Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

I was enabling some 3rd party web server statistics software today (Smarterstats by www.smartertools.com) on a SharePoint server and it was necessary to make sure all the appropriate fields necessary for returning all information, in all reports were set. For Smarterstats (and in general this can apply to all webstatistics software), the following are necessary …

We were informed recently of a local computer user that was duped by a fictitious email masquerading as an email from his bank. Without going into detail it will suffice to say that the bad guys at the other end of the email obtained personal banking information from this user and proceeded to raid his …

Don’t mind me, just bookmarking some key tools I use here for Exchange 2003 and 2007 Outlook Anywhere and ActiveSync Testing.   Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer – https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com Telnet to Port 25/SMTP Testing – http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/153119 ActiveSync Tester (simulator) for Windows and the iPhone – https://store.accessmylan.com/main/diagnostic-tools

Ok, here’s the situation (my parents went away on a week’s vacation… no wait, that’s the Fresh Prince)…   I have a MOSS 2007 Server. The maximum upload size was long set to larger than the default 50MB (100MB) in Central Administration. The base OS is Windows Server 2008.   I was working away happily …

Well, I’m not allowed to say much, being under NDA. But, it is important to write *something* right? So, here it is, nice and short.     A Sneak Peak of SharePoint 2010 has been released at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com, including an overview and brief demonstration of what to expect for the IT Support and Development Professional. …

I was playing with Windows 7 tonight (RC1) and discovered that Windows 7 now has built in Biometric support. And sure enough, my Lenovo T61’s Biometric fingerprint reader was recognized. It took me literally 4 minutes to configure it end to end, with no downloading of any 3rd party drivers or software (the Lenovo FingerPrint …

Here’s another one that comes up now and then…   Did you know you could save emails directly into a Document library (such as in our business case, our Clients Documentation library)? While it may not be necessary all the time, if something was said (technical details) or stated (warnings to the client), it may …

Guru sounds nice. Not sure I believe it.  But I’ll take it.  Nice to be recognized anyways.  Nobody is an ‘Expert’ in SharePoint (Guru, or otherwise) but if someone wants to pin that to me, I’ll wear it.  Got a free T-Shirt, which one should never turn down… 🙂     itgroove

This was an interesting discovery, as I try not to work after 10pm (when my automated, scripted Site Collections are due to run).   When I tried to save a document to a document library, I was greeted with the following two issues:   When saving to a document library, I got… You do not …

Stumbled across this today via Google Images and I couldn’t resist posting it on here. One frustration I have (like many others) is the insistence with many customers (particularly in SMB) who buy technology before mapping out what they are trying to accomplish. Often, we, as an IT service company are left trying to piece …