Sample chapters

Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference: Security Utilities

• Jun 15, 2011
• This chapter from Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference describes a set of Sysinternals utilities focused on Microsoft Windows security management and operations.

Administering Your Enterprise Project Management Solution in Microsoft Project 2010

• May 15, 2011
• This chapter from Microsoft Project 2010 Inside Out covers setup and administrative procedures performed by the project server administrator after the server equipment and software are in place, including the operating system, database, and client applications.

Configuring Windows Firewall and Network Access Protection

• May 15, 2011
• This lesson from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-642): Configuring Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, 2nd Edition describes how to plan and implement Windows Firewall and NAP using Windows Server 2008 R2.

Planning Your SBS Network on Windows® Small Business Server 2011

• May 15, 2011
• By designing your network infrastructure, naming conventions, and network security before you actually implement them, you’ll save costly reconfiguration later.

Organizing Your Contacts List in Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011

• Apr 15, 2011
• This chapter from Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 Step by Step shows you how to view and sort contacts, assign categories, organize contacts with folders, search for contacts, and use smart folders.

VBA Primer

• Apr 15, 2011
• You don’t have to be a programmer to make effective use of VBA. This chapter from Documents, Presentations, and Worksheets: Using Microsoft Office to Create Content That Gets Noticed shows that if you can learn to format a table, create styles, or create fields in Word; to write formulas or generate charts in Excel; or to customize masters in PowerPoint, you can learn VBA.

PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint

• Apr 14, 2011
• This chapter from Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2010 briefly introduces you to PowerPivot for Excel and PowerPivot for SharePoint. It provides guidance on creating a PowerPivot workbook, importing data from various data sources, and mashing them up using DAX. This chapter also demonstrates how to publish a PowerPivot workbook to SharePoint and how to schedule data refreshes, and it explains how IT professionals can manage PowerPivot for SharePoint by using the PowerPivot Management Dashboard.

Successful Project Management: Modifying the Project Schedule

• Mar 15, 2011
• This chapter from Successful Project Management: Applying Best Practices, Proven Methods, and Real-World Techniques with Microsoft Project reviews different alternatives for optimizing your project schedule and how they affect duration, cost, scope, and quality (and whether the people who work on your project ever get to go home).

Anatomy of an ASP.NET Page

• Feb 15, 2011
• In this chapter from Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 4, learn how an HTTP request for an .aspx resource is mapped to a page object, the programming interface of the Page class, and how to control the generation of the markup by handling events of the page life cycle.

Enhancing Usability of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms Applications

• Feb 15, 2011
• In this chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511): Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4, you'll learn to use the built-in functionality of the Microsoft .NET Framework to enhance the usability of the applications by creating applications that are responsive, global, and interoperational.

Tracking Service Requests in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

• Jan 15, 2011
• In this chapter from Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Step by Step, you’ll learn how customer service teams can create, update, and resolve cases in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

The OFFSET Function in Microsoft Excel 2010

• Jan 7, 2011
• This chapter from Microsoft Excel 2010 Data Analysis and Business Modeling explains how to use the OFFSET function in Microsoft Excel 2010.

Adding Functionality with jQuery and PHP Using Expression Web 4

• Dec 29, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft Expression Web 4 Step by Step shows you how to take advantage of the jQuery JavaScript library and the PHP Web development language using Expression Web 4.

Team Foundation Build Quick Start

• Dec 24, 2010
• Learn the features and architecture of Team Build so you will be familiarized with its key components and how they relate to each other, in this chapter from Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build, 2nd Edition.

Creating and Modifying Web Pages in Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010

• Dec 23, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step, learn to use the SharePoint Designer ribbon to add static content, how to change the appearance of a Web page by adding Web Part zones, and manage Wiki pages and Web Part pages by applying permissions, manipulating the versions of these pages, and deleting pages.

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.

Organizing People and Work with Microsoft SharePoint 2010

• Dec 22, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Plain & Simple, learn how to create and configure SharePoint lists that you can use for tracking people and work.

Working with Data Source Controls and Data-Bound Controls in ASP.NET

• Dec 10, 2010
• This chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-515): Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 presents the ASP.NET data source controls, demonstrates how you can bind to data to allow users to interact with it, and presents the new Dynamic Data features of ASP.NET that allow you to easily create websites for working with the CRUD operations of an entire data model that exists as either a DataContext (such as LINQ to SQL) or an ObjectContext (such as LINQ to Entities).

Managing User Data in a Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Deployment

• Dec 8, 2010
• This chapter from Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit shows you how best to configure profiles and Folder Redirection using the tools that come with Windows.

Managing Compliance in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

• Nov 24, 2010
• Learn about the features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 that can assist with compliance issues, including retention hold, litigation hold, the dumpster, and discovery searches.