The System Center 2012 Service Manager provides an integrated platform for automating and adapting your organization’s IT service management best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Service Manager provides...

Join Microsoft MVP Pete Zerger for a free two-day Jump Start series covering the end-to-end process of implementing a Microsoft cloud solution. Registration is free for both events. Sign-up now . Day 1: Building Private Cloud with Windows Server 2012 & System Center 2012 SP1 This June...

Microsoft launched a wave of product updates at TechEd North America 2013 in New Orleans this week and made several announcements that showcase our Cloud OS vision for helping customers and partners transform their datacenter, enable modern business applications, unlock insights on any data, and empower...

Overview System Center 2012 SP1 App Controller provides a common self-service experience across private and public clouds. This enables you to empower application owners to easily build, configure, deploy, and manage new services. In these virtual labs , learn to manage access control to Windows Azure...

Overview Virtual Machine Manager is the management layer for the infrastructure enabling you to configure and manage your virtualization host, networking, and storage resources so you can deliver cloud services to your business and customers. System Center 2012 SP1 Virtual Machine Manager provides...

Overview For a growing number of businesses, the journey to cloud computing starts with private cloud implementation. A Microsoft private cloud dramatically changes the way your business produces and consumes IT services by creating a layer of abstraction over your pooled IT resources, enabling your...

With Microsoft Certification, you can keep your skills relevant, applicable, and competitive - and with the Certification Center onsite at TechEd North America , you’ll have the chance to learn, practice, and talk one-on-one with the training experts on a variety of technologies. All Microsoft...

On April 3, MVA will launch the first in a monthly series of free, live online Q&A sessions led by members of our Microsoft technical evangelist team. Space is limited. Register now . Due to the popularity of the three courses we recently published to MVA covering Microsoft’s approach to...

Where do you want your career to go? It's a question that many of us ask ourselves as we chart our IT career path, whether we're just starting out or years on the job. One response to that question: Go where the jobs are . Join Microsoft for a free live, interactive webcast on the growing need and...

The MVA team are pleased to announce the release of the Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud course   This course focuses on proving an overview of the Microsoft cloud technologies and how using these technologies can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. We will...

The Evaluation Center team is proud to announce the launch of System Center 2012 Client Management & Security Solutions, including System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection. Solution Overview A Microsoft private cloud dramatically changes the way your business...

The January MVA TechNet Radio show is now live. In this show listen to the MVA Dean discuss the upcoming MVA courses on Private Cloud, System Center 2012 scenarios such as Application Management, Orchestrator, Data Protection, Operations and Service Manager as well SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server...

The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the Private Cloud Infrastructure course. This course focuses on how using technologies and tools from Microsoft can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. The course covers the core Windows Server products...