About This Book Get acquainted with the basics of Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 R2 and understand how to efficiently design a highly available virtualization solution Assess your physical server environment and understand the fundamentals of server consolidation and sizing of Hyper-V hosts Design practical solutions for common design patterns with explanations of these design decisions Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at IT admins, consultants, and architects alike who wish to deploy, manage, and maintain Hyper-V solutions in organizations of various sizes. You are expected to have a working knowledge of managing Windows Server and a fair understanding of networking and storage concepts. What You Will Learn Set up independent and highly available clustered Hyper-V hosts via GUI and PowerShell Acquire knowledge about Generation 1 and 2 Virtual Machines, their creation and management, and also look at the VM Conversion process Understand NIC teaming, Extensible Virtual Switch, and other networking advancements Gain insight into virtual machine storage changes and their follow-up benefits Discover backup and recovery patterns for Hyper-V Familiarize yourself with the essentials of Hyper-V Replica Leverage the benefits of Microsoft VDI In DetailThis book is a practical, example-oriented tutorial that will guide you through the basics and architecture of the Hyper-V platform and help you understand how to build your virtualization infrastructure from the ground up. It then goes on to focus on scalability and high availability aspects, and trains you to set up highly available Hyper-V clusters and perform the live migration of virtual machines. You will also learn about advancements in virtual networking and storage in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. Finally, the book then advises you on how to set up backup and recovery and how to prepare a disaster recovery plan via Hyper-V Replica, concluding with insight into Microsoft VDI implementation guidance.

Over 150 real-world recipes to simplify database management, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance your productivity About This Book * This book helps you build a strong foundation to get you comfortable using PowerShell with SQL Server, empowering you to create more complex scripts for your day-to-day job * The book provides numerous guidelines, tips, and explanations on how and when to use PowerShell cmdlets, WMI, SMO, .NET classes, or other components * It offers easy-to-follow, practical recipes to help you get the most out of SQL Server and PowerShell Who This Book Is For If you are a SQL Server database professional (DBA, developer, or BI developer) who wants to use PowerShell to automate, integrate, and simplify database tasks, this books is for you. Prior knowledge of scripting would be helpful, but it is not necessary. What You Will Learn * Explore database objects and execute queries on multiple servers * Manage and monitor the running of SQL Server services and accounts * Back up and restore databases * Create an inventory of database properties and server configuration settings * Maintain permissions and security for users * Work with CLR assemblies, XML, and BLOB objects in SQL * Manage and deploy SSIS packages and SSRS reports In Detail PowerShell can be leveraged when automating and streamlining SQL Server tasks. PowerShell comes with a rich set of cmdlets, and integrates tightly with the .NET framework. Its scripting capabilities are robust and flexible, allowing you to simplify automation and integration across different Microsoft applications and components. The book starts with an introduction to the new features in SQL Server 2014 and PowerShell v5 and the installation of SQL Server. You will learn about basic SQL Server administration tasks and then get to know about some security-related topics such as the authentication mode and assigning permissions. Moving on, you will explore different methods to back up and restore your databases and perform advanced administration tasks such as working with Policies, Filetables, and SQL audits. The next part of the book covers more advanced HADR tasks such as log shipping and data mirroring, and then shows you how to develop your server to work with BLOB, XML, and JSON. Following on from that, you will learn about SQL Server's BI stack, which includes SSRS reports, the SSIS package, and the SSAS cmdlet and database. Snippets not specific to SQL Server will help you perform tasks quickly on SQL servers. Towards the end of the book, you will find some useful information, which includes a PowerShell tutorial for novice users, some commonly-used PowerShell and SQL Server syntax, and a few online resources. Finally, you will create your own SQL Server Sandbox VMs. All these concepts will help you to efficiently manage your administration tasks. Style and approach SQL Server 2014 with PowerShell v5 Cookbook is an example-focused book that provides step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish specific SQL Server tasks using PowerShell. Each recipe is followed by an analysis of the steps or design decisions taken and additional information about the task at hand. Working scripts are provided for all examples so that you can dive in right away. You can read this book sequentially by chapter or you can pick and choose which topics you need right away.

