Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Blogging on an iPhone or iPad (iOS) to a SharePoint Blog I’ve been meaning to write this post for about 8 months but for one reason or another, I keep forgetting to do it (and once you see how short this post is, you’ll wonder why it took so long, too). Anyways, 8+ months ago …

For whatever reason, Microsoft doesn’t provide very clear instructions regarding renaming the Managed Metadata Service Application Database on TechNet. In fact, for a number of the service applications, they go into decent detail about the steps here, but then they wimp out on the Managed Metadata Service with this… And in that, they don’t mention …

While my attitudes and approaches to things sometimes change, here are a few things that I believe lead to a happy consultant, business and customer. Keep your inbox tidy (and your work life less cluttered and stressful). Emails should get one of the following actions: Acted on immediately, if it takes less than 5 minutes …

Bring the Blue this Tuesday and Wednesday at SOFMC. and support the Victoria Royals inaugural season Playoff Push vs. the Kamloops Blazers. Tickets at Victoriaroyals.com.

I’m often left more than a little surprised when I meet with a company implementing SharePoint 2010 Standard and the folks there will be under the impression that they don’t need or want the Enterprise CAL (Client Access License).  Not only that, but they seem hung up on an apparent ‘huge cost’ to it. I …

As per this article by Eric Phillips, the WSS_Logging database holds a bunch of legacy logging data.  As the timer jobs for creating diagnostic reports are disabled by default (to prevent extra load on the system) and considering most folks aren’t asking for that data, 14 days of it just equals big databases. The default …

You can’t ignore it. The iPad has been a game changer in business. And that game is Angry Birds… In Small Business Land in particular, companies that can (sometimes) change directions on a dime, also have similar expectations of their technology. And that handsomely tactile tablet device, complete with its $0.99 cent apps (Angry Birds …

I have been asked by some friends at Microsoft Canada to post this article (and a few others). – Sean Every fall and spring, a survey goes out to a few hundred thousand IT folks in Canada asking what they think of Microsoft as a company. The information they get from this survey helps them …

I have been asked by some friends at Microsoft Canada to post this article (and a few others). – Sean You’ve likely heard about how Office 365 and Windows Intune are great applications to get you started with Cloud Computing. Many of you emailed me asking for more info on what Cloud Computing is, including …

I have been asked by some friends at Microsoft Canada to post this article (and a few others). – Sean Figuring out which software licensing options best suit your needs while being cost-effective can be confusing. Some businesses end up making their purchases through retail stores which means they miss out on volume licensing opportunities …