FREE EBOOK - Cloud Design Patterns
by Alex Homer, John Sharp, Larry Brader, Masashi Narumoto, Trent Swanson
Cloud applications have a unique set of characteristics. They run on commodity hardware, provide services to untrusted users, and deal with unpredictable workloads. These factors impose a range of problems that you, as a designer or developer, need to resolve. Your applications must be resilient so that they can recover from failures, secure to protect services from malicious attacks, and elastic in order t...
Price: $40.18 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2014
by Marcelo Leal
Samba is a drop-in replacement for the heart of the thousands and thousands of networks that run on Microsoft Windows domain controllers. Now with a compatible Active Directory implementation, it will definitely put its name inside every datacenter that wants a cost reduction for the Open Source solutions, without losing the security, stability, and flexibility of any resilient solution.Implementing Samba 4...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 
by James Serra, Bill Anton
Starting with the difference between standard and self- service reporting, this book covers the main features and functionality offered in SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 including a breakdown of the report components, development experience, extensibility, and security. You will also learn to set up and use Power View within Excel and SharePoint and connect to a tabular model as well as a multidimension...
Price: $20.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Jeff Martin, Richard Banks
Visual Studio 2013 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project.Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday devel...
Price: $25.91 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Marius Sandbu
With a larger demand for responsive websites and availability of services, the IT domain is faced with an ever-rising need for services that are optimized for speed. NetScaler VPX is a software-based virtual appliance providing users with the comprehensive NetScaler feature set. Implementing apps and cloud-based services is much easier with its increased service performance, and integrated security.Starting...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 
by Vangel Krstevski
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is a powerful system management product that helps IT administrators perform better asset and organization management by grouping them into logical containers. These logical containers allow you to perform application deployments and software and security updates in no time.Mastering System Center Configuration Manager explains the Configuration Manager architec...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Getting Started with BizTalk Services
by Jon Fancey, Karthik Bharathy
BizTalk Services is a service based on Windows Azure that was introduced by Microsoft in the summer of 2013. It provides integration capabilities in the cloud to connect enterprises together in scalable and flexible ways that go beyond what traditional on-premises integration products (such as BizTalk Server) can manage. BizTalk Services provides the ability to construct integration solutions using familiar...
Price: $3.98 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Python Tools for Visual Studio
by Martino Sabia, Cathy Wang
Python Tools for Visual Studio is a free and open source plugin for Visual Studio from Microsoft. It enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio in their projects. The powerful integrated code navigation and code completion tools (IntelliSense) in PTVS empower developers to significantly speed up the coding process.PTVS provides a unique IDE for either Python or IronPython...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
SharePoint 2013 WCM Advanced Cookbook
by John Chapman
SharePoint 2013 Server includes new and improved features for web content management that simplify how you design publishing sites, and enhances the authoring and publishing processes of organizations. SharePoint Server 2013 also has new features that use the power of search to surface dynamic web content on publishing sites. Using the right tools efficiently can assist organizations in creating compelling ...
Price: $32.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Windows PowerShell 4.0 for .NET Developers
by Sherif Talaat
The world of technology is growing faster than ever, and the business needs are getting more complex every day. With PowerShell in your toolbox, you have an object-based scripting language, task-based shell, along with a powerful automation engine. PowerShell is built on top of .NET framework which gives an edge over the other tools when it comes to integration and automation of Microsoft product and techno...
Price: $20.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014