A busy week or two for people taking the Qual to upgrade their existing MCM Exchange 2003 to 2007. Please congratulate; · Dave Chomas - Dave is a Senior Consultant for MCS in the US East Region · Thomas Strasser - Thomas is a consultant...

Another post from someone who really knows what the training is all about, someone who took it.... Rai Umair is a Principal Consultant within the SharePoint\OBA practice at Stargate Global Consulting Take it away Rai... I recently had the opportunity...

It's been exactly silent from the Directory side of the house here so far, so I'm very happy to have Will Owen, a Certified Directory Master and Senior Architect from Vertex in the UK put forth his recollections from his recent MCM Directory rotation. Will, it's all yours......

Hot on the heels of rotation 2 we have a new batch of successful candidates from rotation 3. In no particular order - Abi Magu - Senior PFE from Central region Craig Hill - UC Voice Architect from MCS Voice Practice UK Lester Hewett - Solution...

Seeing as how I just gathered the data for someone, I thought I'd put the latest numbers out there for all to see. Microsoft Certified Masters Exchange Server 2003 - 146 (112 work for Microsoft, 34 work for partners or are independant contractors...

Hi All, It's time for another post from 'A Certified Master'. This one is a bit different than the other entries as Nikolai van Luijtelaar of C2iCT in the Netherlands gives an account of troubleshooting and BBQ's :-). Nik attended the last 'Ranger' rotation in May last year, just passed his lab exam and joins our community at last. Well done Nik! Without any further ado.... ...

Three upgrades from MCM Exchange 2003 to 2007 this week, and two new, fresh-out-of-the-box 2007 MCM's too! First the new boys, Mateusz Kantecki from MCS in Poland passed his Qual Lab at the second attempt this week. He attended the recent R3 delivery...

That's an Elmer Fudd reference, not a typo by the way... So last week three 2003 Exchange MCM's upgraded their cert to the 2007 version (for the 2003 to 2007 upgrade they 'just' need to pass the Qual Lab). Congratulations to; William Yang - William...

Hi All, Along with announcing the new dates , we've published new discounts for the program ! For any training rotation that you attend prior to January 1, 2010, you'll get $3,550 off the list price! That makes it $14,950 instead of $18,500. That...

Hi All, Yes, many have been asking, and now thou shall receive: our new Microsoft Learning website went live today (great new look and feel) and as part of that, we have posted our dates for upcoming rotations: go take a look! ...

Did you know that every new MCM Exchange Server 2007 gets a personal letter, signed (really signed, I send them over to his office, he kindly signs them for me) by Rajesh Jha , the Corporate VP of Microsoft Exchange and Office Live? (Rajesh did an intro...

So my next rotation isn't until later this year (we will annouce exact dates soon, but a hint for you... mid to late September and early November... read into that what you will....) and so I now have some time to catch up on other things, get exam re...

MCM training will remain Redmond only for now. Is it because we're afraid of the rest of the world? Mmmm, no. Here's why......

MCM Exchange 2007 R3 finished on May 22nd, and resulted in seven new MCM's. They were; Chris Antonakis - Chris is a PFE for Microsoft based in South Africa Mark Biernatowicz - Marek works for Polska Telefonica in Poland as a Mail Specialist ...

In between all the work during rotation 2 we managed to squeeze in some group events. The usual favourite was karting at K1 Speed in Redmond. For this rotation we combined forces with Exchange and Directory which were running at same time in Redmond and...

Congratulations to Maureen Magnotta from MCS, a candidate from rotation 1, who has now certified after an exam retake. Way to go Maureen!

A few days ago we finished the second rotation of OCS Master. It was quite a ride and the group was really strong. I'm thrilled to announce the following candidates successfully completed the program and are now certified. Partners and Customers ...

So we're in week 3 of MCM Exchange 2007 Rotation 3 right now, which is why it has been a bit quiet... busy busy... On Monday the class took exam number 2, covering mailbox, performance, ccr, scr etc. It's a very tough exam. At 8pm Monday night the...

Neil Johnson from MCS in the UK, who attended Exchange R2 has written up a very comprehensive account of his recent experience - go check it out at http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc/archive/2009/05/05/microsoft-certified-master-exchange-2007-a-survivors...

Congratulations to Mohammad Vakil from MCS in Dubai who has just certified after an exam retake!

As the Program Manager for the SharePoint Master and MCA programs, I am pleased to introduce the programs and the first two groups of Certified SharePoint Masters! (Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint 2007) To recap, the Alpha delivery (Rotation...

This week two more of those who attended MCM Exchange R2 took and passed their Qual Labs. So, a big well done and a ho ho ho to; Tim Thomason - Tim is a Senior Messaging Consultant for IBM , based in Canada. Tim has lived all over the world and...

I would have done this earlier but I'm not all that technical and couldn't figure out how to publish a picture... Anyway, here's a class picture of all those that attended MCM R2. So, from left to right we have.... Morten Banke, Tyler Jin, Atif...

Mentioned during the last rotation was SQL CAT team's Waitstats reporting tool. I was pleased to learn today that the tool is finally available on codeplex, at the following link . I've come to rely on WaitStats in my most frequent customer requested...

Today two more of the R2 attendees passed their Qual Lab and became MCM's in Exchange Server 2007. Please congratulate; Morten Kjønnø - Morten is from ErgoGroup AS in Norway. Not only is he now an Exchange Master, but he's a very good photographer...