Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

No, clicking on the checkbox won’t cut it… 🙂 But I see that often…   I see lots of posts and links but none that seem to spell it out clearly. It’s simple though and involves: A Registry Change A Reboot Reference: Reference KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929852 Note: Don’t just disable IPv6. Do it when necessary only. …

Well, what d’ya know? I’m not sure how far back this feature goes (at least Vista, maybe XP, gosh, maybe even Windows 2000?), but it became a very practical solution for me today.   My Requirement I’m the a picture is worth a 1000 words” guy – and as such, I’m always creating little Jing …

This quick blog entry was created because I was getting nowhere, trying to find a quick resolution to two obscure errors I was getting, when trying (in my case) to download and extract SQL Server 2008 SP1 (though this should apply to just about any downloaded executable you pull down.   So here goes…   …

I’ve seen these Event ID’s appear in situations where:   Active Directory was unhealthy (or a single DC, that a workstation was attempting to connect to was unhealthy) DNS Servers that a workstation points to, are unhealthy Combination of both (usually they are related)   Where workstations were not receiving GPO updates successfully, and workstations …

I was enabling some 3rd party web server statistics software today (Smarterstats by www.smartertools.com) on a SharePoint server and it was necessary to make sure all the appropriate fields necessary for returning all information, in all reports were set. For Smarterstats (and in general this can apply to all webstatistics software), the following are necessary …

We ran into this little gem today at a client site (running SBS 2008) – thanks for the detail Avi. The client called, explaining how their Outlook clients were unable to connect to the server (Outlook stated it was ‘Trying to connect’ in the bottom right hand). Upon closer inspection of the server, all services …

I ran into this the other day. A server (a virtual machine or VM to be exact) was trying to apply some new Security Patches on boot but it kept saying Applying updates, 3 of 3, 0% complete“.  This went on for an hour (and who knows how much longer it would have gone, had …

Ok, it’s a web world now, but this old tip still crops up enough to warrant sharing.   If you want to change an icon on your desktop to something sexier, you have a number of choices. You can of course download a new one (thanks Steve, for pointing out www.iconfinder.net, which has some really …

Although there are a number of techniques and places to look to clear disk space on a Windows server, including pruning SQL transaction logs, removing HIBERFIL.SYS, moving the pagefile to another drive, one of the most effective I’ve found has been removing HTTP logs that get accumulated daily (particularly if you have turned logging on, …

This was a strange one today. Not sure what the brainstorm behind why the change in IIS (sigh, so much has changed in Windows Server 2008 IIS). I wanted to bind a SharePoint Web Application to a second (additional IP) address I added to my Windows 2008 Server. In Windows Server 2003, once this has …