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Keep projects on track

Microsoft Project 2019 is a powerhouse project management, portfolio management, and resource management tool. Whether you’re a full-time project manager or manage projects as part of a larger set of duties, Microsoft Project 2019 For Dummies will get you thinking and operating at the level of a project management guru.

Written by a noted project management pro, this book covers the ins and outs of Microsoft Project. Throughout the book, you’ll find project management best practices and tips for keeping any project on schedule and under budget.

• Reference the full set of Microsoft Project 2019 features
• Learn to think like a project management professional
• Get into the nuts and bolts of Project for better productivity
• Create a task schedule that keeps a project moving
• Identify the golden rules that keep projects on track

With Microsoft Project 2019 For Dummies, you’ll soon get a grip on all the powerful features of this popular project management software. No matter your level of training or experience, this book will show you how improve your project management with Microsoft Project 2019.

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Over the last few years, the wave of the cybercrime has risen rapidly. We have witnessed many major attacks on the governmental, military, financial, and media sectors. Tracking all these attacks and crimes requires a deep understanding of operating system operations, how to extract evident data from digital evidence, and the best usage of the digital forensic tools and techniques. Regardless of your level of experience in the field of information security in general, this book will fully introduce you to digital forensics. It will provide you with the knowledge needed to assemble different types of evidence effectively, and walk you through the various stages of the analysis process.

We start by discussing the principles of the digital forensics process and move on to show you the approaches that are used to conduct analysis. We will then study various tools to perform live analysis, and go through different techniques to analyze volatile and non-volatile data.

Who This Book Is For

This book targets forensic analysts and professionals who would like to develop skills in digital forensic analysis for the Windows platform. You will acquire proficiency, knowledge, and core skills to undertake forensic analysis of digital data.

Prior experience of information security and forensic analysis would be helpful. You will gain knowledge and an understanding of performing forensic analysis with tools especially built for the Windows platform.

What You Will Learn

• Perform live analysis on victim or suspect Windows systems locally or remotely
• Understand the different natures and acquisition techniques of volatile and non-volatile data.
• Create a timeline of all the system actions to restore the history of an incident.
• Recover and analyze data from FAT and NTFS file systems.
• Make use of various tools to perform registry analysis.
• Track a system user’s browser and e-mail activities to prove or refute some hypotheses.
• Get to know how to dump and analyze computer memory.

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A guide to PowerPivot and Power Query no data cruncher should be without!

Want to familiarize yourself with the rich set of Microsoft Excel tools and reporting capabilities available from PowerPivot and Power Query? Look no further! Excel PowerPivot & Power Query For Dummies shows you how this powerful new set of tools can be leveraged to more effectively source and incorporate ‘big data’ Business Intelligence and Dashboard reports. You’ll discover how PowerPivot and Power Query not only allow you to save time and simplify your processes, but also enable you to substantially enhance your data analysis and reporting capabilities.

Gone are the days of relatively small amounts of data—today’s data environment demands more from business analysts than ever before. Now, with the help of this friendly, hands-on guide, you’ll learn to use PowerPivot and Power Query to expand your skill-set from the one-dimensional spreadsheet to new territories, like relational databases, data integration, and multi-dimensional reporting.

• Demonstrates how Power Query is used to discover, connect to, and import your data
• Shows you how to use PowerPivot to model data once it’s been imported
• Offers guidance on using these tools to make analyzing data easier
• Written by a Microsoft MVP in the lighthearted, fun style you’ve come to expect from the For Dummies brand

If you spend your days analyzing data, Excel PowerPivot & Power Query For Dummies will get you up and running with the rich set of Excel tools and reporting capabilities that will make your life—and work—easier.

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Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to create professional-looking business and technical diagrams with Visio 2010. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Build a variety of charts and diagrams with Visio templates
• Draw organization charts, floor plans, flowcharts, and more
• Apply color, text, and themes to your Visio diagrams
• Use Visio shapes to link to, store, and visualize data
• Collaborate on diagrams with Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• Create custom diagrams with your own shapes and templates

Your Step by Step digital content includes:

• All the book’s practice files—ready to download and put to work.
• Fully searchable online edition of this book—with unlimited access on the Web. Free online account required.

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Save time and be way more productive with Microsoft Excel macros

Looking for ready-made Excel macros that will streamline your workflow? Look no further! Excel Macros For Dummies, 2^nd Edition helps you save time, automate, and be more productive–even with no programming experience at all. Each chapter offers macros you can implement right away, with practical exercises that extend your knowledge and help you understand the mechanics at work. You’ll find over 70 of the most effective Excel macros for solving common problems and explanations of why and where to use each one–plus invaluable guidance and step-by-step instruction for applying them effectively.

