Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I like to help out where I can. And I’m not going to pretend I invented the following method, though I did borrow it from a course I took about 8 years ago that had nothing to do with blogging or technical writing/sharing.  I actually spent a minute trying to google, er, bing where the …

I posted this information on the Get The Point Blog some time ago but I’ve had several folks say they didn’t quite succeed at getting it going (they forgot to check in published pages, etc.).  It was here: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/Blogs/GetThePoint/brainlitterarchive/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=381 Well, I’ve done one better and posted it on my own blog complete with a video …

This one has come up enough that I figured I’d try and help folks get to the quick resolution of it. It presents itself in a number of scenarios but it also seems clear that folks aren’t sure what certs they should be trusting so I’m going to try to simplify the fix… The Issue …

Thanks to Jeremy for doing a fine job of assembling itgroove’s Meet the Team page.  Felt like a good opportunity to flaunt our talented and good looking crew. Click here to Meet the itgroove Team

Ok, this one will be short. I’m tired and I’m about ready to throw my laptop out of the window as the Internet access at this hotel is BRUTAL tonight. So apologies if this is a little disjointed, but the gist is here. The Challenge If you have a whole bunch of documents in a …

It happens often enough in the SMB space that this quick video how to was warranted.  SharePoint uses SQL Server. SQL Server has databases.  Those databases have log files.  Those log files can get quite big if not properly maintained or if backup software doesn’t do its job to inform SQL that the log files …

Anyone that has worked with SharePoint extensively will tell you it is a giant product, framework on which to build elegant solutions. With that said, no one person can do it all. So at itgroove, we have carved up champions of expertise within the team to make sure we have the right skills, coverage and …

This is already popular with the ladies. Ok, maybe with customers at least… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-J2vNIcCE&hl=en&hd=1] itgroove SharePoint 2010 Search Center Photo Rotator   We have packaged up, ready for implementation a sassy SharePoint 2010 Search Home Page Rotator and you can have it too. Depending on your needs/requirements, we can put this in with as …

Colin and I have been talking about list and library limits for a while and I’ve been getting a much better grip on techniques for showing many items in a large list. Here are the facts in SharePoint 2010: Lists and libraries can have up to 60 million items (reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx) However, unless you override …

In environments where the publishing features aren’t used (or desired), or available (such as SharePoint Foundation installs, being able to set all webs (Sub sites) in a site collection to a common Master Page using PowerShell is very useful. Here’s how… $site = Get-SPSite http://portal.somewhere.com/ $sites = @(foreach ($web in $site.AllWebs) { $web | Select-Object …