Sample chapters
Manage Windows Servers and workloads in a hybrid environment
- By Orin ThomasNov 5, 2022
In this sample chapter from Exam Ref AZ-800 Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure, you will learn about choosing and configuring administration tools as well as constrained delegation and Just Enough Administration for managing Windows Server instances.
- By Daniil MaslyukNov 5, 2022
In this sample chapter from Exam Ref PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst, you will explore the skills necessary to design, develop, and optimize data models.
- By Charles PetzoldOct 25, 2022
In this sample chapter from Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition, Charles Petzold explains why the bit, coined to mean binary digit, has come to be regarded in the computer age as the basic building block of information.
Describe Azure architecture and services
- By Jim CheshireOct 25, 2022
In this sample chapter from Exam Ref AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, 3rd Edition, you will explore key concepts in Azure’s architecture which apply to all Azure services.
Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel
- By Nicholas DiCola, Yuri Diogenes, Tiander TurpijnOct 25, 2022
Microsoft Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Sentinel, Second Edition, you will explore the architecture, design considerations, and initial configuration of Microsoft Sentinel.
- By Charles PetzoldOct 25, 2022
For more than 20 years, readers have delighted in Charles Petzold's illuminating story of the secret inner life of computers. In this sample chapter from Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition, you will explore how algebra and electrical circuitry paved the way for computer design and construction.
Modify the structure and appearance of text
- By Curtis Frye, Joan LambertOct 25, 2022
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Office Step by Step (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), you will learn how to apply paragraph and character formatting, structure content manually, create and modify lists, apply styles to text, and change a document’s theme.
- By Paul McFedriesOct 25, 2022
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Teams Step by Step, you will learn how to create a team from scratch, from one of your organization’s predefined team templates, or from an existing team or Microsoft 365 group.
- By Avinash ValiramaniSep 24, 2022
Azure App Service is a compute service within Azure that enables you to host web applications, mobile application back ends, and REST APIs. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Azure Compute: The Definitive Guide, you will explore the key features of Azure App Service.
- By Avinash ValiramaniSep 24, 2022
Azure Application Gateway is an ideal load balancer for web servers and applications that require HTTP/HTTPS traffic load-balancing and routing. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Azure Networking: The Definitive Guide, you will review the main features of the Azure Application Gateway. and how this service can be a key component of any web application design.
Implement Microsoft 365 security and threat management
- By Robert D. Clements, Charles Pluta, Brian SvidergolSep 24, 2022
In this sample chapter from Exam Ref MS-101 Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security, 2nd Edition, you will explore cloud-based security services for Microsoft 365. This includes a deep dive into Cloud App Security, Advanced Threat Analytics, and Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
Mitigate threats using Azure Defender
- By Yuri Diogenes, Jake Mowrer, Sarah YoungSep 24, 2022
In this sample chapter from Exam Ref SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst, you will learn how to mitigate threats, manage rules, and understand how to investigate and automate response with Microsoft Azure Defender.
- By Andrea Allievi, Alex Ionescu, Mark E. Russinovich, David A. SolomonSep 24, 2022
In this sample chapter from Windows Internals, Part 2, 7th Edition, you will explore the Windows virtualization solution called Hyper-V. Hyper-V is composed of the hypervisor, which is the component that manages the platform-dependent virtualization hardware, and the virtualization stack
- By Bill JelenMay 20, 2022
In this sample chapter fromMicrosoft Excel Inside Out (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), you will walk through examples of customizing the Excel ribbon and learn about important option settings.
Understanding values and references
- By John SharpMay 1, 2022
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, 10th Edition, you will learn how the characteristics of the primitive types such as int, double, and char differ from the characteristics of class types.
An Architectural Perspective of ML.NET
- By Dino Esposito, Francesco EspositoMar 28, 2022
In this sample chapter from Programming ML.NET, you will be introduced to the ML.NET platform, a free cross-platform and open-source .NET framework designed to build and train machine learning models and host them within .NET applications.
- By Cindy M. LewisMar 15, 2022
A project’s schedule or plan is essentially a model that you construct for some project aspects that you’re anticipating—what you expect will happen or what you want to happen. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Project step by Step (covering Project online Desktop Client), you will walk through the procedures related to creating a new plan and setting its start date, setting nonworking days in a project calendar, and entering a plan’s title and other properties.
- By Bill Jelen, Tracy SyrstadMar 11, 2022
A range in Excel can be a cell, a row, a column, or a grouping of any of these. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Excel VBA and Macros (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), you will explore different ways of referring to ranges, such as specifying a row or column. You’ll also find out how to manipulate cells based on the active cell and how to create a new range from overlapping ranges.
- By Paul McFedriesMar 11, 2022
Despite your best efforts, the odd error might appear in your Excel formulas from time to time. In this sample chapter from Microsoft Excel Formulas and Functions (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), you will learn how to decipher formula error values, diagnose formula problems with Excel’s Formula Error Checker, and use worksheet auditing tools.
Managing and sharing 365 files
- By Joe HabrakenMar 3, 2022
In this sample chapter from Microsoft Office Inside Out (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365), you will look at the file formats used in each of the Microsoft 365 applications and how to share them.
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