Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Guru sounds nice. Not sure I believe it.  But I’ll take it.  Nice to be recognized anyways.  Nobody is an ‘Expert’ in SharePoint (Guru, or otherwise) but if someone wants to pin that to me, I’ll wear it.  Got a free T-Shirt, which one should never turn down… 🙂     itgroove

This was an interesting discovery, as I try not to work after 10pm (when my automated, scripted Site Collections are due to run).   When I tried to save a document to a document library, I was greeted with the following two issues:   When saving to a document library, I got… You do not …

This is a great resource and I know I’ll have trouble finding it later, so I’m bookmarking it here on my blog: http://blog-sharepoint.blogspot.com/2009/05/data-view-conditional-formatting-using.html   In particular, it was useful today for me, to figure out how to show some differing icons in dataview webparts based on today’s data plus the next 7 days, etc. Some …

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, …

I ran into an issue tonight with a client’s WSS install where NOBODY was a Site Collection Administrator. Sure enough, the accounts were listed there (and I even validated/tried Farm Administrators, modifying in Central Admin, etc.). My account was there, but no matter what I did, I didn’t have the permissions I required – I …

Lots of info out there seems to differ, so this is what worked for me, for both scenarios (MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0). One thing for sure, since about September 2007, there is a lot of FUD.   MOSS 2007 – PDF Support (icon and search) Configure Search To Work   1. Stop the IIS …

I was looking for a comprehensive list of limitations to using FBA tonight (Forms Based Authentication) and I stumbled across a few good resources that I’m bookmarking for myself here (and if they’ve just helped you, then great). Links Extranet Collaboration toolkit for SharePoint – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc268155.aspx Yet to use it but looks promising for ‘next …

First off, don’t forget to check the good ole recycle bin and the 2nd stage recycle bin, when attempting to restore some list data, that may be all you need. But if that data is gone, and you aren’t using 3rd party tools like AvePoint, Idera, etc. that give you *granular* restore capabilities, you may …

As this is a frequently asked SharePoint question I get, I’m going to try and answer it as succinctly as possible. And as I’m a fan of screenshots (a picture is worth a 1000 words as they say), I’m going to use them as much as possible, to limit how much I have to type. …

Someone asked this tonight on www.experts-exchange.com and I figured I’d take me post/comment and blog it here as it’s come up before…   Title: Importing and linking a common contacts Outlook list to SharePoint   Question: We have a custom contacts folder underneath the public folders in Outlook that we use rather than the regular …