I worked with many of my co-workers across the product team to make a book available to help with diagnostics, planning/setup/deployment and general background information. The book covers most all aspects of the extended product with over 700 pages of content and visual examples. The book is very technical in general (written by Jeremy Buch - development lead for the protocol stack team for 7 years, Rui Maximo - program manager and technical author in the team for over 4 years now and Jochen Kunert - program manager working with VoIP/telephony).

More information (including sample chapters) are available from Microsoft.

The book is also available for sale now for $35.99 at Amazon.

Please take a look - the other authors and I have put our collective knowledge into this resource. A lot of tips and tricks for diagnostics and solving common deployment issues are available. This resource is a great way to save time - you can dig into the area you are working through in order to understand it in technical detail, get support for how to plan deployment or configuration changes and get expert tips and tricks on how to diagnose or resolve problems as they come up.

We wrote this for all of you, so I hope that it helps make your life easier!

-- Jeremy Buch (MS Development Lead)