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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Microsoft Virtual Academy</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/</link><description>The Microsft Virtual Academy is a program for IT Pros to gain access to free self-paced training resources. Using combinations of Video and text based materials the Academy provides a structured learning environment. Follow us on Twitter @MSVirtAcademy </description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 5.6.583.21163 (Build: 5.6.583.21163)</generator><item><title>Deploying Windows 7 Course released in 10 Languages</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2012/02/14/deploying-windows-7-course-released-in-10-languages.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:08:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3480835</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3480835</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2012/02/14/deploying-windows-7-course-released-in-10-languages.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;I’m pleased to announce that today the “Deploying Windows 7” course has been published to the MVA. This course originated in the Deployment Learning Portal (DLP). While the DLP itself has been phased out, it will continue to live within the MVA and in the 10 languages listed below.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Tomorrow we will release the component at the backend that will ensure all existing DLP registered students will be credited with the same progress level in the MVA that they achieved in the DLP. For existing DLP students who are also MVA students, all you will need to do tomorrow is log on. For those DLP students who are not yet registered with the MVA, you simply have to register and you will be credited with your course progress at that point.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We trust you will find this course useful helping you to deploy Windows 7 and this step is important as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/springboard/archive/2011/07/11/with-only-1000-days-left-of-extended-support-don-t-you-think-it-s-time-to-retire-windows-xp.aspx"&gt;Windows XP End of Support is April 8, 2014&lt;/a&gt;       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/implantando-o-windows-7"&gt;Implantando o Windows 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/-windows-7-chinese"&gt;部署 Windows 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/deploying-windows-7"&gt;Deploying Windows 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/deploiement-de-windows-7"&gt;Déploiement de Windows 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/bereitstellen-von-windows-7"&gt;Bereitstellen von Windows 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/distribuzione-di-windows-7"&gt;Distribuzione di Windows 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/windows-7-japanese"&gt;Windows 7 を展開する&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/windows-7-japanese"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Windows 7 &lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;배포&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/-windows-7-russian"&gt;Развертывание Windows 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/implementacion-de-windows-7"&gt;Implementación de Windows 7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3480835" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Windows+7/">Windows 7</category></item><item><title>MVA January TechNet Radio show Now Live!!</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2012/01/10/mva-january-technet-radio-show-now-live.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:39:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3474770</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3474770</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2012/01/10/mva-january-technet-radio-show-now-live.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;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 2008 R2 courses. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He also lays the foundation for an upcoming Microsoft Solution Accelerators course on the MAP toolkit and how you can get involved in hands on training at your local IT Pro Camps.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To get involved send your questions to &lt;a href="mailto:tellthedean@microsoft.com?subject=Radio Question"&gt;Further Episode Questions&lt;/a&gt; and we will try and answer them in the show.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="6"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/Ahl6ae"&gt;January Episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3474770" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/System+Center/">System Center</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Radio+Show/">Radio Show</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Windows+Server/">Windows Server</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Private+Cloud/">Private Cloud</category></item><item><title>Announcing the release of the Private Cloud Infrastructure course</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/12/23/announcing-the-release-of-the-private-cloud-infrastructure-course.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:41:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3472757</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3472757</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/12/23/announcing-the-release-of-the-private-cloud-infrastructure-course.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/tvGp1u"&gt;Private Cloud Infrastructure&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This course focuses on how using technologies and tools from Microsoft can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The course covers the core Windows Server products, and how to use them to build and support the virtualized and physical resources that are part of your private cloud infrastructure. You will be exposed to common cloud computing configuration and management practices, as well as technical details to help you be successful in building a private cloud for your business. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Lastly, you will learn how using tools and technologies from Microsoft as part of your private cloud will benefit both your organization and you as the IT professional.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After completing this course, try out what you’ve learnt by downloading Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center from the TechNet Evaluation Center. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd459137.aspx"&gt;Download Windows Server 2008 R2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx"&gt;Download Microsoft System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;a title="http://bit.ly/v1yZZ3" href="http://bit.ly/tvGp1u"&gt;Sign up and take this course!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3472757" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Private+Cloud/">Private Cloud</category></item><item><title>Announcing the release of the Understanding Microsoft’s High Availability Solutions course</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/12/13/announcing-the-release-of-the-understanding-microsoft-s-high-availability-solutions-course.