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Deep learning on Windows : building deep learning computer vision systems on Microsoft Windows
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ISBN: 1484264312 1484264304 1523150688 Year: 2021 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Apress,

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Build deep learning and computer vision systems using Python, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, and more, right within the familiar environment of Microsoft Windows. The book starts with an introduction to tools for deep learning and computer vision tasks followed by instructions to install, configure, and troubleshoot them. Here, you will learn how Python can help you build deep learning models on Windows. Moving forward, you will build a deep learning model and understand the internal-workings of a convolutional neural network on Windows. Further, you will go through different ways to visualize the internal-workings of deep learning models along with an understanding of transfer learning where you will learn how to build model architecture and use data augmentations. Next, you will manage and train deep learning models on Windows before deploying your application as a web application. You’ll also do some simple image processing and work with computer vision options that will help you build various applications with deep learning. Finally, you will use generative adversarial networks along with reinforcement learning. After reading Deep Learning on Windows, you will be able to design deep learning models and web applications on the Windows operating system. You will: Understand the basics of Deep Learning and its history Get Deep Learning tools working on Microsoft Windows Understand the internal-workings of Deep Learning models by using model visualization techniques, such as the built-in plot_model function of Keras and third-party visualization tools Understand Transfer Learning and how to utilize it to tackle small datasets Build robust training scripts to handle long-running training jobs Convert your Deep Learning model into a web application Generate handwritten digits and human faces with DCGAN (Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network) Understand the basics of Reinforcement Learning.


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Building solutions with microsoft teams : understanding the teams app developer platform
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ISBN: 1484264762 1484264754 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berkeley, California : APress,

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Explore Microsoft Teams and use its principal tools such as Node.js, npm, Yeoman, Gulp, TypeScript, and React to help you develop for Teams better. This book covers the core components and use cases for Teams apps and guides you through ideas for automation, provisioning, and implementation. Building Solutions with Microsoft Teams starts with an overview of the Microsoft Teams developer platform followed by how to set up your environment for building apps and solutions with Teams. You will then go through various features of conversational bots and learn how to create a bot. You will gain an understanding of the messaging extension and command actions along with tabs for personal, groups, and teams contexts. Moving forward, you will work with SharePoint and Teams together via SharePoint Framework. Finally, you will manage the Teams life cycle and see design guidelines supported by various case studies. After reading this book, you will be able to integrate solutions from Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual agents by using accelerators. You will also be able to leverage your existing skills from SharePoint Framework development. You will: Extend the Teams developer platform capabilities Understand Microsoft Graph, including lifecycle management, collaboration, calling, and online meetings Create an app package for your Microsoft Teams app Connect web services to Microsoft Teams with webhooks.


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Exploring windows presentation foundation : with practical applications in .NET 5
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ISBN: 1484266374 1484266366 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, New York State : APress,

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Use the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology to develop Windows applications using C# and XAML for design. This book will get you through not only the basics, but also some of the more advanced concepts of WPF in .NET 5. The book starts with basic concepts such as window, page, text box, and message box as well as a sequence of common events and event handling in WPF. You will learn how to use various elements in WPF and deal with them in .NET 5. You will understand how to work with files and access them in WPF along with binding and MVVM (Model-View-View-Model). You will learn how to retrieve data from APIs, work in XAML, and understand where design and style properties should be applied in WPF. After reading this book you will be able to work on WPF and apply its concepts in .NET 5, .NET core, and the .NET framework. You will: Understand the basics of WPF: click event, inputs, and general setup Work with WPF interface events and handling Know how file handling works in WPF Retrieve data from APIs in a modern way.


