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Microsoft Office Groove 2007 Step by Step Rick Jewell Paperback Our Price: $23.74 You Save: 5%

Collaborate More Effectively

Microsoft Groove 2007 is a remarkably powerful tool for helping teams collaborate more closely and effectively -- if the members of those teams know how to use it. That's where Microsoft Groove 2007 Step by Step comes in. Microsoft has applied its wonderfully friendly, easy, visual Step by Step book format to Groove. The result is a hands-on, intensely practical tutorial you'll want to share with every Groove user you know.

Collaboration software is notoriously slippery to explain. Thankfully, Rick Jewell starts by thoroughly demystifying what Groove is and what you can get out of it. Next, you'll get rolling: setting up Groove workspaces; inviting colleagues (with or without Groove) to participate; exploring your workspace; adding files and tools; creating and organizing your Groove contacts.

Then, using the accompanying disk's sample files, you'll deepen your expertise, one step at a time. Jewell explains how (and why) to use Groove's powerful Alert features for workspaces, tools, folders, and files. You'll learn how to use Groove's built-in chat and instant messaging tools (and discover some handy keyboard shortcuts you might not ever notice on your own).

You'll get hands-on practice with managing pretty much everything Groove can manage: files, folders, permissions, appointments, meetings, agendas, notes, issues, discussions, and more. Jewell doesn't cover these features in the abstract: you'll walk away clearly understanding how they can make your whole workgroup more productive.

If your organization has both Groove and SharePoint, you'll learn how to use them together (and when to use each in preference to the other). There's also a full chapter on troubleshooting, maintenance, and security: indispensable if someone's put you in charge of Groove for your team or workgroup.

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Book Cover Image. Title: VHDL 2007, Author: Peter J. Ashenden

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VHDL 2007
Just the New Stuff
Peter J. Ashenden

Time flies: VHDL has been around for more than 20 years. This year, a major new version arrives: VHDL-2008. If you've used previous versions, you needn't learn the whole language: just what's new. That's the focus of this concise, well-crafted book.

VHDL-2008: Just the New Stuff kicks off with a detailed introduction to the language's expanded support for generics, which offers powerful new opportunities for optimizing productivity through reuse. Peter Ashenden and Jim Lewis then illuminate other key enhancements, ranging from external names (which simplify design verification) to force and release (which make it easier to develop and execute test scenarios).

Ashenden and Lewis then systematically review changes to VHDL's type system, operations, statements, modeling and I/O features, standard packages, and more. There are code examples everywhere. Above all, the authors masterfully explain why each modification was made, and what you can do with it.

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Book Cover Image. Title: Learn Programming Now!, Author: Rob S. Miles

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Learn Programming Now!
With Microsoft XNA Game Studio 2.0
Rob S. Miles

What if you could program games that ran on your Xbox 360? With Microsoft's powerful free tools, XNA 2.0 Game Studio Express and Visual C# 2008 Express Edition, you can, even if you've never programmed before. That's the whole point of Rob Miles's new book.

Miles, a college instructor and Microsoft MVP, loves how XNA motivates his students: They can actually build something fun while they're learning C#, one of today's most powerful computer languages. This book captures both the fun and C#'s power.

You'll build several games, mastering everything from visuals to keypad input. Microsoft's tools help with the heavy lifting, and while some concepts remain challenging, Miles's friendly approach really helps. OK, you're not creating �Halo 4." Your first game merely turns your Xbox into a mood lamp. But the others, like Xbox Controller Racing, go much further. And beginning programming has never been more enjoyable.

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SharePoint Server 2007

Book Cover Image. Title: Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Using COBIT and Open Source Tools, Author: Christian B Lahti

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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Using COBIT and Open Source Tools
Christian B Lahti

IT-related Sarbanes-Oxley (and other) compliance initiatives will never be easy or cheap. But the COBIT guidelines and best practices can make it far easier to cover all the bases. And using open source software can help you mitigate the costs of compliance. This book can help with both.

The authors walk through the compliance process using a fictional case study and some very real open source software (including eGroupware, Zabbix monitoring, Knowledge Tree document management, Fedora Directory, and Webmin. This software -- along with the enterprise-class CentOS Linux distribution -- is all provided on disk, as the "ITSox2 Toolkit."

You'll find guidance on defining and managing policies; setting and enforcing service levels; ensuring security; implementing clear workflows; identifying and remediating compliance gaps; and much more. Along the way, the authors share diverse stakeholder perspectives, offering valuable insight for achieving compliance from both business and technical viewpoints.

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Book Cover Image. Title: 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007, Author: Rob Barker

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6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Rob Barker

Your line-of-business systems are your company's lifeblood: they manage customer data, inventory, billing, product lifecycles, and many other key processes. But, typically, they've only been accessible to a fraction of your people -- not including managerial decision makers who could really benefit from the information they contain. Now, using Microsoft's SharePoint technologies, you can deliver that information to knowledge workers right inside their familiar Microsoft Office applications. This book presents six applications to use as a starting point: easy-to-extend applications that introduce development patterns you can apply repeatedly.

What kind of applications? Sales forecasting, via Excel 2007. Collaboratively developing statements of work, using Microsoft's Open XML formats. Automating budget approvals, utilizing data from SAP, Peoplesoft, and the like. Improving manufacturing plant floor analysis. Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 offer extensive infrastructure for building applications like these. With this book, you can quickly master that infrastructure -- and start using it.

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