Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches 
by Don Jones, Jeffery Hicks
Automate it! With Microsoft's PowerShell language, you can write scripts to control nearly every aspect of Windows. Just master a few straightforward scripting skills, and you'll be able to eliminate repetitive manual tasks, create custom reusable tools, and build effective pipelines and workflows. Once you start scripting in PowerShell, you'll be amazed at how many opportunities you'll ...
Price: $11.40 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - MongoDB 3 Succinctly
by Zoran Maksimovic
MongoDB is one of the biggest players in the NoSQL database market, providing high performance, high availability, and automatic scaling. It's an open-source document database written in C++ and hosted on GitHub. Zoran Maksimovic's MongoDB 3 Succinctly touches on the most important aspects of the MongoDB database that application developers should be aware of - from installation and the usage of t...
Publisher: Syncfusion | Release: 2017
FREE EBOOK - Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid Capabilities
by Jeremy Taylor, Neil Hodgkinson, Manas Biswas
Microsoft SharePoint hybrid consists of a growing list of advanced hybrid solutions that empowers organizations to consume benefits of the cloud and maintain their on-premises investments. This book is the second in a series of SharePoint hybrid books in which we show you how to configure, troubleshoot, and manage a SharePoint hybrid environment.As you move toward configuring a SharePoint hybrid environment...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Introducing Microsoft Power BI
by Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo
This book introduces Microsoft Power BI basics through a practical, scenario-based guided tour of the tool, showing you how to build analytical solutions using Power BI. Read the ebook to get an overview of Power BI, or dig deeper and follow along on your PC using the book's examples.Introducing Microsoft Power BI enables you to evaluate when and how to use Power BI. Get inspired to improve business pr...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Planning and Preparing for Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid
by Jeremy Taylor
Microsoft SharePoint hybrid deployments are rapidly becoming popular with Microsoft's investments on increased SharePoint productivity, not only in your own environment (on-premises) but also collaborating in new ways through the largest and most advanced cloud service platform in the world - Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure. SharePoint hybrid is about connecting SharePoint on-premises to Offic...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Migrating SQL Server Databases to Azure 
by Carl Rabeler
SQL Server is Microsoft's relational database management system (RDBMS). SQL Server can now be hosted entirely in Microsoft Azure, either in a hosted virtual machine (VM) or as a hosted service. Hosting a virtual machine in Azure is known as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and hosting a service in Azure is known as platform as a service (PaaS). Microsoft's hosted version of SQL Server is known...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Fundamentals of Azure, 2nd Edition
by Michael Collier, Robin Shahan
Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform, providing a wide variety of services you can use without purchasing and provisioning your own hardware. Azure enables the rapid development of solutions and provides the resources to accomplish tasks that may not be feasible in an on-premises environment. Azure's compute, storage, network, and application services allow you to focus on build...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
FREE EBOOK - Microsoft Platform and Tools for Mobile App Development
by Cesar de la Torre, Simon Calvert
Understanding and creating a mobile app development strategy is an important process for today's development decision-makers who aim to open up new business opportunities or to empower employees to be more productive with new capabilities.Microsoft defines an end-to-end (E2E) platform for the agile creation of mobile apps that can target any platform (iOS, Android, or Windows), provides easy consumptio...
Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
Exam Ref 70-741 Networking with Windows Server 2016
by Andrew Warren
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 M...
Price: $25.28 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016
Exam Ref 70-743 Upgrading Your Skills to MCSA
by Charles Pluta
Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-743 - and demonstrate that your skills are upgraded for Windows Server 2016. Designed for experienced IT pros ready to advance their status, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical-thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level.Focus on the skills measured on the exam: Install Windows servers in host and compute environments; Implement storage solutions;...
Price: $24.93 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2016