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ML.NET revealed : simple tools for applying machine learning to your applications
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ISBN: 1484265432 1484265424 Year: 2021 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Apress,

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Get introduced to ML.NET, a new open source, cross-platform machine learning framework from Microsoft that is intended to democratize machine learning and enable as many developers as possible. Dive in to learn how ML.NET is designed to encapsulate complex algorithms, making it easy to consume them in many application settings without having to think about the internal details. You will learn about the features that do the necessary “plumbing” that is required in a variety of machine learning problems, freeing up your time to focus on your applications. You will understand that while the infrastructure pieces may at first appear to be disconnected and haphazard, they are not. Developers who are curious about trying machine learning, yet are shying away from it due to its perceived complexity, will benefit from this book. This introductory guide will help you make sense of it all and inspire you to try out scenarios and code samples that can be used in many real-world situations. What You Will Learn Create a machine learning model using only the C# language Build confidence in your understanding of machine learning algorithms Painlessly implement algorithms Begin using the ML.NET library software Recognize the many opportunities to utilize ML.NET to your advantage Apply and reuse code samples from the book Utilize the bonus algorithm selection quick references available online This book is for developers who want to learn how to use and apply machine learning to enrich their applications. Sudipta Mukherjee is an electronics engineer by education and a computer scientist by profession. He holds a degree in electronics and communication engineering. He is passionate about data structure, algorithms, text processing, natural language processing tools development, programming languages, and machine learning. He is the author of several technical books. He has presented at @FuConf and other developer events, and he lives in Bangalore with his wife and son.


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Pro Microsoft Teams development : a hands-on guide to building custom solutions for the Teams platform
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ISBN: 1484263642 1484263634 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Apr,

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Leverage the Microsoft Teams developer platform to integrate and build your apps in Teams. Busy developers will want to integrate it with other applications, both existing and new ones. Use this practical, hands-on guide to get you started building amazing custom solutions on and for Microsoft Teams, the new collaboration workspace in Office 365 and the fastest growing app in Microsoft history. Get ready to learn how to interact with data inside of Teams and how to surface your data on top of Teams, so that it is easily searchable and better supports people in their day-to-day jobs. Teams development expert Rick Van Rousselt starts at the beginning, helping you set up your environment, and takes you step by step through the process. You will begin with low code, simple integrations, and progress in your learning to increasingly more complex, multi-faceted applications that use every aspect of the extension capabilities of Teams. And a bonus for developers is that integrating your own apps into the Teams developer platform is an excellent opportunity for those apps to get more visibility and usage. What You Will Learn: Understand the different development extension points and frameworks that are available in the Teams developer platform Create custom tabs, bots, connectors, messaging extensions, and webhooks Set up your development environment and speed up the development process Enlist best practices and easy wins that will make an application stand out inside the Teams ecosystem Explore advanced scenarios where the integrations of Office 365 meet inside of Microsoft Teams This book is for developers (front end, back end, C#, or Node.js) and architects. Readers should be familiar with C# or Node.js and tools such as Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code and have some experience with Microsoft Teams. Beyond that, no further knowledge is required because the book starts at the beginning, setting up a development environment. Rick Van Rousselt is a managing partner at Advantive, a Microsoft Gold Partner. He is an Office Apps and Services Microsoft MVP who has been working with SharePoint since 2007, eventually transitioning to Office 365. With a strong focus on development, his current position has given him a diverse skill set and expertise in Office 365, Azure, and all related technologies. His inquisitive disposition motivates him to continuously gain knowledge and share what he learns with those interested in learning the same technologies. He is often pounding pavement in the global tech community, speaking at events such as Microsoft Ignite, ESPC, Collaboration, SharePoint Saturdays, and more, most recently on the topic of Teams development.


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Dynamics 365 field service : implementing business solutions for the enterprise
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ISBN: 1484264088 148426407X Year: 2021 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Apress,

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Configure and customize Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Services to help your organization deliver onsite service to customer locations. This book will guide you in setting up and implementing Dynamics 365 Field Services to automate workflow and schedule algorithms for mobile users. The book starts with an introduction to Field Services and setting up your Dynamics 365 subscription. Next, you will configure your application. You are shown how to allocate work, manage resources, and move inventory. You will configure both Field Services and the new Field Services Mobile app. One of the main topics covered is applying security to both Field Services and the Field Services Mobile App and how to use both flavors of the application to implement effective solutions. You will go through examples to understand and apply the concepts and features for configuration of Field Services. You also will learn best practices for configuring and customizing Field Services. After reading this book, you will be able to develop and implement enterprise-scale solutions using Dynamics 365 Field Services. You will: Create and process Work Orders Manage inventory movement in the field Set up security in Field Services and Field Services Mobile App Generate Work Orders with agreement Utilize Microsoft Power Automate with Field Service.


