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One June 20: Move to Hybrid Cloud with System Center & Windows Azure Jump Start. Details here. On June 21: Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data, Hive & HDInsight Jump Start. Details here . Both are free. Enjoy! ...read more

Welcome to our weekly round-up of news, events and opportunities for IT Academy members. IT Academy News Presenting the Walla Walla Wall of Fame: 354 MOS certificates! Walla Walla High School (Walla Walla, Washington) created an impressive wall...

This is the 28th in our series of guest posts by Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs). You can click the “MVPs” tag in the right column of our blog to see all the articles. Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized technology...

As the academic year concludes in many regions, students are flocking to internships for real-world, hands-on experience with hopes of gaining a competitive edge in the job market. Over the next few weeks, we’ll provide a first-hand view of the...

Greetings! Today we’re happy to get you a substantial preview (in DRAFT form) of our upcoming title Creating Research and Scientific Documents Using Microsoft Word , by Alexander Mamishev, PhD, and Murray Sargent, PhD. You can download the 92-page PDF...

  We are happy to announce that MOS 2013 Study Guide for Microsoft Access , by John Pierce, (ISBN 9780735669192) has shipped to the printer! Please read on for preordering information, the Contents at a glance, and an excerpt from the Introduction...

Welcome to our weekly round-up of news, events and opportunities for IT Academy members. IT Academy News Preview the 2013-14 IT Academy Curriculum For many schools, June/July kicks off planning sessions for the 2013-14 academic year. To help...

A few months ago the IT Certifications Council , an industry group in which I participate, conducted a survey on “Attitudes Around Cheating.” This was not a Microsoft-specific survey, so the respondents were those who had taken all sorts of...

Not everyone who comes to TechEd is super-technical. Rob is a project manager for IT projects and was at TechEd to learn more about ALM and what's new and coming soon for Microsoft's application platform. He decided to take the MTA exam for Operating...

I had a nice chat with Edward who told me about a cool project he got to work on. He got the gig because he had the certifications which showed he had the skills. Now he's working on his Windows Server MCSE: Server Infrastructure certification . What...

We hear lots of different reasons why people pursue their certifications. In this case, Ron told us that in a consulting role, he changes industries a lot. His skills give him that flexibility, but his certifications help give clients the peace of mind...

I spoke with Nate, who is a long time certification guy, who currently has 5 MCSE certifications. But yesterday, he took his first MTA exam . If you have been thinking about certification, but aren't sure if you want to get started, or are feeling...