"Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant," by Craig Zacker, is now available. Microsoft Windows SBS 2008 was developed to help the many small businesses that cannot afford to keep full-time IT people on staff, or to purchase some of the more expensive networking software products. ...

Several readers have asked us about the differences between the new 2008 versions of our SQL Server books and the previous 2005 editions. For a specific reply, we asked Stacia Misner, author of the new "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Step by Step" and co-author of the 2005 edition.

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"Call me 'old school' but I believe in shipping. Trying isn't enough. Getting close isn't enough. Good ideas aren't enough. You've got to ship."...

We’re happy to announce that William Stanek’s 99th book—Windows PowerShell 2.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant—shipped to the printer today! ...

We’ve got a great series of titles specifically focused on using Microsoft Office Project. One of the newest titles to the list is "In the Trenches with Microsoft Office Project 2007," by Elaine J. Marmel....

Robert Pinksy answers a question about electronic technologies displacing older technologies....

We’re seeing a tremendous demand for Business Intelligence books. We’re proud to add to our Microsoft Press portfolio of BI titles with "MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-448): Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008—Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance."...

This is one very eagerly awaited Microsoft Press Training Kit. I know. I’ve been getting email and calls for the past few months asking when it would be available. So it is with great pleasure (and relief) that we’re announcing publication of MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-562): Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5—ASP.NET Application Development (ISBN: 9780735625624). Mike Snell is the lead author of the Training Kit. As a foundation for his work, he used the very popular MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-528): Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development authored by Glenn Johnson and Tony Northrup. Mike gave us permission to reprint a post on the new book from his blog , along with a picture of the author (and a very frightening looking fish). From Mike’s blog: I hope [the...

"Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2," by Rui Maximo, Kurt De Ding, Vishwa Ranjan, Chris Mayo, Oscar Newkerk, and the Microsoft Office Communications Server team, shipped to the printer today! ...

"Windows Internals" delivers in-depth, kernel-level insights into the Windows OS, and you might also find it helpful when preparing for Exam 70-660. Toward that end, we’ve created a short document mapping the exam’s objectives/skills to the book’s topics/coverage....

Microsoft Press offers tools to help you succeed at work and at home. This free offer will deliver some of the best tips and tricks for Office and Windows directly to your inbox....

Windows Internals 5E offers much more content than Windows Internals 4E....

We offer five free chapters (from three upcoming books) covering Windows 7....

Carruth on recording technology and chainsaws....

FrontPage MVP (and author of "Microsoft Expression Web Step by Step" and, most recently, "Microsoft Expression Web 2 Step by Step") Chris Leeds maintains an active blog to help former FrontPage users find their way through Expression Web and, for some uses, Office Live.

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Itzik Ben-Gan says a few words about the differences between his new book, "Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Querying," and his previous SQL Server 2005 edition....

If you’re studying for Microsoft exam 70-561 or just looking for a self-paced guide to ADO.NET, it’s worth checking out the new 70-561 Training Kit....