Research Tools and Services Discovery

Windows 10 is the most secure and reliable operating system ever from Microsoft. But when things go wrong, your users need your help to troubleshoot their issues. In this course, instructor Andrew Bettany provides a comprehensive guide to troubleshooting a range of Windows 10 issues commonly encountered by IT professionals—especially help desk professionals tasked with user support. Learn how to remotely help your users, troubleshoot hardware and software, and restore Windows 10 should you need to. You can discover how to resolve user account and permissions issues, and troubleshoot file access, networking and Wi-Fi problems, and Windows 10 startup issues. Plus, learn how to resolve app incompatibilities, diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks. Andrew wraps up the course with a look at essential maintenance tasks that will keep Windows 10 users from encountering problems in the first place.

Starting with Windows 10, Microsoft provides quality and feature updates for Windows on an ongoing basis. The new release strategy-called Windows as a service-means IT admins need to adjust the way they have typically planned for OS deployments. In this course, Microsoft MVP Joli Ballew walks admins through a summary of Windows as a service, and presents the major considerations for successful deployments. She explains the difference between the semi-annual and long-term servicing channels, the advantages of becoming a Windows Insider, and strategies for minimizing risk with deployment rings and build testing. She also covers servicing tools such as Windows Update, Windows Update for Business, Windows Server Update Services, and System Center Configuration Manager, which offer different degrees of control, including deferment and targeting options.

Discover how to use Microsoft Word 2016 features to give business proposals, technical reports, white papers, and other long documents a compelling format. Instructor Gini von Courter begins the course by going over how to create a master document and set up a logical, effective structure with outlines. She then discusses how to add reference items such as cross-references, footnotes, and indexes to guide readers through your work, and demonstrates smart ways to use captions and citations. Plus, she shares how to number chapters, sections, and pages; insert headers and footers; and add the finishing touches to your final document.

Learn how to create your first app using Xamarin, a cross-platform development solution that helps simplifies the development process by letting developers use C# to create iOS, Android, and Universal Windows apps. Matt Milner starts the course by walking through the setup process. Then, he demonstrates how to develop remotely and leverage libraries. Next, he goes through how to provision devices and test applications on real and simulated hardware. He also covers how to apply layouts, create views, and more.

ZBrush combines 3D modeling, texturing, and painting into one digital sculpting workflow. As such, it has dozens of features to master, and the 2018 edition adds the Sculptris Pro mode, new deformers, a polygroup generation tool, and more. If you're a beginner, this course is the best introduction you can get. Instructor Ryan Kittleson helps digital artists—and those who are simply new to ZBrush—to learn all the essential tools and techniques. He shows how to create basics forms with meshes, sculpt details with brushes, paint and texture your models, and render the results—using the same professional pipeline you would for real-world projects. Follow along and learn how to use ZBrush to build the wildest 3D creations you can imagine.

Songwriting can be a thrilling and rewarding profession, but it's not without its challenges. In this course, join professional songwriter Cliff Goldmacher as he explores the craft—and business—of songwriting through a series of short, self-contained lessons that offer practical solutions to common problems. Cliff shares creative workarounds for songwriting issues, explaining what to do when you're stuck finding the perfect line or you can't tell if a song is finished. He also goes over problems—and offers solutions—for songwriters that are working in the recording studio or trying to pursue a career in music.

Deals are won and lost in the nuances of communication and relationship building. To be successful, business development reps must learn to pivot and build value in a variety of customer conversations. In this course, join Lisa Earle McLeod and Elizabeth McLeod as they share strategies that can help experienced reps take their communication and negotiation skills to the next level. Learn how to get into the right mental space for strategic conversation. Discover how to engage sophisticated customers through high-level questioning and body language, as well as how to negotiate without damaging a relationship or descending to the lowest possible dollar. Plus, learn how to keep your value top of mind with your buyer after you make the handoff.

Agile isn't just for software. It can also be applied in the creation of manufactured physical objects. Manufacturers who bring new products to market are under unique pressures. They must consider the time to market, health and safety, and the cost of materials—all while trying to deliver great products under tight deadlines. In this course, learn how to streamline your project pipeline by leveraging the agile project management methodology within the context of new product development. Discover where agile works best, how to prepare your team and organization to apply agile methods, and how to expand the use of agile for new product development. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll have a foundational understanding of how to use the agile methodology to quickly deliver high-quality results.

