June, 2009

Talk about unified communications: June’s free e-books celebrating Microsoft Press’s 25 years are now available! 1296 pages of OCS magic!...

We’ve added two more free chapters to the Microsoft Learning Windows 7 portal, where you’ll find links to numerous training resources related to Windows 7. Seven chapters from upcoming Microsoft Press books are now available....

This colorful, magazine-sized guide will help you explore the practical, fun, and creative things you can do right now with Microsoft Office with expert guidance from the team at Windows Vista: The Official Magazine....

Virtualization has rapidly changed--and improved--the way we work online. Robert Larson and Janique Carbon with the Windows Virtualization Team at Microsoft have put together the in-depth reference that will help you optimize this amazing technology....

It's true--we love Windows PowerShell. And William Stanek's newest title, "Windows PowerShell 2.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant" (ISBN: 9780735625952), is just what you need to either start with or upgrade to the latest version....

Donis Marshall adds to the coverage in "Solid Code" (Microsoft Press, 2009) by covering the Visual Studio Profiler in today's guest post....

Yep, the day has come! The book is now available for order (rather than pre-order). ...

15 minutes of video on "Windows Internals Fifth Edition" and its history, the Windows kernel, SuperFetch, IO priorities, and plans for the book’s next edition. ...

Author of "Advanced Microsoft Office Documents 2007 Edition Inside Out" and Microsoft Office MVP, Stephanie Krieger has a series of articles based on her popular book now available with video screencast demos. ...

On her blog, Sara Ford is now posting a series of tips related to www.codeplex.com, Microsoft’s project hosting site for open source software. ...

The full Table of Contents (not just chapter titles) for "Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Resource Kit" can be found here. 23 chapters of virtualization bliss! ...

I am a huge fan of graphic novels, or comic books as we used to call them. When I first joined Microsoft Press, I remember pitching the idea of a Microsoft technology book done up as a graphic novel. My colleagues were very kind in their responses, then deftly steered the conversation on to other topics....

Check this out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx . “The offer begins on June 26, 2009 and will continue while supplies last, or until July 11, 2009, whichever comes first.”

Today we begin the third day of the 2009 Summer Scripting Games. One thing has become clear to me as I have been reviewing hundreds of scripts, all of which are designed to do essentially the same thing, is that there is not a single way to accomplish a given task....

The Summer Scripting Games are underway and once again, the age old question raises its head: what is beginning scripting, and what is advanced scripting?...

Today we’re pleased to provide a guest post by one of the authors of "Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2." Rui Maximo describes the book’s approach and coverage and encourages your feedback....

It's all about Windows 7, and Mitch Tulloch is an MVP who is willing to share his expertise, via articles and free Microsoft Press chapters linked to in this post....