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:43:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3470692</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3470692</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/12/13/announcing-the-release-of-the-understanding-microsoft-s-high-availability-solutions-course.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/stgkjH"&gt;Understanding Microsoft’s High Availability Solutions&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;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 planning, deployment and management considerations for bringing high-availability to every components of your datacenter or Private Cloud. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;By the end of this course you will have an understanding of the basics of each of Microsoft’s HA solutions and when each of them should be used. You will understand all the different methods you can use to keep your services up and running. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Technologies that will be covered in this course include:- &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Hyper-V, &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Failover Clustering, &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Network Load Balancing, &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;SQL Server, &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Exchange Server, &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;IIS, DFS-R, DNS &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;And every System Center product (including SC 2012) with a focus on Virtual Machine Manager (VMM). &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After completing this course, try out what you’ve learnt by downloading Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center from the TechNet Evaluation Center. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd459137.aspx"&gt;Download Windows Server 2008 R2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx"&gt;Download Microsoft System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;a title="http://bit.ly/v1yZZ3" href="http://bit.ly/stgkjH"&gt;Sign up and take this course!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3470692" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/System+Center/">System Center</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Windows+Server/">Windows Server</category></item><item><title>Announcing the release of the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 course</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/12/09/announcing-the-release-of-the-system-center-configuration-manager-2012-course.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:19:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3470027</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3470027</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/12/09/announcing-the-release-of-the-system-center-configuration-manager-2012-course.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/overview-and-infrastructure-changes-in-sccm-2012"&gt;System Center Configuration Manager 2012&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;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 enable SCCM to: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Easily distribute applications to users, regardless of device or form factor. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Perform software updates. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Device management improvements. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; The course will also cover how SCCM makes it easier to service the rapidly growing number of connected devices in your organization, such as smartphones, tablets, and virtual machines, through centralized global configuration management.   &lt;p&gt;After completing this course, try out what you’ve learnt by downloading SCCM from the TechNet Evaluation Center. &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx"&gt;Download Microsoft System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;a title="http://bit.ly/v1yZZ3" href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/tracks/overview-and-infrastructure-changes-in-sccm-2012"&gt;Sign up and take this course!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3470027" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/System+Center/">System Center</category></item><item><title>MVA December TechNet Radio show Now Live!!</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/12/07/mva-december-technet-radio-show-now-live.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:53:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3469577</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3469577</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/12/07/mva-december-technet-radio-show-now-live.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;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 of IT is and how it relates to the System Center Configuration Manager course.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To get involved send your questions to &lt;a href="mailto:tellthedean@microsoft.com?subject=Radio Question"&gt;Further Episode Questions&lt;/a&gt; and we will try and answer them in the show.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="6"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/rZh1pf"&gt;December Episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3469577" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/System+Center/">System Center</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Radio+Show/">Radio Show</category></item><item><title>Announcing the Release of the ‘System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012” course to the Microsoft Virtual Academy</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/11/22/announcing-the-release-of-the-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:50:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3466757</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3466757</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/11/22/announcing-the-release-of-the-system-center-virtual-machine-manager-2012-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/v1yZZ3"&gt;System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This course focuses on how using System Center Virtual Machine Manger 2012 can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After completing these three modules you will have learnt about the Virtual Machine Manger 2012 product, and the features it utilizes to build and support the virtualized and physical resources that are part of your private cloud infrastructure. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The course will also expose you to cloud computing at the business level, from the perspective of Virtual Machine Manger 2012, and show how to extend that knowledge to the technical level. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The last module will show you how to manage applications within your private cloud using Virtual Machine Manger 2012 to deploy, update, and manage them.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After completing this course, try out what you’ve learnt by downloading VMM from the TechNet Evaluation Center. &lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh505660.aspx"&gt;Download Microsoft System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="http://bit.ly/v1yZZ3" href="http://bit.ly/v1yZZ3"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;Sign up and take this course!