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Learn how to customize list forms in SharePoint—the no-code way! This course offers lessons on using InfoPath and SharePoint, along with Access web apps and Excel surveys, to build and edit list forms. Author Gini Courter shows how to tweak SharePoint's default list forms, edit forms in InfoPath Designer, build browser-based forms with Access, and collect and share data with Excel surveys. Watch to discover the right option for your SharePoint form-development workflow.

Many people don't realize just how much you can accomplish out-of-the-box with SharePoint. This course shows how SharePoint administrators can start using the powerful site and collection templates to easily add new features to their SharePoint sites. Author Ron Davis covers the differences between free and enterprise editions of SharePoint, and explores each of the individual templates: Project Site, Community Site, Document and Records Centers, Business Intelligence Center, Community Portal, Product Catalog, Team Site, Search Center, and more! Dive in and learn how to make the most of SharePoint out-of-the-box capabilities.

Teams and individuals use the power of SharePoint to share content and collaborate, improving their productivity from virtually anywhere. This weekly series is designed to provide quick tips you can use to get the most out of the features in SharePoint. Navigation, customization, file management, and more are explored. Check back each week for a new tip.

Records management is critical for any business that faces regulatory scrutiny, including healthcare and financial services. Luckily, SharePoint makes it easy to stay compliant while saving money and effort on digital records discovery and destruction. Learn how to manage records in SharePoint and become more compliant today, in this course with Tiffany Songvilay. Tiffany explains how to create a centralized repository, secure confidential files, and discover and hold records for litigation. She also covers topics such as creating an information management compliance strategy, setting up document handling rules, and automating several compliance functions.

Lynda.com is a PMI Registered Education Provider. This course qualifies for professional development units (PDUs). To view the activity and PDU details for this course, click here.

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Do you realize that you can solve dozens of common business problems, without writing a single line of code, using Microsoft SharePoint? With SharePoint Composites and some Office integration, you can combine data, documents, metadata, and workflows to solve day-to-day business problems without having to code or consult a developer—and quickly modify your solutions as business needs change.

So join Ron Davis as he shows how to get the most out of your SharePoint investment, with SharePoint Composites and some inventive sample business solutions. Ron shows how to gather requirements, use templates, create composites, integrate with Excel and other Office services, and implement solutions for a range of scenarios.

SharePoint site owners have a lot of control over the look and functionality of the sites they manage. In this course, Bill Kulterman shows how to customize your SharePoint site to suit your company's brand and your team's workflow. Get simple customization tips to add navigation, apply out-of-the-box themes, add and edit pages, change layouts, and insert elements such as backgrounds, images, and custom colors. Plus, learn how to use App Parts and Web Parts to provide more functionality and a better user experience.

Dodging adversity is often not a choice. Encountering a devastating event—the gut-wrenching kind that zaps away joy—is an inevitability of life. In their New York Times best-selling book Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton psychologist Adam Grant share their insights on building resilience in the face of such setbacks. They offer practical steps you can take to reimagine and rebuild your life when your first choice—your Option A—is no longer on the table, and you're faced with the task of making the absolute best of Option B. This course highlights some of the powerful topics in this book, including how to talk to friends and colleagues who are hurting when you're not sure what to say, how to fight the idea that the hurt you're feeling is permanent, and how to give yourself permission to experience happiness again.

For additional resources and support, check out OptionB.Org, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to helping individuals build resilience in the face of adversity.

Blackmagic cameras are some of the hottest cameras on the market now, offering the ability to shoot both raw video and high-quality production codecs. But they offer lots of options; this course will help you find a camera that fits your budget and your needs. Get to know the features of the popular Blackmagic Cinema Camera and the (4K-capable!) Production Camera, and decide if a Blackmagic is right for you. This review-style course is great for photography geeks who want a true inside look at these cameras' moving parts. Rich Harrington and Robbie Carman cover powering up, attaching lenses, storage requirements, menus, audio capture, and basic recording, and they'll also show how a Blackmagic camera comes to play on location, on a high-energy music shoot.

In this course, photographer and scanning expert Taz Tally describes how to use the LaserSoft Imaging SilverFast software to scan photos, line art, film negatives, and other printed documents, while getting the highest quality scans possible from your scanner. The course begins with an overview of SilverFast, then takes a task-oriented look at the SilverFast automatic and manual scanning modes, showing numerous scanning projects from start to finish. The course also explores a variety of specialized scanning topics, such as removing color casts and scratches, High Dynamic Range (HDR) scanning, and wet scanning.

