Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I ran into the following today and from memory, I’ve done this before too.  Luckily it only took me a few minutes to reach back into the mental archives or I might have been pulling some more hair out. What Well, I’m in the thick of a SharePoint content migration from 2010 to 2013.  We …

Ok, I’ve run into this enough times, I figured I’d share it. What Today’s scenario was that I was using Metalogix Migration Manager (or rather, Content Matrix as it is now called) to move a SharePoint Site Collection to a new farm. During this move, SharePoint Publishing got, er, buggered, for lack of a better …

If you have seen any demo’s of the new SharePoint 2013 Team Site, you will already be familiar with Promoted Links.  If you aren’t, here’s a good introduction. Figure 1: Promoted Site Links, as you’d find them in your Team Site But I’m going to take a moment to discuss “Promoted Sites” as I went …

I had a dream need today… What We are in the process of migrating all of our SharePoint 2010 content to 2013 over the holidays (yep, I’m a sucker for punishment and I need something to do or I’ll go mad)… During this process, I have built out a Site Map for planning where we …

Everyone nowadays talks about “the Cloud” as being the next big thing that ALL companies should be looking at as a part of their IT infrastructure planning. The problem is that the term “Cloud”, has become so ambiguous and attached to so many things that it is hard for most companies to get a handle …

Office 365 Lunch and Learn We’re announcing that we are working with Microsoft to help bring Office 365 to businesses wanting their Office software delivered from the cloud. And we’re giving people a chance to hear firsthand how this may affect their business and what they should consider before deciding. I will be presenting what …

Ah the things that give me pleasure itgroove is SharePoint-centric. Our documents, holiday request forms, client info, – everything – goes into SharePoint in our shop. We also use SharePoint as our issue tracking system – new internal and client requests wind up created as SharePoint List Items, which are in turn assigned to our …

Yep, we got through the red tape, cobbled together the necessary understanding of how the vehicle is meant to work and we have our first app (however small) in the SharePoint 2013 app store. And by we, I mean Keith actually.  I just funded his time and drove him crazy with my requirements. Introducing the …

In our continued progress towards migrating our itgroove SharePoint environment from 2010 to 2013, I had asked Keith to determine the best practices and placement for the (sexy) new Office Web Apps in 2013 with the key question “can we get away with loading OWA on a SharePoint server in an office as small as …

As we prepare for our upcoming SharePoint 2013 migration, I asked Keith in our office to look into how to best size our Workflow platform and the new Workflow Manager and to determine the correct placement for the Workflow Manager (key learning is it can be installed on your SharePoint APP Server, unlike the OWA …