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3466757" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/System+Center/">System Center</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Virtualization/">Virtualization</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Private+Clud/">Private Clud</category></item><item><title>November MVA TechNet Radio show Live</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/11/17/november-mva-technet-radio-show-live.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:49:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3465781</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3465781</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/11/17/november-mva-technet-radio-show-live.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The November MVA TechNet Radio show is now live. This month show cover what’s happen in the Academy now and what is coming down the line.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This show focuses on the Private Cloud courses that will releasing at the end of November and looking forward to the courses coming in 2012.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To get involved send your questions to &lt;a href="mailto:tellthedean@microsoft.com?subject=Radio Question"&gt;Further Episode Questions&lt;/a&gt; and we will try and answer them in the show.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="6"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/ulEnow"&gt;November Episode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3465781" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Radio+Show/">Radio Show</category></item><item><title>Announcing the Availability of the Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises - September Update</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/09/29/announcing-the-availability-of-the-microsoft-office-365-deployment-guide-for-enterprises-september-update.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:41:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3456302</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3456302</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/09/29/announcing-the-availability-of-the-microsoft-office-365-deployment-guide-for-enterprises-september-update.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The September update to the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26509"&gt;Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises&lt;/a&gt; has been released. This guide is referenced in the Office 365 courses on the &lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com" target="_blank"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; and will build on the training material in those courses.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to the &lt;a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/2/A/02A84304-18C4-49CB-B5DF-C7243127FA59/Microsoft_Office_365_Deployment_Guide.pdf"&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt; version of the Deployment Guide, an updated &lt;a href="http://community.office365.com/modg/default.aspx"&gt;web edition&lt;/a&gt; has been released. The web edition provides all of the same content of the document version, as well as the following:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Concise search and index features that filter search results to what you need from the Deployment Guide &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Auto expanding table of contents guiding you to the information needed &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Bookmark feature allowing you to reference back to a topic quickly &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Microsoft Translate technology and is available in approximately 30 languages &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;About the Deployment Guide&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;presents important deployment planning concepts and deployment procedures. The deployment guide is organized into the sections that provide specific types of information for specific types of deployment personnel in your organization.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Here is a quick overview of what you will find:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Deployment Overview section.&lt;/b&gt; This material provides the high-level look at the deployment and organizational requirements to deploy Office 365. It has valuable information for your IT decision-makers, program managers, and technical implementation leads. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Plan and Prepare sections.&lt;/b&gt; These sections describe the particular tasks and activities required to get ready and fully implement your Office 365 deployment. The tasks are generally presented in the order in which you address them during your deployment. Topics discussed in the Plan section generally reappear in the Prepare section with instructions for carrying out a task. The Plan and Prepare sections contain content that will interest specific types of technology experts in your organization. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Migrate section&lt;/b&gt;. This section describes the tasks for moving your users’ mailboxes to the Office 365 environment so you can begin using the Office 365 as part of your production environment. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Please send feedback and suggestions about the Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide to &lt;a href="mailto:modgfdbk@microsoft.com"&gt;modgfdbk@microsoft.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About the Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-88-71-metablogapi/1374.image_5F00_1DC92CEA.png"&gt;&lt;img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-88-71-metablogapi/0714.image_5F00_thumb_5F00_4A71E6C3.png" width="122" height="102" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) is a free program delivering structured learning paths for IT Professionals on various Microsoft products and solutions. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can enroll for free at &lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com&lt;/a&gt;. and follow us on Twitter at&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/MSVirtAcademy"&gt;@MSVirtAcademy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3456302" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Office+365/">Office 365</category></item><item><title>Additional Resources to Support Windows Azure Courses</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/09/28/additional-resources-to-support-windows-azure-courses.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:02:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3456046</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3456046</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/09/28/additional-resources-to-support-windows-azure-courses.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;There have been some recent releases of Azure materials. These two resources are great additional materials to the Windows Azure set of courses.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - September Update.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are designed to help you learn how to use the Windows Azure platform, including: Windows Azure, SQL Azure and the Windows Azure AppFabric.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Designed to make deploying and managing your &lt;a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/"&gt;Windows Azure&lt;/a&gt; applications simpler, the new Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets have been updated to improve consistency and ease deployment. