Sample chapters

Using PowerShell Remoting and Jobs

• Feb 15, 2013
• Remoting in Microsoft Windows PowerShell 3.0 is much improved. This chapter from Windows PowerShell 3.0 Step by Step shows how to use Windows PowerShell remoting to connect to a remote system, run commands on a remote system, run commands in the background, receive the results of those and other background jobs, and keep the results from background jobs.

Introducing SharePoint Apps

• Jan 15, 2013
• SharePoint app development has several important strengths and a few noteworthy constraints when compared to the “old school” approach of developing SharePoint solutions for SharePoint 2010. The authors of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 App Development explain the new SharePoint app model and architecture.

CISSP Rapid Review: Access Control

• Dec 15, 2012
• This chapter from CISSP Rapid Review explains concepts and techniques for controlling access, how to understand control attacks, how to assess the effectiveness of access controls, and the identity and access provisioning lifecycle.

CompTIA A+ Training Kit: Understanding RAM and CPUs

• Dec 15, 2012
• In this chapter, you’ll learn about two important concepts for any A+ technician to understand: random access memory (RAM) and central processing units (CPUs). A CPU is the brain of the computer, performing most of the processing, and RAM is used to store applications and data being used by the CPU. Both continue to be steadily improved and include a significant amount of technical detail that can easily confuse a regular user. This chapter will help you understand many of the terms used when describing them.

CompTIA Network+ Rapid Review: Network Concepts

• Dec 15, 2012
• This chapter from CompTIA Network+ Rapid Review (Exam N10-005) covers topics to help you prepare for Exam N10-005 such as the OSI reference model, basic networking functions such as IP addressing, and more.

CompTIA Network+ Training Kit: Wireless Networking

• Dec 15, 2012
• In this chapter from CompTIA Network+ Training Kit (Exam N10-005), you will learn about the radio signals that replace data networking cables and the devices used by wireless computers to communicate with a wired network.

CompTIA Security+ Rapid Review: Network Security

• Dec 15, 2012
• Michael Gregg reviews the objectives of the CompTIA Security+ exam in this chapter from CompTIA Security+ Rapid Review (Exam SY0-301).

Creating Your First Windows 8 Application

• Dec 15, 2012
• In this chapter from Start Here! Learn Microsoft Visual Basic 2012, you’ll learn how to create your first Windows 8 application from scratch.

Foundations of Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012

• Dec 15, 2012
• Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is the main language used to manage and manipulate data in Microsoft SQL Server. This chapter lays the foundations for querying data by using T-SQL. The chapter describes the roots of this language, terminology, and the mindset you need to adopt when writing T-SQL code. It then moves on to describe one of the most important concepts you need to know about the language—logical query processing.

Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012: Dynamic Packages

• Dec 15, 2012
• When you are developing Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, it is a good practice to make each task or transformation as dynamic as possible. To do this, you can use the new features in SQL Server 2012, such as parameters and project-level connection managers, or you can use the package configurations that were first made available in the package deployment model in earlier versions of SQL Server. This chapter discusses both possibilities.

Querying Full-Text Data in Microsoft SQL Server 2012

• Dec 15, 2012
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 enhances the full-text search support that was substantially available in previous editions. This chapter explains how to use full-text search and even semantic search inside a SQL Server database.

Working with Variables, Operators, and Expressions in Microsoft Visual C#

• Dec 15, 2012
• This chapter from Microsoft Visual C# 2012 Step By Step introduces you to the elements of Microsoft Visual C# syntax and semantics, including statements, keywords, and identifiers.

Design and Implement Network Infrastructure Services

• Nov 15, 2012
• This chapter from Exam Ref MCSE 70-413: Designing and Implementing a Server Infrastructure shows you how to design and maintain a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) solution, design a name resolution solution strategy, and design and manage an IP address management solution.

Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 Training Guide: Network Administration

• Nov 15, 2012
• This chapter from Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 Training Guide: MCSA 70-410 demonstrates how to implement the new capabilities of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 to ensure the availability and security of these critical network services and to manage Windows Server–based networks more efficiently. In addition, this lesson also describes how to configure Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) networking and interoperability between IPv6 and IPv4.

Setting Up the Document Structure in HTML5

• Nov 15, 2012
• In this chapter from Start Here! Learn HTML5, you’ll learn how to structure a document with the correct underlying tags. You’ll learn how to specify the type of HTML you are writing and how to create Head sections and Body sections. You’ll also learn how to create paragraph breaks and line breaks, how to specify a page title, and how to enter hidden keywords by which your page can be found in search engines.

The Managed Heap and Garbage Collection in the CLR

• Nov 15, 2012
• Jeffrey Richter explains how the garbage collector in the common language runtime (CLR) works and various performance issues related to it in this chapter from CLR via C#, 4th Edition.

Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012: Effective Collaboration

• Oct 15, 2012
• In this chapter from Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, Richard Hundhausen looks at some practices and tools that enable more effective collaboration.

An Administrator's Guide to Customizing the Desktop and the User Interface for Windows 8

• Sep 15, 2012
• Learn how to help your users adjust PC settings, the taskbar, toolbars, desktop themes and backgrounds, custom desktop content, screen savers, and display appearance and settings, in this chapter from Windows 8 Administration Pocket Consultant.

Introduction to Windows 8 Administration

• Sep 15, 2012
• This chapter from Windows 8 Administration Pocket Consultant covers getting started with Windows 8 and the fundamental tasks you need for Windows 8 administration, including understanding 64-bit computing, deploying, installing, and running Windows 8, and Windows 8 architecture.

JavaScript Programming Basics

• Sep 15, 2012
• In this chapter from Start Here! Learn JavaScript, you will learn about comments, white space, names and reserved words, JavaScript statements and expressions, and case sensitivity. You will also learn that you use variables to store data in programs and that JavaScript has several data types that include numbers, strings, Booleans, null, and undefined. Finally, you'll be introduced to looping and conditionals.