Free ebook: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance

Greetings! Microsoft Press and TechNet Magazine have teamed up to create a free ebook: Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine. The ebook includes ten complete chapters from Microsoft Press’s Windows 7 Resource Kit (ISBN: 9780735627000; ISBN: 1760 pages), by Mitch Tulloch, Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows 7 Team at Microsoft:

Chapter 3 Deployment Platform . . . . . . . . . 85
Chapter 4 Planning Deployment . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 5 Testing Application Compatibility . . . . . . . . . 139
Chapter 6 Developing Disk Images . . . . . . . . . 179
Chapter 7 Migrating User State Data . . . . . . . . . 223
Chapter 8 Deploying Applications . . . . . . . . .  247
Chapter 9 Preparing Windows PE . . . . . . . . . 273
Chapter 10 Configuring Windows Deployment Services . . . . . . . . . 293
Chapter 11 Using Volume Activation . . . . . . . . . 335
Chapter 12 Deploying with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit . . . . . . . . . 355

It also includes six articles from TechNet Magazine:

Migrate Already! Why You Should Migrate to Windows 7 If You’re Still Waffling  . . . . . . . . . 383
Don Jones
8 Common Issues in Windows 7 Migrations. . . . . . . . . 387
Don Jones
9 Things You Should Know About Windows 7. . . . . . . . . 391
William Stanek
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Running Windows 7 in Mixed Environments . . . . . . . . . 397
William Stanek
Integrating Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. . . . . . . . . 403
Alan Maddison
The Good Computing Seal of Approval: Windows 7 Certification. . . . . . . . . 409
Joshua Hoffman

Over 400 pages of expert guidance; enjoy!

Comments

• Anonymous
  October 19, 2009
  almost all microsoft books are good

• Anonymous
  October 20, 2009
  Looking forward to my first Win 7 install

• Anonymous
  December 20, 2009
  i am engineering software thanks a lot of good louk

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2010
  Thanks for the opportunity but I don't see a download link for either .pdf or .xps on this page. I think you have omitted it.

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2010
  Chad, the first link in this post takes you to the Download Center page where you can download the ebook.

• Anonymous
  June 24, 2010
  Thanks for send this e book, very helpfull for me

• Anonymous
  June 24, 2010
  Wow this e book collection...make me so helpfull

• Anonymous
  June 29, 2010
  Here is the link to download this ebook: -- www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2010
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• Anonymous
  December 02, 2010
  thanks a lot,but i need visual c++ 2010 ebook, msdn is good but in sometimes it's complex ,can you give me a link of above mention ebook

• Anonymous
  December 02, 2010
  1st Link does not respond. unable to download...

• Anonymous
  April 06, 2011
  Thank you very much for this ebook ;-)

• Anonymous
  July 21, 2011
  no link available for downloading... Could you repair it ?

• Anonymous
  July 21, 2011
  The link works here www.microsoft.com/.../search.aspx

• Anonymous
  July 21, 2011
  Hi. The link is on the title ("Deploying Windows 7, Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and TechNet Magazine") in the second sentence on this post. Is not appearing for anyone else?

• Anonymous
  September 29, 2011
  nice

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2012
  thank you for help

• Anonymous
  May 20, 2012
  Thanks Mikeg

• Anonymous
  May 21, 2012
  exelente aporte

• Anonymous
  June 27, 2012
  So the writeup said they were making the ebooks available in three formats. Yet they only provide it in one? I'll convert it online but y promise and not deliver?

• Anonymous
  December 28, 2012
  I am eager to know many things about softwares..I think this book help me achieve that aim..

• Anonymous
  March 14, 2013
  this book is realy very helpful for all of us thank you

• Anonymous
  March 22, 2013
  I want to thank microsoft company about this book

• Anonymous
  April 28, 2013
  no link available for downloading... Could you repair it ?

• Anonymous
  April 28, 2013
  Liang, click the link on the book title in the post.

• Anonymous
  May 18, 2013
  Thanks your shared!

• Anonymous
  November 16, 2013
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• Anonymous
  December 11, 2013
  i like all the books thx a lot

• Anonymous
  December 18, 2013
  First time visitor to the site.  At 60 keeping up with the kids isn't easy.... So I came to buy one book and Wow jumped on the bonus "Free eBook".... great idea and way to keep in pace with the ever changing world of IT.  Thank you, I will be back