With an extremely busy year of new product releases from Microsoft, CCO's consultants were also busy writing books on the latest technologies based on typically 2-3 years of experience working with the products in production environments before the formal product releases.

On February 13, 2008, CCO held a book party celebration for family, friends, clients, and special guests at the One Market Restaurant in San Francisco to recognize the efforts of author/experts:

• Andrew Abbate
• Chris Amaris
• Scott Chimner
• Omar Droubi
• Jeff Guillet
• Tyson Kopczynski
• Alex Lewis
• Alec Minty
• Ross Mistry
• Rand Morimoto
• Michael Noel
• Colin Spence
• James Walker
• Mark Weinhardt

The book titles include:

• Exchange 2007 Unleashed
• Hyper-V Unleashed
• ISA 2006 Unleashed
• MOM 2005 Unleashed
• Office Communications Server 2007 Administration
• SharePoint 2007 Unleashed
• SQL 2005 Mgmt and Administration
• SQL 2005 Unleashed
• Windows 2003 R2 Edition Unleashed
• Windows 2008 Unleashed
• Windows PowerShell Unleashed
• Windows Vista Mgmt and Administration