Experience is the best teacher, especially when you're deploying new software. But when a software product is newly available, how do you find somebody who has already deployed it so that you can learn from his or her experience? Well, for Microsoft software, you can learn from the company's own IT organization, which works with all Microsoft products while they are in development. Take SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, for example. What lessons did Microsoft IT learn by deploying and using Re...