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Beginning power apps : the non-developer's guide to building business applications
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ISBN: 1484266838 148426682X Year: 2021 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Apress,

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Transform the way your business works with easy-to-build apps. With this updated and expanded second edition, you can build business apps that work with your company's systems and databases, without having to enlist the expertise of costly, professionally trained software developers. In this new edition, business applications expert Tim Leung offers step-by-step guidance on how you can improve all areas of your business. He shows how you can replace manual or paper processes with modern apps that run on phone or tablet devices. For administrative and back-office operations, he covers how to build apps with workflow and dashboard capabilities. To facilitate collaboration with customers and clients, you’ll learn how to build secure web portals with data entry capabilities, including how to customize those portals with code. This hands-on new edition has 10 new chapters—including coverage on model-driven and portal apps, artificial intelligence, building components using the Power Apps Component Framework, using PowerShell for administration, and more—complete with context, explanatory screenshots, and non-technical terminology. What You Will Learn Create offline capable mobile apps and responsive web apps Carry out logic, data access, and data entry through formulas Embellish apps with charting, file handling, photo, barcode, and location features Set up Common Data Service, SharePoint, and SQL data sources Use AI to predict outcomes, recognize images, and analyze sentiment Integrate apps with external web services and automate tasks with Power Automate Build reusable code and canvas components, make customizations with JavaScript Transfer apps and data, and secure, administer, and monitor Power Apps environment This book is for beginners and non-developers, and assumes no prior knowledge of Power Apps. Tim Leung is a software developer with more than 10 years of experience in designing and building large-scale commercial applications. He is a recognized expert in the field of rapid application development and his previous publication with Apress, Visual Studio LightSwitch, covers this topic in depth. Tim is a Microsoft certified developer, a chartered member of the British Computer Society, and holds a degree in information technology.


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Mastering Microsoft Teams : end user guide to practical usage, collaboration, and governance
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ISBN: 1484268989 1484268970 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, New York : APress,

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Do you need to learn how to use Microsoft Teams? Are you questioning how to drive user adoption, govern content, and manage access for your Teams deployment? Either way, the second edition of this bestseller is your one-stop-shop to learning everything you need to know to find success with Microsoft Teams. Microsoft’s popular chat-based collaboration software has many rich features that enable teams to be more efficient, and save valuable time and resources. However, as with all software, there is a learning curve and pitfalls that should be avoided. Begin by learning the core components and use cases for Teams. From there, the authors guide you through ideas to create governance and adoption plans that make sense for your organization or customer. Wrap up with an understanding of features and services in progress, and a roadmap to the future of the product. What You Will Learn • Implement, use, and manage Microsoft Teams • Understand how Teams drives productivity and engagement by combining the functionality of Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, and other services in one location • Govern, explain, and use Teams in your organization • Use Teams in a structured way to reduce users’ time spent in meetings • Know the pitfalls to avoid that may create challenges in your usage of Teams • Become familiar with the functionality and components of Teams via walk-throughs, including opportunities for automating business processes in Teams • See how educators and students can use Teams to improve remote learning This book is for anyone who wants to learn Microsoft Teams. To get the most out of the book, a basic understanding of Microsoft 365 and a subscription, including a Microsoft Teams license, is useful. Melissa Hubbard specializes in driving productivity, collaboration, and communication in the modern workplace. She is a former Microsoft MVP and early adopter of Microsoft Teams, with a background in project management and the implementation of collaboration and business process automation solutions. She is particularly passionate about the topic areas of user adoption, governance, and training. Matthew J. Bailey is a Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for Noteworthy Technology Training, specializing in SharePoint, Microsoft 365 (including Teams), Azure, and Power BI. He combines his business expertise and his technical knowledge to resolve corporate challenges. He is a highly regarded presenter, avid blogger, and author, most recently of The SharePoint Business Analyst Guide. D’arce Hess is a Microsoft MVP who specializes in the creation of custom portals and experiences in SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365. As a UI/UX designer and developer, she uses industry and Microsoft best practices as a base for creating solutions that simplify processes, and drive user adoption and governance from the start. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies and has become a trusted partner to her clients in the industries of healthcare, pharmaceuticals, legal, travel and tourism, and entertainment. She loves to volunteer in the community and is the leader of the Rhode Island SharePoint & Microsoft 365 User Group. Mårten Hellebro is an Office Apps and Services MVP focused on Microsoft Teams and an expert in enterprise voice. As an infrastructure, migration, and user adoption lead, Mårten has extensive experience managing numerous Teams and Skype for Business implementation projects. He regularly speaks at Microsoft conferences and other events and he organizes one of the largest Microsoft Teams conference in the Nordics “Teamsdagen”. He also runs the Microsoft Teams blog msteamsswe.se, and co-hosts the Teams podcast “Teamspodden”.


