Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I couldn’t get this to work for me (maybe I was having a thick day) so I asked Colin to devise a way that worked in my situation).  If you need to whack your SharePoint 2010 on the head with a big bat and make it forget all the customizations that have been perform on …

I get asked about this enough that it was worth whipping together a quick diagram to highlight what a small to medium business might want to consider in regards to putting up a SharePoint environment complete with DEV, UAT (Testing) and Production. Obviously every client is different and particularly in the case of Production, every …

Thanks to our friend Summer.  She summarized a conversation we had a little while back and it was worthy of sharing I think. Combining mastery in Microsoft technologies and a consistent focus on customer services, itgroove professionals deliver straightforward advice and IT solutions to small and mid-sized businesses since 2006. Every new client relationship begins …

Meet the itgroove team circa 2012.  Top, Left to Right: Wendy, Sean, Louis, Jeremy, Luke, Colin, Darren, Keith and Robert

I’m looking forward to seeing what master Dahl (Jeremy Dahl, our latest addition) will bring to his technology blog.  It just came online yesterday, so it may take a moment for him to get past the cosmetics and get down to the nitty and the gritty and flourish with content – but I have no …

Oh gawd. The world is running out of IP Addresses and according to some, it happened 2+ years ago. Meh. But, IPv6 is coming and of course, Windows for a long time now has had native support for it. The challenge is, with DNS registrations, quite often you’ll get the IPv6 response from a ping, …

  We recently inherited a SharePoint implementation that my gut was telling me wasn’t up to the level the customer expected from their previous provider.  The first question was, is this farm ready to scale? When you install SharePoint 2010, you get the question of whether you are installing complete or standalone (and even when …

Ticket Info: Get Tickets Here It’s tonight. Thanks in advance to my band mates and other musician friends for sparing their evening and to all my friends for their support.  And to Jason Lamb and Graham Clark for what will be no doubt, a great night. Crap, I’m turning 40 Hey folks, Sean from itgroove …

If there’s one thing small business owners like, it’s doing things for themselves. After all, not only did they start their own companies, but many have learned that working as your own bookkeeper, salesperson, or even janitor can be a great way to save on billable hours. Can the same thing work for IT or …

Dan Holme asked for a bunch of us to reflect on last year and make some predictions for next year.  The results of his questionnaire can be found here. Responses to the Year in Review include comments from: Radi Atanassov Rob Bogue Geoff Evelyn Jason Himmelstein Debbie Ireland Asif Rehmani Chris Riley Jeremy Thake Sean …