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Category: Writing

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Microsoft Press requirements

    This week’s unpleasant surprise was being told by Microsoft Press that the complete text of my Exchange 2010 SP1 book had to be revised. Two issues were identified. First, I had created an environment to run multiple Exchange 2010 servers and test the software. The environment is based on VMware…

  • 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…

  • Books, books, books

    I’ve been asked how many books have I written to date. The answer is that twelve have been published so far, all with Digital Press, and now I’m working on #13 for Microsoft Press. Digital Press started as the technical publishing arm of Digital Equipment Corporation. When I started working…

  • 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…