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Download these resource from.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/oEv4Vf"&gt;Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September Update&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title="http://wappowershell.codeplex.com/releases" href="http://bit.ly/o5zM4x"&gt;Windows Azure Platform PowerShell Cmdlets v2.0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3456046" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Windows+Azure/">Windows Azure</category></item><item><title>First Monthly MVA TechNet Radio show Live</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/09/26/first-monthly-mva-technet-radio-show-live.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:43:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3455512</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3455512</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/09/26/first-monthly-mva-technet-radio-show-live.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The first of the monthly Radio shows we are recording about all things MVA is now live. Over the next few months we’ll have features about what’s happen in the Academy now and what is coming down the line.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In the first show we celebrate the first 6 months of the global MVA, we’ll cover what we’ve done in the last 6 months and look ahead to the what is coming down the line. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;One feature we will include in future episodes is the chance to have your question answered on air. For the next episode you can send us your question via email and we will pick the best ones, going forward we will give you the option to send us your question in video form for inclusion in the show.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Send you questions to &lt;a href="mailto:tellthedean@microsoft.com?subject=Radio Question"&gt;October Episode Question&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="6"&gt;September Episode: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/qaAPj9"&gt;&lt;font size="6"&gt;Happy 6 Month Anniversary MVA&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="6"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3455512" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Radio+Show/">Radio Show</category></item><item><title>Office 365 Videos Update and Reporting Other Video Issues</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/09/12/office-365-videos-update-and-reporting-other-video-issues.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:59:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3452493</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3452493</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/09/12/office-365-videos-update-and-reporting-other-video-issues.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;We have received a number of reports about the Office 365 Overview for the IT Pro video within the Office 365 Platform course. The reports indicated that the video would often not play correctly, if at all. We passed these reports onto the TechNet Edge team, who investigated the issue. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As a result of this investigation the video was modified and reloaded onto the site. We believe this update will address the issues being experienced. We hope these issues did not cause to much inconvenience in taking the Office 365 course.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As you use the Academy. if you do experience issues with videos within the courses, please let us know through the &lt;a href="mailto:tellthedean@microsoft.com"&gt;Tell The Dean&lt;/a&gt; address. Also to help us we request that you include the following information in you report to us:-&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Which video(s) within the course you are having issues with. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;A description of the problem you experience. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;The Operating System Version, Browser Version and Silverlight Version you are using. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;The locale are you accessing from &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;The Internet connection type and speed, if available &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This information will help us determine the possible cause more quickly.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Alan Le Marquand&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Dean of the Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3452493" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category></item><item><title>Announcing the Release of the ‘Office 365 for the IT Pro – Lync Online, SharePoint Online &amp; Deployment” course to the Microsoft Virtual Academy</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/26/announcing-the-release-of-the-office-365-for-the-it-pro-lync-online-sharepoint-online-amp-deployment-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:37:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3443524</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3443524</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/26/announcing-the-release-of-the-office-365-for-the-it-pro-lync-online-sharepoint-online-amp-deployment-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/nU9oBH"&gt;Office 365 for the IT Pro – Lync Online, SharePoint Online &amp;amp; Deployment&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Wondering how Exchange Online differs from Exchange on premises, and what it takes to migrate or coexist between the two? The Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) has a new course that covers this new Exchange Online product and offering.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If your organization looking for new ways to collaborate then the new Lync Online and SharePoint Online offerings provide organizations with ways to collaborate using tools users are used to while benefiting from new cloud based subscriptions. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This 5 module course covers the collaborative aspects of the new Lync Online and SharePoint Online offerings. The course starts with two modules covering Lync Online Overview and configuration and then SharePoint Online Overview.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The middle two modules cover the key topics of SharePoint Online Administration, and Extensibility and Customization. IT Pros will be able to see the various aspects and roles to SharePoint Online Delegated Administration and demonstrations of the various elements of Site Collection and Site Level ownership. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When the topic of Extensibility and Customization of SharePoint comes up the initial reactions is that it’s a developer topic. This course aims to show the power and simplicity of SharePoint Online development and how power users and/or designers can easily perform in-browser customizations as well as &amp;quot;no-code solutions&amp;quot; in SharePoint Designer 2010.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Finally this course ends with a look the key aspects of planning, preparing, and migrating to Office 365.