April, 2009

Learning Snacks are short, interactive presentations about popular topics created by Microsoft Learning experts. Each Snack is delivered by using Microsoft Silverlight technology and includes various media, such as animations and recorded demos. Here’s a snack on Microsoft Virtualization....

Hayden Carruth didn’t praise technology too much, let alone the technology we work with.......

Author of "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out" and CEO and Founder of EPC Group.net, Errin O’Connor has a number of speaking events and seminars coming up soon....

I’m very happy to announce the availability of a very eagerly awaited book -- MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exams 70-648 & 70-649): Transitioning Your MCSA/MCSE to Windows Server 2008....

For example, check out the posts from just the last couple of days.......

Two things I can say for sure about our Microsoft Press Training Kits: 1) there’s no better way to prepare on your own for a Microsoft certification exam, and 2) they generally have very long titles. Here’s the latest.......

J.C. Mackin and Charlie Russel shipped "Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Administrator’s Companion" today!...

“During difficult economic times like these, people tend to whine less about common complaints that now seem trite. Mostly, I'm relieved not to hear how much e-mail is in Ingrid's Inbox, how Brian broke the build again, and how Suresh's service schedule slipped successive sprints."...

Mark works on Microsoft Learning’s Courseware Library; Melissa and I help make Microsoft Press books. I was the one holding the soup....

To celebrate Microsoft Press’s 25th anniversary, Microsoft Press UK is offering quite a sale....

In the spirit of my earlier posts describing positive-review streaks by Dino Esposito and Sayed Hashimi & William Bartholomew, I decided to check Amazon reviews on one of William’s recent books....

Buk's enthusiasm for the machine is tempered....

The new Microsoft Learning blog we’re cross-posting to, which I mentioned a couple of days ago, has hit a speed bump....

The second annual SharePoint Best Practices conference is being held in London this year, following the success of the conference in Washington, DC in 2008. Conference begins Monday, April 6. Details are here....

We’re happy to announce that Microsoft Press’s blog content is integrated into Microsoft Learning’s refreshed blog, "Born to Learn.”...

Microsoft is launching an outreach effort to the Advanced Business User of its 2007 Office System. Running from April to May, 2009, it will showcase the automation and extensibility aspects of Office 2007 through macros, custom Visual Basic of Applications (VBA) coding, and Office Open XML....