Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Holy Cow. Lame (and probably in SBS and EBS 2008 I bet).   Hibernate is on by default in Windows Server 2008 and creates a hiberfil.sys file, the size of your pagefile/RAM, on the system drive (usually C:).  This meant tonight, I discovered our Exchange Server had 6GB of wasted space (seriously, when would we …

gotta toot your own horn once in a while… 🙂 Solution Name: Major Change:  A web-based application designed to allow small and medium-sized businesses to easily implement and coordinate the change management process within their IT environments.  Major Change is the Online Change Register   Solution Description: Uncontrolled changes to an IT environment are the …

  Beer Me! Ok, I’ve been told I’ve helped a number of people, over the years, with my postings (in newsgroups and such) and my blog (blog.brainlitter.com). And people always tell me oh, I owe you a beer”, or “if you were nearby, I’d drop you a six pack” or “if you are ever in …

For pass through (also referred to as Challenge/Response) authentication to work, you need to configure Internet Explorer to put those sites in the ‘Intranet’ zone. This also assumes that the Windows client machine (XP Pro or Vista Business) is a member of a ‘domain’. You can accomplish a ‘trusted’ SharePoint login via the following:   …

I’ve always agreed with the suggestion that a picture is worth a 1000 words, thus why we are always heavy on visuals, diagrams, etc. The following (thanks Louis!) is available from itgroove, so that a client can quickly assess *where* they should be protecting themselves, in regards, to network, email and Internet based threats (and …

Read between the lines folks… It has probably been 3 years since we’ve seen a patch ‘out of band’ from the usual couple of updates every ‘Patch Tuesday’, from Microsoft. For Ballmer and Co (Bill is sitting at home now watching this from his recliner, semi-philanthropy-retired) to go out of their way to make this …

SharePoint vs. the File Server SharePoint offers… 1. Web based access to your files from anywhere (work, home, the airport and from anything (PC, MAC, mobile devices) – in a Web browser or familiar Explorer view   2. SharePoint offers a Two Stage” recycle bin – if you delete a file in SharePoint, you can …

Ok, none of this surprised me but it was interesting to discover finally (I always wondered what I’d do if I had a corrupted VM and last night until 4am I got to find out)… So, our old system was on VMware Server v1.0.6. It worked okay, sucked in regards to performance though and didn’t …

This is an oldie but a goodie… I’ve reposted this as I noticed it wasn’t appearing in search, but on my old blog, it was helping a significant amount of people – so I wanted to give it a new push here, in case it helps others.   Ok, this one took a while to sort …

  Ok, so we just went through an exercise of moving off of VMWare Server 1.0.6 and onto VMware ESXi. Some pain during this exercise but mostly due to a corrupted VMDK (by the way, chkdsk /R, yes R”, not /F, did the trick on that one). However, once the VMDK was cleaned up and …