Posted by: kurtsh | September 4, 2013

HOWTO: How to take TechNet Documentation offline as PDF files

This was too good not to repost.  Have you ever wished you could take some of TechNet’s library offline with you?  Here’s instructions on how to do this with any topic online using the “Export Topics” function.

imageMicrosoft has released a beta version of a feature that lets you build your own book of technical content. It is unhelpfully titled the Print/Export Multiple Topics tool. I think of it as the "Build a Book" tool, but perhaps there were unhappy memories of the acronym BOB? Anyway, this is a special view of the TechNet Library that allows you to select articles that you care about, from different parts of the library, group them in a collection that persists across web sessions (requires sign in), and then print them or export them to a file. This tool requires at least Internet Explorer 8, or the latest versions of other major browsers.

NOTE: there is a limit on the beta of 100 topics, so you are not able to package up and download all 2550 topics in the Exchange node, for example. At least, not all at once.

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