Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I’ve been asked to put together some SharePoint ‘Meeting Initiation’ scenarios, so here they are, presented as ‘business requirements’ and the techniques necessary to get rolling. Once you have created a meeting workspace, keep in mind that they are full, SharePoint sites that you can tune, customize and leverage for as long as you need. …

One of the things I often do, to avoid a whole bunch of noise (and extra ‘busy-ness’ on my servers) is turn off the automatic connection of printers, etc. in RDP. I mean, if I’m just managing the Server via an RDP connection, do I really need COM ports, printers, default printers and other crapola …

Microsoft has produced a SharePoint Site Collection (that you can integrate into your SharePoint site, if you have MOSS – not WSS, sorry), called the “Productivity Hub”, which can help with the adoption and education of SharePoint and the other standard Microsoft Office Products (and in the near future, Windows 7, etc.).   Where to …

I guess it’s been out a few weeks now, but tonight I was introduced to WYSE PocketCloud for the iPhone. At the moment (sale?) is it a $20 app (looks to be $30 in October) and for that price, I had to have it and try it. So, I did. And gosh darned it, it …

Our son is a big ham and he had been practicing his Indiana Jones impersonation and we made it into a little movie this morning as well, I wasn’t motivated to go to work yet.   Enjoy 🙂   YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c32nN3skHEU

Dear Google Support – Is anyone home?   Ok, this blog post is my next step in trying to get Google Support to respond to my requests for assistance. I’m on *BUSINESS DAY* “8” (yes, “Eight”) with no response.   And for all you Google lovers (excuse makers), this is for the Google Mail for …

I ran into a situation today where I had a beautiful plan, diagrams and naming convention all set to go, for a new 4 FARM SharePoint Implementation. I had planned on having two SQL Instances created, one called INTERNAL (Intranet, etc.) and one called EXTERNAL (Internet/Public, etc.).     The problem is, after creating the …

We ran into this in our office and we have a workaround.   Issue:   After upgrading from Vista to Windows 7, our VMware Workstation (and VMware Player) installs no longer functioned properly. When we would go to start our virtual machines, we would get The VMware Authorization Service is not running” and when attempting …

Well, what d’ya know? I’m not sure how far back this feature goes (at least Vista, maybe XP, gosh, maybe even Windows 2000?), but it became a very practical solution for me today.   My Requirement I’m the a picture is worth a 1000 words” guy – and as such, I’m always creating little Jing …

This quick blog entry was created because I was getting nowhere, trying to find a quick resolution to two obscure errors I was getting, when trying (in my case) to download and extract SQL Server 2008 SP1 (though this should apply to just about any downloaded executable you pull down.   So here goes…   …