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They say everyone has at least one book in them—maybe every trainer has at least once course in them, too! Find out by downloading the new version of Microsoft Learning Content Development System (LCDS)—we just published version 2.6 What’s new in this release? E-learning compatibility with Microsoft...

The tagline for this post is relatively lame, but you can consider it a lead in to one of my big journeys for the coming year. In a recent conference where I had the privilege to spend a lot of time with trainers and partners, we talked a lot about Author Enablement (what might have the tagline, but...

One of the areas of discussion that I had with Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) at TechEd this year was about courseware quality. Aside from the obvious desire for high quality in instructional materials and experience, the better the courses are, the more time an educator can spend on training and...

Sometimes on the fourth day of an event like TechEd the attendees start to lose steam a bit, but I have not noticed anything like that this year, especially with the MCT Community members present. Today I had a chance to corral Susan Ibach, MCT, Community Author and member of one of the IT Grand Prix...

Early on Day Three at TechEd NA 2010 in New Orleans, I got to spend some time with Allan Jacobs, Unified Communications expert and MCT. He was kind enough to share some of his thoughts with me in this video. Lots of action happening at the MCT Lounge....stop by and take part!

Day Two at TechEd NA 2010 in New Orleans was filled with highlights for me. I presented first thing at 8:00 AM on the Contributor Community and the Microsoft Learning Courseware Library. The attendees were very interactive, which was pleasant considering the relatively early hour. For the rest of the...

My first full day at TechEd NA 2010 in New Orleans was spent connecting with a huge number of members of the community of contributors (authors, technical reviewers, content developers, etc.) and potential members of this community. I had the pleasure of spending part of the day with Marco Timmermans...

If you’ve got specialized technical expertise, and if you’re a good writer, here’s an opportunity to capitalize on it. The Microsoft Learning Courseware Library is a community marketplace for instructional content. The concept is pretty simple: You write a course on one of our products (check out our...

Gang, CLR via C#, Third Edition (ISBN: 9780735627048), by Jeffrey Richter, is proceeding very very well. We’re 99% sure it will be available in the middle of February 2010! Because the book is coming soon, we’d like to post information originally shared by Jeffrey about how the third edition differs...

By the Microsoft Forefront TMG 2010 Administrator’s Companion Authors In March 2008 we got together to brainstorm an idea about this book and from day one we realized that we would have some interesting challenges to overcome, such as chapter rewrites as the product evolved. However we knew that once...

There are a lot of misconceptions about the Microsoft Learning Courseware Library and the Contributor Community (just “the Community” from now on). Today I will address three of them. 1. I have to be a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) in order to join the Community. Nope. While a large percentage...

Microsoft Learning is pleased to announce an MCT Trainer Prep event for course 6416C (Updating your Network Infrastructure and Active Directory Technology Skills to Windows Server 2008) and course 10159A (Updating Your Windows Server 2008 Technology Specialist Skills to R2) to be held at the Microsoft...

After saying hooroo to Australia, author Orin Thomas moved on to New Zealand: Orin here. TechEd New Zealand came as something of a relief after TechEd Australia. Not because there is anything inherently scary about TechEd Australia, but because that event was the first one where I gave my sessions to...

One of the fun things about being the Microsoft Scripting Guy is reading all the e-mail sent to Scripter@Microsoft.Com . Each week, I attempt to answer the several hundred e-mails that I get, at times with varying success. One common form of e-mail I get goes something like this: I need a WMI script...

Good news! William Stanek , who has written dozens and dozens of wonderful Microsoft Press books for IT professionals , will be writing for our blog regularly! With all the books William writes, we’re really glad he’s willing to find the time to contribute here. As William mentions below, he’ll keep...

A week from today Mark Russinovich , Chris Jackson, Jeremy Chapman, and others will discuss “how virtualization tools can help you with application compatibility concerns whether you re migrating from Windows Vista or Windows XP” in a Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable: “Windows 7 Application Compatibility...

Guest post this morning by Michael Sampson . We’d also like to congratulate Michael and his wife, Katrina, on the new baby! Michael here. My focus for the past couple of years has been improving the lot of the SharePoint end user. Microsoft Press published my first book on this topic late last year,...

Sara , the Queen of Open Source at Microsoft, celebrates her 8-year anniversary at MS her way, by jumping off the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere. [Search YouTube for "The CodePlex Jump by Sara Ford (Full Version)."]

One of the things that I often discuss with people who write VBScript code is the process of translating VBScript code to Windows PowerShell code. In fact, several years ago, I was approached about writing a utility that would automate the process. I thought about it long and hard, and in the end decided...

More from Orin in Australia: Orin here. TechEd Australia is hosted in the Gold Coast Convention Center located south of the city of Brisbane on Australia’s pacific coast. The beachside location is popular with international speakers and the September date makes it a nice warm Queensland spring rather...