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I just spoke with Stephen Rose from Springboard Series. We have very fond memories of the tours where we traveled together and it's great to hear that the Springboard team are on the road again and that seats are going quickly. So here's a friendly reminder, we don't want our Born to Learn...

If you’ve earned a Microsoft Certification, you may have initially prepared by reviewing an exam preparation guide . These guides provide an overview of the focus of an exam, what certification(s) it counts towards, and candidates’ level of expertise, along with the skills measured and suggested...

Mainstream product support ends for both SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 (.NET 2.0) on April 15, 2011. Mainstream product support for BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2006 R2 end on July 12, 2011. We will be retiring the SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 exams...

I'm on the wait list for my Windows Phone 7, waiting is the hardest thing... If you have been reading Bob Caswell's blog posts , you may have seen some of the great Windows Phone 7 content that we offer, at no charge . If you plan to learn more about Windows Phone 7, check out the free e-book...

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...

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 applications...

About a year ago, I asked for volunteers to help out with creating the first Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) exams for IT Pro content areas. We shipped the first three IT Pro MTA exams in early July. (Yay!) We are starting development on a new MTA exam: Windows Operating System Fundamentals . We...

Whether you’ve had years of experience or just starting out, Windows 7 training and certification resources are available to help you master the intricacies of deploying and maintaining Windows 7 systems in companies of all sizes. A great way to start is by signing up to receive free Microsoft...

You are invited to take beta exam 71-681: TS: Windows® 7 and Office 2010, Deploying . If you pass the beta exam, the exam credit will be added to your transcript and you will not need to take the exam in its released form. The 71-xxx identifier is used for registering for beta versions of MCP exams...

Exam 70-518 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Professional exam designed to assess candidates’ knowledge and skills on making the appropriate job role decisions around Windows-based applications on the desktop using Windows Forms and WPF. Candidates for this exam work on...

Exam 70-511 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Technical Specialist exam designed to assess candidates’ hands-on skills in developing applications using Windows Forms, WPF and the .NET Framework 4. Candidates for this exam work in a development environment that uses Microsoft...

Exam 70-669 is now available in Prometric testing centers. This is a Technical Specialist exam designed to assess candidates’ hands-on skills in Windows Server 2008 R2 desktop virtualization. Candidates for this exam should have more than one and a half years of experience as virtualization administrators...

Please join us for a special Live Meeting series created specifically for managers of IT professionals and developers. Click below for more information and to register for: The Business Value of Windows 7 – Training for ROI Join Richard Brown, an MCT at Netcom Information Technology, and Robert...

Into my mail box today came not one but two notifications of cool resources from Microsoft to help me get stuff done like a pro! No 1: Microsoft Fix IT This seems to be a great resource of known issues and troubleshooting tips. Pretty AND cool ;-) No 2: Microsoft Answers This is a HUGE , and I mean HUGE...

Anticipating the rapid adoption of Windows 7, Microsoft Learning introduced numerous training and certification resources and offers to help IT professionals and developers get up to speed quickly. Many of these resources, including certification upgrade paths, are now available on a single Web page...

Playing catch-up today, if you haven’t noticed. :-) Here’s a couple of news articles about Windows 7 certification and learning that you might have missed: Daniel Dern writes about Windows 7 certifications over at IT Expert Voice and interviewed one of our product planners, Jim Clark. Gary Flood has...

Calling all Windows 7 Subject Matter Experts. We are designing virtual labs for our second virtual lab certification exam, 83-680 Windows 7, Configuring and we’d like to hear what you think. What tasks would you like to see on this exam?  Please send me your top 20 tasks that you’d like to see on...

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the EDST, so I thought I’d post what I think you want to know in one tidy package. Requirements To earn the MCITP: Enterprise Desktop Support Technician 7 credential, you’ll need to take the following exams: 70-680: TS: Windows 7, Configuring...

Hot off the presses (or more accurately, hot on the presses, since that’s exactly where it is right now): Microsoft Official Course #6294, Planning and Managing Windows® 7 Desktop Deployments and Environments , is on its way to Learning Solutions Partners worldwide, available beginning January 4, 2010...

Our own Jim Clark answered certification questions on the Windows Team Blog Cross posted from: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/springboard/archive/2009/12/16/are-you-certifiable.aspx ------------------------- Now that Windows 7 has been released you may be interested in understanding what Microsoft...