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Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting
DirectAccess is an amazing Microsoft technology that is truly the evolution of VPN; any Microsoft-centric shop needs this technology. DirectAccess is an automatic remote access solution that takes care of everything from planning to deployment.
Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting will provide you with the precise steps you need to take for the very best possible implementation of DirectAccess in your network. You will find answers to some of the most frequently asked questions from administrators and explore unique troubleshooting scenarios that you will want to understand in case they happen to you.
Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting outlines best practices for configuring DirectAccess in any network. You will learn how to configure Manage Out capabilities to plan, administer, and deploy DirectAccess client computers from inside the corporate network. You will also learn about a couple of the lesser-known capabilities within a DirectAccess environment and the log information that is available on the client machines.
This book also focuses on some specific cases that portray unique or interesting troubleshooting scenarios that DirectAccess administrators may encounter. By describing the problem, the symptoms, and the fixes to these problems, the reader will be able to gain a deeper understanding of the way DirectAccess works and why these external influences are important to the overall solution.
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This book covers best practices and acts as a complete guide to DirectAccess and automatic remote access.
Who this book is for
Microsoft DirectAccess Best Practices and Troubleshooting is an ideal guide for any existing or future DirectAccess administrator and system administrators who are working on Windows Server 2012. This book will also be beneficial for someone with a basic knowledge of networking and deployment of Microsoft operating systems and software who wants to learn the intricacies of DirectAccess and its interfaces.
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Make: More Electronics: Journey Deep Into the World of Logic Chips, Amplifiers, Sensors, and Randomicity
With Early Release ebooks, you get books in their earliest form — the author's raw and unedited content as he or she writes — so you can take advantage of these technologies long before the official release of these titles. You'll also receive updates when significant changes are made, new chapters as they're written, and the final ebook bundle.
Want to learn even more about electronics in a fun, hands-on way? If you finished the projects in Make: Electronics, or if you're already familiar with the material in that book, you're ready for Make: More Electronics. Right away, you'll start working on real projects, and you'll explore all the key components and essential principles through the book's collection of experiments. You'll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them!
This book picks up where Make: Electronics left off: you'll learn about comparators, light sensors, higher-level logic chips, multiplexers, shift registers, encoders, decoders, magnetic sensors, audio amplification, randomicity, as well as positive and negative feedback. With step-by-step instructions, and hundreds of color photographs and illustrations, this book will help you use -- and understand -- intermediate to advanced electronics concepts and techniques.
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Achieve JavaScript Mastermind Status: For one week only, Save 50% on 10 new ebooks
JavaScript has come a long way—no question about it. And chances are, you use it in some aspect of your work. Learn how you can get the ultimate in responsiveness and interactivity from JavaScript, whether you use it on the front–end or server–side.
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Mastering Hyper-V 2012 R2 with System Center and Windows Azure
Build and Manage a Cloud Solution with Hyper-V
Mastering Hyper-V 2012 R2 with System Center and Windows Azure provides a systematic approach to learning the features and function of Hyper-V, and shows you how to get the most from your virtualized network. Microsoft MVP and technical specialist John Savill guides you through the Hyper-V setup and explains key System Center 2012 R2 components that provide virtualization for optimum enterprise management.
This intermediate-to-advanced level guide covers virtual machine fundamentals, virtual networking, storage configurations, Hyper-V management, failover clustering and migration technologies, and much more. Each chapter also includes online access to companion videos that help you visualize the concepts in the book.
Coverage includes:
•Establishing best practices for resource planning
•Architecting and configuring virtual networks using SCVMM
•Choosing and configuring storage options for Hyper-V
•Installing and managing Hyper-V and using Hyper-V Integration Services
•Maintaining your Hyper-V environment
•Making Hyper-V available using failover clustering and migration technologies
•Providing disaster recovery protection using Hyper-V Replica and cloud orchestration
•Virtualizing desktops using Remote Desktop Services
•Networking with Windows Azure
•Converting VMware skills and understanding to their Hyper-V equivalentEnable Many Types of Operating System Support
Master Key Networking Concepts and Implement Network Virtualization
Use the Storage Migration And Resize Functions
Take Virtual Machine Checkpoints and Set Up Service Templates
Create Different Levels of Private Cloud Capability
Build a Best-of-Breed Virtualization and Cloud Solution
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MySQL High Availability, 2nd Edition: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers
Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don’t have to bring everything to a halt. This practical book explains replication, cluster, and monitoring features that can help protect your MySQL system from outages, whether it’s running on hardware, virtual machines, or in the cloud.
Written by engineers who designed many of the tools covered, this book reveals undocumented or hard-to-find aspects of MySQL reliability and high availability—knowledge that’s essential for any organization using this database system. This second edition describes extensive changes to MySQL tools. Versions up to 5.5 are covered, along with several 5.6 features.