Creating intricate, eye-catching animations for your iOS apps is key to delighting your users and making the interactive experience something they will remember. In this course you can explore the Core Animation API, from basic layer animations to custom view controller transitions and 3D animations. Instructor Harrison Ferrone shows how to build simple layer animations, debug layer trees for cleaner Swift code, group animations, and add easing, looping, and transitions—all the features you need to create professional-looking UI animation. Plus, learn how to animate gradient color shifts, shapes, and the position of objects along a path; develop custom actions and transactions; and build 3D effects, including particle emitters. By the end of the course you'll have the foundations to create complex and beautiful iOS animations entirely through code.

Are you looking to add something extra to your Animate CC projects? After Effects offers camera motion; special effects such as fractal fog, motion blur, and glow; and 3D environments that you can't achieve in vector-based programs like Animate alone. This course reviews the Animate to After Effects compositing pipeline, starting with importing Animate scenes into layered AE compositions. Instructor Dermot O' Connor shows how to control the individual layers and add filters and effects to achieve just the look you want. He covers lighting and tone adjustments as well as atmospheric effects, distortion, and camera animation. Then he shows how to quickly assemble a 3D environment and import your Animate characters into the scene. Finally, Dermot explains how to render your composition and collect the final assets for archival and sharing.

Learn how to create applications that everyone—regardless of their abilities—can independently interact with and enjoy. In this course, join instructor Renato Iwashima as he steps through the fundamentals of digital accessibility and usability for the Android platform. Renato provides a quick introduction to digital accessibility, explaining what it is, why it's important, and how to work with accessibility features such as TalkBack and Switch Access. He also covers the key principles of universal design and explains how to implement the fundamentals of accessibility and usability; add meaning and operability to user controls; improve the user experience for accessibility services; and test your Android app for accessibility.

An artificial neural network uses the human brain as inspiration for creating a complex machine learning system. There are now neural networks that can classify millions of sounds, videos, and images. These machines can answer our questions, understand our behaviors, and even drive our cars. The network looks for subtle patterns in our data and then fine-tunes itself to improve over time. They can become experts in predicting our behavior, learning our languages, and finding new discoveries. In this course, instructor Doug Rose provides an overview of artificial neural networks, explaining what they are and how you can use them for your machine learning challenges. Discover ways that you can use this technology to do fascinating new things for your projects or your business.

Review key concepts that can help you gain a more practical understanding of asynchronous programming. Join instructor Reynald Adolphe as he covers how to switch from synchronous programming to asynchronous programming. Reynald explores the principles behind the await and async keywords, and provides synchronous and asynchronous demonstrations with a desktop app. He then goes over how to convert synchronous code to asynchronous code—and vice versa—in ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core, and explores how to test an application to confirm that the conversion was done successfully.

Learn the architecture of the MVC framework by exploring the life cycle of an HTTP request as it travels through the ASP.NET MVC framework. This course educates developers about the major steps in the request life cycle, as well as how to extend and customize them when appropriate. Instead of focusing on MVC coding and how to build applications, this course dives into the relationships between the components that comprise the request pipeline. The inner workings of the MVC framework are discussed where applicable, such as controller factories, dependency resolvers, and result execution.

Learn about the automation services available to you when working with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and PowerShell. Join Azure expert Mike Benkovich as he introduces you to ARM Templates, resource groups, and dashboard customization. He then takes you through the process of creating and deploying a demo application. He also provides a look at infrastructure, advanced functions, and more.

Discover how to properly scale applications on the Amazon ecosystem. This course shows IT pros how to use AWS network and data storage design scalability services, techniques, and tools. Throughout the course, instructor Lynn Langit covers scaling networks around server-based and serverless application architectures, as well as scaling files and data. Learn how to use migration tools such as Server Migration Service, explore scaling considerations for hybrid scenarios, and review how best to scale common architectures. This course can also prepare you for the Network Design domain in the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional exam.

Take a deeper dive into machine learning with Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this practical course, instructor Jonathan Fernandes helps to familiarize you with common machine learning tasks, demonstrating how to approach each one using key techniques: binary classification, multiclass classification, and regression. Throughout the course, he walks through several examples, using Kaggle datasets for hands-on exploration. Plus, he reviews some essential machine learning concepts and helps to familiarize you with other AWS capabilities, including SageMaker and Deep Learning AMIs.

