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Ed Wilson: Scripting Wife to Compete in 2010 Scripting Games

On the face of it, one may thing this is unfair competition – after all the Scripting Wife IS...

Author: mredwilson Date: 03/09/2010

Carl Chatfield: Top 10 Problems, #2: Believe that good scheduling software makes one a good project manager

  Carl here. ProjHugger is for Microsoft Office Project newbies, enthusiasts, and zealots. I...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 03/08/2010

Ed Wilson: Hey Scripting Guy! Blog moves to 7 days a week

Are you a hardcore scripting person who is addicted to Windows PowerShell? Do you find yourself...

Author: mredwilson Date: 03/05/2010

RTM’d today: MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-685): Windows 7 Enterprise Desktop Support Technician

Tony Northrup and J.C. Mackin’s new Traininig Kit has gone to the printer! MCITP Self-Paced Training...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 03/04/2010

Free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and Career Ideas from Microsoft

We’re thrilled to offer another free ebook: Own Your Future: Update Your Skills with Resources and...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 03/03/2010

Just a few extracurricular shots from NYC

Some of the Microsoft Press team was in New York this week for O’Reilly’s Tools of Change publishing...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/26/2010

Upcoming training on Windows internals

Good morning, everyone, from NYC (after O’Reilly’s TOC conference). This just in from David Solomon,...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/25/2010

Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #3 from CLR via C#, Third Edition

Good morning everyone, Jeffrey Richter here. Today I thought I’d share a section a section from...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/24/2010

Ed Wilson: Preparing for the 2010 Scripting Games

I have been really busy trying to get ready for the 2010 Scripting Games at the TechNet Script...

Author: mredwilson Date: 02/23/2010

Carl Chatfield: Top 10 Problems, #4: Track by percent complete

Carl here. ProjHugger is for Microsoft Office Project newbies, enthusiasts, and zealots. I publish...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/22/2010

Unofficial Support Site for the Windows 7 Resource Kit

The Windows 7 Resource Kit (ISBN: 9780735627000) is a great resource. Created by Mitch Tulloch, Tony...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/18/2010

Gerry O’Brien on free certification exams

Everybody interested in developer certifications, just want to make sure that you know about Gerry’s...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/17/2010

Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions (Second Edition)

Here it is! Mitch Tulloch has updated his free ebook of last year; it’s now updated for Windows...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/16/2010

New book: CLR via C#, Third Edition

Hey, everybody: Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C#, Third Edition, is indeed now available! You can...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/16/2010

Carl Chatfield: Top 10 Problems, #5: Expect that automatic resource leveling should be able to alter reality

Carl here. ProjHugger is for Microsoft Office Project newbies, enthusiasts, and zealots. I publish...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/15/2010

MSL news: Train, Practice, Certify on Windows 7

Julie Lary here, of Microsoft Learning, with a quick note about our resources available for Windows...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/13/2010

RTM’d today: Windows 7: The Best of the Official Magazine

We’re happy to announce that Windows 7: The Best of the Official Magazine (Microsoft Press, 2010;...

Author: Rosemary Caperton Date: 02/12/2010

Ed Wilson: My Kingdom for a horse

I read Richard III over the weekend. This play is like the Casablanca of Shakespearean writings as...

Author: mredwilson Date: 02/11/2010

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate

It’s here.

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/10/2010

Save 40% on Microsoft Press’s Developer E-Reference Library

That’s $60 off. And you can try out the library for free for ten days.  Here’s information...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/10/2010

New book: Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Administrator’s Companion

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Administrator’s Companion, by Jim...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/09/2010

Visual Studio 2010 RC available via MSDN

Here’s another quick post today, just to let you know that the Visual Studio 2010 & .NET...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/08/2010

Ebook for Richter’s CLR via C#, Third Edition, now available

Many of you have written to ask whether an ebook for Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C#, Third Edition...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/08/2010

Carl Chatfield: Top 10 Problems, #6: Don't reign in effort-driven scheduling when it shouldn't apply

