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Friday, October 30, 2009 7:55 AM

Author news: Meet the lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit

Microsoft Press loves working with Mitch Tulloch!
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:37 AM

William Stanek: Windows 7: Inside Track, Part 3 “More on Upgrades and Migrations”

"There are a few more gotchas in the upgrade process we should talk about before we go into migrations."
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:34 PM

Windows 7 Inside Out a hit at Computer Users Group’s monthly meeting

One of the beta testers for Windows 7 (Richard Frisch) has been hosting a series of presentations to introduce local users to Windows 7.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 7:19 AM

William Stanek: Windows 7: Inside Track, Part 2 “Upgrades and Migrations”

"Let's start looking at what upgrade and migration options are available for Windows 7."
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Monday, October 26, 2009 2:13 PM

Free e-book: Windows 7 troubleshooting tips

Mitch Tulloch, lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit, has created a short e-book called “What You Can Do Before You Call Tech Support.”
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Monday, October 26, 2009 7:41 AM

Andrew Levicki: If at first, you don’t succeed, try again, for goodness’ sake!

Andrew fails, passes, and shares some great studying tips related to Exam 70-294.
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Friday, October 23, 2009 6:29 PM

New book: MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows 7

Just in time for the official launch of Windows 7 comes MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows 7, by Ian McLean and Orin Thomas.
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Friday, October 23, 2009 1:04 AM

Windows Internals is eight for eight

Windows Internals, Fifth Edition, by Mark Russinovich and David Solomon with Alex Ionescu, has received eight for eight 5-star reviews at Amazon. And you can download a 116-page sample chapter here.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:23 AM

William Stanek: Windows 7: Inside Track, Part 1 “64-bit and more”

"Last week, James Gaskin from ITworld called and asked me to give him the inside scoop on Windows 7."
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:50 AM

RTM’d today: Introducing Windows 7 for Developers

Introducing Windows 7 for Developers, by Yochay Kiriaty, Laurence Moroney, Sasha Goldshtein and Alon Fliess, shipped to the printer today!
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 3:47 PM

Free e-book: Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2

Another free e-book, Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2, by Charlie Russel and Craig Zacker with the Windows Server Team at Microsoft, can be downloaded here.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:28 PM

The Big Bang Theory: Leonard and the books

Training Kits spotted on the set.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:52 PM

Ed Wilson: Zune casting: considerations for success

"So your manager has decided you need to create some Zune casts. The first thing you need to decide is do you wish to do a video or audio only presentation."
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7:53 AM

William Stanek: Beam me up, Scottie—we’re off to editing states

"William here. Answers to a few reader questions before getting back to our regularly scheduled discussion on configuring special preferences using editing states."
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Monday, October 19, 2009 9:30 AM

Quick note: Beta 2s of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4…

…are now available to MSDN subscribers here. The official product launch date is March 22, 2010. Here’s the official press release with many more details about the product lineup, etc. Also released today is the latest Silverlight Toolkit for Silverlight 3.
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Friday, October 16, 2009 9:25 PM

Free e-book: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance

Microsoft Press and Microsoft TechNet Magazine have teamed up to create a free e-book: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine.
Posted by devonm | 2 Comments
Friday, October 16, 2009 12:20 PM

Discount extended: Register for PDC by Oct 30 and save $300

The early registration discount has been extended to October 30 for PDC09 (November 17-19 in Los Angeles).
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Friday, October 16, 2009 8:38 AM

A free Windows 7 e-book for our German audience

Grüße! And greetings! Microsoft Press Germany is offering the German version of Jerry Joyce and Marianne Moon’s Windows 7 Plain & Simple as a free e-book. It’s titled Windows 7 Auf einen Blick (Windows 7 At a Glance), and you can download it until October 31, 2009.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 7:50 AM

William Stanek: He’s dead, Jim, so why continue to flog him?

"By now you know a disk quota problem can cause some serious issues and those serious issues can look an awful lot like many other problems."
Posted by devonm | 3 Comments
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:15 AM

Author news: Stephen Forte climbing for a cause

Today we’d like to share a charitable cause with you, originally shared by Stephen Forte (co-author of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008) over on his blog.
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:08 PM

RTM’d today: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

William Stanek strikes again: released to the printer today is Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant (Microsoft Press, 2010; ISBN: 9780735627123; 688 pages), a 17-chapter Exchange Server extravaganza!
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 7:48 AM

William Stanek: Okay here’s what happened (and why tunnel vision isn’t good)

"By now you’ve probably figured out what happened or you have a few guesses. Or, if you’re like me, you created a test network and set up a similar environment to see this issue first hand."
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Monday, October 12, 2009 11:13 AM

Windows 7 Inside Out -- #3 today on Amazon's bestseller list for operating system titles

Ed Bott's new title, Windows 7 Inside Out (ISBN: 9780735626652), is sitting at #3 today on the Amazon bestseller list for operating systems. Customers have already given it 4.5 stars out of 5!
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Friday, October 09, 2009 11:50 AM

Last call: PDC09 $300 discount ends October 13

A reminder that the not-quite-so-early-bird $300 discount for PDC09 (November 17-19 in Los Angeles) ends in a couple of days.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 8:52 AM

William Stanek: Story from the trenches & a few answers

"William here. Remember the story from Tuesday? So was there a disk quota problem or not? Was I just going out on a crazy limb? What do you think?"
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:11 PM

New book: Windows 7 Resource Kit

We’re pleased to announce that Windows 7 Resource Kit, by Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows 7 Team at Microsoft, is now available for purchase in bookstores (Microsoft Press, 2010; ISBN: 9780735627000; 1760 pages)!
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 7:48 AM

William Stanek: We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast

"William here. I know I promised to continue the discussion of Group Policy preferences. Next up was supposed to be a look at configuring special preferences by using editing states, but trust me you’re going to appreciate this interruption just as much."
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Monday, October 05, 2009 9:40 AM

Ed Wilson: How to learn a complex task

"So, how did the master craftsman teach the complex task? He broke it down into two small tasks—that was it—two small tasks."
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Monday, October 05, 2009 8:26 AM

Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals

David Lean has a review of the recently published Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals, by Kalen Delaney, Paul S. Randal, Kimberly L. Tripp, Conor Cunningham, Adam Machanic, and Ben Nevarez, on his Dave does Data blog.
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Friday, October 02, 2009 11:04 AM

Hello, authors!

You can find our book proposal guidelines here. If you’re relatively (or utterly) unpublished, don’t hesitate to contact us because we are always looking for new authors.
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:02 AM

William Stanek: Digging in to special preferences

"William here again. Now that we’ve talked about what Group Policy preferences are and how you can use them, let’s dig deeper into ways you configure preferences. In addition to preferences you manage using C-R-U-D, there are preferences you manage using an interface similar to the actual Control Panel interface."
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