Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

We’ll admit it: This is a little bit of a loaded question. Certainly, retaining a good SharePoint/technology partner is an expense, in the sense that you will receive an invoice from time to time. But at the same time, as with many business expenses, a quality outsourced and experienced SharePoint/IT partner doesn’t just cost you …

While we have blogged this in various forms, from setting one site to multiple sites and/or collections, I just wanted to take 2 minutes to make the following commentary. The Problem If you push a master page change through all sub sites (webs) in a collection and you have meeting or document workspaces, those will …

  itgroove has been nominated for a Nintex Innovation award for leveraging SharePoint, Nintex Workflow, Muhumbi and lots of smarts and innovation to save BC Ferries money, improve safety and to go significantly more green.  All good things.  Kudos go out especially to Colin and Keith for their fierce dedication and for putting up with …

SharePoint Products has produced a product called CopyMove for SharePoint since the MOSS 2007 release.  The product is licensed by the WFE (Web Front-End) and is a farm solution (you will need to have your own installation of SharePoint as this is an on-premise solution).  A 30 day eval is available to try it for …

We’re pretty chuffed about our internal Intranet, running on SharePoint 2010 (and enhanced by components from Nintex and Surfray. We’ve always been powered by SharePoint (file server, eww, what’s that?) and over the years it has evolved into something that really works and grows with us. To get the most out of SharePoint (performance, usability …

I’m filing this under SharePoint because it is relevant to wanting to scan into SharePoint (using say, Dark Blue Duck) and still being able to OCR documents as part of the scan. What Microsoft decided for some reason not to include OCR abilities in Office 2010 (yet had included it in Office 2007). Maybe a …

Problem If you spent a bunch of time creating a sweet template in your SharePoint site collection and then were unable to make new sub sites (they’re called Webs really, but that’s a different conversation) due an error similar to the following… Error The site template requires that the Feature {af6d9aec-7c38-4dda-997f-cc1ddbb87c92} be activated in the …

It’s been a while since I’ve reminded the local community so thought I’d take a second and provide a refresher… Every month in Victoria you have an opportunity to learn (for free, with pizza included!) something new about SharePoint.  We are the Victoria SharePoint Users Group – www.meetup.com/vsharepoint – please consider signing up.  Our next …

In past posts, I’ve blogged about using Microsoft Word and Windows Live Writer (with its suite or sweet! of add-ins to enhance your blogs) to contribute to a SharePoint blog.  I even recently wrote about blogging to SharePoint from iPads/iPhones and other mobile devices using SharePlus.  Finally, although I wrote it for WSS/MOSS 2007, I …

Access your Business Data – Anytime, from Anywhere on Anything with SharePoint Document Libraries – contact www.itgroove.net for help! I wrote this about 5 or 6 years ago.  But when I switched blog platforms, I lost the content and realized the content has fallen off the Google cache for the most part too.  Tonight I …