Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

As I’m always demoing SharePoint capabilities and content, constantly filling out sample lists and libraries can be pretty tiresome. So, I tasked (the benefit of a business owner is the ability to delegate, so I did… 🙂 the job of creating several stock SharePoint Lists and Libraries with some sample content, so that I (and …

I ran into this today and thought I’d share the solution as it wasn’t immediately obvious. Server names and IP’s have been changed to protect the innocent. 🙂   The Problem A customer was attempting to use the MOSS Manage Content and Structure” functionality but was getting a page that simply said “File Not Found”. …

SharePoint (MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0) is roughly 3 years old. Awesome product, awesome platform… But, it isn’t just the maturity of the product that has been the big pickup of interest/adoption in SharePoint. Newer/better browsers, more readiness by businesses to accept the web as a viable platform on which to do business (and store their data) …

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you set the Group Policy settings outlined in the reference link below, users will not be able to update their own zones. If you want to push out the Corporate Intranet zones via Group Policy, follow the instructions in this link… http://johnckirk.livejournal.com/224270.html PRO: This is great as you no longer need to …

Don’t mind me, just bookmarking something handy. A nice, simple tool for plunking in a URL, and having it size a browser to the rough presentation that would appear, based on a screen’s resolution. Here it is: http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/browser.html   I know (but did you know?), ya, you can do it in SharePoint Designer as well. …

There are so many sites out there keeping track of SharePoint builds. Many seem to stop at some point (they lose interest I guess) and end up out of date. I prefer to use what appears to me to be the most comprehensive lists as they are from the horse’s mouth (Microsoft Technet site) and …

As someone who often helps small businesses get rolling with SharePoint solutions based on Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0), hosted or not, there are some limitations that customers don’t always realize at first. First off, I try to provide a reasonably balanced overview of the differences between in house and hosted, here.   But, and …

Day 3. Feet healing, bought some sandals. Now my head hurts – open bar at the Huey Lewis concert was bad news for Sean. Great time, but forgot to hydrate. Owwweee     Enterprise Content Types and Managed Meta Data Tough focusing at first with my hangover headache. But, this is a wowee feature. Might …

Day 2. Feet hurt, tired of eating *out* already (Wendy would be pleased to hear that. Looking forward to Huey tonight     SharePoint Sites Session Pretty basic session. Probably should have signed up for something more technical but… Note Board – much like writing on the ‘wall’ in a FaceBook site. Will be interesting …

Yep, I’m in Vegas with the wife and kids and *sigh*, the Mother In Law (nah, she’s not so bad but I’m required by law to complain about her). I hope to see them sometime this week. 🙂     I saw the keynotes this morning and then attended the SharePoint Admin sessions. Here’s a …