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Migrating a two-tier application to azure : a hands-on walkthrough of azure infrastructure, platform, and container services
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ISBN: 1484264371 1484264363 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, New York State : APress,

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Understand and build a proof of concept by migrating a multi-tiered .NET Core web application to the Azure public cloud, leveraging different Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Azure Container offerings. These include Azure Container Instance (ACI), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), and CI/CD pipeline deployments using Azure DevOps. After a first chapter in which you set up the baseline for the lab scenarios, you will start with the basics of automating Azure resource deployments using Visual Studio and powerful Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. Next, you’ll learn about the importance of performing proper assessments and the tools Microsoft offers to help in this migration preparation phase. After that, you will validate the virtual machine deployment and learn about SQL Server database migration to SQL Azure PaaS, as well as deploying and migrating web applications to Azure Web Apps. After covering these foundational platform components, the next chapters focus on the core concepts and advantages of using containers for running business workloads. These labs are based on Docker, Azure Container Registry (ACR), ACI, and Web App for Containers, and show you how to enable container orchestration and cloud-scale using AKS. In the last part of the book, you will work with Azure DevOps, the Microsoft application lifecycle environment, building a CI/CD pipeline to publish workloads using the DevOps principles and concepts. You’ll see the integration with the rest of the Azure services, closing with a module on overall Azure monitoring and operations and what tools Azure has available to assist your IT teams in this challenge. You will: Use Azure to enable digital transformation Carry out Azure automated deployments using ARM templates and Azure DevOps Run VM-based workloads on Azure Migrate VM-based workloads to Azure platform services Monitor Azure running workloads with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.


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Cyber Security on Azure : An IT Professional’s Guide to Microsoft Azure Security
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ISBN: 1484265319 1484265300 Year: 2021 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress,

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Prevent destructive attacks to your Azure public cloud infrastructure, remove vulnerabilities, and instantly report cloud security readiness. This book provides comprehensive guidance from a security insider's perspective. Cyber Security on Azure supports cloud security operations and cloud security architects by supplying a path to clearly identify potential vulnerabilities to business assets and reduce security risk in Microsoft Azure subscription. This updated edition explores how to “lean-in” and recognize challenges with IaaS and PaaS for identity, networks, applications, virtual machines, databases, and data encryption to use the variety of Azure security tools. You will dive into Azure Cloud Security to guide cloud operations teams to become more security focused in many areas and laser focused on security configuration. New chapters cover Azure Kubernetes Service and Container security and you will get up and running quickly with an overview of Azure Sentinel SIEM Solution. You will: Understand enterprise privileged identity and security policies "Shift left" with security controls in Microsoft Azure Configure intrusion detection and alerts Reduce security risks using Azure Security Service.

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