Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

In case this serves you in the future… A customer asked the following today…     Sean, I am looking to create a new hire IT form on our Moss SharePoint site.  Currently, we have a library on our SharePoint 2003 site for the US. We are trying to push out our new hire computer setup …

Ran into this the other day. The fix was easy but the cause was curious.   Error An error occurred during the processing of /corporate/CorporateDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx. The server block is not well formed.     The Reason While I’m sure a number of scenarios can create this situation, in my case it was a matter of …

If you like to live dangerously, you may be considering applying the latest cumulative update for SharePoint 2010 as soon as it is out (ala, last week). Here’s a good reminder of why we test, evaluate and then deploy such things, as the October 2010 SharePoint 2010 Cumulative Updates have been pulled.   Have a …

Anyone that has worked with SharePoint for a while knows that the recycle bin in SharePoint is awesome and users will depend on it. That said, these same people also know that “sites” do not qualify as part of the recycle bin scenario. So, for a DR plan, this can be a little frightening, particularly …

I saw a post by Todd Klindt yesterday (Service Account Suggestions for SharePoint 2010) that prompted me to think “you know what, Foundation never seems to get this same attention”. So, I figured I’d share my own preferences for SharePoint 2010 Server accounts and then also the SharePoint Foundation accounts (as there is a limited …

Here’s a thread I had recently with a customer about why/how some of their emails weren’t getting to the intended recipient. Unfortunately, no matter what we did, the upstream email recipient’s (the receiver) system was rejecting the message – worse still it wasn’t even telling anyone it was rejecting it (oh thanks!) Anyways, I thought …

The next version (or renaming) of BPOS, the Microsoft Online Business Suite (SharePoint, Exchange, OCS which is now Lync) is looking pretty shiny. Looks to hit in early 2011 and also encouraging, it looks like Canada won’t be the forgotten stepchild that gets the products and services 6 months later this time.   Details This …

Somebody asked in the Microsoft forums today and I figured I would share my answer here in case it helped someone along the way. The Question Anyone have any thoughts on what kind of content is good for a corporate SharePoint portal home page? The following are some things I can things of: Company News …

Please join the itgroove ‘Stache Team and play along with Movember and support Men’s Health.   What It Is Movember is about raising funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer. Close to 4,400 men die of prostate cancer in Canada each year and one in six men will be diagnosed during his lifetime.  …

This picture captures the truth so eloquently. Have a great weekend everyone.