Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Nice to be the boss. I gave my man Dougie my requirements and the skeleton for a script and he produced the rest. Note: update, November 15, 2009, added support for Windows Server 2008 (now.exe replaced with date/t) for backing up the WID   Download the (updated) script hereNOTE: you use this at your own …

I got asked the following today and after some thought, I provided the following response. Perhaps this will help someone else, and/or solicit some other ideas (please leave comments/share!). The Business Problem/Requirement We are having a problem with the automatic versioning in SharePoint. We are transferring files from our old Document Management System (DMS) to …

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 …

Whew, long title… but I couldn’t think of a shorter way of succinctly saying what needed to be said… 🙂   Business Requirement A client wanted to create an InfoPath form, for vacation approval and other purposes and have it run within SharePoint. But a key requirement was that when the electronic form was launched, …

I’ve been asked this enough lately that I thought I’d take a moment to spell it out with some visuals. When the time comes to add some visual appeal to your SharePoint Dashboards (sometimes this goes a long way to adding interest in the site and/or helping folks find their ‘stuff’.   First, before starting, …

Microsoft quietly unveiled a new, slicked up SharePoint information site. Pretty slick looking, not a lot of new content on there (yet I imagine) but I like it.   http://sharepoint.microsoft.com    

Update: May 21, 2009 – Note, if you have MOSS (this won’t affect WSS only installs as there is no license to input), there is a glitch in SP2 (regardless of cumulative fixes) that reverts SharePoint back to a Trial license (gulp/guffaw!). Here’s the full court press release from the SharePoint team – http://blogs.msdn.com/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx It …

Ok, long title but I wanted to be as descriptive as possible…   Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb507233.aspx   I had need today, as I often do, to help a client ‘clean up’ their SharePoint environment. They wanted a new SharePoint site (built on a sound infrastructure, etc. – my favourite) but wanted to bring across ‘some’ of …

I had a challenge tonight. We’ve created somewhat of a ‘Kiosk’ in a SharePoint site that serves as a kiosk for kids. So, we’ve gone through great efforts to restrict where people can click, etc. So, instead of allowing them to view knowledge base content (the list I happen to be working on) directly, I …

I’m often shuttling around content that a client wanted in a new location and sometimes, Saving a SharePoint list as a template (with content) fits the bill nicely. But with a (default) 10MB limit, this can be quite obtrusive. Thankfully, this can be modified (up to a maximum of 500MB) with the following syntax (note …