Microsoft Excel is the world’s leading spreadsheet application, and it supports VBA macros that allow you to customize the program and automate many common tasks. In no time, you’ll learn how to customize your applications to look and work exactly the way you want them to, with simple, friendly walk-throughs that directly apply to real-world tasks. Follow it through from start to finish, or quickly look up problems as they occur. It’s the perfect desk reference for all of your Microsoft Excel macros needs!

• Immediately implement the given Excel macros
• Work with workbooks, worksheets, and ranges
• Clean data, automate reporting, and send email from Excel
• Streamline your workflow

If you have an Excel problem, there’s a macro to solve it–and now, you don’t need to be a programmer to customize it for your own use!.

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Fast, accurate answers for common Windows Server questions

Serving as a perfect companion to all Windows Server books, this reference provides you with quick and easily searchable solutions to day-to-day challenges of Microsoft’s newest version of Windows Server. Using helpful design features such as thumb tabs, tables of contents, and special heading treatments, this resource boasts a smooth and seamless approach to finding information. Plus, quick-reference tables and lists provide additional on-the-spot answers.

• Covers such key topics as server roles and functionality, user and group maintenance, directory management and replication, and backup and recovery
• Addresses automating administrative tasks and managing server remote access
• Helps you with disk management and storage, folder security, and performance tuning
• Walks you through common troubleshooting issues as well as maintaining and controlling the centralized desktop

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Administration Instant Reference is a must-have resource for finding quick answers quickly!

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This book tells you everything you need to know to help your organization implement DevOps on the Microsoft platform. You will learn how to use Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure to implement a complete DevOps process in your company. You will learn about Agile Project Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Technical Debt Management, Automatic Testing and Monitoring, and see how all these areas fit together.

DevOps is important for organizations that want to make the best use of their resources and avoid costly mistakes. Teams that embrace DevOps deploy code up to 30 times more frequently than their competition and less than 50% of their deployments fail according to Puppet Labs State of DevOps survey.

DevOps on the Microsoft Stack shows you how to help your organization implement DevOps, covering the tooling they will need and how to make everything work together while following best practices. The focus is not only on technology but also on the cultural issues that teams will face when implementing DevOps. The author’s goal is to not only show you which tooling there is but help you to successfully use everything together to implement DevOps in your projects and organization.

In this book, you’ll learn:

• What DevOps is and how it can help development teams
• How to use Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure to setup a DevOps process
• How to introduce DevOps to your organization and how to overcome problems

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100 Essential Questions and Answers about SharePoint 2010 for Executives considering SharePoint deployments Forget lengthy technical SharePoint guides more suited for hands-on technical staff; get equipped with the knowledge of SharePoint’s business potential before deployment Get to grips with SharePoint governance, the Cloud, staffing, development and much more from a business perspective in this book and e-book An essential SharePoint Pocket Guide with useful Q&As for every business executive deliberating over SharePoint implementation In Detail The depth and breadth of SharePoint as a technology can be daunting to any executive managing a SharePoint technical team or pondering the next steps for an upcoming SharePoint deployment within their organization. This book demystifies SharePoint and its potential business value with simple, non-technical answers to the everyday SharePoint questions that business executives should be asking. SharePoint is Microsoft’s fastest selling product, and from the outside has the perceived ability to do anything for anyone in any business. Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook is the starting point in the SharePoint knowledge process. It asks and answers the simple questions that business and technical managers should all understand about the challenges and opportunities that executives face when deploying SharePoint. Unlike other technical SharePoint guides, “Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook” is the ultimate primer in SharePoint education, helping business executives understand what it can do, and preparing you to make the right decisions. Along the way you’ll learn about cloud deployment approaches, managing your first SharePoint project, as well as taking a deep dive into how to define a SharePoint strategy and governance.

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The power of Microsoft SharePoint as the Enterprise collaboration platform is ever-growing; due to the wide range of capabilities it offers, SharePoint 2010 can help transform your business so you can quickly respond to the changes and challenges that you face.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer’s Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint takes a less discussion, more value approach to helping you learn all that you can about extending SharePoint. A medley of a total of five Packt books, each chapter has its own unique style so that you can learn not only from content written in a step by step tutorial style, but also from handbook and cookbook chapters. If you are a developer who would like to enhance your knowledge of SharePoint development to create sites with great user experience, don’t miss Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer’s Compendium: The Best of Packt for Extending SharePoint . You should already be comfortable with general SharePoint development practices, though prior experience with PowerShell, Visual Studio, Silverlight and Windows 7 Phone is not a necessity.

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MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD 2010: INTRODUCTORY provides a project-based, step-by-step approach to successfully teach students Microsoft Word 2010 skills.

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The smart way to learn Microsoft SharePoint 2013—one step at a time!

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to boost team collaboration with SharePoint 2013. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Customize your team site’s layout, features, and apps
• Manage and share ideas, documents, and data
• Capture and organize content into lists and libraries
• Automate business processes with built-in workflows
• Use social features to communicate and collaborate
• Publish content using enhanced web content management