Windows 8.1: The Missing Manual 
by David Pogue
Windows 8.1 continues the evolution of the most radical redesign in Microsoft's history. It combines the familiar Windows desktop with a new, touchscreen-friendly world of tiles and full-screen apps. Luckily, David Pogue is back to help you make sense of it - with humor, authority, and 500 illustrations....
Price: $4.82 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Windows 8.1: Out of the Box, 2nd Edition
by Mike Halsey
Get a real feel for Windows 8.1 with a wealth of tips in this step-by-step guide. After using Windows 7 or XP, learning Microsoft's latest operating system takes some adjustment. Never fear. Windows expert Mike Halsey starts with the basics and then takes you through the trickier parts of Microsoft's latest operating system. You'll quickly learn how to make the most of Windows 8 for work and ...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with Hadoop
by Debarchan Sarkar
With the explosion of data, the open source Apache Hadoop ecosystem is gaining traction, thanks to its huge ecosystem that has arisen around the core functionalities of its distributed file system (HDFS) and Map Reduce. As of today, being able to have SQL Server talking to Hadoop has become increasingly important because the two are indeed complementary. While petabytes of unstructured data can be stored in...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control
by Jochen Nickel
Identifying and classifying information inside a company is one of the most important prerequisites for securing the sensitive information of various business units. Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control helps you not only to classify information, but it also gives you the opportunity and the functionality to provide a safe-net policy across your file servers, showing you some helpful ways of auditing ...
Price: $20.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Hyper-V Server Virtualization Starter
by Vicente Rodriguez Eguibar
Although resources such as OS and printers are still shared, under the time-sharing model, in a virtualized environment individual virtual servers are isolated from each other, giving an illusion of multiple fully functional systems. Hyper-V server 2008 R2 provides software infrastructure and basic management tools that you can use to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment."In...
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Cookbook
by Dipankar Bhattacharya
Without a comprehensive understanding of deployment scenarios and steps, it is really difficult to install and maintain Dynamics CRM 2011 within complex IT infrastructures. Done badly, it can cause serious future maintenance and optimization issues.Administration of CRM systems is equally complex and important; unless efficiently done, it can create fuss in the system and potentially bring down end user sat...
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Zahir Hussain Shah
Over a short span of time, server virtualization has been one of the most rapidly adopted technologies in IT business. Microsoft Hyper-V is a hardware-assisted hypervisor product, available as a server role in the Windows Server operating system. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V provides cutting-edge server virtualization features for a scalable, flexible, and highly available virtual machine infrastructure.&...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor
by Joe Dissmeyer
Orion Network Performance Monitor is a scalable, easy-to-use, cost-effective network monitoring system that provides a complete overview of network environments by monitoring performance and availability. Orion NPM enables you to be proactive in detecting, diagnosing, and resolving network issues and outages and has the benefit of supporting hundreds of types of server, OS, and network vendors including Cis...
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Oracle Database and PowerShell How-to
by Geoffrey Hudik
Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results. Load Oracle Data Access components and connect to Oracle databases. Retrieve, format, filter, and export data. Execute database procedures and modify database objects. Build Oracle script libraries and run automated, unattended scripts....
Price: $19.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Kinect in Motion - Audio and Visual Tracking by Example
by Clemente Giorio, Massimo Fascinari
Kinect is a motion-sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs. It provides capabilities to enhance human-machine interaction along with a zero-to-hero journey to engage the user in a multimodal interface dialog with your software solution.Kinect in Motion - Audio and Visual Tracking by Example guides you in developing more than five models you can use to capture ge...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013