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This course is part of a series of 3, with other course on the Office 365 Platform and Exchange online available at the MVA.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/nU9oBH"&gt;Sign in and take this course today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3443524" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Office+365/">Office 365</category></item><item><title>Announcing the Release of the ‘Office 365 for the IT Pro – Exchange Online” course to the Microsoft Virtual Academy</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/21/announcing-the-release-of-the-office-365-for-the-it-pro-exchange-online-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:35:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3442767</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3442767</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/21/announcing-the-release-of-the-office-365-for-the-it-pro-exchange-online-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/nVfB2L"&gt;Office 365 for the IT Pro – Exchange Online&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Wondering how Exchange Online differs from Exchange on premises, and what it takes to migrate or coexist between the two? The Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) has a new course that covers this new Exchange Online product and offering.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The track covers Exchange Online from an IT Pros perspective. The first modules cover an overview of the product and then the important topic of administration using the Exchange online tools of Exchange Online Control Panel, Exchange Management Console, Exchange Management Shell, and the Microsoft Online Services Portal.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;A key aspect of Exchange Online is the migration and interoperability with an on-premise version. There are two modules dedicated to the subject of migrating to Exchange Online and then working in Hybrid environment.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The final module covers the important topic of Compliance and Archiving and the options available to you.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This course is part of a series of 3, with other course on the Office 365 Platform and Collaboration with Lync Online and SharePoint online available at the MVA.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/nVfB2L"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;Sign in and take this course today!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3442767" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Office+365/">Office 365</category></item><item><title>Important Migration Information for Latin American Students</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/12/important-migration-information-for-latin-american-students.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:50:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3441082</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>9</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3441082</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/12/important-migration-information-for-latin-american-students.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;MVA LATAM is currently integrating to the Global MVA Cloud Platform in &lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com"&gt;www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com&lt;/a&gt;, and this process will require the user intervention in 3 easy steps described in an email that the user will receive through the account registered in MVA.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you have any question about LATAM Migration please feel free to contact &lt;a href="mailto:dudasmva@microsoft.com"&gt;dudasmva@microsoft.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3441082" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category></item><item><title>Información importante sobre la migración de estudiantes de Latinoamérica</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/12/informaci-243-n-importante-sobre-la-migraci-243-n-de-estudiantes-de-latinoam-233-rica.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:49:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3441081</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>36</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3441081</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/12/informaci-243-n-importante-sobre-la-migraci-243-n-de-estudiantes-de-latinoam-233-rica.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;MVA Latinoamérica se encuentra integrándose a la plataforma global en la nube en &lt;a href="http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com"&gt;www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com&lt;/a&gt;, y este proceso requiere que los usuarios realicen un proceso manual el cual les estará llegando al correo inscrito en MVA. Por favor todos los usuarios deben estar pendientes de su bandeja de entrada para seguir los pasos que el equipo de MVA les enviará.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Cualquier tipo de duda acerca de la migración de MVA LATAM, por favor escribir a &lt;a href="mailto:dudasmva@microsoft.com"&gt;dudasmva@microsoft.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3441081" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category></item><item><title>Announcing the Release of the ‘Office 365 for the IT Pro – Platform” course to the Microsoft Virtual Academy</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/04/announcing-the-release-of-the-office-365-for-the-it-pro-platform-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:37:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3439482</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3439482</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/07/04/announcing-the-release-of-the-office-365-for-the-it-pro-platform-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/mq2Zhl"&gt;Office 365 for the IT Pro – Platform course&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you are looking to exploring the features of Office 365, or wondering if it’s right for your business this 5 module course will provide you valuable information on the core Office 365 features.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Looking at Office 365 from an IT Pros perspective, the course covers an overview of the all up offering. Following on, subsequent modules cover how to deploy clients and how to configure identity and access management through integration and synchronization with existing Directory services.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;No core features course would be complete without a look at the administration features and this course covers these with a look at how to perform tasks using PowerShell. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This course is the first in a series of 3, with additional course on Exchange Online and Collaboration with Lync Online and SharePoint online available at the MVA.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/mq2Zhl"&gt;&lt;font size="6"&gt;Sign in and take this course today!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3439482" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Office+365/">Office 365</category></item><item><title>Important MVA Notice. NO Action required to re-activate your MVA Account</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/06/28/important-mva-notice-no-action-required-to-re-activate-your-mva-account.