Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Cool, the content the SharePoint Get the Point team asked me for has been posted on their sites home page. Check it out here…   Link: How SharePoint Saved my Business … and My Sanity

Sweet. I’d like to thank the academy…   All of us at itgroove are very pleased to announce that Sean Wallbridge — our President, Principal consultant and resident SharePoint Jedi – has been awarded MVP for Microsoft SharePoint Server for the second year in a row. The MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award is given to …

I remember a study Microsoft did back before Windows 2000 was released and it was determined that 40% of all troubleshooting/technology tickets were related to viruses (and the software that supported it) and backups (and the software that supported it).  That was a big reason behind a lot of the stuff implemented in Windows 2000. …

Here was my customers requirement. They wanted all blog posts on a public SharePoint site to be in the date/time style of 2010-03-30, which they described as Metric. While there may be a better way to do this (I’m no date expert), the only way I could accomplish this was to do the following:   …

This post is by Louis in our office and seemed like it could be helpful for others. A few nasty Malwares lately namely the XP Defender variants once cleaned leave a few lasting issues that are truly maddening. The main issue is whenever you try to open any application it asks you what you would …

Ok don’t get too excited, this is short and sweet and off the cuff for a customer. It is a test script (like an actor reads a script) of items that could/should be checked, to ensure SharePoint was healthy, after patching or major work. This isn’t everything one should do, but could be useful to …

I got this query/business issue the other day… We have a problem with one of our user’s Outlook calendar’s.  For some unknown reason 2 weeks ago, certain (not all) appointments in the users calendar duplicated themselves.  I have read that it’s possibly a Blackberry related issue but not entirely sure. The user is masked_to_protect_the_innocent (one …

Kudo’s to Avi for the solution, write-up and persistance…   I didn’t think we were ever going to get to the bottom of this issue. Web forums and support sites offered little in assistance to the fix, in fact, many people are still baffled, and have thus not resolved the issue. The symptoms were as follows: …

I’ve seen this enough times lately that it was time to blog it.   The Issue SharePoint Site that is normally accessible exhibits Read Only behavior and even for the site owner, could look a little like this…   Figure 1 : Dude, where’s my settings option?   Figure 2 : Dude, where’s my Owner …

We’ve got this up on a big ole LED sign outside of the arena here. Whatcha think?