Carl here. ProjHugger is for Microsoft Office Project newbies, enthusiasts, and zealots. I publish...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/08/2010

Over 200 DRM-free Microsoft Press ebooks now available

We quickly mentioned this on Twitter yesterday, but a fuller story in a blog post is probably...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/05/2010

I. M. Wright: “Are we functional?”

“When Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan took on joint management of Windows 7, they made several...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/04/2010

Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #2 from CLR via C#, Third Edition

Good morning, Jeffrey Richter here. My new book, CLR via C#, Third Edition (Microsoft Press, 2010;...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/03/2010

Ed Wilson: What is an Author?

What is an author? What a seemingly silly question. Obviously an author is someone who writes...

Author: mredwilson Date: 02/02/2010

Carl Chatfield: Top 10 Problems, #7: Don’t distinguish work from duration

Carl here again. ProjHugger is for Microsoft Office Project newbies, enthusiasts, and zealots. I...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 02/01/2010

Steve McConnell: Why Requirements Weren't More Prominent in Construx's Classic Mistakes Survey

Steve here. A reader of our 2008 Software Development’s Classic Mistakes White Paper made the...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/29/2010

Ed Wilson: On understanding best practices

I was recently talking with someone on Twitter about my Microsoft PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices...

Author: mredwilson Date: 01/28/2010

Jeffrey Richter: Excerpt #1 from CLR via C#, Third Edition

Good morning everyone, Jeffrey Richter here. Today I thought I’d share a section of my new book, CLR...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/27/2010

Happy Birthday to us!

Hey, I just realized that Friday (January 22) was the one-year mark for our blog. It looks like we...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/27/2010

William Stanek: On Windows Server 2008 R2

William here. I wrote the November 2009 cover story for TechNet Magazine to provide an advanced...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/26/2010

Carl Chatfield: Top 10 Problems, #8: Overestimate resource capacity

Carl here. ProjHugger is for Microsoft Office Project newbies, enthusiasts, and zealots. I publish...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/25/2010

I. M. Wright: “Spontaneous combustion of rancid management”

Catching up on an I. M. Wright podcast from November we missed posting. Here’s the “Hard Code” blog...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/22/2010

RTM’d today: CLR via C#, Third Edition

Jeffrey Richter has completed CLR via C#, Third Edition and the book is at the printer! We’ll post...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/21/2010

2009 Best in Show winner: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit

Technorati Tags: Microsoft Press,Office Communications Server,books,award The Society for Technical...

Author: KimSpilker Date: 01/21/2010

Free ebook: First Look Microsoft Office 2010

We promised a more permanent home for this free ebook by Katherine Murray: here it is (in XPS) and...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/20/2010

Want a second shot? Take it!

As part of Microsoft Learning’s Career Initiative, which helps customers and students to get trained...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/20/2010

The Microsoft News Center launches! Plus our own contact info

On January 4, Sandra LeDuc, Sr. Managing Editor, on behalf of the Microsoft News Center Team,...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/19/2010

Carl Chatfield: Top 10 Problems, #9: Enter fixed dates instead of linking tasks

Carl here. This week’s ProjHugger post continues the “Top 10 problems new (and not so new) Project...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/18/2010

Andrew Levicki: New year, new certification challenges

Andrew here. Hi there. You may remember my tales of Microsoft exams in the second half of last year....

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/18/2010

William Stanek: Happy new year and answers to reader queries

William here. Hope your holiday was a good one, and welcome to 2010! I’ll keep today’s post short...

Author: Devon Musgrave Date: 01/15/2010

Ed Wilson: Developing Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices book

While it is true that I have written 3 books on VBScript, I have also written 3 books on PowerShell....

Author: mredwilson Date: 01/14/2010

Forefront TMG 2010 Administrator’s Companion sample chapters

Greetings! As announced this week Forefront TMG 2010 book went to the printer and it will be...

Author: Yuri Diogenes [MSFT] Date: 01/13/2010

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