Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I get asked enough, I figured I better tell the story (actually I did elsewhere, so I’m being lazy and just copying and pasting the details here).   Well, I got a tattoo the other day (Friday, July 11, 2008).  As I’m sure anyone will tell you, it is a personal experience and so I …

This seemed worthy of sharing. Someone on Experts-Exchange asked about modifying/extending one of the SharePoint 40 Fantastic templates, to add their own column (Business Units) and then modify the ‘New Request’ form. So, here was my response to him/her including the related YouTube/Screencast video, showing how it is done. This should prove useful/valuable to anyone …

Customers are asking… So, we’ve got a statement for customers in Victoria, BC.   Microsoft has formally announced that Windows 7 has been “released to manufacturing” with the general availability date to customers being pegged as October 22.  We at itgroove are extremely excited about Windows 7 as it addresses all of the shortcomings of …

This question came up on Experts-Exchange.com today and after a few minutes of consideration, here’s my suggestion to the problem – simple, effective and customizable … and better yet, no code! More importantly, I hope this helps inspire ideas and creativity, by demonstrating how simple this really was, to implement.   The Business Requirement   …

If you are having difficulties *sending* email to a foreign domain (email address) *from* Exchange, here’s some suggestions for things to check/address.   1. Ensure you have a valid PTR record (reverse IP, defined with your ISP, not with your DNS provider) that returns the right value when someone performs an nslookup against your Public …

Cool, Bamboo chose vSharePoint.com (the Victoria SharePoint User Group) to be their first profiled User Group.  Puts extra pressure on making sure our first meeting/event goes well in September. 🙂   http://community.bamboosolutions.com/blogs/user-groups/default.aspx

Internally, we are using SharePoint blogs very effectively, to replace common sharing of information (in our case, typically about technology like ‘how I fixed this or that’. Using Microsoft Word 2007 as our blogging tool (and if you don’t have Microsoft Word 2007, you could use Windows Live Writer, which is free), and SharePoint (MOSS …

I’ve seen these Event ID’s appear in situations where:   Active Directory was unhealthy (or a single DC, that a workstation was attempting to connect to was unhealthy) DNS Servers that a workstation points to, are unhealthy Combination of both (usually they are related)   Where workstations were not receiving GPO updates successfully, and workstations …

I never thought I’d be blogging about Office 2000 (frankly, I don’t recall if I would have known what a blog was, back then…). Anyways, this was a strange enough one to resolve today that perhaps it will help someone else (and/or maybe it applied to later versions of Word, Excel and Office).   Our …

Here’s an interesting one, with a simple fix. A customer called today and they use Outlook 2003 with a 3rd party/hosted POP3 Server (and frankly, this problem and resolution could apply across all of Outlook, POP3 Servers and under the heading ‘common sense’). They have the option in Outlook to ‘Leave a copy of messages …