Six SharePoint Potholes
Potholes in the road to implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) can cause an implementation to go in the wrong direction, slow down, or even come to a stop. Here's what you need to know to avoid them. Dan Holme
Let Users Easily Find and Connect to Printers
IIS lets you set up Internet printing. By using Internet printing and creating a printer map on your intranet, you can have users find the closest printer to them and connect to it with just a few clicks. Peder Pedersen
The Trick to Opening a Top Link Bar URL in a Separate Window
SharePoint doesn't come with an out-of-the-box solution for opening a top link bar URL in a separate Internet Explorer (IE) window. However, you can use a relatively simple browser technique to do so. Jian Bo
How the Economic Downturn is Driving IT Innovation
Necessity is most definitely the mother of invention, and two IT vendors may find themselves well-positioned to fit the needs of resource-starved IT staff: Spiceworks and NComputing. Jeff James
What You Need to Know About Google Wave
Google’s forthcoming web platform, Google Wave, is fascinating in that it can both replace existing email, IM, and social networking solutions and work well with them. Paul Thurrott
Cool Free Tools for Windows Admins
Use these utilities to perform network or desktop maintenance, recover deleted files, burn ISO images and copy boot partitions, and other Windows administrative tasks. Michael Otey
Under the Covers with Xperf
Get insight into your system's most processor-intensive operations, by using the Microsoft Xperf tool to perform a stackwalking trace, then viewing trace-file data and interpreting the results. Michael Morales
Powercfg Gets Sleepy
The Vista/Server 2008 incarnation of Powercfg lets you bypass your system's annoying "hybrid sleep" behavior. Mark Minasi
Letters
Readers respond to Windows 7 licensing and the new OS's philosophy, as well as Robert Sheldon's PowerShell series of articles and the specter of Bing. Various Authors
PRODUCTS AND REVIEWS
Paul's Picks
Windows XP mode in Windows 7 will help SMBs; Windows Mobile 6.5's UI hides the fact that nothing much has changed. Paul Thurrott
Review: Acer Aspire One
The Acer Aspire One is a lightweight, low-cost, competent netbook, available in two models: one with Windows, and one with Linux. Jeff James
VMware Workstation 6.5 Review
Need to run several OSs or test a number of platforms? VMware Workstation provides advanced OS virtualization that's easy to use. Zac Wiggy
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