It all started about a year ago and BizTalk Services was soon to go for preview in a few months. We were all excited to break new ground in the era of cloud middleware. We must tell you one of the benefits of being in the product group (or being an MVP) is that you get early access to bits long before they hit the market. Working on those...

Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a powerful configuration management platform that makes it easier than ever to perform cross-platform configuration management of your infrastructure, whether on-premise or in the cloud. DSC provides the management platform and Application Programming Interface (API) that can be used with any programming...

Pro SharePoint 2010 Search gives you expert advice on planning, deploying and customizing searches in SharePoint 2010. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of working with real-world SharePoint deployments, this book teaches everything you'll need to know to create well-designed SharePoint solutions that always keep...

Success with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Implementing Customer Relationship Management is aimed at readers who are interested in understanding how to successfully implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 within their projects. It is intended as an implementation roadmap for the business and technical representatives leading or engaged in...

“Developing a hapi Edge” shows you how to build enterprise-quality web applications using the hapi service and application framework. By walking through the creation of a real web application, hapi-plugins.com, you will learn how to configure and start hapi, build out APIs, perform authentication, validation, caching, and so much...

• Gain comprehensive information on scaling Node.js both vertically and horizontally in the cloud and across virtual machines
• Learn how to use Gulp, Mocha, Chai, PhantomJS, Git,...

Salt is one of the many but unique tools available today for configuration management and orchestration. Salt not only enables us to seamlessly configure our infrastructure, but also to perform all sorts of tasks based on a variety of conditions and properties of the Salt minions. Along with super-fast module execution with the help of the...

• Employ fast and scalable on-demand application deployment
• Discover the best practices to utilize faster and more efficient anti-malware scanning of...

• Starts with the most simple usage of Ansible and builds on...