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Harness the power of Hyper-V 2016 to build high-performance infrastructures that suit your needs About This Book * Design and build a reliable and efficient Hyper-V infrastructure. * Fine-tune your Hyper-V performance by adopting network and storage best practices. * Manage, monitor, and protect your workloads with System Center and Microsoft Azure. Who This Book Is For If you are working with Hyper-V and want to optimize its performance and effectiveness, this book is for you. This book will help you close the gap between the Hyper-V lab and production environments. What You Will Learn * Automate and accelerate the deployment of Hyper-V host and nano servers * Create high availability solutions using failover clustering * Design redundant solutions with Hyper-V Replica * Protect your workloads by making a backup or learning disaster recovery * Use the best practices of network and storage * Master the performance and scalability of storage virtualization * Migrate your existing virtualization workloads to Hyper-V2016 * Manage your Hyper-V stack with System Center and Azure * Bridge the gap between the Hyper-V lab and production environment In Detail Hyper-V Server and Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V provide best-in-class virtualization capabilities. Hyper-V is a Windows-based, very cost-effective virtualization solution with easy-to-use and well-known administrative consoles. This book will assist you in designing, implementing, and managing highly effective and highly available Hyper-V infrastructures. With an example-oriented approach, this book covers all the different tips and suggestions to configure Hyper-V and provides readers with real-world proven solutions. This book begins by deploying single clusters of High Availability Hyper-V systems including the new Nano Server. This is followed by steps to configure the Hyper-V infrastructure components such as storage and network. It also touches on necessary processes such as backup and disaster recovery for optimal configuration. The book does not only show you what to do and how to plan the different scenarios, but it also provides in-depth configuration options. These scalable and automated configurations are then optimized via performance tuning and central management ensuring your applications are always the best they can be. Style and approach This book covers Hyper-V best practices in a step-by-step manner with clear and concise examples.

The most comprehensive guide to Windows 10, updated with the latest enhancements If you're new to Windows 10 and want an authoritative and accessible guide to the basics of the widely used operating system, Windows 10 All-in-One For Dummies is the book for you. Written by trusted Windows expert Woody Leonhard, this freshly updated guide cuts through the jargon and covers everything you need to know, including navigating the start menu, personalizing your Windows experience, maximizing Windows apps, and managing security. Windows 10 All-in-One For Dummies includes all the guidance you need to make the most of this latest update of Windows. It shows you how to set up multiple user accounts, create a Homegroup for easy sharing between devices, backup your files, and troubleshoot common problems. * Covers all the new features and latest enhancements to Windows 10 * Makes upgrading to the latest version easier than ever * Lets you work with apps like a pro * Includes tons of tips on protecting your computer, data, privacy, and identity Whether you use Windows 10 for business, fun and games, or staying in touch with family and friends, Windows 10 All-in-One For Dummies makes it easy.

Troubleshoot all the aspects of your Configuration Manager installation, from basic easy checks to the advanced log files and serious issues About This Book * Learn to troubleshoot Configuration Manager 2012 based versions of Microsoft System Center * Understand the usability of tools and find resolutions to all the issues of Configuration Manager * A step-by-step practical guide with the necessary screenshots and examples Who This Book Is For If you are new to Configuration Manager or have experience with it, and are interested in identifying, diagnosing and resolving the System Center Configuration Manager administration issues then this book is for you. What You Will Learn * Fix your clients and install them correctly * Understand how your Configuration Manager hierarchy works * Extend your error information * Troubleshoot Configuration Manager roles * Know your options when faced with problems * Prevent future problems occurring In Detail Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is the most popular enterprise client management solution in the world with some of the best features available. Troubleshooting this product, however, is not always as simple as you might want, not least getting to know the hundreds of log files and understanding how the various components work. The book starts with discussing the most commonly used tools for troubleshooting the variety of problems that can be seen in Configuration Manager. It then moves to providing a high level view of the available log files, their locations, what they relate to and what they typically contain. Next, we will look at how we can fully utilize and extend all the available information from the console monitoring pane through to the status messages and down into error logging with some further reaches into WMI, SQL, registry and the file structure. You will then learn what the common error codes mean, how to make sense of the less common ones and what they actually mean with respect to Configuration Manager. Further to this, you will pick up widely acknowledged best practices both from a proactive stance when carrying out your daily administrative tasks and also from a reactive position when the green lights start to turn red right down to a complete failure situation. By the end of the book, you will be competent enough to identify and diagnose the root causes of System Center Configuration Manager administration issues and resolving them. Style and approach An easy to follow yet practical guide that will advise you on what tools and information you have available to troubleshoot with, if you can extend that information and what to look for solving the issues.