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:35:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3437890</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>27</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3437890</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/06/28/important-mva-notice-no-action-required-to-re-activate-your-mva-account.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;This is an important announcement for all registered student at the Microsoft Virtual Academy regarding the change to the registration system.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We have migrated to our new registration system and no further action is required of you. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can disregard the previous email that was sent to you. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thank you for your continued participation in MVA. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3437890" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category></item><item><title>Announcing the Release of the ‘Enhancing Your Business and Career with the Private Cloud” course to the Microsoft Virtual Academy</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/06/17/announcing-the-release-of-the-enhancing-your-business-and-career-with-the-private-cloud-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:30:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3436114</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3436114</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/06/17/announcing-the-release-of-the-enhancing-your-business-and-career-with-the-private-cloud-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/lxgBCE"&gt;Enhancing Your Business and Career with the Private Cloud&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This course contains 3 modules which focuses on how the private cloud can help your business and your IT Pro career. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The first module starts by covering the cloud business drivers and business processes. The subsequent modules will be discuss cloud computing at the business level and then show you how to extend that knowledge to the technical level. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The final module will cover how to extend your private cloud to the outside world and how the resulting hybrid cloud will benefit both your organization and you as an IT Pro.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/lxgBCE"&gt;Sign in and take this course today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3436114" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Private+Clud/">Private Clud</category></item><item><title>Announcing the Release of the ‘Microsoft Virtualization for the VMware Professional – VDI” course to the Microsoft Virtual Academy</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/06/03/announcing-the-release-of-the-microsoft-virtualization-for-the-vmware-professional-vdi-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:47:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3433286</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3433286</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/06/03/announcing-the-release-of-the-microsoft-virtualization-for-the-vmware-professional-vdi-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/j0Z76h"&gt;Microsoft Virtualization for the VMware Professional - VDI&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Centralizing desktops and client computers is an increasing important consideration for all IT departments as they begin to evaluate Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Using VDI to consolidate maintenance activities reduces the time which end-users must spend on OS and application deployment, configuration, patching and compliance, while decreasing hardware costs through virtualized resource pooling and sharing. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The VDI course provides a deep-dive into VDI planning and solutions as the final section in the three track program covering Microsoft Virtualization. Learn about:-&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;When to use VDI.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Planning considerations.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Desktop models.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Windows 7 integration.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Application delivery.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;User state virtualization&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Comparisons to other technologies. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Also in this course you will explore how Microsoft’s v-Alliance partnership with Citrix strengthens and broadens the VDI offerings. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Upon completing this course you will be able to understand, plan and deploy the appropriate VDI solution for your business and also gain 47 MVA points towards your next level.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/j0Z76h"&gt;Sign in and take this course today!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3433286" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category></item><item><title>Important Change to Microsoft Virtual Academy Points System</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/06/01/important-change-to-microsoft-virtual-academy-points-system.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:01:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3432745</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3432745</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/06/01/important-change-to-microsoft-virtual-academy-points-system.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;We are making some changes to the points system you see within the Academy. The first thing to say about these changes is that no student’s current status will be downgraded by these changes. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Next point regards the Bonus Point system, Some of you will have also noticed the addition of bonus points to the courses. First of all, apologies to those people who completed a course prior to the bonus points being allocated and have not seen the bonus points added to their score as a result to that. Rest assured that this will happen during this update and all bonuses for completed course will be added to your scores.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The point system is being changed in response to feedback. Since the launch in March we have received a lot of feedback regarding the point system, as well as numerous requests to accelerate the release of new courses. In response to this we will be updating the points scale and the number of points you receive per course.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;What you will see when the changes are implemented?.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;No ones status will be downgraded as a result of these changes. There is also a possibility that some student may be promoted to Silver status once the bonus points are correctly added to your current score.