Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Louis in our office ran into an issue lately where I was trying to push out Trend clients to workstations and was receiving a security prompt saying the account does not have administrator privileges” when in actually does. To fix this issue I went into “Computer Management” and connected to each computer via the “Connect …

SharePoint (MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0) is roughly 3 years old. Awesome product, awesome platform… But, it isn’t just the maturity of the product that has been the big pickup of interest/adoption in SharePoint. Newer/better browsers, more readiness by businesses to accept the web as a viable platform on which to do business (and store their data) …

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…   …

Customers are asking… So, we’ve got a statement for customers in Victoria, BC.   Microsoft has formally announced that Windows 7 has been “released to manufacturing” with the general availability date to customers being pegged as October 22.  We at itgroove are extremely excited about Windows 7 as it addresses all of the shortcomings of …

I was playing with Windows 7 tonight (RC1) and discovered that Windows 7 now has built in Biometric support. And sure enough, my Lenovo T61’s Biometric fingerprint reader was recognized. It took me literally 4 minutes to configure it end to end, with no downloading of any 3rd party drivers or software (the Lenovo FingerPrint …

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 …

This is an old post that I’m refreshing as I noticed it was appearing in search results (but on my old blog, I got TONNES of people saying this helped them, so I’m hoping to do that again by bumping this to the top…)   Ok, this one took a while to sort out and …

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, …

Widgets URL: https://pkiwidgets.quovadisglobal.com     Our friends over at QuoVadis have released their PKI widgets online, to help troubleshoot common SSL and other digital certificate issues and to ease in the creation of SAN UC certs, etc. Here’s the official release information below…   QuoVadis provides PKI Widgets to help users troubleshoot their problems with …

I’ve run into this enough times lately to warrant creating a visual walk-through of the fix. There is a KB article, if you like lots of words – but as always, a picture is worth a 1000 sandwiches…   KB Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923977   The Error (Event ID 53258) MS DTC could not correctly process a …