February 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine available online

The February 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2008/02/ . 

We cover a lot of ground in this issue.  For starters, we've heard from our readers that they want to learn more about SharePoint.  So in this issue, we have three articles dedicated to SharePoint.  We show you how to integrate systems to create a more manageable infrastructure for gathering and sharing information in the enterprise. We explore ways to build a powerful and flexible survey solution for collecting and analyzing data. And we discuss how you can use content types in SharePoint 2007 to simplify content management across the enterprise.

We then explore Office Communications Server, discussing how OCS 2007 uses information about user availability to route communications (whether a voice call, a video conference, an e-mail message, or an IM) to the appropriate place.  And there is an article to help you integrate OCS 2007 with your existing PBX system.

There's also an overview of Windows Compute Cluster Server, which takes a look at high performance computing (and how it harnesses great power from clusters of small, standard systems).

Finally, we have a special article that is available only online.  In "Deploy the 2007 Office System with Terminal Services," James D. Silliman discusses key design changes in the 2007 Microsoft Office system that you must be aware of before deploying it in your Terminal Services server farm.

And be sure to check out our regular columns.  This month, Don Jones explains the importance of Shell Permissions in Windows PowerShell, Lance Whitney shares an indispensable tool for those of you working with ADMX files, Jesper Johansson continues his exploration of Island Hopping (and shows you how to mitigate undesirable dependencies), and Raymond Chen looks at how unwanted features are quietly discarded. And there's more.

As always, we welcome your comments and feedback.  You can contact the editors anytime by e-mailing tnmag@microsoft.com.

Cheers,
matt