Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

What is the Flame Virus? First off, if you haven’t heard anything about the Flame Virus, you may want to start here Here is what is important to you: Flame Virus (also called sKyWIper) was deployed in May, but may have been around since ‘07 The virus had a suicide command sent out this month, …

  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 …

Heads up.  Whether there is truth or not to the reports of LinkedIn passwords being leaked, practice Safe Internet Sex LinkedIn Apparently Hacked. Passwords for millions of accounts harvested: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06/06/tech-linkedin-hacked-passwords.html itgroove Recommends: Log into LogMeIn ASAP and change your password. It is a good practice to change it regularly anyways. You are changing important Internet …

Given that you can’t have good technology without good technology, a lot of business owners and managers assume that having the best, top-of-the-line hardware naturally assures that their company will have great networking and communication. That’s not always the case, however, and even spending huge amounts of money on having the latest and greatest hardware, …

There are a lot of businesses that love their outsourced IT providers, and couldn’t imagine going without them. On the other hand, there are also more than a few who aren’t happy with the service and technology support they’re getting, and are actively counting down the days until their current agreement ends. Obviously, you want …

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 …

The other day a customer asked me if he should just let a domain name go. He felt that the website/domain he had wasn’t going to serve him very much in the future. Effectively, he was letting go of a hobby/talent and was thinking he probably wouldn’t need the site anymore; despite the fact it …

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 …

Is good SharePoint (and/or General IT) support from an outsourced company expensive? The answer to that question depends a great deal on who you ask, and on the perspective you take on the value of a solid IT provider. Allow me to explain: Simply looking at the hourly rates most experienced, professional IT providers ask …