Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Sometimes I just can’t help myself. Darren thinks I’m crazy, yet somehow my wife gets it (loves it actually).

It’s been a while since I’ve reminded the local community so thought I’d take a second and provide a refresher… Every month in Victoria you have an opportunity to learn (for free, with pizza included!) something new about SharePoint.  We are the Victoria SharePoint Users Group – www.meetup.com/vsharepoint – please consider signing up.  Our next …

In past posts, I’ve blogged about using Microsoft Word and Windows Live Writer (with its suite or sweet! of add-ins to enhance your blogs) to contribute to a SharePoint blog.  I even recently wrote about blogging to SharePoint from iPads/iPhones and other mobile devices using SharePlus.  Finally, although I wrote it for WSS/MOSS 2007, I …

Regional settings can be set in SharePoint in three different places: The Web application The Site/Web level User settings With the exception of the User settings, you’ll need to be logged in as a site collection administrator or a site owner to change the regional settings for a site. With this in mind, let’s dive …

A lot of small businesses, regardless of whether they’re working with an outside IT provider or not, fall into the trap of thinking that their simple data backup plan is sufficient, even when it’s not. This makes everyone feel better for a while, but once the information is actually needed, they’re in for a rude …

The other day a customer asked me if he should just let a domain name go. He felt that the website/domain he had wasn’t going to serve him very much in the future. Effectively, he was letting go of a hobby/talent and was thinking he probably wouldn’t need the site anymore; despite the fact it …

Access your Business Data – Anytime, from Anywhere on Anything with SharePoint Document Libraries – contact www.itgroove.net for help! I wrote this about 5 or 6 years ago.  But when I switched blog platforms, I lost the content and realized the content has fallen off the Google cache for the most part too.  Tonight I …

Some time ago, I had Luke (Thanks Luke) put together a web part page with 3 content editor web parts. Then I had him create a header for every base/included SharePoint 2010 Wiki html style so that we could then work on styling each of the elements and seeing them all on one palette.  I …

Hey folks, I’m honoured and humbled to have been awarded with the Microsoft MVP award in SharePoint for a 4th year. It truly is a privilege to be part of this fine group of individuals, some of the smartest and most dedicated folks I’ve ever met. I’d like to thank my wife, my kids, my …

Is good SharePoint (and/or General IT) support from an outsourced company expensive? The answer to that question depends a great deal on who you ask, and on the perspective you take on the value of a solid IT provider. Allow me to explain: Simply looking at the hourly rates most experienced, professional IT providers ask …