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Category: Exchange

  • 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…

  • Exchange 2010 SP1 on the horizon

    Sometimes I have been accused of being a “yes man” for the Exchange development group; someone who thinks that everything Redmond (the development group in the town rather than myself) does is good in terms of advancing the Exchange product and is slow to offer criticize. I happen to believe…

  • Exchange 2010 SP1 Book

    The broad outline of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out that I am working on is given below. This may well change when Microsoft Press starts to fit the chapters that I have written into the format of the published book. In any case, it gives a reasonable idea of…