Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Hey folks, If you are in Vancouver and more specifically at Vancouver Tech Days, come by and say “hi”.  I’ll be proctoring the End-to-End Microsoft Business Intelligence lab as well as attending the festivities. Hope to see you there.  www.techdays.ca Sean

Stumbled across this gem today.  The Documentation Toolkit for SharePoint from Acceleratio Ltd. As any SharePoint professional knows, SharePoint combines ease of use and the ability to change software to suit your business needs and requirements rapidly. That is the positive of SharePoint. The negative is the expectations that come on IT to be equally …

Thanks to some recon from Robert (and his lab ;), I’ve got some answers to some questions that folks may have up front about SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SBS 2011 so I figured I’d provide it in a quick FAQ format: Question: Does SBS 2011, without the Premium full SQL Server add-on install using SQL …

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 …

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 …

There may come a time when you want to move a SharePoint content database from one disk on your SQL Server to another. Perhaps you installed SharePoint in standalone mode and don’t like the location it chose or you just need to move some stuff around. The following assumes you are moving the database from …

If you have installed SharePoint in standalone mode (hopefully only if you are evaluating SharePoint, and even then, create a farm instead using SQL Server Express 2008 R2, with a larger 10GB limit), you are left with a SharePoint implementation that has a limit to how large a SQL Content Database can be. In these …

Ok, first off, the title is an oxymoron. This is a downgrade.   Customers end up in this situation because they downloaded a SQL Server Evaluation and Microsoft only provides SQL in the ‘Enterprise Edition’ format.   Second, SQL Server 2008 is the *FIRST* SQL Server version to support this. Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx   The Procedure: …

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …

Ok don’t get too excited, this is short and sweet and off the cuff for a customer. It is a test script (like an actor reads a script) of items that could/should be checked, to ensure SharePoint was healthy, after patching or major work. This isn’t everything one should do, but could be useful to …