Microsoft Press books, e-books, and newsletters can help you gain the technical information you need. Here is a quick summary post of some of recent giveaways at Microsoft Press :
Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview)
Free ebook: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (DRAFT Preview II)
Code for “Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010” DRAFT ebooks
Microsoft has provided excellent resources for teachers. They may Watch videos, and download guides and e-books to inspire class and to help make the best use of tools and technology in their lessons.
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Mitch Tulloch has updated & released a free ebook of Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, From the Desktop to the Datacenter. This book contains Six chapters adding up to 466 pages and is a must guide for those explorong new horizons in Virtualization Solutions.
This book is available in both XPS as well as PDF format.
Download : XPS format and PDF format
On Technet, a number of How-to-do videos for various Microsoft technologies are available. You can learn more about products such as SQL Server, Security, Windows Server, Exchange and SharePoint with these "How Do I?" videos. TechNet has assembled these short videos for customers to learn how to accomplish specific tasks with Microsoft products: step-by-step.
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment which supports deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in addition to deployment of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP.MDT is the recommended process and toolset for automating desktop and server deployment. MDT provides you with the following benefits:
So heres Second edition of TechTwitter :
:-/ 18 Jan 1 AMBeginning today we are starting a roundup of Tweet-Tech by me. As me & a friend of mine VasudevG (MVP) were discussing that ours blogging activities have been decreased since we have started Micro-blogging, this idea striked to include best of last few Tweets i encountered on Twitter. Hers first edition goes :
Microsoft re-released the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool under GPLv2. This tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD. Earlier it was posted @ Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool .
Pivot is a software application from Microsoft Live Labs that allows users to interact with and search large amounts of data. It is based on Microsoft’s Seadragon and Deep Zoom technologies & powered by Silverlight.
Pivot focuses on this intersection, enabling us to learn key lessons while attempting to broadly apply this philosophy to the Web. We hope that Pivot will inspire and fuel transformative experiences across the Web.
Create Windows 7 Bootable USB Drive or DVD Using Official “Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool” from Microsoft.Microsoft has released a new utility "Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool" which allows you to create a bootable USB drive to install Windows 7. It also allows you to create bootable DVD.
You can download it using following link:
Download Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