Microsoft Silverlight and its associated development tools, Expression Blend and Visual Studio, are used to reproduce the look and feel of a desktop application in a browser-deployed, cross-platform framework. In Silverlight 4 New Features, author Walt Ritscher highlights the new features delivered with Silverlight 4 and Expression Blend 4, with bonus coverage of out-of-browser application deployment. This course covers the most exciting additions and enhancements to this rich Internet application (RIA) development framework, including new customizable form controls, rich text and media support, drag-and-drop data binding, and more. Exercise files accompany the course.

Recommended prerequisite: Silverlight 3 Essential Training.

Microsoft Silverlight 5 is a rich application framework for creating high-performance, cross-platform desktop and mobile applications. In this course, author Walt Ritscher demonstrates how to build a variety of applications in Silverlight, with particular focus on building compelling business applications and delivering premium video and audio content. Developers will work with the C# programming language and Visual Studio Professional, as well as Expression Blend, a tool that simplifies creation of the interactive user interfaces expected in modern-day applications.

Sean Colins takes a look at Mac's latest operating system—El Capitan—focusing on the key topics IT administrators need to know to perform their job. Sean dives into assessing and planning the migration to El Capitan, and then provides the steps necessary to install and configure the OS. He show users how to back up and migrate data, as well as what's needed to manage applications effectively. The course also covers system monitoring, adding peripherals, networking, and Active Directory integration. Finally, Sean shows viewers how to troubleshoot common problems and collect system information and other documentation.

Learn how to use the new features in El Capitan, the newest version of Mac OS X, including Split View, multitasking, and new Spotlight search options. Plus, check out the updates to apps that come bundled with Mac OS X 10.11, such as Notes, Maps, Mail, Safari, Photos, and Disk Utility.

In this course, author Sean Colins shows how to configure a Lion Server installation, while highlighting its ease of use. The course gives an overview on servers: what they are, why they're necessary, and how to set them up quickly. It also covers file sharing, managing iOS devices with the new Profile Manager, and creating and sharing podcasts in Podcast Publisher, plus productivity services such as iCal, Address Book Server, and iChat Server, which keep shared calendars, contacts, and chat conversations securely in your possession.

This project-based course shows programmers of all skill levels how to use machine learning to build programs that can make recommendations. In this course, Adam Geitgey walks you through a hands-on lab building a recommendation system that is able to suggest similar products to customers based on past products they have reviewed or purchased. The system can also identify which products are similar to each other.

Recommendation systems are a key part of almost every modern consumer website. The systems help drive customer interaction and sales by helping customers discover products and services they might not ever find themselves. The course uses the free, open source tools Python 3.5, pandas, and numpy. By the end of the course, you'll be equipped to use machine learning yourself to solve recommendation problems. What you learn can then be directly applied to your own projects.

If you're working towards an understanding of machine learning, it's important to know how to work with decision trees. In this course, explore advanced concepts and details of decision tree algorithms. Learn about the QUEST algorithm and how it handles nominal variables, ordinal and continuous variables, and missing data. Explore the C5.0 algorithm and review some of its key features such as global pruning and winnowing. Plus, dive into a few advanced topics that apply to all decision trees, such as boosting and bagging.

Do you want to build custom machine learning models to enhance your iOS apps? Even if you're not a machine learning expert, Core ML makes it easy to integrate an existing machine learning model into an iOS application. And with Turi Create, Apple also provides a Python framework that simplifies the development of custom machine learning models. This course provides an introduction to machine learning and the Core ML framework, and covers how to build your own custom machine learning model and integrate it into an iOS app. Upon wrapping up this course, you will have built an image classifier that can distinguish cats from dogs in a provided picture.

While Windows dominates the desktop market, Macs are still widely used, especially in smaller organizations. Knowing how to administer and configure macOS is a key skill that any IT admin should know. In this course, Sean Colins looks at Mac's latest operating system—Sierra—focusing on the most important topics for administrators. You'll first dive into backing up and restoring Sierra, using the built-in solution, Time Machine, and a cloud-based alternative, Backblaze. You'll then learn about iCloud administration, including techniques for restoring deleted files from iCloud and disabling iCloud entirely. Next, learn about working with local storage and the new Apple File System (APFS), which—once released—will provide a unified storage solution across macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Then find out how to monitor macOS Sierra using the new console, unified logging system, and commands for collecting, searching, and debugging logs. The course then concludes with an overview of enterprise-wide security solutions for Sierra and how mobile device management can help with system imaging at scale.

