Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

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 …

Sometimes I just can’t help myself. Darren thinks I’m crazy, yet somehow my wife gets it (loves it actually).

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 …

Regional settings can be set in SharePoint in three different places: The Web application The Site/Web level User settings With the exception of the User settings, you’ll need to be logged in as a site collection administrator or a site owner to change the regional settings for a site. With this in mind, let’s dive …

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 …

Some time ago, I had Luke (Thanks Luke) put together a web part page with 3 content editor web parts. Then I had him create a header for every base/included SharePoint 2010 Wiki html style so that we could then work on styling each of the elements and seeing them all on one palette.  I …

Hey folks, I’m honoured and humbled to have been awarded with the Microsoft MVP award in SharePoint for a 4th year. It truly is a privilege to be part of this fine group of individuals, some of the smartest and most dedicated folks I’ve ever met. I’d like to thank my wife, my kids, my …

Blogging on an iPhone or iPad (iOS) to a SharePoint Blog I’ve been meaning to write this post for about 8 months but for one reason or another, I keep forgetting to do it (and once you see how short this post is, you’ll wonder why it took so long, too). Anyways, 8+ months ago …

For whatever reason, Microsoft doesn’t provide very clear instructions regarding renaming the Managed Metadata Service Application Database on TechNet. In fact, for a number of the service applications, they go into decent detail about the steps here, but then they wimp out on the Managed Metadata Service with this… And in that, they don’t mention …