December, 2009

Last day of our sale. Select from over 600 print Microsoft Press titles and 200 e-books. All e-books are available in four convenient formats, for the price of one: ePub, PDF, MOBI, and Android. ...

"So here I sit absolutely rocking to Pink Floyd’s The Wall, thanks to Windows Media Player 12 and Windows 7. Hearing every note and chord in Dolby Surround 5.1."...

"William here. Concluding what I’d like to call 'Adventures in Printer, Scanner, Fax Installation.' It wasn’t meant to be a cautionary tale, but the discussion does dig into most of the typical problems you may encounter." ...

We're proud to present this year’s STC (Society for Technical Communication) Award winners. The STC is an international organization of technical communicators whose purpose is to foster quality in print and online technical publications....

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"After basic setup and installation of the printer software, the wireless features, and the fax, the All-in-One was good to go and running on Windows 7. Setting up the Fax to PC (digital fax) also provided Scan to PC (digital scan). So there we were with wireless everything. All was good, right?"...

Download two sample chapters from the recently published Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, by William Stanek. ...

"So after basic setup, the All-in-One was good to go, except for the printer software, the wireless features, and the fax. The device comes with an installation CD, so insert the CD, run setup, and go, right? Well, almost but not exactly."...

William Stanek’s Windows Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, Second Edition, updated for R2, is now available. In this post we share excerpts from its Introduction and Chapter 7, “Using Active Directory." ...

"Sara Peyton, pr manager at O'Reilly Media, here. I want to extend a hearty welcome to every Microsoft Press author. We're looking forward to working with you to promote your books. To that end, we invite you to join the O'Reilly Author Portal."...

"William here. Embarking on what I’d like to call 'Adventures in Printer, Scanner, Fax Installation.'” ...

Wndows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices, by Ed Wilson with the Windows PowerShell Teams at Microsoft, is now available. Here is Ed's description of the book. ...

"Steve Weiss here, from O’Reilly Media. When the O’Reilly Media and Microsoft Press strategic alliance was announced in September, the overwhelming reaction we received was positive, although peppered with a bit of curiosity, some of which we also heard directly from more cynical folk."...

"So yeah, I think Windows Media Player 12 for Windows 7 is pretty cool. I’ve always liked WMP but it wasn’t the one I used regularly because my music and other audio were locked into AAC and MP4. They were, and still are, the cleanest, best formats in my opinion."...

"Do you ever think about search engines? Certainly the Bing search engine from Microsoft has made some tremendous improvements in the past year…and is in fact being updated with a Fall refresh. However, for all the advances in search technology, there are still problems."...

Next Hop is the Microsoft Office Communications Server team’s customer response channel—a new medium to rapidly publish the information you need, when you need it....

"William here. So yeah, most people know about my books published using my full name William R. Stanek."...