New releases of Logic are eagerly awaited, but 10 is a major leap forward, especially for sound designers, EDM and hip-hop producers, and beat makers. This course gives you a preview of the new features found in 10.1–10.3, as well as shortcuts for integrating them into your production workflow.

Join Scott Hirsch as explores features from the most recent versions. He guides you through using the Touch Bar, Track Alternatives, selection-based processing, the Alchemy and Gobbler integration, flex pitching, and more. Learn how to work offline with the Share to GarageBand option. See how to use the Drum Machine Designer to apply new arrangement marker techniques. Discover how to back up and share your Logic projects with the outside world using the new integration with Gobbler and Apple Connect. Take a look at new overlapping recording modes for both cycle and non-cycle modes. Tour an improved Retro Synth and the brand-new Mellotron software instrument along with powerful MIDI editing and sequencer features in the revamped Piano Roll Editor. Preview the enhanced mixer which now comes with VCA faders and easy viewing of your Track Stack components. Many more enhancements are also explored as Scott covers the capabilities found in these upgrades.

Join author Brian Trifon as he shows how to improve music and audio productions using virtual instruments in Logic Pro. This course tours the program's virtual instruments, including the ES2 hybrid synthesizer, Sculpture physical modeling synthesizer, EFM1 FM synthesizer, the EVOC 20 vocoder, the Ultrabeat drum synthesizer, and the EXS24 sampler, and shows how to achieve various effects with each instrument's parameters. The course also covers working with oscillators and filters, understanding signal flow, creating custom synthesizer patches, adding effects, synthesizing speech, creating a library of custom sound samples, and much more.

Virtual Instruments with Logic Pro will be updating on a monthly basis, eventually covering all the virtual instruments in the application. Look for the latest movies here and on the lynda.com blog.

No other topic has driven corporate identity more quickly than sustainability. When it comes to logo design, whether businesses are tied directly to the environment or not, references to nature abound. In fact, the most-searched terms, year in and year out, on Bill Gardner's popular LogoLounge site are terms like "tree," "water," "earth," and "nature." In this course, Bill tackles the hidden symbolism behind how we depict our planet, from what's in the sky to what grows in the ground, and teaches you how to use these symbols to give your logo designs more impact. These valuable insights will have you looking at nature in ways you never considered before, and help you better explain the natural elements in your logo designs to your clients.

Looker—a powerful data analytics platform—can help both large and small companies glean value from their data. In this short course, get up to speed with Looker, and learn how to leverage this platform to make collecting, visualizing, and analyzing data a bit easier. Ben Sullins begins by explaining how and why Looker is used, and exploring the Looker ecosystem. He also dives into how Looker organizes its data using LookML, how to visualize data in the Looker platform, and how to create a web-based dashboard.

Learn how to alter the default appearance of SharePoint sites and brand them for your business. Not a designer? Don't worry! Gini von Courter shows how to customize your site in a few clicks using the built-in themes and composed looks in SharePoint 2016. She also shows how to add logos, backgrounds images, and custom colors and fonts, so that your site feels like it fits your company's brand. Plus, learn how to upload your customizations to the theme gallery so that other people in your company can take advantage of your work.

Do you need advanced forms that can accept, calculate, and validate user input? Nintex Forms for Office 365, the drag-and-drop forms designer, makes it easy to create complex forms for SharePoint and other Office applications. In this course, Tiffany Songvilay walks through adding business logic to forms using this powerful plugin. Learn how to format forms, write formulas, set up custom variables and controls, use validation rules, and leverage the responsive form layout. Tiffany reveals how to change the behavior of existing buttons, cascade lookup formulas, and even export the form for use elsewhere. You don't need to be a developer to benefit from these techniques. Follow along to start building your own interactive forms for SharePoint.

Learn how to combine the visualization tools in Power BI with the collaborative power of SharePoint 365 to uncover more valuable insights from your data. In this course, Bill Kulterman explores how Power BI can be integrated into SharePoint to create interactive and data-rich reports. Learn how to connect to data in lists and libraries, and combine data from multiple locations throughout SharePoint. Bill then shows how to transform the data into stunning charts and visualizations, and publish your reports via Power BI services. Finally, he shows how to add a new page to your SharePoint site and embed the reports, so they are easy to access by everyone at your organization.