Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Anyone that has worked with SharePoint extensively will tell you it is a giant product, framework on which to build elegant solutions. With that said, no one person can do it all. So at itgroove, we have carved up champions of expertise within the team to make sure we have the right skills, coverage and …

This is already popular with the ladies. Ok, maybe with customers at least… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-J2vNIcCE&hl=en&hd=1] itgroove SharePoint 2010 Search Center Photo Rotator   We have packaged up, ready for implementation a sassy SharePoint 2010 Search Home Page Rotator and you can have it too. Depending on your needs/requirements, we can put this in with as …

Colin and I have been talking about list and library limits for a while and I’ve been getting a much better grip on techniques for showing many items in a large list. Here are the facts in SharePoint 2010: Lists and libraries can have up to 60 million items (reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx) However, unless you override …

In environments where the publishing features aren’t used (or desired), or available (such as SharePoint Foundation installs, being able to set all webs (Sub sites) in a site collection to a common Master Page using PowerShell is very useful. Here’s how… $site = Get-SPSite http://portal.somewhere.com/ $sites = @(foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) { $web | Select-Object …

  We recently inherited a SharePoint implementation that my gut was telling me wasn’t up to the level the customer expected from their previous provider.  The first question was, is this farm ready to scale? When you install SharePoint 2010, you get the question of whether you are installing complete or standalone (and even when …

Dan Holme asked for a bunch of us to reflect on last year and make some predictions for next year.  The results of his questionnaire can be found here. Responses to the Year in Review include comments from: Radi Atanassov Rob Bogue Geoff Evelyn Jason Himmelstein Debbie Ireland Asif Rehmani Chris Riley Jeremy Thake Sean …

Like in MOSS 2007, there are a few things that won’t function properly (or at all) if you are using Forms Based Authentication (which requires Claims now, by the way, so keep that in mind too when upgrading from 2007). So, here’s a list of key functionality that won’t work if you are planning to …

Ok, ran into a situation today with a customer where we don’t manage the actual Windows Servers and have no control over the file systems, monitoring, etc. In a perfect world, the disk space utilization issue would have been caught by systems monitoring/or the DBA. The Symptoms When a user tried to upload documents to …

And the song, if you don’t remember: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsxsyZqmmlQ&hl=en&hd=1]

Thanks to Jeremy for this one We ran into a problem recently where attempting to open a SharePoint folder with Explorer would cause the following error: <URL> is not accessible.  You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.  The …