You don't need to have an advanced degree to take advantage of artificial intelligence. Azure ML Studio brings custom AI capabilities into any developer's hands. There's no special software or hardware required; all you need is a browser and an Azure account. This course shows how to solve complex data analysis challenges—such as multi-class classification—using Azure ML Studio. Instructor Sahil Malik explains how to clean up your data to meet quality standards, create experiments, evaluate the results, and train and deploy the model as a simple web service that can be called via HTTP. By the end of the training, you'll be familiar with the basic developer tools behind Azure ML Studio and be able to use them to design your own machine learning experiments.

The world is filled with distractions. When our devices buzz and notifications start rolling in, it is harder to focus on what's really important. And yet staying focused is exactly what it takes to get things done and get ahead. In this course, Arianna Huffington and Nir Eyal, the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, explains how to become indistractable—one of the most important skills of the 21st century. Nir explains why technology isn't the only habit you may need to tame and how workplace culture, social norms, and individual behaviors affect attention span. Learn why understanding your triggers can help you react better, and get practical tips for handling common distractions, such as email, and reducing unnecessary interruptions.

Behavior-driven development (BDD) emerged from test-driven development as a process that enhances collaboration with non-technical teams. BDD tests are focused on the user and system behavior, and can clarify details that are often lost during the traditional software development process. This training course teaches the basics of behavior-driven development. Learn how BDD fits in an agile workflow, how to drive BDD process within a team, and the basics of using popular BDD frameworks like Cucumber. Instructor Robin Beck helps you get hands-on with Cucumber and its specification language, Gherkin, providing examples of writing requirements specifications, defining scenarios, setting up failing tests, and optimizing your code to emphasize domain-driven and object-oriented design. He wraps up with some best practices for implementing behavior-driven development and keeping the philosophy—behavior over function—at top of mind.

The modern workplace is an exciting place. The digital revolution has provided new tools and ways of working that are spreading quickly throughout all industries. In this course, Phil Gold shows how technology and a proactive, collaborative culture can actually result in better business communication than ever before. Learn how to make the most of a suite of communication tools, from video conferencing to cloud productivity software; explore best practices to collaborate in the digital workplace; and get tips to incorporate new technology into your existing organization. Phil covers topics such as managing and securing digital files, choosing the right tools, maximizing efficiency, building a mobile workforce, and promoting continuous learning. Plus, learn how technology such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things will continue to push the boundaries of the modern workplace.

Selling to executives can be challenging. Many sales reps struggle to close deals with this high-powered—and occasionally intimidating—portion of their clientele. For the last decade, Mike Gamson has been heading up sales at LinkedIn. In this course, he shares his hard-won knowledge with you, to help you prepare a winning game plan for tackling your meetings with executives.

Did you know that you have legal responsibilities as a manager? Even if you work with a corporation, you can still be held personally liable for certain legal violations. While you don't need to possess a deep understanding of the law to succeed as a manager, familiarizing yourself with current business laws can help you avoid sticky situations. In this course, learn what you need to know about US business and intellectual property law as a manager working within a business setting. Legal expert Jo-Ná Williams discusses how to protect yourself and your company—and know when to bring in the legal eagles. Learn the difference between copyright, trademark, and patent law; what constitutes wrongful discrimination and termination; the differences between business law and business ethics; and more.

Get into the habit of developing reliable, readable, and sustainable application code by following coding standards with C#. In this course, join instructor Reynald Adolphe as he shows how to go beyond the language syntax and master best practices that can help you produce high-quality C# code. Throughout the course, Reynald shares some of his favorite best practices, illustrating precisely when and where to use each one. Learn about right way to use constructors, manage objects, implement often ignored advantages of getters and setters. Plus, explore best practice resources, including those for essential design patterns.

Validate your technical skills and ability to keep a Cisco network secure by earning the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Security certification. Join security ambassador Lisa Bock as she prepares you for the Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) section of the CCNA Security exam 210-260: Implementing Cisco Network Security. Lisa provides an overview of intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems (IDS/IPS) and explains how they detect and mitigate common attacks. She covers detection and signature engines, triggering actions and responses, and deploying an IOS-based IPS. In addition, she goes over some practical applications of these systems, including honeypot-based intrusion detection and the EINSTEIN system from the Department of Homeland Security.