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With all the turmoil in the job market right now there couldn’t be a better time to get certified. Certification can be that differentiator with your boss over who stays and who goes, can help you prove your skill set with potential employers and
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So you were at TechDays and you went home with your 6 month subscription to TechNet Plus and wonder what else there is besides software you can download? How about some free virtualization training and some free exam vouchers? You see there
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I first got certified in Windows 2000 sometime in 2002 with my Windows 2000 MCP. At the time I really didn’t put a lot of thought in certifications but used the vouchers my school gave me to write that exam as well as the A+ and Network+ exams from
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I was catching up on my RSS feeds while recovering from the first day of TechDays Calgary and came across this post on the MS Blogs blog. MS Blogs is a blog that aggregates the product team blogs and is a nice one to add to your feeds to keep you
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So I was off last week and just went through my email and my RSS feeds and found three things related to SBS 2008 that might be of interest. First off, SBS 2008 has been released to manufacture. Now there is a lot that is different in SBS
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote this blog post on our annual trip to the mothership for implant upgrades technical training. It is always a great time meeting with the rest of the world wide team and we had fun sharing ideas and experiences with Jeff Alexander
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It is that time of the year, time again for myself, Rick, Damir and now Pierre to head down to the mothership to upgrade our skills. Keeping your skills up to date is one of the bigger challenges an IT Pro faces. Over the next week and a half we'll be
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When you talk to many folks in the industry about the role of an architect in an organization, very often the conversation switches to a development focus. Things like "architects are the folks that design the applications our developers write" or "architects
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** edit note ** - Direct URL now added at bottom So the Heroes Happen {Here} launch has come to an end. After a long haul on the road the teams are back at home, relaxing, catching up and getting ready for Energize IT 2008. You might be wondering what
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Sam Serajian (Toronto, Ontario, IT Pro) A while ago, via the email link on this page, we recieved an email from a fellow named Sam Serajian. Sam is relatively new to Canada, moving here from the Middle East, and he told me about his journey into IT, how
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Over the last couple of months we have been discussing certification a fair bit on this blog. I guess it is timely as there are a number of LiveMeeting sessions planned to go over different aspects of certification. Here is the list of what is coming
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A few weeks ago Jennifer Waters posted the first blog entry dealing with certification and asked the question Does Certification Really Matter? . In the next post, she asks whether managers care about certification. ----------------------------------------------------
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We've been having a lot of questions regarding certification and what is the current state of affairs for existing and new individuals to the certification process. We had a couple of blog posts over the last while: Jennifer Waters posted on whether or
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Graham Jones (Surrey, British Columbia, IT Pro) Certification Graham Jones left a comment in regards to the post on Does Certification Really Matter Anymore? It was a lengthy comment, but very well written and some good insight into why certifications
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Having held an MCSE for as long as I can remember, and realizing that many IT Pros out there have gone through and are going through the process of getting certified or upgrading their certification - me included - I asked Jennifer Waters, who manages
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