This is the most comprehensive, practical, and useful guide to Windows Home Server, including Microsoft’s major updates in PowerPacks 1, 2, and 3. Top Windows expert Paul McFedries brings together tips, techniques, and shortcuts available nowhere else and presents them all in plain English for every Windows Home...

Excel expert Paul McFedries shows how to use Excel 2010’s core features to solve problems and get the answers you need! Using real-world examples, McFedries helps you get...

The World Trade Center’s destruction unleashed one of the gravest environmental catastrophes in U.S. history. Now, former NY Times Ground Zero reporter Anthony DePalma presents a full accounting of the disaster that followed 9/11. He separates myths from reality…reveals decisions that destroyed...

This is a comprehensive, expert guide to all facets of planning, deploying, managing, and utilizing the brand-new SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services. Authored by business and technical experts and a key member of the Microsoft PerformancePoint Services development team, this book demonstrates exactly how to apply...

I really love working with SharePoint! I’ve been doing it full-time for the last half decade, including lots of late nights and weekends. One area that I’ve found particularly interesting is Web Parts. I like the nature of a Web Part since it can act as a standalone application inside the powerful SharePoint platform—or it...

This is the industry’s most comprehensive, realistic, and useful guide to Microsoft Lync Server 2010. It brings together “in-the-trenches” guidance for all facets of planning, integration, deployment, and administration, from expert consultants who’ve spent years implementing Microsoft Unified...

My view will be different from the next guy or gal, and the one after that. All I know is that I have used this tool almost on a daily basis for several years now on every platform that it supports, and it just keeps...

Twenty-one years ago, I read a book that changed my life. Today I hope to write a book that will change yours. This is not a self-help book or some form of new philosophy. This book is the gateway to the inner sanctums of game programming, past and present. Bold words, I know, but I believe in this book with my whole heart. To someone...

Service Manager 2010 is without a doubt the most customizable and extensible product in the System Center suite. The ability to customize and extend the product is enabled by the common technology platform born in Operations Manager that now underlies other Microsoft products such as System Center Essentials, Windows InTune, Virtual...

Web development has been rapidly evolving over the years. The features and functionality that today’s web developers are asked to produce are exponentially more involved and complex than they were just a few years ago. As the demands of today’s business and commercial software grow, so too must the power of the tools and...