The Report Center has a Data Connection Library which can be used to store connection information which can be used by the report center to access data from other internal and external sources.
The Data Connection Library, can store two types of connection information.
Office Data Connection files: These files have an extension of .odc, they are used by Office Applications to store information which can be used to locate, log on, query, and access data from external data sources.
Universal Data Connection files These are file with extension .udc, they are used by Applications like InfoPath to locate, log on, query, and access data from external data source. These are XML based XML files with a particular namespace and schema. Supports Single Sign-On (SSO) for applications in multi-tier architectures. Unlike the ODC format used by other Microsoft Office applications, which stores information about database connections, UDC files can store information about several different types of data connections, and they can be extended to store information about arbitrary types.
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