Sample chapters

MCTS 70-662 Rapid Review: Installing and Configuring Exchange Servers

• Mar 15, 2012
• This chapter covers the objectives in Exam MCTS 70-662 for installing and configuring Exchange servers.

MCTS 70-680 Rapid Review: Installing, Upgrading, and Migrating to Windows 7

• Mar 15, 2012
• This chapter reviews the objectives of MCTS Exam 70-680, including how to perform a clean installation, upgrade to Windows 7 from previous versions of Windows, and migrate user profiles.

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-652): Securing Hosts and Virtual Machines

• Jun 17, 2009
• This chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-652): Configuring Windows Server Virtualization introduces you to securing Hyper-V host servers and the virtual machines they run.

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-653): Managing and Configuring Remote Access in Windows Small Business Server 2008

• Aug 19, 2009
• This chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-653): Configuring Windows Small Business Server 2008 discusses secure access to the server using self-issued and third-party certificates, default Remote Web Workplace settings, how to configure Remote Web Workplace, as well as how to enable and configure a virtual private network (VPN) in Windows SBS.

MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-667): Configuring Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010: Managing Web Applications

• Sep 21, 2011
• In this chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-667): Configuring Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010, you will learn the procedures and settings related to web applications, and you will master important concepts including Claims Based Authentication, access mappings, and zones.

MCTS Self-Paced Training: Styles and Animation in Windows Presentation Foundation

• Jul 9, 2008
• In this chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-502): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Presentation Foundation, you'll learn to use two aspects of WPF programming that take full advantage of the system's visual capabilities: styles and animation.

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Communication Foundation: Sessions and Instancing

• Sep 24, 2008
• This chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-503): Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Windows Communication Foundation answers the question of how sessions function within the WCF world. It also describes the various instancing options and the implications each choice has on the available functionality.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Security Basics

• Jun 18, 2008
• This chapter from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion, 2nd Edition offers ideas about how to add complexity and create hindrances to those who wish to attack your network over port 25.

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway: Using Network Monitor 3 for Troubleshooting TMG

• Feb 10, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Administrator's Companion covers the basics of Network Monitor, including how to capture data and some Network Monitor capture scenarios.

Microsoft Identity and Access Management Solutions

• By Nicholas DiCola, Yuri Diogenes, Kevin McKinnerney, Mark MorowczynskiDec 1, 2021

• In this sample chapter fromExam Ref SC-900 Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, you will learn how to define the basic identity services and identity types of Azure AD.

Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Date Calculations in DAX

• Oct 5, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning, learn how to create a Dates table for a PowerPivot model and how to use that table to support several types of calculations: number of working days, aggregation and comparison over time, and closing balance over time.

Microsoft Public Cloud Services: What the Cloud Can Do for Your Business

• Jun 23, 2015
• Blain Barton, the author of Microsoft Public Cloud Services: Setting up your business in the cloud, introduces his book and explains what the cloud can do for your business.

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Designing and Architecting Solutions: Gathering Requirements

• Jul 15, 2013
• Arguably the most important task of a successful SharePoint 2013 implementation is to gather all of the requirements that reflect the business goals of the organization to ensure the maximum value is attained. This chapter from Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Designing and Architecting Solutions shows you how.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance: Developing SSRS Reports

• Apr 15, 2009
• In this chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-448): Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development and Maintenance, you will first learn how to create SSRS projects and reports in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). You will also see how to develop report objects by using the Report Designer and how to work with advanced report object properties. You will then see how to use a SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) database as the source for your report. And last, after looking at how to create a dataset from a data source, you will learn how to apply dataset filters and groups.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals: Transactions and Concurrency

• Mar 11, 2009
• In general, database systems can take two approaches to managing concurrent data access: optimistic or pessimistic. Learn the basic differences between the two models, the five possible isolation levels in SQL Server 2008, and the internals of how SQL Server controls concurrent access using each model. Also learn how to control the isolation level, and understand the metadata that shows you what SQL Server is doing, in this chapter from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services: Deploying Reports to a Server

• Feb 25, 2009
• This chapter from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Step by Step shows you how to deploy reports to the report server, organize content on the report server by using folders, create a linked report on a native-mode report server, override report parameter settings, manage authentication in data sources, control report execution, and create and store report snapshots in history.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: DAX Basics

• Jul 15, 2012
• In this chapter from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model, learn about the syntax of DAX, its data types, and the available operators and functions.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Overview

• Sep 15, 2012
• This chapter, from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services, describes several common data integration scenarios and provides a high-level overview of the SSIS features that address the requirements for each scenario.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals: Special Storage

• Nov 15, 2013
• This chapter from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals looks at how SQL Server stores data that doesn’t use the typical FixedVar record format and data that doesn’t fit into the usual 8 KB data page.

Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step: Using XAML Styles

• Nov 15, 2013
• This chapter from Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step investigates how XAML styles are used to format controls with a consistent and attractive appearance across the user interface.