January 2009 - Posts

Holy HOLs, Batman! Get on the Batphone!
31 January 09 04:03 AM | perfarny | 5 Comments   

Holy HOLs Batman! Get on the Batphone! ...and check out the slightly insane lab setup for our OCS Master program. Do you think you'll get this anywhere else? Read More...

Filed under: OCS, Labs

Stop It! More?! Really?
30 January 09 09:14 PM | Greg Taylor | 0 Comments   

Yes really. It's been a very busy week for the Qual Lab. In addition to those I told you about in the last post, two more have passed! (It's not that it's easy, it's because these guys are good!) Firstly, a new member to the community - John Cook . John Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, New Cert Annoucements

They Just Won't Stop.....
28 January 09 10:28 PM | Greg Taylor | 0 Comments   

In my recent post I listed how many MCM's and MCA's we had - well, it has changed... The two taking their labs that day both passed. So both are now MCM 2007's. And today, an attendee from the first Masters delivery passed his Qual Lab at the second bite Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, New Cert Annoucements

The road to Master...
28 January 09 03:35 PM | A Certified Master | 6 Comments   

Hi All, This is the first of hopefully many entries where we give our community members a chance to blog on their experiences, their learnings, perhaps different technical topics, etc. I'm very happy to once again introduce to you Jason Deskin , who you Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, From a Certified Master

So How Many Masters Are There?
27 January 09 07:54 PM | Greg Taylor | 3 Comments   

Now that is a great question if I do say so myself.... and one I am often asked. I'll answer for the Exchange Program, the oldest, the wisest, almost certainly the best, and certainly the one I know most about... and tell you that over the last five years Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, New Cert Annoucements

My turn for an intro...
27 January 09 07:15 PM | Greg Taylor | 1 Comments   

Thanks for the introduction Per, how great to have you give us all 'pet names' yet strangely omit yourself? Hmmmmm. We'll have to think of one for you, one we can publish that is... So, by way of introduction, I work in Redmond, and run the Exchange Master Read More...

Filed under: Introductions

..and another please...for real.
23 January 09 01:43 AM | perfarny | 1 Comments   

This post really shoud have preceded the last one: I'm going to ask everyone for another moment of silence, no joke. Up until a few months ago, we had someone on our team who did the Master and MCA marketing for the last two years, and did a great job Read More...

Filed under: moment of silence

A moment of silence please...
23 January 09 12:54 AM | perfarny | 0 Comments   

...for all of the people that were let go by our mothership today. As I'm sure everyone knows: 1,400 people today, 5,000 total over the next 18 months were / will be laid off by Microsoft. It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt, and I don't care Read More...

Filed under: layoffs, moment of silence

Hello World! (wow..even easier than VB)
22 January 09 05:36 AM | perfarny | 1 Comments   

Well, yeah, so, Hi there :-) I'm Per, and I'm currently responsible for the Microsoft Certified Master and Microsoft Certified Architect programs at Microsoft. Figured I'd start this up and have my team and I contribute to keep everyone up to speed and Read More...

Filed under: Introductions