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March 10, 2005
Scripts: coming very soon
We're in the last push to get the book finished. Part of that is that I'm making one last test and cleanup pass on the scripts. As I get them done, I'll post them here in the "Scripts" category... but to give you a reason to come back, I'll post one per day. Each chapter will have a post that lists the scripts in it, so you can see what's coming and when.
Posted by Paul at 10:26 AM | Comments (0)
March 07, 2005
We're *this* close
We are so close to being done! The first half of the book has gone to O'Reilly's production department; they take our original Word docs and lay them out in FrameMaker, adding the artwork, icons, and formatting that give the finished book its distinctive appearance. We have a few more chapters to do technical review on (Devin has two, Missy has one, and Tom has one), and I have to test and clean up all the scripts-- all by 11 March! Once those things are done, the second half of the book can go off to production; at that point, the authors are done until the initial proofs of the book come back. Those proofs are our last chance to catch mistakes, so we'll be poring over them pretty closely.
The big question on everyone's mind is probably "what animal has O'Reilly chosen for the cover?" Your guess is as good as mine. Robbie may tell us beforehand, or he may keep it as a surprise (although I bet Missy can coax it out of him).
Posted by Paul at 09:58 AM | Comments (0)
March 04, 2005
DVDs or CDs? You decide!
Microsoft's KC Lemson asks over on You Had Me at EHLO whether people would want the next version of Exchange to come on multiple CDs or a single DVD.
I'm all in favor of DVDs -- I usually copy the install bits up to the network and install from a network share anyway. Over the last year of writing the Cookbook and working on the other various Exchange projects 3Sharp throws my way, I've found the following benefits from doing so:
- Less media to manage.
- Consistent installation paths across all my servers.
- Easier to manage installation from updated ExDeploy tools when all the bits (original and updated) are in one place.
- If I like, I can deploy servers without a CD-ROM drive and use a portable drive if I have to boot from an OS CD. One less item in the Device Manager tree, one less moving part to worry about breaking.
Head on over and tell KC what you think.
Posted by Devin Ganger at 02:08 PM | Comments (0)