Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

While this post got me on the right track, it was the combination of the post and the other readers comments that gave me everything I needed to post this for you (and myself).   When you create a web part library and create new webpart pages in it, the Quick Launch Bar is disabled …

I hear this all the time.  Folks are tired of having to repeatedly enter their usernames and passwords, when connecting to their SharePoint site, or opening/saving Word and other documents in SharePoint document libraries. The simple fact is, if this is your YOUR SharePoint site, you should TRUST it. And you tell your browser you …

I’m getting asked this a lot, of whether you can have a choice column in a SharePoint list provide a list of values and based on the selection in that list, have another choice column display relevant choices.  For example, if you choose Canada as a country from a ‘countries’ list, you would then be …

Cool, achieved ‘Master’ status today in the category of MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server).  Experts Exchange is very helpful folks, so if you haven’t tried it, you should consider it.  www.experts-exchange.com.  (my online profile is “itgroove”).   New Master Certification Congratulations itgroove , You have achieved Master Certification in MOSS-Sharepoint by earning 50,746 points! To …

Note, this is an exerpt from an email I got, that was regarding Michael Sampson’s new book ‘Seamless Teamwork’.  So, although it echoes my own thoughts on the subject, I didn’t write this, but thought it was worthy of a quick blog post.   Industry analysts have identified SharePoint as a key technology to help …

Over the years, I’ve seen lots of talk on the use of long passwords and complex passwords, etc. and I’ve narrowed the noise down to two options, that we recommend to our clients (and I tend to lean towards the 2nd option). In order to maintain good security (and to satisfy management security concerns), we …

Getting this, when performing an IISRESET? Restart attempt failed. Restarting of Internet Services has been disabled. Basically, IISRESET got disabled.  Don’t know how that happened?  I’ve seen lots of discussions online about some patches that do not finish correctly and leave IISRESET in a ‘disabled’ state. So, when/if that happens, here’s how you correct the …

After moving SQL Databases from one server to another in my WSS Farm, Search had a little hissy fit on me.   When trying to force a SharePoint crawl… STSADM -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart   I got this… ‘fullcrawlstart’ action failed. Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   And …

I’ve pieced together this batch file as I find I’m always reinventing the wheel, when it comes to installing SharePoint Solutions that don’t come with an installer (setup.exe type deal).   So, here it is, ready to be used by you (and easy to find, by me…) 🙂 @ECHO OFF SET PATHTOSTSADM=C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb …

I create site templates all the time, based on look, feel and lists that I’ve defined. But today, I wanted to move a SharePoint site (that didn’t have much content, note that Site Templates are recommended to be under 10MB to add as ‘new sites’) and have that site and content as the ‘root’ or …