February 2009 - Posts

Give Them All A Slap on the Back to Say Well Done!
25 February 09 07:01 PM | Greg Taylor | 5 Comments   

Yet more Microsoft Certified Master | Exchange 2007's I'm delighted to annouce! Robert Rice from West Monroe Partners in Chicago. Robert attended the R1 rotation of Masters last October and is another one to have recently passed the Qual Lab. I'm sure Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, New Cert Annoucements

The MCA Board Process - What's That All About Then?
18 February 09 05:36 PM | Greg Taylor | 3 Comments   

I had a very interesting discussion with a guy from NetApp at the E14 Airlift last week about the Board process for attaining MCA status, and how rigorous, fair, subjective or not, the process may be. It made me have a think about it too and I sent back Read More...

Filed under: MCA, Review Board

Congratulations Again - Two New MCM | Exchange Server 2007's
18 February 09 05:13 PM | Greg Taylor | 3 Comments   

It's been a busy week again for labs, two taken Monday, and passed, and four more scheduled for later this week... it's a wonder I get any time to do anything else (that was for Per). So on Monday, Thierry Demorre , Sr Director, Messaging and Collaboration Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, New Cert Annoucements

Cupid showed us the way
16 February 09 09:28 PM | perfarny | 0 Comments   

It would've been too cruel to end it all on Valentine's Day... Read More...

Filed under: Discounts

Change of date for Rotation 2 of OCS Master
11 February 09 08:04 PM | adymac | 2 Comments   

Just wanted to give an update that we've moved rotation 2 of OCS Master out by a few weeks to April 27th - May 16th. The main reason for this was to give us enough time to update the materials post RTM of OCS 2007 R2 and include some new content and labs Read More...

Filed under: OCS

Welcome and congratulations to the new OCS Masters!
10 February 09 03:34 PM | adymac | 2 Comments   

I wanted to congratulate the following individuals from rotation 1 that certified at the first attempt. Brendan Carius – MCS, Australia Thomas Binder – MCS, Austria Rajeev Krishnan – Global Services, India Dave Jennings – MCS, US Keith Hanna – MCS, UK Read More...

Filed under: OCS, New Cert Annoucements

Intro and update from OCS Master rotation 1.
10 February 09 03:03 PM | adymac | 2 Comments   

As Per so amusingly noted I’m ‘Phone Boy’. That is to say that I am the PM that looks after the OCS Master program. I joined Microsoft three years ago and worked for some time in the UK in consulting services. After a short spell with the partner engineering Read More...

Filed under: Introductions, OCS, Labs

And Another... Exchange Master!
10 February 09 01:22 AM | Greg Taylor | 1 Comments   

Another one joins the growing ranks of those with the MCM | Exchange Server 2007 certification - and a name some of you may know - Robert Quimbey , from NetApp , and formally from the Exchange Product Group, has just passed his Qual Lab. Robert attended Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, New Cert Annoucements

Open Letter to Hobbyists a.k.a. "An inside view of the SharePoint MCM Program"
07 February 09 04:04 AM | A Certified Master | 5 Comments   

Here's our 2nd installment of 'From a Certified Master'. I'm very pleased to introduce you to Bill Baer, Technology Architect, who attended our alpha rotation of the SharePoint master program. Bill, the floor is yours! Read More...

Filed under: From a Certified Master, SharePoint

Continued Ed - What That's All About
04 February 09 12:33 AM | Greg Taylor | 0 Comments   

The weekend just passed, Jan 30/31 2009, I organized an event we refer to as Continued Education, for members of the Exchange Masters Community. I just wanted to post a few details to give anyone wondering what else joining this community means, over Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Benefits

SQL Dude Intro...
03 February 09 04:17 PM | Ken Tanner | 1 Comments   

I'll take a moment to introduce myself as well... I started working with Microsoft SQL Server before it belonged to Microsoft. In 1991 I was a Windows developer who built reporting applications using a Sybase back end. I did my own DB coding on my Sybase Read More...

Filed under: Introductions, SQL

What can we do for you?
03 February 09 05:25 PM | perfarny | 7 Comments   

What can the Master programs do for you? What benefits would you like to see? Let's hear it... Read More...

Filed under: R.O.I., Benefits