•Learn replication fundamentals, including use of the binary log and MySQL Replicant Library
•Handle failing components through redundancy
•Scale out to manage read-load increases, and use data sharding to handle large databases and write-load increases
•Store and replicate data on individual nodes with MySQL Cluster
•Monitor database activity and performance, and major operating system parameters
•Keep track of masters and slaves, and deal with failures and restarts, corruption, and other incidents
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Programming F# 3.0, 2nd Edition: A comprehensive guide for writing simple code to solve complex problems
Why learn F#? With this guide, you’ll learn how this multi-paradigm language not only offers you an enormous productivity boost through functional programming, but also lets you develop applications using your existing object-oriented and imperative programming skills. You’ll quickly discover the many advantages of the language, including access to all the great tools and libraries of the .NET platform.
Reap the benefits of functional programming for your next project, whether you’re writing concurrent code, or building data- or math-intensive applications. With this comprehensive book, former F# team member Chris Smith gives you a head start on the fundamentals and walks you through advanced concepts of the F# language.
•Learn F#’s unique characteristics for building applications
•Gain a solid understanding of F#’s core syntax, including object-oriented and imperative styles
•Make your object-oriented code better by applying functional programming patterns
•Use advanced functional techniques, such as tail-recursion and computation expressions
•Take advantage of multi-core processors with asynchronous workflows and parallel programming
•Use new type providers for interacting with web services and information-rich environments
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Android Hacker's Handbook
As the Android operating system continues to increase its share of the smartphone market, smartphone hacking remains a growing threat. Written by experts who rank among the world's foremost Android security researchers, this book presents vulnerability discovery, analysis, and exploitation tools for the good guys. Following a detailed explanation of how the Android OS works and its overall security architecture, the authors examine how vulnerabilities can be discovered and exploits developed for various system components, preparing you to defend against them.
If you are a mobile device administrator, security researcher, Android app developer, or consultant responsible for evaluating Android security, you will find this guide is essential to your toolbox.
•A crack team of leading Android security researchers explain Android security risks, security design and architecture, rooting, fuzz testing, and vulnerability analysis
•Covers Android application building blocks and security as well as debugging and auditing Android apps
•Prepares mobile device administrators, security researchers, Android app developers, and security consultants to defend Android systems against attack
Android Hacker's Handbook is the first comprehensive resource for IT professionals charged with smartphone security. -
NuGet 2 Essentials
NuGet has made the process of finding and referencing libraries from Visual Studio much easier and has strongly contributed to the expansion of an open source ecosystem. In the three years since its release, it has become an essential tool for both consuming and publishing class libraries for the .NET framework.
A concise and practical guide to everything that NuGet has to offer to both consumers and publishers. Through many hands on examples, NuGet2 Essentials will demonstrate all of NuGet’s features and teach you how to use them in everyday development in a .NET framework.
Starting out by using NuGet for consuming third-party libraries, this concise guide continues with a detailed look at creating your own packages, and ends by teaching you how to set up your own internal server. Through practical examples, you will learn to manage versions of installed libraries on all development and build machines. You will also discover how to create packages for your own libraries so they can be easily consumed, no matter how much configuration they require. By hosting an internal server, you will have full control of packages being used in your development environment.
By the end of the book, you will know about everything that NuGet has to offer, and how it can make your development process better.
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This concise guide is full of hands-on examples to guide you through all of NuGet’s features and use them in everyday development of .NET frameworks.
Who this book is for
If you are a .NET developer who wants to learn more about NuGet, this book is ideal for you. Although it doesn’t require any prior knowledge about NuGet itself, it assumes that you are already familiar with Visual Studio and the .NET framework. All code in the examples is written using C# so you will also need at least a basic knowledge of the language.
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Clojure Cookbook: Recipes for Functional Programming
With more than 150 detailed recipes, this cookbook shows experienced Clojure developers how to solve a variety of programming tasks with this JVM language. The solutions cover everything from building dynamic websites and working with databases to network communication, cloud computing, and advanced testing strategies. And more than 60 of the world’s best Clojurians contributed recipes.
Each recipe includes code that you can use right away, along with a discussion on how and why the solution works, so you can adapt these patterns, approaches, and techniques to situations not specifically covered in this cookbook.
•Master built-in primitive and composite data structures
•Create, develop and publish libraries, using the Leiningen tool
•Interact with the local computer that’s running your application
•Manage network communication protocols and libraries
•Use techniques for connecting to and using a variety of databases
•Build and maintain dynamic websites, using the Ring HTTP server library
•Tackle application tasks such as packaging, distributing, profiling, and logging
•Take on cloud computing and heavyweight distributed data crunching
•Dive into unit, integration, simulation, and property-based testing
Clojure Cookbook is a collaborative project with contributions from some of the world’s best Clojurians, whose backgrounds range from aerospace to social media, banking to robotics, AI research to e-commerce. -
Excel 2013 All-in-One For Dummies
8 books in 1
•Excel Basics
•Worksheet Design
•Formulas and Functions
•Worksheet Collaboration and Review
•Charts and Graphics
•Data Management
•Data Analysis
•Macros and VBAExcel newbie or expert in older versions here's the reference you need for Excel 2013!
