in all reports were set. For Smarterstats (and in general this can apply to all webstatistics software), the following are necessary …

We were informed recently of a local computer user that was duped by a fictitious email masquerading as an email from his bank. Without going into detail it will suffice to say that the bad guys at the other end of the email obtained personal banking information from this user and proceeded to raid his …

These instructions were prepared for QuoVadis (great place to get your SSL and Unified UCC SAN Certs from – www.quovadis.bm Document Deliverables Microsoft Exchange 2007 requires SSL certificates to be configured/installed in a particular manner, to ensure support of the various ‘Subject Alternative Names’ the server might be found on, depending on the service one …

Widgets URL: https://pkiwidgets.quovadisglobal.com     Our friends over at QuoVadis have released their PKI widgets online, to help troubleshoot common SSL and other digital certificate issues and to ease in the creation of SAN UC certs, etc. Here’s the official release information below…   QuoVadis provides PKI Widgets to help users troubleshoot their problems with …

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 …