"Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment" is a quick start tutorial full of step-by-step instructions to guide you through planning and deploying Unified Remote Access; the successor to DirectAccess. If you are a System Administrator or Engineer who has strong knowledge of networking and deployment for the Microsoft family of operating systems and software, then "Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment" is for you. You should have a sound understanding of TCP/IP networking, as well as deploying and supporting Windows Server and Client operating systems.

A step-by-step tutorial with plenty of code and examples to improve your learning curve. If you are a developer and want to create installers for software targeting the Windows platform, then this book is for you. You'll be using plenty of XML and ought to know the basics of writing a well-formed document. No prior experience in WiX or Windows Installer is assumed. You should know your way around Visual Studio to compile projects, add project references and tweak project properties.

Fully updated for Windows Server 2012 R2! Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-411 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of administering Windows Server infrastructure in an enterprise environment. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA or MCSE level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: * Deploy, manage, and maintain servers * Configure file and print services * Configure network services and access * Configure a Network Policy Server infrastructure * Configure and manage Active Directory * Configure and manage Group Policy This Microsoft Exam Ref: * Organizes its coverage by objectives for Exam 70-411. * Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge candidates. * Designed for IT professionals who have real-world experience administering a Windows Server 2012 R2 infrastructure in an enterprise environment. Note: Exam 70-411 counts as credit toward MCSA and MCSE certifications

Get this Fast Start guide to learn Windows 7 quickly. Windows 7 is more customizable than any earlier release of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Powerful features and options combined with traditional favorites allow you to work in new ways. You can perform tasks more efficiently, and you can optimize and customize the operating system in many ways.

Teaching you how to make Windows 7 work the way you want it to is what this book is all about. If you were moving in to a house, apartment, or dorm room, you would want to make the space your own. We do the same with just about everything in our lives, yet surprisingly few people take the time to make their virtual space their own, which can make using a computer a frustrating experience.

One of the ways to make Windows 7 your own is to customize the interface. In any operating system, the interface is everything that connects you to your computer and its basic elements, including the desktop, the menu system, and the taskbar. The way these essential elements look depends on appearance settings. The way they behave depends on customization settings associated with your user account.

This cookbook is full of immediately useable recipes showing you how to administer System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and understand how to solve particular problems/scenarios. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into great detail, which makes it good learning material for everyone who has experience in System Center Configuration Manager and wants to improve. The book is designed in such a way that each recipe is presented as a separate, standalone entity and reading of other, prior recipes is not required. If you are an intermediate to advanced administrator who wants to administer System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and understand how to solve particular problems/scenarios, then this book is for you. You should have a working knowledge of System Center Configuration Manager, however, knowledge of System Center 2012 Configuration Manager is not necessarily required.

(Black & White Edition) Also available in full-color paperback, or on Kindle. Over 400 Example Images Beginning Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 is designed to help those who are new to Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010, as well as those that may not have used previous versions of Windows and Office. In this book you will explore the Windows 7 Start Menu, the Windows TaskBar, and the Windows 7 Desktop. You will learn how to use many common desktop applications and learn how to perform common computer tasks. This book will also examine a number of configuration and personalization options for the PC through the Control Panel. Finally, we will explore the Microsoft Office 2010 Suite. You will learn how to use the Ribbon User Interface and how to perform some common tasks in each Microsoft Office program. Beginning Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010 provides detailed information on: Physical PC Hardware and Setup Windows Start Menu Windows TaskBar Windows Desktop Windows Explorer and Interfaces Internet Explorer, Firefox, & Chrome Burning CD's & DVD's Backing Up Files Scanning & Editing Photos Virus & Malware Prevention Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft PowerPoint Microsoft OneNote Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Access Windows Live Mail Windows Photo Gallery Skype

"Learning PowerCLI" is written in a friendly and practical style with a focus on getting you started and automating daily tasks quickly and efficiently. If you manage or administrate a vSphere environment, and want to make that easier and more efficient, then this book is for you! This book is ideal for you if you want to learn how to automate your VMware vSphere infrastructure, by getting the most out of PowerCLI. It's assumed that you have some experience in administrating a VMware vSphere environment. Knowledge of Microsoft's Windows PowerShell is not a prerequisite.

This is a Packt Cookbook, full with over 75 recipes for VMM users to carry out vital tasks quickly and easily. This book is written for solutions architects, technical consultants, administrators, and any other virtualization lover who needs to use Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager in a real world environment.

