Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Mark Wagner wrote a hugely valuable post on how to apply a theme across all subsites, without having to muck about with the master page stuff (and frankly, most of my clients just want it to look a little different and don’t need mass customization). To avoid risking having Mark move or retire his article, …

Ok, I promised Zak I would do this and I finally got around to taking my jibberish notes and pasting them in here (sorry, this won’t be an ellaborate HOWTO with diagrams, the intended audience here is someone that is familiar with WSS already). How I upgraded Companyweb (wss 2.0) to WSS 3.0 I used …

This is a keeper, so I’m bookmarking it. http://blogs.msdn.com/modonovan/archive/2005/06/14/428862.aspx Don’t mind me.

Sample Lipsum Document.doc Ok, I have to test SharePoint search, often. So I always end up going to www.lipsum.com, to generate a quick word document (great site by the way, handy for demo text). But, when I’m on a server, I don’t usually have Word itself handy. So, here’s a quick 25 paragraph Word Document …

Well, I’ve come across this twice now. I’ll try and ‘splain the details as clearly as I can at this late hour but the simple fact is, if you are going to install WSS/MOSS as a ‘farm’ (i.e. not the default installation) but yet, you are going to have the SQL server and the WSS …

Ok, so this drove me bonkers. I’m not loving the workaround (basic authentication) but I’m happy enough, as I have an SSL cert protecting the site anyways, thus auth is secured. But even after blowing away the web application and site collection, creating a new web application and restoring the site collection from backup, this …

Ok, this week alone, I’ve run into two different scenarios, where I’ve gotten Application Event ID 2424 errors, when WSS Search is attempting to perform a search/catalog update. Symptoms: Search returns no results, but no errors either, in WSS – simply that no results were found, when there definitely should be something there. Event ID …

Well, I helped solve this by accident, but mostly Zac came to this conclusion. Problem: You have a SharePoint list/form that you want to control the order of data entry into. No matter what way you order the columns in the list or view, it doesn’t show them the way you’d expect. Answer: The column …

This dude has prepared a lovely and simple detail/method for hiding (don’t remove!) the TITLE field in a SharePoint list, so why write it myself? 🙂 http://dlocc.com/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/35-customization/46-how-to-remove-the-qtitleq-column-from-a-sharepoint-list.html

Don’t mind me, just bookmarking… http://planetwilson.blogspot.com/2008/02/version-2-of-colour-calendar-released.html