Integrating External Data Sources in SharePoint
You can use Windows SharePoint Services to pull external data into your SharePoint pages, including linking multiple data sources. With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, you can also use Excel Services and the Business Data Catalog. Jim Boyce
Save Your PowerShell Code in Profile and Script Files
PowerShell statements that you enter during a session apply only to that session. However, if you put your code into profile files or script files, you can use that code repeatedly from within the PowerShell console without having to re-enter it. Robert Sheldon
Windows 7 in the Enterprise
Windows 7's new features and enhancements are designed to make it attractive to enterprise customers. Find out what the features and enhancements are and whether they're good enough to entice businesses to shell out money for a desktop upgrade. Michael Otey
HTA Automatically Creates Mappings
After discovering a script that determines and maps the next available drive to a network share, a reader incorporated the script into an HTML Application. With this HTA, you can create persistent or nonpersistent mappings and use alternative credentials. Jim Turner
SharePoint Everywhere
Unlike many Microsoft products, which are losing market share to savvy, agile competitors, SharePoint has maintained a growing dominance among enterprise collaboration tools. What's SharePoint's secret to success? Jeff James
New Features in Windows PowerShell 2.0
New cmdlets, operators, and variables, along with new capabilities such as script debugging and background jobs will kick start your PowerShell scripting. Michael Otey
Administrators' Intro to Debugging
Learn how to work with windbg.exe in the Debugging Tools for Windows, for those times when you can't rely on your usual diagnostic tools and need a backup troubleshooting plan. Michael Morales
Letters
Readers discuss Jeff James’s “Cloud Computing" column, Jim Turner's "Track Active Directory Changes," and Michael Otey's “SharePoint FAQs” Top 10 column. Editors, et al.
Diskeeper 2009 Professional Review
If you're looking to improve performance of heavily used office PCs and want a more user-friendly application than the built-in Windows defragmenter, Diskeeper Professional 2009 is worth trying out. Zac Wiggy
Paul's Picks
Foundation Server has limitations, yes, but what do you expect for $200? Plus, why you should wait to buy Amazon’s Kindle 2. Paul Thurrott
Review: Internet Explorer 8.0
If you've taken a look at recent coverage of IE 8.0, the consensus is clear: IE 8.0 is a big step up over IE 7.0. But can it compare to the latest versions of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome? Brian Reinholz
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