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;All current progress will stay the same, but the scale regarding how many points needed to reach a specific level will change. The new points levels will be      &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;Bronze: 0 – 99 points &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;Silver: 100 – 499 points &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;Gold: 500 – 2999 points &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Rankings in the Worldwide and local Top Student lists might change as we adjust the bonus points to students who finalized a course before the Bonus Point Feature was implemented on May 5th.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Distribution of Points per content type in a course will be simplified as follows:      &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;Article / Whitepapers: 1 Point &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;Videos: 2-3 Points (depending on length) &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;Assessments: up to 5 points &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The bonus points system will continue and you will be awarded bonus points every time you successfully complete all requirements for a course.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We hope you understand our reasons for simplifying the system. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us on the &lt;a href="mailto:tellthedean@microsoft.com?subject=MVA%20Point%20System%20Changes"&gt;Tell The Dean&lt;/a&gt; email.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As also mentioned we have had requests regarding more courses and their availability. The current schedule for the next couple of months is&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;June:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Microsoft Virtualization for the VMware Professional – VDI&lt;/b&gt; – the last of the Jump start courses will publish in June.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;“Success with Private Cloud” &lt;/b&gt;– we are working a final name for this course, but it will contain 3 modules looking at how to be successful with Cloud computing from both a business and career perspective.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Office 365 Jump Start&lt;/b&gt;- We will start the publication of the 3 jump starts being delivered live during May 24-26 2011. This process will most likely spill over into July.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;July:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“&lt;b&gt;Microsoft High Availability Solutions”&lt;/b&gt; – another working title for a 5 module course looking at Clustering.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Office 2010&lt;/b&gt; – The first of our Office 2010 courses will look at planning an Office deployment, covering topics such as Activation, compatibility and security.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;August and beyond:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The information below is very high level and while we would really like to provide the number of courses and content details all of these courses are in the planning stages and subject to change. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;PowerShell&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;System Center Configuration Manager 2012.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;SQL “Denali”&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Windows InTune&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;System Center Virtual Machine Manage 2012.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To keep up-to-date with break course information look at &lt;a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/"&gt;MVA Blog&lt;/a&gt;, the MVA News Feed and follow us on Twitter &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/#!/MSVirtAcademy"&gt;@MSVirtAcademy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3432745" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category></item><item><title>Announcing the Release of the ‘Microsoft Virtualization for the VMware Professional – Management” course to the Microsoft Virtual Academy</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/05/25/announcing-the-release-of-the-microsoft-virtualization-for-the-vmware-professional-management-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3430712</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3430712</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/05/25/announcing-the-release-of-the-microsoft-virtualization-for-the-vmware-professional-management-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/kALMMd"&gt;Microsoft Virtualization for the VMware Professional - Management&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Management has become a critical piece of maintaining a virtualized datacenter or Private Cloud by providing increased scale, faster deployments and integrated automation to reduce the total cost of IT ownership. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This course provides an overview of Microsoft’s comprehensive management suite, System Center, and is the second course in the three course program covering Microsoft Virtualization. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In the course we will cover &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;System Center Operations Manager for monitoring servers and services. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;System Center Configuration Manager for deploying software and maintaining compliance on all types of devices. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;System Center Service Manager for automating IT processes. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;System Center Data Protection Manager for backing up and restoring servers and VMs. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Opalis for integrated and customized workflow processes. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 for advanced VM deployment and management. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Additional modules will cover the PowerShell scripting utility, the VMM Self-Service Portal 2.0 and Private Cloud concepts. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After completing this course you will understand how to centrally manage and automate a datacenter of any size, plus gain 54 points towards your next level.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/kALMMd"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;Sign in and take this course today!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3430712" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/System+Center/">System Center</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/Virtualization/">Virtualization</category></item><item><title>Missing Bonus Points for Completed MVA Courses</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/05/20/missing-bonus-points-for-completed-mva-courses.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 19:49:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3430717</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>7</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3430717</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/05/20/missing-bonus-points-for-completed-mva-courses.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;We have received a lot of feedback regarding the Bonus Points that we recently added to the MVA Courses not being added retrospectively to users who have already completed those courses.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We apologise for the time it is taking to do this and we will be adding the bonus points to users that had completed the affected courses prior to this change.