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This book is intended for those who already have some basic experience with Hyper-V and now want to gain additional capabilities and knowledge of Hyper-V. If you have used Hyper-V in a lab environment before and now want to close the knowledge gap to transfer your Hyper-V environment to production, this is the book for you!

The techniques in this book apply to beginners who have just started to learn PowerShell, as well as advanced scripters who have a good grasp of the language.

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Whether you are an IT manager, an administrator, or security professional who wants to learn how Microsoft Security Compliance Manager and Microsoft System Center can help fulfil compliance and security requirements, this is the book for you. Prior knowledge of Microsoft System Center is required.

About This Book Learn key principles to model business processes with BPMN and BPEL, and execute them in an SOA environment. Use best practices for composite applications, including service design and human interactions, and apply them in your daily projects. Design, implement, and optimize business processes with real-world examples illustrating all key concepts Who This Book Is ForThis book is intended for BPM and SOA architects, analysts, developers, and project managers who are responsible for, or involved in, business process development, modelling, monitoring, or the implementation of composite, process-oriented applications. The principles are relevant for the design of on-premise and cloud solutions.

If you are a Citrix engineer, a virtualization consultant, or an IT project manager with prior experience of using Citrix XenApp and related technologies for desktop virtualization and want to further explore the power of XenApp for flawless desktop virtualization, then this book is for you.

1- MUSTAFA ALMAHDI ALGAET received the B.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Altahdi university of Libya, in 2004 and the M.S. degree in information and Communication technology from University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia (UUM), in 2006. Currently, he is PhD student at UTeM. His research interest is Quality of service (QoS) in wireless telemedicine. 2-DR. ZUL AZRI BIN MUHAMAD NOH is a Senior Lecturer teaching Advanced High Performance Networks, Network Routing, Implementing and Administering Active Directory, and Wireless Network and Mobile Computing. Dr. Zul Azri's education was first in Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering, then Masters of Engineering in Communication and Computer Engineering, then Doctor of Engineering in Communication and Computer Engineering, all from Nagoya Institute of Technology Japan. In October 2007, while pursuing his PhD, he joined UTeM as lecturer at Faculty of Information and Communication Technology. Currently, he is head of Advanced Networking and Distributed System research cluster. His current research interests include quality of service (QoS), wireless LAN, packet scheduling algorithm, and multimedia communication 3-DR. ABDUL SAMAD SHIBGHATULLAH is a Senior Lecturer in faculty of information and communication Technology UTeM, and his PhD Degree in computer science (Brunel University, UK) 2008, Msc Computer science (UTM) 2001, B.Acc (UKM) in 1999, and his field is Scheduling and Agent Technology 4-ALI AHMAD MILAD received the B.S. degrees in computer science from Almergib University in 2005, and the M.S. degree in computer science from University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia (UPM) 2009, currently; He is Ph.D. student at UTeM. His research interest is Very High Speed Wireless LANs. MAC protocols. 5-DR. AOUACHE MUSTAPHA . Was born in Frenda, Algeria; received the B.Sc. (2000) in Control and Automation from University of Boumerdes (UMBB), Algeria; M.Sc (2006) and PhD (2012) in Electrical, Electronic & Sys

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About This Book Extend your Microsoft Dynamics GP skills by mastering Microsoft Dynamics Excel and Microsoft Power BI tools Gain insight into your current data, providing insight for better decision making Empower yourself with easy-to-follow directions for preparing useful and advanced reports Who This Book Is ForIf you're a GP user, this book is aimed at making your job easier. How? Through the use of Business Intelligence (BI) provided by your Microsoft Dynamics GP software to aid you in making informed decisions. This book assumes no previous experience; however, a basic knowledge of Excel is expected.

This book is for advanced Force.com developers and architects who need to understand the Salesforce platform from the perspective of enterprise-level requirements. You should have an existing understanding of Apex and Visualforce. Those familiar with other enterprise software ecosystems will also find this book ideal as they adopt Force.com.

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