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A beginner's guide to help you design, deploy and administer your System Center Operations Manager 2016 and 2012 R2 environments About This Book * Discover how to monitor complex IT environments with System Center Operations Manager using tips, tricks and best practice recommendations from industry experts. * Learn how to create eye-catching dashboards and reports to help deliver a tangible return on investment back to your organization. * Optimize, troubleshoot and perform disaster recovery in Operations Manager using step by step examples based on real-world scenarios. Who This Book Is For The target audience for this book is the IT Pro or System Administrator who wants to deploy and use System Center Operations Manager but has no previous knowledge of the product. As a 'Getting Started' book, our primary objective is to equip you with the knowledge you need to feel comfortable when working with common monitoring scenarios in OpsMgr. With this in mind, deep-diving into less-common OpsMgr features such as Audit Collection Services (ACS), Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) has been intentionally omitted. What You Will Learn * Install a new System Center 2016 Operations Manager Management Group * Design and provision custom views to relevant support teams. * Understand how to deploy agents * Work with management packs * Monitor network devices * Model your IT services with distributed applications * Create dashboards and custom visualizations * Tune, optimize, maintain and troubleshoot System Center Operations Manager In Detail Most modern IT environments comprise a heterogeneous mixture of servers, network devices, virtual hypervisors, storage solutions, cross-platform operating systems and applications. All this complexity brings a requirement to deliver a centralized monitoring and reporting solution that can help IT administrators quickly identify where the problems are and how best to resolve them. Using System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr), administrators get a full monitoring overview of the IT services they have responsibility for across the organization - along with some useful management capabilities to help them remediate any issues they've been alerted to. This book begins with an introduction to OpsMgr and its core concepts and then walks you through designing and deploying the various roles. After a chapter on exploring the consoles, you will learn how to deploy agents, work with management packs, configure network monitoring and model your IT services using distributed applications. There's a chapter dedicated to alert tuning and another that demonstrates how to visualize your IT using dashboards. The final chapters in the book discuss how to create alert subscriptions, manage reports, backup and recover OpsMgr, perform maintenance and troubleshoot common problems. Style and approach A beginner's guide that focuses on providing the practical skills required to effectively deploy and administer OpsMgr with walkthrough examples and tips on all the key concepts.

This book is for IT Administrators, Consultants and all those interested in getting a broad view of what it means to deploy software in a small and large IT environment. It should serve to give You a broad look at what technologies are available, and what it could mean for You. There are dozens of books covering detailed aspects of software deployment; they are mostly focused on a certain technique or software product, but getting "the big picture" is sometimes hard to find in one compact volume. From batch programming, Windows Installers, application virtualization to suites like ZenWorks Configuration Management: this book is for you

Windows 8 is here in a flurry of controversy The new operating system is the most radical departure since Windows 95. In this guide, we cover the entire spectrum of Windows 8, from the touch optimized tiles to the productivity power-house of the desktop. Thanks to this Superguide, learning this new operating system just got a whole lot easier. Now fully updated and revised for Windows 8.1 Update 1, the Windows 8 Superguide is better than ever. Whether you are new to computers entirely or just new to Windows 8, this Superguide will help you to get the most out of the operating system, no matter what kind of PC you are using. The guide contains no less than 66 lessons, each fully illustrated. Unleash the true potential of your new Windows 8 machine, be it tablet, hybrid, laptop or desktop, with the Windows 8 Superguide. There is no better beginners course available anywhere Need extra help? Supplement your book with a Windows 8 Superguide download or DVD, including full-size video tutorials. Visit http: //www.top-windows-tutorials.com/windows-8-superguide.html to learn more. Technical support for all the topics covered in this book is available directly from the author at forum.top-windows-tutorials.com or on the Top-Windows-Tutorials Facebook page at facebook.com/top.windows.tutorials

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