Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Dad. Husband. Drummer. Learner of Things.

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itgroove Studios Introduces Masthead

We are extremely excited to announce the opening today of the Public Preview for Masthead, a mega menu designer built for modern SharePoint. Today marks the culmination of months of hard work building out the product, but it feels like the product itself has been in development for far longer. As SharePoint consultants, we’ve seen first hand …

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My deck for What’s New in Office 365 – June 2017

As we do every month in our Office 365 and SharePoint User Groups here in Victoria (note as well, as of September 2017 we will be merging these groups into one, Office 365 User Group), we deliver 15 minutes of “What’s New in Office 365” to help keep folks up to date on what’s coming, …

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How to enable Guest Folder and File Sharing for Office 365 Group Files

What For SharePoint Online Site Collections, enabling anonymous (“anyone” or “guest”) links for a site collection is really straightforward in the “manage site collections” section of Office 365 Admin. You know, this guy… However, if you have created a new, fancy/fangled Office 365 Group to leverage Teams and other goodies inside your organization, you will …

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Long Company Names make Sean Sad in OneDrive for Business

I’m more than a little surprised there was nothing out there for the following issue already. So I took it upon myself to provide a solution (and a recommendation, which is “avoid this early in your tenancy and OD4B and SharePoint sync rollout”). What I didn’t like that when I connected OneDrive for Business to …

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Calgary Zoo – Office 365 and Yammer – Working Out Loud

Lions, Tigers and Bears … Oh My One of the projects I had the pleasure to be involved with was working with the team at the Calgary Zoo on a project delivered through Softchoice.  This Case Study outlines what took place over the short project.  My own memories include flying to Calgary, hanging with Penguins, …

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Add Document, Access Denied and the Content Organizer

WHAT Troubleshooting a SharePoint site for a customer today.  Users with even up to Full Control on a library (nevermind simple contribute access) couldn’t upload documents to a document library. The system page would give an “Access Denied” response when choosing “Add Document”.  While Publishing was on and was my first suspicion, the user had …

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Disabling Syncing of SharePoint Libraries with OneDrive for Business

I was a little surprised to not find a simple overview of how one would disable Syncing (at the library or site level) of files between SharePoint and OneDrive for Business.  Particularly right now while there is a gap between what SharePoint can do and what the OneDrive for Business Next Generation client can do …

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Office 365 User Group – May 2016 Edition in 360 Video!

I bought a 360 Video Camera the other day. Seemed like a fun idea.  Still finding ways to get value from it.  Today, it is sharing our most recent Office 365 User Group Meeting sessions in a complete, Spherical video so you can “be there”.  Enjoy. Unfortunately (or fortunately ;), the camera turned itself off …

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New Office 365 Radio Ad – Canadian Office 365 Cloud

We’ve got a new ad playing on the Q. We at itgroove have been building to this moment since the beginning. All roads lead to SharePoint and it all just became easier, more powerful and now on Canadian Soil. It’s gonna be huuugge itgroove Microsoft Cloud – Trump from itgroove.

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Creating alerts on documents in the new OneDrive for Business

Well, that was harder than it should be.  And it’s probably because with all the changes Microsoft has in store for Dropbox, er, I mean OneDrive for Business, they don’t really want us creating alerts on documents in our OneDrive for Business (or should I say My Sites, er, Personal Sites, wait no, SkyDrive Pro …

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