Understanding how to use the many features of Excel 2013 is only half the battle. The other half is understanding what these features can do for you. So whether you're starting out or upgrading, using Excel on your desktop or tablet, this all-in-one guide covers what you need to know to master worksheets, formulas, functions, charts, even data analysis.
•For beginners start out right with an entire minibook devoted to mastering Excel basics
•Working with worksheets learn to set up, edit, manage, and dress up worksheets and print reports
•Get functional explore formulas and functions from basic to complex and put them to work
•Team effort share and collaborate on worksheets while keeping your data secure
•Make it look great present your data with impressive charts and graphs that help interpret the information
•Manage your data take advantage of Excel's tools for managing large amounts of data and filtering out the information you need
•Look ahead use Excel's computational abilities to forecast and predict possible future outcomes
•Extend Excel install Apps for Office, use COM add-ins, and write macros and custom functions with the Visual Basic EditorOpen the book and find:
•How to build your own workbook templates
•Instructions for using Excel on a touchscreen
•All the ways to enter data
•Tips for preventing formula errors
•Hints for sharing data with other Office 2013 programs
•Graphics you can include in your charts
•How to query external data sources
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Make: Sensors - A Hands-On Primer for Monitoring the Real World with Arduino and Raspberry Pi
With Early Release ebooks, you get books in their earliest form—the author's raw and unedited content as he or she writes—so you can take advantage of these technologies long before the official release of these titles. You'll also receive updates when significant changes are made, new chapters as they're written, and the final ebook bundle.
Make: Sensors is the definitive introduction and guide to the sometimes-tricky world of using sensors to monitor the physical world. With dozens of projects and experiments for you to build, this book shows you how to build sensor projects with both Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Use Arduino when you need a low-power, low-complexity brain for your sensor, and choose Raspberry Pi when you need to perform additional processing using the Linux operating system running on that device.You'll learn about touch sensors, light sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetic sensors, as well as temperature, humidity, and gas sensors.
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Welcome Infinite Skills! Over 150 Training Videos for Programmers, Designers, IT Administrations, and More.
We're thrilled to welcome Infinite Skills to shop.oreilly.com. Presented in stunning HD quality, the Infinite Skills range of video based training provides a clear and concise way to learn computer applications and programming languages at your own speed. Delivered to your Desktop, iPad or iPhone, high quality training is never more than a click away.
Infinite Skills videos are DRM-free, just like the rest of the O'Reilly catalog. You get lifetime access, and free updates.
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Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012
In Detail
Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 will cover all the features of SSRS and Power View and will provide a step-by-step lab activity to help you develop reports very quickly.
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 multidimensional model. The book provides real-life reporting scenarios that help to clarify when those scenarios are discussing standard reporting, in which case SSRS is the best choice, and when they are discussing self-service reporting, in which case Power View is the best choice.
This book will have you creating reports in SSRS and Power View in no time!
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This is a step-by-step tutorial that deals with Microsoft Server 2012 reporting tools:SSRS and Power View.
Who this book is for
If you are a BI developer, consultant, or architect who wishes to learn how to use SSRS and Power View, and want to understand the best use for each tool, then this book will get you up and running quickly. No prior experience is required with either tool!
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Targeted Cyber Attacks: Multi-staged Attacks Driven by Exploits and Malware
Cyber-crime increasingly impacts both the online and offline world, and targeted attacks play a significant role in disrupting services in both. Targeted attacks are those that are aimed at a particular individual, group, or type of site or service. Unlike worms and viruses that usually attack indiscriminately, targeted attacks involve intelligence-gathering and planning to a degree that drastically changes its profile.
Individuals, corporations, and even governments are facing new threats from targeted attacks. Targeted Cyber Attacks examines real-world examples of directed attacks and provides insight into what techniques and resources are used to stage these attacks so that you can counter them more effectively.
•A well-structured introduction into the world of targeted cyber-attacks
•Includes analysis of real-world attacks
•Written by cyber-security researchers and expertsProduct Details
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Save 50% – Deal of the Day: Best of April – Top 10 Ebooks and Videos
Some books and videos are too good to miss. Our monthly best-of promo includes the titles that soared to the top in April. Find out what's hot and trending—and possibly important to your career. Stock up today and save 50% on April's top ten.
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Access 2013: The Missing Manual - The book that should have been in the box
Unlock the secrets of Access 2013 and discover how to use your data in creative ways. With this book’s easy step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn how to build and maintain a full-featured database and even turn it into a web app. You also get tips and practices from the pros for good database design—ideal whether you’re using Access for business, school, or at home.
The important stuff you need to know
•Build a database with ease. Organize and update lists, documents, catalogs, and other types of information.
•Create your own web app. Let your whole team work on a database in the cloud.
•Share your database on a network. Link your Access database to SQL Server or SharePoint.
•Customize the interface. Make data entry a breeze by building your own templates
•Find what you need fast. Search, sort, and summarize huge amounts of data in minutes.
•Put your info to use. Turn raw info into well-formatted printed reports.
•Dive into Access programming. Automate complex tasks and solve common challenges. -
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