'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' is full of immediately useable recipes showing you how to get the most from WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric, leveraging the right capabilities for building composite solutions on the .NET platform. In addition to its cookbook style, which ensures the solutions are presented in a clear step-by-step manner, its explanations go into the right level of detail, making it good learning material for everyone who has experience with some of the challenging aspects of WCF and WF development from a scalability, configuration and management perspective. The book is designed in such a way that each recipe is presented as a separate, standalone entity and reading of other, prior recipes is not required. If you are a .NET developer or WCF/WF developer, then this book is for you. This book does not assume any prior knowledge of Windows AppFabric. However, a basic understanding of .NET Framework 4.0, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) technologies is required.

"Windows Server 2012 Security from End to Edge and Beyond" shows you how to architect, design, plan, and deploy Microsoft security technologies for Windows 8/Server 2012 in the enterprise. The book covers security technologies that apply to both client and server and enables you to identify and deploy Windows 8 security features in your systems based on different business and deployment scenarios. The book is a single source for learning how to secure Windows 8 in many systems, including core, endpoint, and anywhere access.

Authors Tom Shinder and Yuri Diogenes, both Microsoft employees, bring you insider knowledge of the Windows 8 platform, discussing how to deploy Windows security technologies effectively in both the traditional datacenter and in new cloud-based solutions. With this book, you will understand the conceptual underpinnings of Windows 8 security and how to deploy these features in a test lab and in pilot and production environments.

The book's revolutionary "Test Lab Guide" approach lets you test every subject in a predefined test lab environment. This, combined with conceptual and deployment guidance, enables you to understand the technologies and move from lab to production faster than ever before. Critical material is also presented in key concepts and scenario-based approaches to evaluation, planning, deployment, and management. Videos illustrating the functionality in the Test Lab can be downloaded from the authors blog http: //blogs.technet.com.b.security_talk/. Each chapter wraps up with a bullet list summary of key concepts discussed in the chapter.
Provides practical examples of how to design and deploy a world-class security infrastructure to protect both Windows 8 and non-Microsoft assets on your systemWritten by two Microsoft employees who provide an inside look at the security features of Windows 8 Test Lab Guides enable you to test everything before deploying live to your system"

Presented in a hands-on reference manual style, with real-world scenarios to lead you through each process. This book is intended for Windows server administrators who are performing migrations from their existing Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2 environment to Windows Server 2012. The reader must be familiar with Windows Server 2008.

This book is written in a friendly and practical style with numerous tutorials centred on common as well as atypical Hyper-V cluster designs. This book also features a sample cluster design throughout to help you learn how to design a Hyper-V in a real-world scenario.Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design is perfect for the systems administrator who has a good understanding of Windows Server in an Active Directory domain and is ready to expand into a highly available virtualized environment. It only expects that you will be familiar with basic hypervisor terminology.

Technology is wonderful. But by the same token, understanding how to use it efficiently is another story. Sometimes the frustration can really get to you. Not to worry Now you'll have the information that you need to dive right in and actually know what you're doing. "Windows 8 Apps Programming Genius: 7 Easy Steps To Master Windows 8 Apps In 30 Days" is written in a way that allows for easy comprehension by following the step by step process. It takes into account even the novice with minimal knowledge of operating systems or the use of apps. By the time you've implemented each chapter, you should be good to go and finally feel refreshed about learning how to use this software and its related features. As Microsoft continues to come out with their latest operating systems in the future, you will feel more confident about how to use it and understanding basic principles - just because you would've already gone through the information in this book.

Migrating to Windows 7 is one of the most important decisions you'll make for your business. Understanding the ins and outs of a successful Windows 7 deployment will help you and your IT department save time, save money, and most importantly, improve your overall business productivity. With the cost of deploying Windows 7 from Windows XP being upwards of $1,035 per licensed user (Source: Gartner), you just can't afford to make mistakes. So you're left with two options: One: take time away from your business or your IT maintenance to read up on five, ten, maybe 20 white papers to get all the information you need, and try to map out a plan yourself. Two: hire an expensive consultant to fully evaluate your business, the pros and cons of Windows 7 deployment, and whether or not your current infrastructure can handle the upgrade. If you aren't a part of a huge corporation, chances are good that you just don't have a lot of time and money to spare for the information gathering process... which means that you have to find another option in order to make Windows 7 work for you. Thankfully, there is a better way to get the information that you need in order to plan your Windows 7 deployment. We've created a comprehensive guide that analyzes the pros and cons of Windows 7, including the new features that you can expect if you are migrating from Vista or XP. It's absolutely the best option for small businesses and IT professionals who are looking to deploy Windows 7, especially when compared to the alternatives. You won't waste time looking for information, and you won't need to spend thousands of dollars on an expensive consultant in order to get REAL answers for your company's Windows 7 deployment.

