Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

It’s always nice to hear good things so figured I’d share the vibe We engaged itgroove in the 11th hour of a badly listing internal SharePoint project. Sean and his team of highly skilled professionals jumped right in, assessing the work completed and determining what could be salvaged versus what needed to be redone.  itgroove’s …

Given that you can’t have good technology without good technology, a lot of business owners and managers assume that having the best, top-of-the-line hardware naturally assures that their company will have great networking and communication. That’s not always the case, however, and even spending huge amounts of money on having the latest and greatest hardware, …

I’m always googling this information because I can’t recall the event ID so I’ve decided to quickly paraphrase it. If, as part of troubleshooting, you are trying to determine when the last Windows Server reboot was, these are useful clues: In the Windows System Event Log Event 6005 – this was when the server was …

We’re pretty chuffed about our internal Intranet, running on SharePoint 2010 (and enhanced by components from Nintex and Surfray. We’ve always been powered by SharePoint (file server, eww, what’s that?) and over the years it has evolved into something that really works and grows with us. To get the most out of SharePoint (performance, usability …

itgroove and Microsoft are hosting an evening with MVP Mitch Garvis on the topic of "Architecting and Supporting the Back-End Infrastructure for the consumerization of IT". Come get your Hyper-V, Citrix Xen Desktop and System Center Game face on!  May 22nd at Ambrosia. Learn More Here or to Register

If you are trying to determine the IP of the sender of a bullsh#t email message (A spammer), you’ll want to get the info from the message headers. Below are the various methods to get it as Outlook has changed the interface with every version. Note, you need the original message. If someone forwards a …

There are a lot of businesses that love their outsourced IT providers, and couldn’t imagine going without them. On the other hand, there are also more than a few who aren’t happy with the service and technology support they’re getting, and are actively counting down the days until their current agreement ends. Obviously, you want …

I’m filing this under SharePoint because it is relevant to wanting to scan into SharePoint (using say, Dark Blue Duck) and still being able to OCR documents as part of the scan. What Microsoft decided for some reason not to include OCR abilities in Office 2010 (yet had included it in Office 2007). Maybe a …

Problem If you spent a bunch of time creating a sweet template in your SharePoint site collection and then were unable to make new sub sites (they’re called Webs really, but that’s a different conversation) due an error similar to the following… Error The site template requires that the Feature {af6d9aec-7c38-4dda-997f-cc1ddbb87c92} be activated in the …

Technorati: 8H833AZX68VQ Every once in a while I find myself at Portableapps.com because its uber handy. Essentially, they have taken a number of popular applications and turned them into standalone applications (the “install” process simply creates a folder structure and an EXE to launch and doesn’t install to the registry, start menu, etc.). In other …