Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

We spent a little time this week putting together a list of what we believe are the benefits customers get, working with itgroove. You’ll notice we didn’t put things like we’re wicked smart” or “we’re great haxors”. We tried to compile a list of value we provide to a customer, based on our approach to …

Cool, the content the SharePoint Get the Point team asked me for has been posted on their sites home page. Check it out here…   Link: How SharePoint Saved my Business … and My Sanity

Sweet. I’d like to thank the academy…   All of us at itgroove are very pleased to announce that Sean Wallbridge — our President, Principal consultant and resident SharePoint Jedi – has been awarded MVP for Microsoft SharePoint Server for the second year in a row. The MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award is given to …

Here was my customers requirement. They wanted all blog posts on a public SharePoint site to be in the date/time style of 2010-03-30, which they described as Metric. While there may be a better way to do this (I’m no date expert), the only way I could accomplish this was to do the following:   …

Ok don’t get too excited, this is short and sweet and off the cuff for a customer. It is a test script (like an actor reads a script) of items that could/should be checked, to ensure SharePoint was healthy, after patching or major work. This isn’t everything one should do, but could be useful to …

I’ve seen this enough times lately that it was time to blog it.   The Issue SharePoint Site that is normally accessible exhibits Read Only behavior and even for the site owner, could look a little like this…   Figure 1 : Dude, where’s my settings option?   Figure 2 : Dude, where’s my Owner …

We’ve got this up on a big ole LED sign outside of the arena here. Whatcha think?  

As always, test before deploying. But February 2010 Cumulative Updates (CU) are here. Note, if you are planning to upgrade to SharePoint 2010, you will want to have Service Pack 2 and at least the October Cumulatives. Once applied, your build number will be: 12.0.0.6529 (12.0.6529.5000)   February Cumulative Update (CU) – LATESTReleased February 23, …

Reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx   Today Microsoft officially announced that May 12th, 2010 is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010. RTM is April 2010.   Batten down the hatches, we’re gonna be busy.

Ok, stumbled across this today.  And I think I understand what happened…     I have a SP2010 Server that I’ve been exploring.  The related controls/components are in my IE client (IE8).     Since then, when I visit my production MOSS 2007 Server where my real data is, if I choose “Upload Multiple Documents”, …