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We had planned to do this update this week, together with a larger change around the point scaling system. However, we have had to move this change out to the week of May 30th. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Near the time, we will publish details of the changes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3430717" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category></item><item><title>Announcing the Release of the ‘Microsoft Virtualization for the VMware Professional – The Platform’ course to the Microsoft Virtual Academy</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/05/12/announcing-the-release-of-the-microsoft-virtualization-for-the-vmware-professional-the-platform-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 21:20:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3428864</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3428864</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/05/12/announcing-the-release-of-the-microsoft-virtualization-for-the-vmware-professional-the-platform-course-to-the-microsoft-virtual-academy.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C" target="_blank"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt; team would like to announce the release of the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/leBTuM" target="_blank"&gt;Microsoft Virtualization for the VMware Professional–The Platform&lt;/a&gt; course. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Virtualization is a key component of any modern datacenter, offering such advantages as easier deployment, resource pooling, server consolidation, application compatibility, high-availability, reduced costs and centralized management. This first course, in a series of 3 relating to Microsoft Virtualization solution,&amp;#160; offers a deep-dive into the important technologies that contribute to the core virtualization infrastructure. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The course covers Microsoft’s virtualization offerings and strategy, datacenter planning, Hyper-V architecture, VM management, virtualized networking and storage, numerous other Hyper-V features, as well as advanced management with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. Also cover are the high-availability and disaster recovery considerations to keep your VMs up and running using Windows Server Failover Clustering. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The course is aimed at IT Pro’s who use VMware technology today and would like to compare the Microsoft offering. Throughout the course you will see how Hyper-V is both different and similar to VMware virtualization through technical and terminology comparisons.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;By the end of this course you will have the tools you need to plan, design and deploy your virtualized datacenter or Private Cloud infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/leBTuM" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;Sign in and take this course today!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3428864" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category></item><item><title>Office 365 Jump Start Course coming May 24-26 - Register now for the Live Event!</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/05/12/office-365-jump-start-course-coming-may-24-26-register-now-for-the-live-event.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 11:27:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3428425</guid><dc:creator>Alan Le Marquand</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/rsscomments.aspx?WeblogPostID=3428425</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/2011/05/12/office-365-jump-start-course-coming-may-24-26-register-now-for-the-live-event.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Starting May 24th Microsoft Learning, in partnership with the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;MVA&lt;/a&gt;, is hosting an exclusive three-day Jump Start class specially tailored for IT Professionals looking for real-world proof of how cloud-based Office 365 enables you to solve more problems from more places. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This course will be delivered via virtual classroom on May 24-26, 2011 from 10:00am-4:00pm PDT. After the event, the whole 3 day training will be available within the &lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C" target="_blank"&gt;Microsoft Virtual Academy&lt;/a&gt;, so you be able to gain points for taking the course.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Over 2,300 people attended the last Jump Start, &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/etbQ0C"&gt;Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professionals&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;, which is also coming to the MVA. So register today to attend in person.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This fast-paced, demo-rich online course will feature expert instruction and real-world demonstrations of the Office 365 platform, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Attendees are in for a treat because Microsoft Technical Evangelist, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/adam_bomb.aspx"&gt;Adam Carter (Bomb)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; will be team teaching this course with the best of the best. Throughout the course, leading experts for each technology -- &lt;strong&gt;Mike Kostersitz&lt;/strong&gt;, Office 365 Program Manager; &lt;strong&gt;Naomi Alpern&lt;/strong&gt;, Senior Consultant Exchange Online; &lt;strong&gt;Jeff James&lt;/strong&gt;, Solutions Architect; &lt;strong&gt;Jerome Berniere&lt;/strong&gt;, Senior Program Manager; &lt;strong&gt;Mark Kashman&lt;/strong&gt;, Senior Technical Product Manager; &lt;strong&gt;Matt Burnett&lt;/strong&gt;, Senior Consultant SharePoint Online -- will be joining Adam to share the latest with Office 365.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bit.ly/Office365-JUMP"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REGISTER NOW!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day One — “Office 365 Platform”&lt;/strong&gt; | May 24, 2011 | 10am-4pm PDT     &lt;br /&gt;Microsoft Office 365 Overview for IT Pros     &lt;br /&gt;Deploying Clients for Office 365     &lt;br /&gt;Administration &amp;amp; Automation using PowerShell     &lt;br /&gt;Identity and Access Solutions     &lt;br /&gt;Directory Synchronization&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day Two — “Exchange Online”&lt;/strong&gt; | May 25, 2011 | 10am-4pm PDT     &lt;br /&gt;Exchange Online Overview for IT Pros     &lt;br /&gt;Exchange Online Administration     &lt;br /&gt;Staged Exchange Online Migration     &lt;br /&gt;Hybrid Options with Exchange Server &amp;amp; Exchange Online     &lt;br /&gt;Exchange Online Archiving &amp;amp; Compliance&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Day Three — “Lync &amp;amp; SharePoint Online”&lt;/strong&gt; | May 26, 2011 | 10am-4pm PDT     &lt;br /&gt;Lync Online Overview &amp;amp; Configuration for IT Pros     &lt;br /&gt;SharePoint Online Overview     &lt;br /&gt;SharePoint Online Administration     &lt;br /&gt;SharePoint Online Extensibility &amp;amp; Customization     &lt;br /&gt;Office 365 Deployment Overview&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3428425" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/b/mva/archive/tags/News/">News</category></item></channel></rss>
