Sample chapters

Remote Management in Windows Server 2008 Server Core

• Sep 17, 2008
• This chapter from Windows Server 2008 Server Core Administrator's Pocket Consultant examines each of these remote administration methods and demonstrates how to set them up and use them to manage Server Core.

Scenario-Focused Engineering: Take an Experimental Approach

• Dec 16, 2014
• In this chapter from Scenario-Focused Engineering: A toolbox for innovation and customer-centricity, get an overview of the customer-focused, iterative approach called the Fast Feedback Cycle. You will see what it looks like, what the basic activities are at each stage, and how the stages fit together.

Secure Azure Network architectures

• By Nicholas DiCola, Anthony RomanJun 7, 2021

• In this sample chapter from Microsoft Azure Network Security, you will review the best practices of general network architecture, various types of network architectures in Azure, and how network security services can be layered to protect these architectures.

Securing and Sharing Information in Microsoft Office Access 2007

• Jan 3, 2007
• In this chapter from Microsoft Office Access 2007 Step by Step, you will explore ways to protect data from accidental or intentional corruption, and ways to make it difficult for unauthorized people to gain access to private information. Then you will learn about ways of sharing databases among team members and backing up a shared database.

Security patterns

• By Michael Howard, Simone Curzi, Heinrich GantenbeinJun 26, 2023

• In this sample chapter from Designing and Developing Secure Azure Solutions learn more about design patterns and the importance of adopting these patterns to improve the secure design of solutions.

Security within SharePoint 2013

• May 15, 2013
• This chapter from Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Plain & Simple discusses the SharePoint 2013 security model. The authors show you how you can apply access privileges at an overall level such as the site collection, down to an individual level like a single document—not to mention all the levels in between.

Selecting Data Using Queries in Microsoft Access 2013

• Mar 15, 2013
• Andrew Couch shows you how to work with Queries in Microsoft Access 2013.

Service Fabric on Linux

• Aug 24, 2018

• In this sample chapter from Programming Microsoft Azure Service Fabric, 2nd Edition, learn how to set up a development environment on Linux, use Java to write a simple Service Fabric application, and more.

Set up a team

• By Paul McFedriesOct 25, 2022

• In this sample chapter from Microsoft Teams Step by Step, you will learn how to create a team from scratch, from one of your organization’s predefined team templates, or from an existing team or Microsoft 365 group.

Setting Up Resources in Microsoft Project 2010

• Jun 2, 2010
• Microsoft Project 2010 supports three types of resources. These are work resources, as well as two special-purpose resources: cost and material. In this chapter from Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step, you will set up work and cost resources.

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.

Setting Up the Document Structure in HTML5

• Jan 26, 2001
• In this chapter from HTML5 Step by Step, 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 and Body sections as well as learn how to create paragraph and line breaks, specify a page title, enter hidden keywords by which your page can be found in search engines, and publish a test page to a Web server.

SharePoint 2010 Real-World Projects: Building a Basic FAQ Solution

• Mar 15, 2012
• This chapter from Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real World Projects steps through the process of creating a basic FAQ solution using SharePoint Foundation. This solution relies on some of the basic features in SharePoint Foundation and will highlight simple things you can implement in any solution to provide large benefits.

SharePoint Development Practices and Techniques

• Nov 15, 2013
• SharePoint 2013 gives you more options, but it also requires you to make more choices, and it is important to make deliberate and well-informed choices to make sure that you end up with the best solution that you could possibly build for your specific situation and scenario. This chapter from Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2013 talks you through a lot of the choices and can help you make the right decisions.

Sharing and Working with Devices in Your Network

• Dec 23, 2010
• In this chapter from Network Your Computer & Devices Step by Step, you will learn how to share a printer with the network or Homegroup and how to stop sharing it when you no longer need to use it as a network printer. Then, you will learn how to share a removable disk drive and how to transfer files between your mobile phones and your Windows 7 computers using Bluetooth.

Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises: A Case Study in Complexity

• May 7, 2008
• Roger Sessions discusses one of the largest and most complex systems yet tackled by any government organization—the National Program for Information Technology (NPfIT), a program run by the British Government’s National Health Service (NHS).

Single-Table Queries in Microsoft SQL Server 2012

• Jul 15, 2012
• This chapter from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Fundamentals introduces you to the SELECT statement, logical query processing, and various other aspects of single-table queries.

Skill 4.1: Prepare on-premises Active Directory for Azure AD Connect

• Nov 7, 2017

• Azure Active Directory Connect is Microsoft’s replacement for DirSync and Azure Active Directory Sync tools. In Skill 4.1 from Exam Ref 70-346 Managing Office 365 Identities and Requirements, 2nd Edition, explore how to prepare your on-premises Active Directory environment for synchronization of user accounts, group accounts, and more.

Skill 5.1: Implement Microsoft Teams

• Apr 6, 2018

• In Skill 5.1 from Exam Ref 70-347 Enabling Office 365 Services, 2nd Edition, learn how to configure Office 365 connectors for Microsoft Teams and manage licenses.

Software Change Management Industrial Case Study: Utility Moving to the Clouds

• Dec 22, 2011
• Your task in this case study from Software Change Management: Case Studies and Practical Advice is to lead an internal team that has been asked by management to determine whether or not to use cloud computing to provide basic services for your firm and its customers.