Brainlitter - Inside the mind of Sean Wallbridge

Ok, I’ve run across this a few times and while I’ve never (bothered) to (worry about/research) fix the issue permanently, here’s your workaround for the situation where you are trying to launch your Windows Vista VPN connection (PPTP, etc.) by choosing ‘Connect to a network’. Here’s what it looks like when it happens   Lame, …

If you have played with VMWare ESXi for a while and tried to monitor the underlying hardware with any degree of success (SNMP), give it up.  Although the future looks a little brighter with HP providing some functionality with ‘their’ version of ESXi, the reality for us, as a business, when recommending VMWare virtualization to …

Office 2007 SP2 Build 12.0.6416.1000 Leaked and Available for Download Not big news for SharePoint fans but there is one SharePoint benefit (nevermind the fact that Office 2007 will be more stable, which is good for everyone) in the upcoming Office 2007 SP2.  Note, the build in question is not final release – I’m sharing …

One of my (and my wife’s) dearest friends, Bret (aka  Barf, Bart, etc.) has finally published some of his fantastic works on his newly revamped website.  Not only is he showing off his terrific sense of humour (desert dry, the way I like it), he’s showing off his technical abilities (with the quality of the …

Microsoft has released 10 new SharePoint Themes that you can integrate into your Sites.  Several of them are very nice and the fella that runs ‘SharePoint Evolved’ has created a site that allows you to simply ‘sample’ each site template, without having to install them (use the ‘picker’ in the top right hand corner, to …

Well, what do ya know?  Apparently, Microsoft loves, my love for SharePoint (and all those other related things I do – SharePoint, Windows Server, Exchange, SQL, IIS, ASP.NET – you know, all those things that SharePoint works with – I think I was ‘built’ to be a SharePoint Guy).     I was awarded with …

      The staff at itgroove Professional Services are very pleased to announce that our President and Principal Consultant, Sean Wallbridge, has been awarded the designation “Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) for Microsoft SharePoint Server. Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing …

Download link to get your free SharePoint Designer is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=baa3ad86-bfc1-4bd4-9812-d9e710d44f42   So, that’s great.  But then again, now that means folks that haven’t been trained can cause more grief than usual – so, as people can get into mischief, locking down the ability for Designer to connect to a SharePoint site is a worthwhile …

BackupExec 12.5 does support agents for backing up ESXi, the kicker is you need to have additional software from VMware in order for the agent to work. As things sit today, you use agents to backup Windows regardless of whether or not the Windows in question is on physical or virtual hardware.  In the case …

Well, here’s my problem. I had a document library (in fact all, in my SharePoint farm), that showed all documents in tact, but the various icons for Word, Excel, PDF, etc. were all missing. The issue started with PDF.  I followed my own instructions even but made a typo (here’s where I document how to …