Overview Automation dramatically increases both productivity and quality of IT Operations—with the move to the cloud, the benefits of automation multiply. Two new virtual labs at the TechNet Evaluation Center show you how to build efficient automation and self-service features with System Center...

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...

On May 21, MVA continues its monthly series of free Q&A sessions led by Microsoft technical evangelists. This month, we’re releasing several great System Center 2012 SP1 courses and have invited Symon Perriman to answer any questions you may have about the product: Register for free . T...

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...

With System Center 2012 SP1, you get the most cost effective and flexible platform for managing your traditional datacenters, private and public clouds, and client computers and devices. Microsoft Virtual Academy is launching three new courses in January, each focused on helping IT professionals understand...

The Beta of System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (“SP1”) enables System Center customers to jointly evaluate System Center 2012 with Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. The Beta is for evaluation purposes only and not to be used in production as described in the EULAs associated with the product...

The MVA team are please to announce the release of a series of new System Center 2012 course. This new batch brings the total number of courses available to 8. The full list of courses available are:- System Center 2012: Configuration Manager System Center 2012: Virtual Machine Manager System Center...

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 Understanding Microsoft’s High Availability Solutions course. This course covers the best ways to provide continual availability to all applications, services, servers and VMs in your datacenter. The modules will cover all the...

  The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 course. This course provides an overview of the new System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (SCCM) product. After completing this course you will understand the features that...

The December MVA TechNet Radio show is now live. The show covers what’s happen in the Academy now and what is coming down the line. This show focuses on the System Center Virtual Manager 2012 and System Center Configuration Manager 2012 courses. Get a sneak peek of what’s in these course. what Consumerization...

  The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 course. This course focuses on how using System Center Virtual Machine Manger 2012 can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. After completing these...

The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the Microsoft Virtualization for the VMware Professional - Management course. Management has become a critical piece of maintaining a virtualized datacenter or Private Cloud by providing increased scale, faster deployments and integrated...