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Product management consultant Joseph Phillips dives headfirst into the new and improved PMBOK Guide, 5th Edition, with some quick insight to all of the PMI project management processes.
View ArticleArticle :: Financial Restitution for Cable Cuts and Other Buried Facility...
If you are an e-business and have ever sustained a cable or fiber cut (who has not?), you owe it to yourself to consider the ideas in this article by author and technical futurist Leo Wrobel.
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The newest version of Operations Manager (OpsMgr), System Center 2012 Operations Manager, builds on the capabilities introduced in OpsMgr 2007. In its fourth major release by Microsoft, the product...
View ArticleArticle :: Introduction to Patterns of Information Management
In software engineering, we are taught that abstraction, modularity, and information hiding are useful approaches when breaking down a set of requirements into manageable chunks for implementation. In...
View ArticleArticle :: How My Role Models Led Me to a Career in IT and Helped Me Create...
Susan Bligh shares how the roles models in her life—male and female, good and bad—helped her make the decisions that have enabled her to flourish in both her professional career and her personal life.
View ArticleArticle :: What's New in System Center 2012 Orchestrator
This chapter from System Center 2012 Orchestrator Unleashed focuses on changes to Orchestrator in System Center 2012. If you have an OIS 6.3 background, reading this chapter can provide a smooth...
View ArticleArticle :: Microsoft Project 2013 and the Project Management Domain
This chapter identifies accepted standards and methodologies that are in use within the field of project management and provides some examples of how they are used with Project.
View ArticleArticle :: What Will 100 Gbps Broadband Satellite Technology Mean to You?
In planes, trains, ships, and automobiles, the advent of 30-100 Gbps connectivity via satellite will redefine "access." It's not just consumers either, as 50% of enterprise terminals are predicted to...
View ArticleArticle :: Cisco Networking Academy's Introduction to Scaling Networks
This chapter introduces strategies that can be used to systematically design a highly functional network, such as the hierarchical network design model, the Cisco Enterprise Architecture, and...
View ArticleArticle :: System Center 2012 Service Management Basics
This chapter from System Center 2012 Service Manager Unleashed introduces System Center Service Manager. Service Manager provides user-centric support, enables data center management efficiency, and...
View ArticleArticle :: Information Governance & EIM Overview Governance
This chapter from Performing Information Governance: A Step-by-step Guide to Making Information Governance Work focuses on each of the functions within EIM in terms of their purpose, unique artifacts...
View ArticleArticle :: Understanding the Windows PowerShell Release Cycle
Timothy Warner, author of Sams Teach Yourself Windows PowerShell 5 in 24 Hours, explains how Windows PowerShell releases are related to Windows version releases and which bits go with what. It's not a...
View ArticleArticle :: Desired State Configuration Basics in Windows PowerShell
This chapter from Windows PowerShell in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, explains the historical background of DSC, basic tenets of DSC, the DSC authoring environment, configuring the DSC environment,...
View ArticleArticle :: Windows PowerShell: Peering Through the Pipeline
You've probably done at least a little pipeline work with Windows PowerShell. Did you get the expected results every time? Timothy Warner, author of Sams Teach Yourself Windows PowerShell 5 in 24...
View ArticleArticle :: How IT Pros Can Automate the Employee Onboarding Process
Adam Bertram explains the advantages of automating the processes involved in onboarding a new employee. Most of the initial steps in outfitting a new staffer are identical, regardless of the new hire's...
View ArticleArticle :: MOF, ITIL, and Service Manager
This chapter discusses the service management processes specified in the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Information Library (ITIL) supported by System Center Service...
View ArticleArticle :: The Scariest (Disaster) Book I Have Ever Read, Part III
The most terrifying weapon facing the U.S. may already be in our enemies hands. Are you prepared for the ultimate disaster? In Part III of his three-part series, author Leo Wrobel explains exactly...
View ArticleArticle :: Service Intelligence: Improving Your Bottom Line with the Power of...
In this chapter, Sharon Taylor looks at the basic ingredients of services and service practices. She also covers the basics of ITSM terminology to help shape your understanding of dialogue you need to...
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