Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V

The new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V release from Microsoft comes with a myriad of improvements in areas such as mobility, high availability and elasticity, bringing everything you need to create, manage and build the core components of a Microsoft Private Cloud for virtualized workloads.

In this article by Leandro Cavalho, the author of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook, we will cover the following topics:

• Backing up Hyper-V and virtual machines using Windows Server Backup

• Restoring Hyper-V and virtual machines using Windows Server Backup

• Confguring Hyper-V Replica between two Hyper-V hosts using HTTP authentication

• Confguring Hyper-V Replica broker for a Failover Cluster

• Confguring Hyper-V Replica to use certificate-based authentication using an Enterprise CA

• Using snapshots in virtual machines

Adding and Importing Configuration items in System Center 2012 Service Manager

System Center 2012 Service Manager builds on its predecessor System Center Service Manager 2010, by extending the ITIL© process features to include Service Request fulfillment, Release Management, and automated orchestration with significant enhancements in its reporting capabilities. The full set of additions and improvements can be found at the official Microsoft website for the product. System Center 2012 Service Manager (SCSM) is a modular product made up of a series of submodular components. Installing the product is simple using the official product documentation and online community resources.

In this article by Andreas Baumgarten (MVP), one of the co-authors of Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook, we will cover the following tasks:

• Adding configuration items manually
• Importing active directory configuration items
• Importing configuration manager configuration items
• Importing operations manager configuration items

Packaging Content Types and Feeds Importers

The Features module steps in. It is a powerful module that will allow us to package up our content types and feeds importers' configurations into code.

In this article by Trevor James, the author of Migrating to Drupal 7, we'll cover the following topics:

• Installing features

• Creating a feature for your content type and for your feeds importer

• Overriding features

• Reviewing feature overrides and reverting the features code

• Sharing a Features module and implementing it on a separate Drupal site

Oracle: Using the Metadata Service to Share XML Artifacts

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides the architectural framework needed to integrate diverse systems together and create new composite applications. Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 provides the tools needed to turn an SOA architecture into a working solution.

In this article by Matt Wright, co-author of Oracle SOA Suite 11g Developer's Cookbook, we will cover:

• Creating a file-based MDS repository for JDeveloper

• Creating Mediator using a WSDL in MDS

• Creating Mediator that subscribes to EDL in MDS

• Creating an external reference using a WSDL in MDS

• Referencing Schematron in MDS for validation

• Referencing a fault policy deployed to MDS

• Deploying MDS artifacts to the SOA infrastructure

• Exporting an MDS partition to the filesystem

• Deleting XML artifacts from SOA infra MDS

Getting Your Course Ready for a New Semester

In this article by Brandon Ballentine, author of Desire2Learn for Higher Education Cookbook, we will cover the following recipes:

• Copying course materials from a previous semester

• Importing a publisher's course cartridge

• Changing many due dates from one screen

• Double-checking everything from the student view

• Configuring your web browser

Mobile Devices

We are currently seeing an explosion of mobile devices to the market. A lot of them are more powerful than your average computer was just over a decade ago. This means that in addition to having nice clean, responsive, and functional desktop applications, we are starting to have to make sure the same basic functionality is available to mobile devices. In this article, we are going to be looking at how we can set up mobile devices to be used with Selenium WebDriver.

In this article by David Burns, author of Selenium 2 Testing Tools Beginner's Guide, we shall learn:

• How to use the stock browser on Android

• How to test with Opera Mobile

• How to test on iOS

Creating and configuring a basic mobile application

After everything is configured and prepared, this article by Darko Goleš, author of Magento Mobile How-to, starts exploring the Magento Mobile Admin Panel in order to create our first Magento Mobile application.