Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

To our valued clients,   itgroove wants to let you know about an important security risk that has been discovered.   Microsoft has advised it partners and customers worldwide of a vulnerability in one of the backend fundamental components of SharePoint – asp.net – that can allow an attacker to penetrate and manipulate SharePoint installations.  …

Someone asked the other day about KPI options for SharePoint if you don’t have MOSS Enterprise. So, I compiled a quick list of a couple of solutions out there in the wild and figured I’d try and help others save some time as well. Whether you have Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) or Microsoft Office …

This is comical… http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/04/technology/google_wave_rip/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=Sbin (Exerpt: “Google’s attempt to reinvent e-mail has fizzled. The company said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on Google Wave, a collaborative tool that drew intense attention when it debuted last year.”)     Better still is this is once again living proof that Google “dabbles” with technology when it comes …

I was asked to partake in a “what are you excited about in SharePoint 2010” video interview back in February of this year at the MVP Summit in Redmond. It was released today and alas, they used a bit of my stuff in portions of it after all. Have a look if you are interested. …

Boy, this one was fun… but I learned a few things tonight. What I learned Lesson 1: There are several extra steps necessary now, to expose list data from one site on another using a dataview web part – no more can you simply connect to another library” as you could in SPD 2007 (remember …

Yippee! Easy Tabs 5 is out (in Beta, your mileage will vary) and looking good. I’ve actually deployed it in house, in production as I plan to simply replace the textfile holding the script with the final version when he has finished his masterpiece – one upload, all tickety-boo. So What? Easy Tabs is a …

The Issue This was an interesting discovery today. A customer had a document library, complete with columns that they wanted to have appear in the Document Information Panel (DIP, ala the Ribbon). I guess for the most part, I’ve never had more than 100 items in a column, so I never noticed, but it would …

I made this slide/picture for a customer the other day to try and demonstrate visually how SharePoint could/should/would be the GO TO platform for all upcoming and future business processes (try it in SharePoint first, then look at other products if the need came up) and eventually retrofit existing projects/processes into SharePoint as well. Anyways, …

As per the following link (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/archive/2010/06/17/live-chats-to-learn-more-about-sharepoint-with-the-mvp-experts.aspx), there will be an MVP expert chat that yours truly will be taking part of. Hope to see you there!   Join the event by going here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/chats/default.aspx   Event Description Q&A with the SharePoint MVP ExpertsDo you have tough technical questions regarding SharePoint for which you’re seeking answers? …

Ok this one is kinda lame… but alas, the fix is simple. My ultimate goal was to perform a backup of a SharePoint WSS database on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server, with the intent of performing a database restore, to a new SharePoint 2010 Foundation Farm, so that I could perform a Database Attach …