Microsoft Windows 7 - A Complete How-To Guide is to help both home users, who want to get familiar with Windows 7, and systems administrators who want to deploy Windows 7 as client operating system in a production network setup. 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. This guide covers almost every aspect of Microsoft Windows 7 which will help readers customize the operating system exactly according to their personal, professional and organizational requirements.

Since the first press release, Microsoft has emphasized that Windows 8 Is something new, a "reinvented and reimagined" OS, designed to compete in the increasingly crowded market. The changes are obvious from the moment you turn on the computer. This guide gives you a crash course to the newest operating system, and teaches you what you need to know.

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Anyone working with Windows computers can use Group Policy to simplify the application of common and repetitive tasks as well as unique tasks that are difficult to implement manually but can be easily automated. Group Policy includes both managed settings, referred to as policy settings, and unmanaged settings, referred to as policy preferences. Group Policy is in fact a collection of preferences and settings that can be applied to user and computer configurations.

Regardless of whether you are an IT manager, developer, administrator or an advanced user, this Fast Start guide will help you learn the essential concepts needed to successfully work with Group Policy.

Covers Group Policy for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2.

Microsoft Exam 70-741 is for IT Pros interested in enhancing their skills for the latest version of Windows Server. This exam validates skills and knowledge for configuring advanced tasks required to deploy, manage, and maintain a Windows Server 2016 infrastructure, such as fault tolerance, certificate services, and identity federation. Passing this exam along with two other exams is required for MCSA and MCSE certifications. The Exam Ref is the official study guide for Microsoft certification exam 70-741. Featuring concise, objective-by-objective reviews and strategic case scenarios and Thought Experiments, exam candidates get professional-level preparation for the exam. The Exam Ref helps candidates maximize their performance on the exam and sharpen their job-role skills. It organizes material by the exam's objective domains Focus is on the skills measured on the exam: * Implement Domain Name System (DNS) * Implement DHCP * Implement IP Address Management (IPAM) * Implement network connectivity and remote access solutions * Implement core and distributed network solutions * Implement an advanced network infrastructure This Microsoft Exam Ref: * Organizes its coverage by the "Skills measured" posted on the exam webpage * Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you * Points to in-depth material by topic for exam candidates needing additional review * Assumes you are an IT pro looking to validate your skills in and knowledge of installing and configuring Windows Server 2016

Learning Windows 7 doesn't have to be a frustrating experience, you can learn everything you need to use Windows 7 effectively by reading this book. To learn how to use Windows 7, you need practical hands-on advice from an expert who understands what it is like to just start out. By working step by step through essential tasks, you can learn to: Customize the User Interface and settings Search and index your documents and data Install, configure, run and repair software Fine-tune startup and recovery settings Detect and troubleshoot hidden problems Optimize your computer's power management settings Balance the tradeoffs in appearance and performance Extend your desktop with multiple monitors Apply expert tips for maintaining your computer

This book is designed for anyone who wants to learn Windows 7, including those who manage or support computers running this operating system. Inside, you'll find comprehensive overviews, step-by-step procedures, frequently used tasks, documented examples, and much more. One of the goals is to keep the content so concise that the book remains compact and easy to navigate while at the same time ensuring that the book is packed with as much information as possible--making it a valuable resource.

