Prove your IT superiority

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Aug 14, 20072 mins

From the feature well: Think you’re IT savvy? How about smart? Then prove it with InfoWorld’s Geek IQ test — and then brag some, if you’ve earned it. Starting off, it seems easy enough: What is the first universal question of telephone help desk support? Answer that and start the quiz right here.

Test Center review: When it revealed a server component to Office, Microsoft, in the words of Oliver Rist, “wasn’t building a lonely heart wallflower.” No, instead it was creating “a swinging frat party of servers.” SharePoint was among those — and it’s the first such product we review in a four-part series. “It’s not only feature-rich, it also acts as the central hub for the others.” Read the full article.

Best of the blogs: One reader, frustrated by too few development resources, writes into Bob Lewis in need of advice. She or he is moving from Novell to Active Directory, you see, but has to use an app, with critical data, but has to run it on an insecure desktop. Quite the conundruum. “It’s just strange. Or maybe there’s a budget problem,” Lewis suggests in A developer who can’t install or connect. “But I’m not there and it’s easy for someone as far away as I am to spout off.”