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...

Have you seen the rather fantastic and funny video about shouting at your disks in the datacentre ? If you haven't, you should... it's interesting stuff. So much so that when we talked storage in the MCM Exchange R2 rotation we just finished, we decided...

So time to name those who passed MCM R2 for Exchange 2007 following their three hard weeks of training, from March 16th to April 4th. They are; Brian Gibson – Brian is from RM Education in the UK Davide McGarr – Davide is a Senior PFE for Microsoft...

I've plenty of news to post following the completion of MCM R2 for Exchange 2007 but rather than post one monster blog piece I'll do it little and often.... So, before we get to the stories about R2, let's take care of those existing MCM's who either...

Just to say that it's been a bit quiet as we've been running Exchange, SQL and MOSS all at the same time and man oh man, it's hard work. But shortly I plan on blogging all about the rotation, name those that passed, highlight some highlights, that sort...

Quick update on OCS MCA. This certification is still in development and right now we are finalising the competencies, review board process and something other core components before putting the first candidate through. So we are on track for the program...

The following post was written by Keith Hanna (UK MCS) - a graduate of the first rotation of OCS Master. Adrian asked us all to write about our experiences during the first OCS Masters Rotation, but I figured there's enough articles out there about...

Since starting work on the OCS Master program back in September 08 and with our first rotation in January this year it has rather felt that I've done nothing but ask people for things for the past 8 months. If I was to put together my top 5 asks they...

Some people have been asking, and we've hinted some before. Although you won't get the 100% be all, end all answer here, there is some more info to share. The most recent question came from Triton.Deep over at the MCSE World forum. The question is: what's the cost to upgrade my Master cert when new versions come out? Stap yourselves in, here we go.......

Yesterday evening marked the "midpoint" of the Sixth SQL MCM rotation and we celebrated in a way by heading over to Building 35 right after class finished. We congregated in the lower lobby where, with catered food and beverages, we rubbed elbows with...

Per's become a father for the third time.... to a beautiful baby girl, so he's off for a few days and learning to live again with baby mess and reduced sleep.... Congratulaitons Per, to you and your family, from all of us. The Masters Team

On Monday this week we kicked off the sixth SQL Server capstone training rotation, now titled “Microsoft Certified Master” for SQL Server 2008. We had 17 victims, er attendees show up bright eyed and bushy tailed, ready to take on the most challenging...

This post was written by Rajeev Krishnan who attended Rotation 1 of OCS Master. In it he shares his hints and tips on getting into and surviving the program. Rajeev is a Senior Consultant for Microsoft Global Services in India. I was one of the...

Ladies and gentlemen, Rob Silver just very recently completed his MCM training and certification in the Directory space (congrats!) . Here's his story / motivation on pursuing the certification, and the great results he's seen already (1 day to realize ROI on MCM!). Rob - it's all yours......

Joe Trombley , a Senior PFE for Microsoft in the US is latest candidate from the October R1 delivery of Exchange MCM to pass his qual and gain MCM 2007 status! Well done Joe. He took the qual down to the wire I will tell you, but a pass is a pass is a...

My good friend and fellow rotation 15 candidate, Gary Cooper , of Horizon's Consulting Inc took and passed his Qual Lab to get his 2003 MCM/A upgraded to a 2007 MCM over a week ago! I forgot to post that great piece of news and for that I shall be...

Music, soccer, and The Great Andreas...and your chance to win real, live, internet points!!!...

You are? Boy, do we have something for you! ...Sit back, relax, drink some coffee (or whatever keeps you up), and enjoy a not-so-short reading list for your program of choice......

So a week today, on March 16th 2009, we start three MCM Programs - all at the same time. It's a busy week this week getting it all ready. Here's what's going on... for my program at least... Krishna our lab manager is provisioning all our servers and...

Well done to Fabrizio Berton , an Architect for Microsoft Services in Italy who passed his upgrade Qual Lab last week to gain his MCM in Exchange Server 2007! Well done Fabrizio, great going. Greg