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Category: Exchange 2010

  • Exchange 2010 Best Practices Book now available

    Microsoft Press/O’Reilly have just published the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices (also available from Amazon.co.uk) book by Siegfried Jagott and Joel Stidley. I had some involvement in this book as I was the technical editor for roughly half the chapters, a task that filled many interesting hours over the…

  • VM machine requirements for Exchange 2010 training

    Some people who have browsed the announcement of the Exchange 2010 training that Paul Robichaux and I are doing in Boston and Anaheim in October (http://events.left-brain.com/EssentialsWorkshops/Exchange2010.aspx?code=WP520XAT) have noted this small but very important section at the end of the page: IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING SECTION CAREFULLY Due to the…

  • Selecting a book about technology

    Recently, a question was posed on the Exchange MVP mailing list about what books people would recommend to help technologists get up to speed with Exchange 2010. Clearly this is a topic that I am both interested in and have an opinion, so I made a contribution. Thinking about the…

  • Exchange 2010 (SP1) Training in Boston and Anaheim

    The first Exchange training that I organized was held in Dublin in 1996. On behalf of Digital Equipment’s European Messaging Team, I asked Microsoft to send over their best trainer and they obliged. The training was not a happy event because it was very much in the “click here and…

  • The cutting technique

    I blogged a few days ago about the need to reduce the size of my Exchange 2010 SP1 book to bring it down from the 1,600 or so pages that Microsoft Press has estimated its current size to something more reasonable of the order of 1,100 or so pages. Still…

  • “Inside Out” Book submitted but Exchange 2010 SP1 continues to evolve

    After some ten months of work, my Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out book was submitted to Microsoft Press last Wednesday.  The hard work now begins to edit, format, and complete the content in a form that is suitable for publication. At the same time, I’ll be tracking developments in…

  • Exchange 2010 SP1 Book Update – Getting Close to Initial Completion!

    The need to transform all the screen shots to use approved names for people and servers has slowed things down a tad but I think we are now back on schedule. The manuscript is now circa 437,500 words, mostly because I can’t stop making changes to text as I go…

  • Chapters eventually flowing

    I haven’t been adding much text to this blog recently but that’s because I was away in France and have been busy submitting the first chapters of my SP1 book to Microsoft Press. The trip to south of France was interesting. We had 3 degree C weather in the Narbonne…

  • ISBN for Exchange 2010 SP1 “Inside Out” Book

    I’ve just been told by Microsoft Press that the official title of my Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out book and its ISBN are: “Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out” ISBN 9780735640610 Available for order now at all good booksellers. More details about this and other technical books that you…

  • Update report for the Exchange SP1 book

    I’ve not written much here for the last week or so, but I have a good excuse. I’ve been heads-down to complete a number of chapters for my Exchange 2010 SP1 book to be able to submit them to Microsoft Press and begin the editing process that eventually leads to…