Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

This came up this morning so I thought I’d take a second to speak to it. For one, this not is by any means complete. There are hundreds of ways to combat spam (SPF/SenderID, RBLs, Heuristics, White/Black/Gray/Red/Green lists, International suffixes, the list goes on). All I want to point out here is what I think …

A colleague asked tonight if there was a quick and easy way to save a piece of Smart Art he created in an Office App (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook – and I wish, in OneNote).  My response was two options (I’m sure others can think of more) and I figured I’d share them for others …

While there is probably a dozen ways to do this, I needed to today and I wanted to do it quick and easy. Figured this might help others, particularly if you were trying to take a big list of text entries and pull it into SharePoint for more meaningful data manipulation. What I wanted to …

While poking around Office 2013 Add-On’s in SharePoint Designer 2013, I discovered Microsoft has either rebuilt (or re-licensed) OCR support for Office 2013.  You may (or may not) know that in 2010 OCR was stripped out of the product for some reason and we had to add that support from Office 2007 buy running the …

Our man Jarrod got his Clickable InfoPath Forms article posted on Microsoft’s Get the Point Blog. Check it out!  Good work Darth!

I Ran into the following today.  My goal was to give a play with the Napa Office 365 Development Tools in my Office 365 SharePoint 2013 Preview account.  However, when I tried to add the app from the store, I got the following… Notice text: We need your help to make this app work. Please …

Oops, did you do this too? I was poking around on my SharePoint 2013 site and clicking in settings chose the Mobile Site URL.  This is provided so you can preview the mobile view others would see on those devices. However, short of closing browsers and clearing cache, I’m stuck in mobile land until I …

Learn About The Microsoft Private Cloud to Win a Trip for Two to Mexico! Microsoft has released new and exciting products that will change the way IT Pros utilize Virtualization and Microsoft Private Cloud solutions.   Two products which are a part of these great changes are the newly released System Center 2012 and the soon …

There will no doubt be countless blogs, articles and rants about preparing for SharePoint 2013.  I’m doing my own because, well, I need to store stuff as I come across it somewhere.  But if I can contribute in any way or with a different approach, I might as well give back to the community as …

I’m often amazed how few people realize that if you have SharePoint 2010 Server (or 2007) Standard, you have a couple of really useful workflows, out of the box, available to you that are very easy to implement and empower your staff. It’s shocking actually… Ensure the Site Collection “Workflows” feature is activated If the …