Announcing the Fourth Edition of the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook

[Tony Redmond]

Office 365: With over 485,000 words of rich content spread across 1,000 pages covering everything from Exchange Online to SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams, Planner, and all points in between, the Fourth Edition of the Office 365 for IT Pros ebook is the definitive reference for tenant administrators.
https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/2017/06/01/office-365-for-it-pros-fourth-edition/

[#2]

Appreciate the efforts you folks have put to write and release this Book. I have been regularly following 3rd edition and i was fully satisfied with the contents and chapters. I was very eagerly waiting on 4th Ed. I gave gone ahead and purchased without any second thought.

Thanks for whatever you been doing for O365 Community.

Good Luck

[#3]

Purchased :)

[#4]

Thanks. We appreciate all the support we receive from people across the Office 365 community. If people don't buy scubscriptions to the book, we will not be able to continue producing updates. It's kind of a vicious (but nice) cycle.

[#5]

Merci beaucoup!

[#6]

Yup, already bought it. Excellent resource.

[#7]

I realized that I have not been keeping people updated as to the progress of the 4th edition. You can see what changes are made at http://wp.me/pSH8B-1sb. Suffice to say that we continue to push out updated books and have processed seven updates (one per week) since we published the 4th edition. The next update will appear on July 28.

I received a question on Facebook to ask whether we would publish a printed version. Well, we actually did do this a long time ago thanks to the sponsorship of Microsoft who paid for the production costs to edit, format, and print 500 copies of the first edition for Ignite 2015 in Chicago (May 2015). However, that was only the start of the journey and I believe that the book was around 550 pages at that time. Now it is 1,040 pages and growing (yes, I know, we could be called verbose - I prefer to say that Office 365 has changed a lot since 2015). Taking a massive book like that and printing it would take enormous effort and would be very expensive. We have looked at doing it with BookBaby.com and Amazon (they can't handle our size) and I guess a niggling desire still exists to see printed copies. However, that thought is soon stifled when we consider how many changes occur each week and the impossibility of getting those changes into a printed format.

So, we remain focused on an eBook - and I think the approach works because it seems like most readers use the book as a reference. It's certainly not something you'd read page-by-page from 1 to 1,040...

Thanks to all who support this work by buying copies. We really do appreciate the support and it does help us to push forward and generate those weekly updates.

[#8]

Ninth weekly update issued for Office 365 for IT Pros, 4th Ed. Files are now available online. See http://wp.me/pSH8B-1sb for details.

[#9]

10th update issued (August 11) for "Office 365 for IT Pros" Ebook released, including lots of details about the Group Expiration Policy and how to use the PowerShell cmdlets to manipulate the policy.
http://wp.me/pSH8B-1sb. We're now close to 1,050 pages, 500,000 words, and definitely have 857 PowerShell examples!

[#10]

I'm traveling tomorrow, so the August 18 version of "Office 365 for IT Pros" is now online. See
http://wp.me/pSH8B-1sb for details.

[#11]

Thank you, Sir :)

already downloaded.

I was just wondering how to easily identify the section which was updated in that week apart from change log?

Could you show the updated changes in some color? so that interested folks like me can hover on highlighted section?

some times very hard to read the entire chapter to understand what new contents have been added.

just my 2 cents.

[#12]

Unfortunately, given the number of changes we make (some are very small to make wording more accurate or to strengthen thoughts on a topic), I think it might be confusing to highlight changes. For instance, how long would you highlight text for? We update every week, but people don't necessarily download the updated book weekly. 

TR

[#13]

Nice, just purchased the book.:smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:

[#14]

Thanks. Just out of idle curiosity, donyou prefer PDF, EPUB, or Kindle format?

[#15]

Don't have a kindle (and don't expect it to ever have it), not familiair with epub, so downloaded the pdf. Maybe I should try epub and see what happens :)

[#16]

As for me - I have Kindle, but prefer PDF for this book. Jumping from one part to another and returning back to recently read part to check details is more comfortable with PDF on desktop and/or laptop.

From that point of view printed book is even better, but not in this case - too many updates, and that is great!

[#17]

For me, PDF is probably the best format because we have most control over it. After that, the best is EPUB because it works for most eReaders, including the iPad. We can update these formats weekly. Kindle is more difficult because while we can (and do) update it weekly, we depend on Amazon to inform purchasers that a new version exists. They do not like doing this and have to be convinced that enough change exists in the book before they will. I normally ask them once monthly and they agree twice out of every three times.

[#18]

Just released the Sept 1 update for the Office 365 for IT Pros ebook. See change log http://wp.me/pSH8B-1sb for details. 

[#19]

Sept 8 Update for "Office 365 for IT Pros" ebook now online. http://wp.me/pSH8B-1sb Amazon, PDF, and EPUB.

[#20]

Major refresh for Office 365 for IT Pros because Teams support external access. New files online. http://wp.me/pSH8B-1sb