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"How do I connect with other MCPs in person? Where do I go? Do you have tips for getting conversations started if I'm an... introvert?" Our MCP community members have been asking. In this installment of Ask an MCT, Christopher Harrison shares five tried-and-true ways to break the ice and...

Microsoft Learning’s year-long celebration of our first 20 years of certification— 20 Years|20 Ways —is focused on creating better careers and better lives for IT pros, developers and students around the world. Creating a successful career can be complicated. But there are a few key...

Greetings True Believers and new visitors, For those of you new to my blogging, a short introduction is probably in order. My name is Michael Bender. I am an MCT based out of Madison, WI. I teach Microsoft Server classes and Virtualization classes at Madison College full time as well as...

Career Opportunities: Announcing New Opportunity for MCPs Microsoft Learning is working with Elance, an online employment platform for freelancers and consultants, to help MCPs find work in the cloud. An MCP group will be created on the Elance platform and validated through your Virtual Business Card...

Today we started our "train the trainer" Microsoft Certified Trainer Bootcamp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We have enrolled 13 experienced IT professionals to participate in the week long bootcamp, all aiming to join the community of 18,000 MCT trainers worldwide. Due to the earthquake disaster...

The updated Member Site has launched! Log into www.microsoft.com/certified to check out the new features, functionality, and design. As always, we would love your feedback and thoughts on the new experience. Please make sure to leave us your thoughts by clicking on the feedback button at the bottom of...

Yes, it’s true: we’re raising our MCP exam prices for the first time in almost a decade. (Technically, I should probably say "changing" since not every country will see an increase, but for most of you, it's an increase.) The new prices go into effect on July 1 st (August 1...

If you’re a Microsoft Certified Trainer, we know you’re all about helping your students acquire expertise on Microsoft products, technologies, and solutions. Now you can help them prove their expertise as well: Learning Rewards enables you to offer your students the best possible deal on certification...

If you receive our MCP Daily Flash, you’ve seen in the announcement about some new and updated MCP Benefits. If you receive the weekly or monthly editions, here’s what you have to look forward to: MCP and MCT Member Sites : Look for a new site to launch later this year—we’re hard at work improving, simplifying...

Many of you have been asking us to collect our Windows Azure training and certification resources in a single place—and we’re happy to oblige. Just published: our new Windows Azure Training and Certification Portal , where you can review learning plans, watch snacks, find training, and prep for exams...

Braindumps . We all know they’re out there, and we all know it’s wrong to use them, and it’s very wrong to distribute them. (Lifetime decertification would be the least of your worries.) But just as with software piracy, we know there’s a seedy underbelly in this business, and we do our best to ensure...

Exam 70-523 is now finally available in Prometric testing centers! This exam is intended for candidates who hold an MCPD Web Application Developer 3.5 certification to upgrade to MCPD Web Applications Developer 4. Candidates for this exam should have experience designing and developing Web-based applications...

In January 1993, I was 24 years old, ten months into my marriage and four months away from fatherhood. My history degree collected dust while I spent my days as an administrative assistant, typing and filing for a staff of architects and engineers only a few years older than me; my wife was still in...

Exam 70-521 is now finally available in Prometric testing centers. This exam is designed for candidates who current hold an MCPD certification as a Windows Developer on .NET 3.5 to upgrade to the MCPD Windows Applications Developer 4. Candidates for this exam should have experience with developing...

If you’ve been holding off on registering for TechEd Europe until the agenda was posted, wait no longer: Over 200 Tech∙Ed sessions are now posted on the event website (with many more to come), along with a pretty great line-up of speakers! Here’s just a sampling of the sessions you can choose from: Cloud...

By now, you’re probably aware of our new “ Microsoft Certification Packs ” promotion. (Judging from our download activity to date, I’d say you guys are well aware.) But after reading some of your comments and questions, I also know that some of you are scratching your heads wondering...

Exam 70-177 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Technical Specialist exam designed to assess candidates’ hands-on skills using and configuring Microsoft Project Server 2010. Candidates for this exam: are experienced in implementing and supporting the Microsoft Project...

Virtualization is hot enough—and our exams are numerous enough—that we felt a dedicated page to our virtualization certification options would help you sort through your options. Check it out here .

All our racers are now in New Orleans, awaiting the announcement of the final results this afternoon at TechEd! Friday’s challenge was a pulse-pounding one—our teams got quite the tour of New Orleans. How did it go? Watch and see… (Please visit the site to view this video)

If you’re a student (or if you know a student) interested in a technical career, check out our new Student Career Portal , which launched earlier this week. There’s lots of great resources to be found, including a wizard to help you find the right job role, and a widget to help you find the...

(Please visit the site to view this video) The results are in: Team Green wins the Washington, DC challenge ! With two of our ten challenges now closed (Build Your Team and Washington, DC), the Green and Gold teams are tied for first place with 15 points each, with the Red and Blue teams tied for...

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After two weeks of team-building and on-line challenges, the IT Grand Prix kicked off today in earnest, with our four teams competing to help non-profits in Washington, D.C. How’d it go? Hear it from the teams themselves: Gold Team and Green Team partnered with Byte Back to help train...

The Born to Learn crew is heading to New Orleans next weekend for TechEd 2010! If you’re attending TechEd as well, stop by the Community Lounge throughout the event and say hi We’ll have staff at the Community Lounge all week long, but we’ve got some special sessions and topics scheduled as well:  ...

Today’s MCP Flash included a program update from our MCP Program Manager, but for the first few hours the article didn’t display properly if you clicked on it. So in case you  missed it the first time around, here’s the article in its entirety: --- You spoke, we listened: over the next few months...