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April 07, 2004
Chapter 13 (disaster recovery) submitted
After a lot of hard work, much cussin' and spittin', and lots of testing, chapter 13 has gone off to the editors. It covers disaster recovery, which is much easier in Exchange 2003 than its predecessors. One interesting problem is how to make correct backward references to recipes in earlier chapters when they haven't been written yet. We settled on keeping a big Excel sheet listing all of the recipes in various chapters; when we need a new recipe added somewhere, we tack it on to the end. As we begin each new chapter, we'll reorder its recipes so they make sense, and we'll fix the cross-references during (or maybe just before) the tech edit pass. Since each recipe cross-reference explains why you care ("see Recipe 11.2 for re-frobbing the framistan...") this makes it fairly easy to patch up ex post facto.
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