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Microsoft removed the Data Analysis Toolpak from Excel 2011 for the Macintosh in 2008, eliminating statistical tools such as ANOVA, t test, F Test, and regression analysis. Hypothesis testing using these tools is a key element in advanced problem solving, so the loss of these tools has been a major challenge for practitioners of Six Sigma who use the Macintosh, but not anymore.

The QI Macros Lean Six Sigma SPC software has supported Excel for the Macintosh since 1998. The Analysis Toolpak has been rewritten for Excel 2011 and includes many previously unavailable features like 1-sample t tests, Fishers Exact test, Levene’s test, normality tests, non-normality tests, and proportion tests. There’s even a statistics wizard to simplify hypothesis testing.

The QI Macros are an add-in for Microsoft Excel that automate all of the charts and diagrams required for statistical process control (SPC) and lean Six Sigma. The QI Macros consist of four parts: 30 charts and two “chart wizards” that use existing Excel data to create Pareto, control charts, and histograms; more than 90 fill-in-the-blank templates for lean Six Sigma; a statistics wizard; and data transformation tools such as the PivotTable wizard that automates data analysis.

icrosoft removed the Data Analysis Toolpak from Excel 2011 for the Macintosh in 2008, eliminating statistical tools such as ANOVA, t test, F Test, and regression analysis. Hypothesis testing using these tools is a key element in advanced problem solving, so the loss of these tools has been a major challenge for practitioners of Six Sigma who use the Macintosh, but not anymore.

Packt Publishing is pleased to report that Software Testing using Visual Studio 2010 is available to Kindle users on Amazon’s Kindle Platform. The Kindle eBook represents a step by step guide to understanding the features and concepts of testing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of Visual Studio professionals.

What is Microsoft Visual Studio? Microsoft Visual Studio is an Integrated Development Environment, from Microsoft, widely used for the development of applications, websites, and web services across a variety of platforms including: Microsoft Windows, the .NET Framework, and Microsoft Silverlight. Software testing represents an important part of the development and implementation process when using VS.

The book starts with a look at different types of tests. It then goes about explaining examples with a step-by-step approach to master concepts and the features needed to help the reader understand testing clearly. Developers, Software testers, and Architects who need to master the range of features offered by the Visual Studio 2010 for testing software applications will find this book to be a worthy addition to their bookshelves.

The book introduces readers to the main types of testing available in Visual Studio for both desktop and web applications, and then walks them through deploying, running, and interpreting the results of tests. Specifics include the utilization of test manager for creating test plans, test suites and requirement based test suites, the creation and customization of code from the action recording, web performance testing, and much more.

Full book details can be found on the Packt Website.

Packt Publishing is a world leader for publishing Microsoft focused titles for IT Professionals. Packt has published several titles into the Microsoft Visual Studio space, including:

1.    Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010 Expert Cookbook
2.    Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
3.    Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Business Application Development

About Packt Enterprise. Packt Enterprise is the publishing division of Packt that seeks to serve the informational needs of IT Professionals who live and work with Enterprise software. To date, more than 100 Microsoft books have been announced or published, and the 2012 pipeline promises more than 40 new Microsoft titles.

According to a recent report on eSecurity planet, Microsoft has begun beta testing updates to two of its leading security products.

In the article, titled  Microsoft Beta Tests Two Updated Security Tools, the company have begun tests on Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010 for enterprise security and the free Security Essentials for consumers and small businesses.

Announced on two separate Microsoft blogs, Microsoft has not yet announced pricing or licensing terms. However, the blog post did say that FEP 2010 is due out in the fourth quarter. Interested parties can download the beta here.

Among the new features of FEP 2010 are a new antivirus engine, new behavioral threat detection to protect against zero-day attacks, and Windows Firewall management, which checks that the firewall is working properly and provides improved management capabilities.

The new edition of Microsoft Security Essentials adds a new anti-malware engine, as well as tighter integration with the Windows Firewall and with Internet Explorer in order to block Web-based attacks.

To read the full article click here

The IIS 6.0 Resource Kit Tools can help you administer, secure, and manage IIS. Use them to query log files, deploy SSL certificates, employ custom site authentication, verify permissions, troubleshoot problems, migrate your server, run stress tests, and more.

The following tools are available in this package:

* IIS 6.0 Migration Tool Version 1.0
* Apache to IIS 6.0 Migration Tool Version 1.0
* CustomAuth Version 1.0
* IISCertDeploy.vbs Version 1.0
* IIS Host Helper Service Version 1.0
* IISState Version 3.0
* Log Parser Version 2.1
* Metabase Explorer Version 1.6
* Permissions Verifier Version 1.0
* RemapUrl Version 1.0
* SelfSSL Version 1.0
* TinyGet Version 5.2
* Web Capacity Analysis Tool Version 5.2
* WFetch Version 1.3

For Direct download on this tool click here

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