Devin on Earth

And yes, that’s “free as in beer,” not “free as in what some people think all information wants to be.”[1]

Frank Koch and Marcel Trümpy of Microsoft (in Switzerland) have created not one, but two Windows PowerShell ebooks, and you can get them both for free:

• A Windows PowerShell course book with associated demo files and examples.
• A Windows PowerShell server administration book with associated demo files and examples.

Get them both in one easy download either in English or German. The downloads are from Microsoft and no registration is required, according to the blog posting.

[1] If you believe all information wants to be free, I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is and post your Social Security number (if you live in the USA; equivalent if you don’t), birthdate, address, personal phone number, and bank account information here in my comments. After all, that’s all information — and it wants to be free!

Early this week, Ryan and I received our authors’ copies of Mastering System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, the book we co-wrote about, well, mastering DPM 2007. Amazon says it’s in stock, so if the topic is at all of interest to you, please consider buying a copy or ten and making our publisher happy!

Two more interesting tidbits around the book:

• I’l be giving a session on Exchange and DPM for the Spring 2008 Exchange Connections conference in Orlando; I’m hoping to be able to make other arrangements as well.
• The book will have its own website, http://www.masteringdpm.com/ (it’s not live yet!), in just another couple of days, by the weekend at the latest; the DNS zone is already registered, I just need to get the website software up and running.