Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Wow, this tool will be very welcome once it hits the street sometime in April 2011. The SharePoint Diagnostic Tool will help dev’s and IT Admins better troubleshoot their SharePoint farms including checks for latency, trends, capacity planning, etc. It will be part of the SharePoint Toolkit released at that time.   Check out the …

I think Question/Answer blog posts are valuable as someone might stumble across this page and find the following layman’s info interesting or useful. This was a question I got from a customer today and my response to him. We’ll refer to him as Barney” 😉   Barney’s Email   From: Barney Sent: Wednesday, March 09, …

Heard a new one today, figured I’d share. Abuse of the end user is always satisfying.   PEBCAK has always been one of my favourite phrases but it never really rolled off the tongue (the word itself).   PEBCAK = Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard   Learned a new one today (not sure why …

Ran into this the other day (And thanks to Darren M. for sharing his solution with me). Here’s the deal:   Problem When running SharePoint workflows (for example, the built in SharePoint 2010 Collect Feedback, Approval, Collect Signatures workflows), the edit task” ribbon button does not appear in the Word, Excel or other Office application …

What can I say? I prefer nice blue event logs when I check the health of my servers. This helps draw my attention (eyes) to the reds and yellows that might appear. And because I, like most others, connect to these servers via RDP (Remote Desktop), I end up with a bunch of clutter in …

A customer asked this today (and thought it might help others):   Hi Sean, Clive is having more than a few problems using Google Chrome on our SP sites. But didn’t you say that you use Chrome all the time? He’s discovered he can’t save anything. Did you have to do anything about SP’s security …

Got SharePoint Enterprise and as such, Excel Services installed? Well, just like the Office Web Apps, Excel may be trying to open XLS/XLSX files in the browser. You can either turn off the default behavior to open in the browser in each Document Library but if there are a number of them or the client …

Publish InfoPath forms as anonymous in SharePoint 2010 I had a customer request today that had the following business requirements:     SharePoint 2010 InfoPath Web Based Forms Anonymous posting/submission of forms         By the way, this is not recommended of course. But sometimes you have to do what you have to …

As is often the case for me in the SMB area, many of my customers don’t have access to the Enterprise Edition of SharePoint and thus we need to get ‘creative’. Well, there are two web parts in SharePoint Enterprise that are very useful and as such, I’ve had to find workarounds. Luckily, some nice …

Don’t mind me, I’m always seeking out these knowledge base articles in order to ensure my SharePoint environments run smoothly and to best practice. Part of that is making sure your Antivirus Software (whether it be Trend, Symantec, McAfee, etc.) plays nice. SharePoint Exclusions http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167 Take note of (BOTH) of the following sections: Folders that …