Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Well, look at that. I discovered (purely by accident, I was dragging and dropping *I thought* into IE11 but no, it was Edge!) that Windows 10 EDGE browser now supports drag and drop. I couldn’t find much out there in regards to an announcement (Sneaky, I guess while we the public test it ;). But …

Doing a quick scour of the Interwebs, it seems nobody has really posed this question or answered it. A little surprising too… So let’s do this… What The Document Information Panel (DIP) is missing/unavailable/gonzo/absent/gone/AWOL in Office 2016. Yep, it ain’t there. Usually Microsoft “deprecates” this functionality and provides some time to get used to the …

Here’s an old trick I’ve used hundreds of times for helping users out on my SharePoint Pages, Web Parts and Dashboards using the “Title Icon” functionality to create a “tool tip” or “Help/Overview” like effect. Thought I’d show it in video this time.

What Microsoft today introduced a new feature in Office 365 so that Admins can add a “Help Desk Card” to the Help (“?”) functionality in Office 365. Date Microsoft Introduced: July 2nd, 2015   So What To get to this setting, you will want to click on the Waffle (Task Switcher), Choose Admin, Company Profile …

Grrr. I get it Microsoft, you like “Agile” (always be changing, improving, iterative changes and get feedback). Well, here’s my feedback. In SharePoint Online, if you are going to take over the Browsers Context Menu (right click in IE, Chrome, etc.), at least give me an alternative to do the things I used to be …

I did a presentation for the Victoria SharePoint User Group recently and presented on the importance of Site Collections over webs (sub-sites).  I also played with “Prezi” for this presentation instead of going the traditional PowerPoint route.  Have a view if you want…     If the embed above doesn’t work, use this link: http://prezi.com/z3ja1vebo1v4/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Heads up that Microsoft is disabling (as a default) Property Promotion within the SharePoint Sites used for OneDrive for Business in Office 365/SharePoint Online. I can definitely see why they are doing this as a default with OD4B considering it is being used much more like a DropBox (and synching) than as a typical SharePoint …

It takes a village team to plan, manage, implement, teach and deliver SharePoint and we’ve been carefully crafting our team and sharing knowledge within it for years.  Matt made a pretty pie chart outlining the members of our team and the specific skills we all bring to the table.  Just wanted to take a moment …

I gave a presentation yesterday (January 22nd, 2015) on what I thought was a clever topic.  “Agile, Telemetry and Rails. Oh My”.  What did I know?  I came up with that on the sundeck of the Royal Caribbean “Oasis of the Seas” with probably more 4th Whiskey in hand and it seemed like a good …