July, 2010

We’re happy to announce that Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant is available for purchase! Ben Curry has written another stellar book for Microsoft Press. Please take a look at this excerpt from Chapter 3, Configuring Core Operations. You can find more information about this book and other Microsoft Press offerings at the book’s catalog page . You can see the table of contents and Introduction in this previous post . CHAPTER 3 Configuring Core Operations ■ Introducing Central Administration ■ System Settings ■ Database Management ■ Configuring Send To Connections Core operations refers to farm-level settings and applications such as Central Administration, server services settings, and e-mail configuration. There are items—such as...

We’re happy to announce that Microsoft Outlook 2010 Step by Step (ISBN 9780735626904; 576 pages) is now available for purchase!  In this book, veteran authors Joan Lambert and Joyce Cox use the popular step-by-step approach to teach you how to manage e-mail messages; organize your inbox, contacts, and task lists; manage and share your calendar; and much more. View this previous post for a chapter-level table of contents and excerpt from the Introduction. In this post, we offer an excerpt from this book’s Chapter 7, “Organize Your Inbox.” 7 Organize Your Inbox In this chapter, you will learn how to ✔ Work with Conversation view. ✔ Arrange messages in different ways. ✔ Organize Outlook items by using color categories. ✔ Organize messages in folders. ✔ Manage messages by using Quick Steps...

We’re excited to announce that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices has shipped to the printer! This highly anticipated title by Siegfried Jagott and Joel Stidley will be available for purchase in a few short weeks. Contents Part I Preparing for Exchange Server 2010 Chapter 1: Introducing Exchange Server 2010 Chapter 2: Exchange Deployment Projects Chapter 3: Exchange Environmental Considerations Part II Designing Exchange Server 2010 Chapter 4: Client Access in Exchange 2010 Chapter 5: Routing and Transporting Chapter 6: Mailbox Services Chapter 7: Edge Transport and Messaging Security Chapter 8: Automated Message Processing, Compliance, and Archiving Chapter 9: Unified Messaging Chapter 10: Federated Delegation Chapter 11: Designing High Availability Chapter...

As you might know, Rob Miles and Andy Wigley have been talking Windows Phone 7 development in Live Meeting sessions. They've been covering how you write Silverlight applications, how you write games in XNA, how you sell them, and what makes this new platform so special and shiny. There were two sessions on Tuesday, July 20th and there will be two more on Thursday, July 22nd: Session Three: Advanced Windows Phone Development Session Four: Selling Your Windows Phone Solutions & Wrap Up Today Rob and Andy answered loads of questions in an “Office Hours” session in the Windows Phone 7 Jump Start forum. Take a look.

Kenyon Brown here, editor of this title. We’re very pleased to announce that Jim Boyce’s latest book, Microsoft Outlook 2010 Inside Out (ISBN: 9780735626867), has shipped to the printer! Covering Outlook 2010, Jim’s book offers hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. You’ll discover how the experts manage Outlook 2010—to arrange your schedule, manage tasks, and organize contacts easily; sort e-mail messages by conversation, category, and with search folders; collaborate with colleagues by linking to Microsoft SharePoint 2010; make use of virus protection, encryption, spam filters, and other security features; take Outlook 2010 with you, using it on the Web and with your mobile device, use workgroups, instant messaging, and more with Microsoft Exchange Server;...

Good morning. This video has been on Channel 9 for a couple of months, but users of Access might find it interesting. Jeff Conrad, one of the authors of the upcoming Microsoft Access 2010 Inside Out (ISBN: 978-0-7356-2685-0), “talks about his upcoming book…discusses how he built a completely web-based restaurant management system using Access, and walks us through the system's features, including data macros, custom reports, filtering, and client functionality.” Access Services is a new feature of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition that supports close integration with Microsoft Access 2010. This integration enables users to extend the ease of Access application development to the creation of Web forms and reports, and it enables IT managers to extend the ease of SharePoint...

Carl Chatfield here. In previous posts (including here and here ) I've explored some of my favorite new features in Project 2010. This week, I look at a nice improvement to one of the more mundane features of desktop apps: Copy and Paste. Not Glamorous, But Still a Great 2010 Improvement Copy and Paste via the Windows Clipboard is such a basic, unglamorous feature that I was surprised to see some improvements in this area. Yet in 2010 you'll find better pasting of structured, tabular data from Project to Word and Excel. Let's start with the Copy and Paste experience in Office 2007 applications (and indeed what I describe here is what you'd experience in all versions prior to 2010). Let's start first with Excel. Tables and Chairs I'll start in the Resource Sheet view in Project. I have the Cost...

This has been posted for a while, but you might have missed it. It’s a great interview Scott Hanselman did with Charles Petzold about his past books (15 books, including Programming Windows and Code and The Annotated Turing ), his upcoming book Programming Windows Phone 7 , WPF, XAML, development for Windows Phone 7, and many other topics. Check it out here .