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I was surfing the interwebs, as J Seymour likes to call it, and came across this interesting blog post that I thought I would share: http://www.infoworld.com/d/microsoft-windows/earn-more-todays-top-it-certs-184307?page=0,1 It's awesome that the author mentions System Center and Virtualization because there's some great stuff going on right now related to both... The System Center 2012--the author calls this out as a technology where you can make "big bucks"!--will be in beta soon. If you're skilled in this area and want to participate in the beta, create or update your profile...

This week I also did my second beta exam: 70-323(Administering Office 365). The exam consisted of 70-80 questions and was a bit harder then the exam I did earlier, Deploying Office 365. I expected it to be the other way around, that Deploying was harder than Administering. As I can't go in details what exam subject were, I can tell about my resources I used as a prepartion, which you will see below: Prepare for Office 365 for education Transition center Exam 70-321 info Exam 70-323 info Office 365 Trial 30 days Office 365 User Tour Office 365 Admin Tour Free eBook: Microsoft Office 365: Connect...

The Certification Exam User Experience team is making significant changes to the Microsoft Exam user interface. We would like your opinion about our ideas. The following link will direct you to our online survey hosted by Qualtrics: http://microsoftlearning.us.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_b737K7hmWIO2NBG We will your feedback to improve the test-taking experience. Thank you in advance for your participation! The Microsoft Learning Certification Exam User Experience Team

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Hello. We launched this blog three years ago, so we’re no longer a baby blog. And we’re far beyond pulling ourselves up by the couch—we jump up and down on it—which means we’re not exactly toddlers. Plus, our vocabulary includes well over 350 words! But...( read more ) Read More...

We’re pleased to announce that the new Microsoft Press book XAML Developer Reference (ISBN 978-0-7356-5896-7, 340 pages), is now available for purchase! This book covers XAML from the ground up for both Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight...( read more ) Read More...

We're kicking off an initiative to conduct regularly-scheduled LiveMeetings on Advanced Certification offerings. These will be hosted by the program managers and include detailed program overviews as well as time for live Q&A. You can find them here on MS Events - if you want to learn more about our programs from the folks who run them (and are all MCMs themselves), sign up today! And for those of you who can't attend the live sessions, they'll be archived in MS Events for your asynchronous Read More...

This morning I did the exam 70-321, which is a beta exam for Office 365. As promised earlier here a blogpost about my exam experience. The exam has 40-60 questions, which is quite short for a beta exam in my opnion. · ADFS · DirSync · Powershell commands · DNS Records · Exchange Online · Lync Online Resources I used to prepare: Office 365 Service Descriptions Microsoft Office 365 for IT Professionals

Everybody interested in learning about what’s new in SQL Server 2012, we hope you saw our first release of our Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 ebook in October . That was just a draft, two-chapter quick release to help celebrate PASS Summit 2011...( read more ) Read More...

For those attending TechReady: Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis , authors of Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference (Microsoft Press, 2012; ISBN: 9780735656727), will be signing the book in the bookstore on Friday, February 3, from 12...( read more ) Read More...