Test Center Tracker: Beware the power of Office SharePoint Server

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Aug 13, 20072 mins

With great power ...: Senior Contributors Oliver Rist and Brian Chee are boldly tackling all five of Microsoft's new Office servers, and this week, they're sharing their experience with SharePoint 2007. The duo is blown away by the amazing new potential the offering yields for Office users. But the server is just so packed with power, Chee and Rist caution admins "to be careful when planning architecture and har

With great power …: Senior Contributors Oliver Rist and Brian Chee are boldly tackling all five of Microsoft’s new Office servers, and this week, they’re sharing their experience with SharePoint 2007. The duo is blown away by the amazing new potential the offering yields for Office users. But the server is just so packed with power, Chee and Rist caution admins “to be careful when planning architecture and hardware distribution as well as when and in what order they’ll roll out certain features.”

Die, Access, die, revisited: Over in the Database Underground, Sean McCown reiterates his call for the death of Microsoft Access, a proposal he made last week that generated quite a bit of controversy. He’s sticking to his guns on the subject, though, and goes to great lengths to explain why: “Why give users another avenue to create a data store that’s ill-conceived and basically unmanaged? From my perspective it just doesn’t make sense. … [T]here’s no such thing as trivial data. You either need it or you don’t.”

What’s your Geek IQ? School may not be in session, but we’re springing a pop quiz on your anyway. Oliver Rist has come up with 20 questions aimed at taxing your technical intellect. Will you prove yourself the top dog at Geek Summer Camp?