Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Ok, I’ve run into this enough times, I figured I’d share it. What Today’s scenario was that I was using Metalogix Migration Manager (or rather, Content Matrix as it is now called) to move a SharePoint Site Collection to a new farm. During this move, SharePoint Publishing got, er, buggered, for lack of a better …

If you have seen any demo’s of the new SharePoint 2013 Team Site, you will already be familiar with Promoted Links.  If you aren’t, here’s a good introduction. Figure 1: Promoted Site Links, as you’d find them in your Team Site But I’m going to take a moment to discuss “Promoted Sites” as I went …

I had a dream need today… What We are in the process of migrating all of our SharePoint 2010 content to 2013 over the holidays (yep, I’m a sucker for punishment and I need something to do or I’ll go mad)… During this process, I have built out a Site Map for planning where we …

Everyone nowadays talks about “the Cloud” as being the next big thing that ALL companies should be looking at as a part of their IT infrastructure planning. The problem is that the term “Cloud”, has become so ambiguous and attached to so many things that it is hard for most companies to get a handle …

Office 365 Lunch and Learn We’re announcing that we are working with Microsoft to help bring Office 365 to businesses wanting their Office software delivered from the cloud. And we’re giving people a chance to hear firsthand how this may affect their business and what they should consider before deciding. I will be presenting what …

The following post of mine and video was pretty popular regarding the Computer Department Help Desk, so I thought I’d share another one that is zipping around the ole Interweb.  The idea/scam is that your domain/company name is desired by someone in Asia and that you have an opportunity to stake your company name on …

Bought the Brother MFC-J835DW tonight. Nice unit. On sale for $99 right now too at Best Buy. Has everything I would ever need but my favourite bits are: Breeze to setup. Not like the last 3 HP’s I’ve had. This was pretty painless Wifi Enabled And really why I bought it… While it isn’t AirPrint, …

Great summary (below link) and captures my feelings as well, pretty much to a lowercase “t”. Surface is off to a great start but has some work to do. Surface Pro may be the one to watch (and I think had they been released together, it would have been a much better move). Link to …

Ah the things that give me pleasure itgroove is SharePoint-centric. Our documents, holiday request forms, client info, – everything – goes into SharePoint in our shop. We also use SharePoint as our issue tracking system – new internal and client requests wind up created as SharePoint List Items, which are in turn assigned to our …

Dear Canada and friends south of the border.  Rush has been snubbed countless times from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because they haven’t been “commercial” enough. Yet, almost no band in history has accomplished more than these guys AND they actually perform live with real skills, talent and without putting on a gong …