Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Whew, long title… but I couldn’t think of a shorter way of succinctly saying what needed to be said… 🙂   Business Requirement A client wanted to create an InfoPath form, for vacation approval and other purposes and have it run within SharePoint. But a key requirement was that when the electronic form was launched, …

I’ve been asked this enough lately that I thought I’d take a moment to spell it out with some visuals. When the time comes to add some visual appeal to your SharePoint Dashboards (sometimes this goes a long way to adding interest in the site and/or helping folks find their ‘stuff’.   First, before starting, …

Microsoft quietly unveiled a new, slicked up SharePoint information site. Pretty slick looking, not a lot of new content on there (yet I imagine) but I like it.   http://sharepoint.microsoft.com    

I’m so happy. I’m running the Windows 7 Release Candidate solely on my production machine and I must say, besides the odd IE8 crash (which happens on any windows machine it seems, though one would have hoped IE would have matured more with IE8) and some strange graphics card ‘flashing’, my experience has been very …

Update: May 21, 2009 – Note, if you have MOSS (this won’t affect WSS only installs as there is no license to input), there is a glitch in SP2 (regardless of cumulative fixes) that reverts SharePoint back to a Trial license (gulp/guffaw!). Here’s the full court press release from the SharePoint team – http://blogs.msdn.com/wp-content/uploads/brainlitter/brainlitterarchive/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx It …

Widgets URL: https://pkiwidgets.quovadisglobal.com     Our friends over at QuoVadis have released their PKI widgets online, to help troubleshoot common SSL and other digital certificate issues and to ease in the creation of SAN UC certs, etc. Here’s the official release information below…   QuoVadis provides PKI Widgets to help users troubleshoot their problems with …

Ran into this on a new MOSS 2007 installation (on Windows Server 2008), not sure why exactly, as it was a simple, standard install done a dozen or more times but I digress… If you get this… Failed to resolve the site ID for ‘Office Server Web Services’ It can be resolved with this… stsadm …

One thing I’ve done to our own mail to help curb some of the crap spam we are getting, is that I’ve updated our MX record. I’ve done this because we use DYNDNS for a ‘secondary/store and forward MX’ delivery agent. I.e. if our mail server was unavailable (Internet Down, Exchange down, etc.) – it …

Ok, long title but I wanted to be as descriptive as possible…   Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb507233.aspx   I had need today, as I often do, to help a client ‘clean up’ their SharePoint environment. They wanted a new SharePoint site (built on a sound infrastructure, etc. – my favourite) but wanted to bring across ‘some’ of …

I had a challenge tonight. We’ve created somewhat of a ‘Kiosk’ in a SharePoint site that serves as a kiosk for kids. So, we’ve gone through great efforts to restrict where people can click, etc. So, instead of allowing them to view knowledge base content (the list I happen to be working on) directly, I …