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook is a practical cookbook packed with recipes showing and explaining all the features and components of Hyper-V. You'll learn from best practices, tips and tricks and examples of how to automate daily and common tasks. If you are an administrator who wants to master Microsoft Server Virtualization with Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, then this book is for you. You should be comfortable with virtualization concepts and practices, and knowledge of previous versions of Windows Server would be an advantage.

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. A practical, hands-on tutorial approach that explores the concepts of PowerShell in a friendly manner, taking an adhoc approach to each topic. If you are an administrator who is new to PowerShell or are looking to get a good grounding in these new features, this book is ideal for you. It's assumed that you will have some experience in PowerShell and Windows Server, as well being familiar with the PowerShell command-line.

Two volumes in one. A fantasy novel for adults, Lilith is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him. Encountering one mystery after another, he explores the mystery of humanity's fall from grace--and of their redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader senses that MacDonald writes from his own deep experience of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death's darkness itself is utterly eclipsed in its light. "I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly. In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly represents the spiritual world, or our own world revealed in all of its depth and meaning. At times almost forthrightly allegorical, at other times richly dreamlike (and indeed having a close connection to the symbolic world of dreams), this story of a young man who finds himself on a long journey through a land of fantasy is more truly the story of the spiritual quest that is at the core of his life's work, a quest that must end with the ultimate surrender of the self. The glory of MacDonald's work is that this surrender is both hard won (or lost ) and yet rippling with joy when at last experienced. As the narrator says of a heavenly woman in this tale, "She knew something too good to be told." One senses the same of the author himself. Both Lilith and Phantastes, meant to be read together, are included in this comprehensive volume.

Learn about the newest Microsoft operating system with Reg's Practical Guide to Understanding Windows 7. This book will cover the following topics that applies to Windows 7: 1. Learning computer terminology 2. Learning about how to use the Desktop, search for things on your computer and changing your screensaver 3. How to get on to and use the Internet and using E-Mail to contact friends and family 4. How to properly backup and restore your computer in case of a system crash so that you don't lose the information you have stored on your computer 5. How to properly maintain your computer to prevent viruses, malware, Identity theft or any other issues with your computer 6. Creating separate users and filtering out websites that may cause harm to your computer and monitor users web surfing habits

The Practical Guide to Windows Web Server 2008 R2

Improve the consistency of your IT infrastructure and build the next web server with Windows 2008 R2. This book is a step-by-step guide to setting up your server from scratch. Configure IP addresses, host names, DNS services, firewall with advanced security, IIS with Apache side-by-side, and more. Discover the easy way to get going with Windows Web Server Safety of fallback mechanisms when something goes wrong You will be delighted how straightforward the configuration is Easy way to fully test web sites and apps before deployment Save time and money by standardizing your operating systems Get proven reliability with fast results

This book is written in a Cookbook-style format and provides practical, immediately usable task-based recipes that show you how to manage and maintain your Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 environment with Windows PowerShell 3. Each chapter of the book is written so that it can be used as a desktop reference, or it can be read from beginning to end, allowing you to build a solid foundation for building scripts in your Exchange environment. This Cookbook is for messaging professionals who want to learn how to build real-world scripts with Windows PowerShell 3 and the Exchange Management Shell. If you are a network or systems administrator responsible for managing and maintaining Exchange Server 2013 you will find this highly useful. Only basic knowledge of Exchange Server and PowerShell are required to make the most of this book.

Have you always wanted to know how to download pictures to your computer from your digital camera or scanner to E-Mail, crop or repair photos, or to download music from your CD's to your computer to put on your newly purchased MP3 Player or Apple IPod? Reg's Practical Guide's Making Sense Of Downloading Pictures And Music To Your Computer will teach you how to do both of these things using Google's Picasa and Windows Media Player programs. This book will cover: 1. Getting acquainted to the Google Picasa and Windows Media Player programs 2. Downloading Pictures from your digital camera or scanner and organizing them into albums on your computer 3. How to crop, correct red eye, lighting and other issues with your pictures 4. How to E-Mail your pictures to your friends and family 5. How to transfer your music from your music CD's to your computer 6. Creating a playlist of songs to transfer to a CD or your MP3 Player for music on the go

This book can serve as a pocket guide to the IT professionals (especially administrators and desktop engineers) to make their daily IT related tasks easier. This pocket guide is written keeping in mind that the administrators who are new to the industry and the students who are at their initial learning stages may get benefited with the contents that this guide contains. This guide contains simple How-To tips along with the descriptions explaining which GPO affects what part of the operating system. The guide is in very simple and easy-to-understand language and is deliberately written in this way to let everyone get the most out of it.