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Use the latest tools to manage and automate tasks on Microsoft's SharePoint platform. You will achieve time and cost savings, increase reliability of deployments, and learn how to safely and efficiently migrate from a previous version, all while gaining valuable skills in PowerShell scripting.

Authors Nik Charlebois-Laprade and John Edward Naguib begin by explaining the fundamental concepts behind the PowerShell language. Then, with copious real-world examples and scripts, they introduce PowerShell operations in the context of deploying, migrating, managing, and monitoring SharePoint 2016.

What You'll Learn

What’s New in this Edition?

• Learn about the new SharePoint 2016 capabilities and min role
• Extend the default set of available PowerShell cmdlets for SharePoint 2016 by creating your own reusable Cmdlet functions with PowerShell 5.0
  
• Upgrade your on-premises SharePoint 2013 environment to SharePoint…

This book is written by a developer and architect with 9 years’ experience building Information Worker solutions, including custom workflow engines and third-party workflow products. The author challenges readers to view the Office System and workflow in a new light, walking readers through the process of building a solid, useable workflow solution. Unlike quick references that scratch the surface of new technology, this book benefits the serious Information Worker developer - a growing group in IT - who is interested in learning the inner workings of workflow and Office 12.

This book covers using Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 to create LightSwitch HTML Client, and Cloud Business Applications. This book describes creating HTML web applications and SharePoint 2013 provider-hosted applications.

The purpose of this book is to demonstrate the use and provide examples of, and to explain, important concepts of the LightSwitch technology used to create the applications.

Visual Studio LightSwitch 2013 is a development tool that provides the easiest and fastest way to create forms over data, line of business applications.

It allows you to build applications for the desktop and the Internet cloud. It does this by providing a tool that allows you to quickly and easily define and connect to your data, program your security and business rules, and expose this via OData to practically any "client" such as mobile devices and web pages.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Understanding the LightSwitch HTML Client
Chapter 2: Create…

Pro Office 365 Development is a practical, hands-on guide to building cloud-based solutions using the Office 365 platform. This groundbreaking offering from Microsoft provides enterprise-class collaborative solutions at an affordable price, and this book shows you how to use the Office 365 platform to easily build amazing custom applications, including coding for Excel Services, Microsoft Access, and SharePoint Online.

This book provides everything you’ll need to start developing custom solutions. You'll find step-by-step instructions for providing custom features using the cloud-based services, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. There are lots of sample programs using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), JavaScript and Silverlight.

Whether you want to build desktop client applications or browser-only solutions with Microsoft's new cloud-based productivity offering, this book will show you how to do it.

• Develop SharePoint solutions,…

Leverage Office 365 and the cloud in order to be more productive, secure, and compliant with healthcare standards. This book offers prescriptive guidance and real-world use cases to help you maximize and extend care for patients, while working with fewer resources and striving to stay modern and secure.  

Office 365 for Healthcare increases the value of your existing investment and infrastructure in Office 365 by teaching configurations and services that will resolve real day-to-day productivity and communication challenges. Understanding that each provider is unique, this book focuses on operational and clinical similarities that can be applied to any healthcare provider such as telehealth, readmission rate, shift scheduling, tumor board innovations, continuous education for medical practitioners, and more.

What You'll Learn

• Configure Office 365 to enable a compliant and meaningful collaboration between care providers…

If you use Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5, this is the book you want. Programming Entity Framework, 1st Edition offers experienced developers a thorough introduction to Microsoft's core framework for modeling and interacting with data in .NET applications. This hands-on tour provides a deep understanding of Entity Framework's architecture and APIs, and explains how to use the framework in a variety of applications built with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.

From the Entity Data Model (EDM) and Object Services to EntityClient and the Metadata Workspace, this highly acclaimed first edition covers it all.

• Understand the core concepts you need to make the best use of the Entity Framework (EF) in your applications

• Learn to query your data, using either LINQ to Entities or Entity SQL

• Create Windows Forms, WPF, and ASP.NET applications

• Build ASMX web services and WCF services…

Following the critical thinking, problem-solving approach of the New Perspectives Series students will gain a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Excel 2007, including the new features of the software. The case-based tutorials challenge students to apply what they are learning to real-life tasks, preparing them to easily transfer skills to new situations. With the New Perspectives Series approach, students understand why they're learning what they're learning, and are better situated to retain skills.

An Introduction to Programming with C++, Fifth Edition is the latest C++ offering from Diane Zak. This book is distinct from other textbooks because of its unique approach, which motivates students by demonstrating why they need to learn the concepts and skills presented. Each chapter contains a Concept Lesson introducing one or more programming concepts and an Application Lesson containing five labs that help students master the content taught in the Concept Lesson. Also new in this edition of the book is a third lesson on .NET in which students learn how to use .NET C++ commands. This edition uses How To boxes to summarize important concepts and provide a quick reference for students. A Key Terms section has been added to the end of each Concept Lesson. The text also includes extensive end-of-chapter material, including Discovery and Debugging Exercises.

Introduce your students to the new generation of Microsoft Office with the new generation of Shelly Cashman Series books! For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series has effectively introduced computer skills to millions of students. With Office 2007, we're continuing our history of innovation by enhancing our proven pedagogy to reflect the learning styles of today's students. In Microsoft Word 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques you'll find features that are specifically designed to engage students, improve retention, and prepare them for future success. Our trademark step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach now encourages students to expand their understanding of the Word 2007 software through experimentation, exploration, and planning ahead. Brand new end of chapter exercises prepare students to become more capable software users by requiring them to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to create real-life documents.

This book takes a concentrated look at the very latest best practices for Office 365 migration, with a focus on the needs of senior managers, IT managers, and others involved in key decisions when moving their business to the cloud.

Based on popular chapters in his first book, Office 365: Migrating and Managing Your Business in the Cloud (Apress Open, co-authored with Don Crawford), author Matt Katzer revises and expands on his original material to bring you the latest guidance on planning methods, management best practices, personnel decisions, and migration and maintenance costs, along with brand new material on some of the most important and cutting-edge considerations when moving your business to the cloud: securing company data, and driving collaboration in the workplace.

Topics covered include:

• The Office 365 cloud security model and best practices to apply when securing your business in the cloud
• Microsoft Office 365 operation…