Today I learned about a resource available for administrators of many of Microsoft's most popular products. For those who are tasked with day-to-day management of such products as Active Directory or Exchange, it's sometimes difficult to know what needs to be done on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. It...

As I start this blog entry, it's been nearly 8 months since I created my last self-study guide. For those of you following this blog, I apologize for the long gap. All I can say is that the requirements of work and life, coupled with a mountain of good intention, has seemed to push this new installment...

Though it's taken a while for me to get to it, as promised I am focusing this post on self-study material for Project 2010. For those of you who might be wondering what Project 2010 is all about, the following brief definition may be useful. "Select the right tools for today and tomorrow. Microsoft...

I had not initially planned on this being my next self-study guide, but a request from my someone on my team recently has led me to this topic. With so much work going on for customers to get off Windows XP due to the coming "end of support" date for it (on 4/8/2014 per the Microsoft Product Support...

As promised, now that I've finished producing the 7-part series on self-study items for the System Center 2012 suite of products, I am circling back and consolidating these separate parts into a single study guide. This post is for those who prefer to have all of their System Center 2012 study resources...

Finally, after much time and many installments, we finally come to the last two components that make up System Center 2012! In this post, I'll cover Unified Installer and Virtual Machine Manager. As usual, I will focus on the self-study material that is freely available from Microsoft so that you and...

In this post, we're turning to two more components of System Center 2012, Orchestrator and Service Manager. For those of you who need a brief summary of these System Center components, I've provided brief definitions below: Orchestrator - "Orchestrator is a workflow management solution for the data...

In part 5 of this series, we finally arrive at Operations Manager. Operations Manager got its start under the name Microsoft Operations Manager or MOM, after which it evolved to be known as System Center Operations Manager. Now, with System Center 2012, Operations Manager is an even better product. Since...

In part 4 of this series, I turn to Data Protection Manager and I revisit Endpoint Protection. For those of you who might have seen earlier one of my earlier study guides, you will see that I have already put out a study guide for Forefront Endpoint Protection . In this post, I will focus exclusively...

With part-3 of this series, I finally turn to one of the most important products of the System Center suite. This is System Center Configuration Manger, or SCCM. SCCM has been around since the 90s in one form or another (remember Systems Management Server?). Since the early days of SMS, System Center...

I have received multiple requests for a study guide related to the newest versions of System Center Configuration Manager and/or System Center Operations Manager. After doing a bit of research, I learned that it's no longer appropriate to think of these as separate tools since they all belong to the...

This study guide is for those who wish to become familiar with Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) and System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP). As always, these resources are available online and free of charge. Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP)/System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP...

This time, I've put together a list of resources for those interested in Microsoft's PowerShell scripting language. While this training guide focuses primarily on Windows PowerShell 2.0, I have provided a brief list of PowerShell v3 resources at the end of this guide for those interested in getting an...

Recently, I started creating some self-study guides to help my customers who are interested in learning different technologies. It was suggested that I put these guides on my blog for easier access. Today's entry is on SharePoint 2010, but check back frequently as I upload additional study guides in...