The Network Migration Workbook - 2nd Edition for 2012 - gives you everything you need to migrate a Windows network - with emphasis on the SBS 2011, SBS 2008, and SBS 2003 environments. It won't fit in your back pocket. It's on full letter size paper and it's 536 pages But it definitely has everything you need. The authors start with a discussion of the entire process so you see the big picture. The authors talk about the scope of work and how critical it is to your internal processes and your relationship with the client. Next, they introduce the pre-discovery process. That means making a list of all the things you need to discover so you really understand the project. After the pre-discovery is complete, you can quote the project. They lay out a process based on 10+ years of SBS Migration experience. The book divides the migration into seven distinct stages. It shows you how to estimate the labor required for each stage. So you can always create a quote that's exactly suited for each client. Those seven stages become seven service requests. You and the client agree on everything. As you finish each stage, you track every minute of every job. ALL work is inside the scope of the project. If it's not inside the scope, then it must be outside the scope. In that case, you create a new service request that's billable. The client agrees because they've bought in from the beginning. Now you've delivered your migration project on time and inside the budget. All other work is outside the scope of the migration project and therefore billable. Don't worry. The authors show you how to complete every piece of this process. Includes Excel spreadsheets with quotes, the wording for the service requests, and click-by-click every keystroke it takes to deliver a migration with zero downtime. This process has been used successfully in network migrations small and large - all around the world - in thousands of networks. Zero Downtime means that all client operations remain "live" while you migrate the servers, desktops, and databases during normal business hours. Because the old system remains completely intact, you can now have stress-free migrations that can be scheduled over time. No more evening and weekend migrations No more client downtime

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Whether you call it Desktops as a Service (DaaS), hosted VDI, or desktops in the cloud, everyone knows that the idea of outsourcing your Windows desktops and applications to service providers is a hot topic for companies today. Amazon has just launched AWS WorkSpaces, VMware bought Desktone, Citrix has 2600+ cloud service providers (CSPs), and dinCloud, TuCloud, and countless others are now offering DaaS services.

These DaaS providers make all sorts of sensational claims about the benefits of moving your Windows desktops to the cloud. "Save money " "Outsource your troubles " "Simplify your Windows desktop management " "Solve your BYOD challenges " But are any of these true?

Ultimately you just want to know whether you should take the plunge with DaaS, and if so, what you need to look out for and how to succeed.

This is what world-famous desktop virtualization analysts and bloggers Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth (the duo behind BrianMadden.com and BriForum) set out to do in this book. They've written it for the reader who's been charged with "figuring out DaaS." (Probably via a scenario in which your boss cornered you in the hallway and said, "Hey What's this DaaS thing all about. You're in charge of figuring out whether we should do it ") That's where this book comes in.

In writing this book, Brian and Gabe interviewed dozens of people who work as DaaS providers, consultants, and end customers. They talked to people who love DaaS and who hate it, to people who are succeeding with DaaS and to people who have tried it and given up. The asked DaaS providers to share their war stories and for advice they'd give to potential customers.

This book is not a head-to-head comparison of DaaS providers. Instead, it gives you the key facts you need to know about DaaS. It digs into the various technologies you need to understand by answering questions about how you handle networking, security, server placement, disk image management, application management, user authentication, and mobile devices. It examines what exactly you need to consider when evaluating potential DaaS platforms and providers, how you pick a provider to trust, what to look for in an SLA, and how you build a solid plan for migrating to (and exiting from) the most appropriate DaaS provider.

The book ends with a massive list of 204 "must answer" questions you need to understand about your own environment and that you need ask your DaaS provider before starting your migration. It condenses their years of desktop virtualization, VDI, Citrix, and VMware experience into a single easily-readable volume. You get the benefit of their year of DaaS research, testing, and experimentation in a book you can read in an afternoon.

So whether you're thinking about DaaS, whether you're trying to avoid it, or whether you're on the fence, this book is for you

Table of Contents Introduction to DaaS The Promise (and Reality) of VDI How to Succeed with VDI Bringing in DaaS Advantages of DaaS Disadvantages and Challenges of DaaS Use Cases for DaaS Licensing: ( The True Cost of DaaS How to Pick a Windows Platform Desktop and Image Management Data Location and the Network Security Client Devices and BYOD How to Pick a DaaS Solution Migrating to DaaS Quitting DaaS Alternatives to DaaS The Future of Windows and DaaS 204 Questions You Need to Answer Before Migrating to DaaS

Cookbook with recipes based on real life examples. This book is written to assist the daily tasks for systems administrators, engineers, and architects working with Windows Server 2012.

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 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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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