Via the SharePoint Team blog:

Upgrade your skills to SharePoint 2010 through a series of self-paced modules of SharePoint 2010 technical training –including demos, presentations and hosted hands-on-labs now available through the Partner Learning Center! With two different tracks, both IT professionals and developers can take advantage of SharePoint 2010 Ignite to get ready to deploy and support implementations of, or build custom applications on SharePoint 2010.

If you’ve already attended a SharePoint Ignite training, you can use Ignite Online to revisit topics, work with online labs and take assessments to test your knowledge. Use the links below to pick a track of your choice. Or browse through both and choose topics that interest you!

SharePoint 2010 Ignite Online for IT Professionals: For IT professionals, SharePoint 2010 offers enhancements to drive productivity, a scalable unified infrastructure, and flexible deployment. Use the Ignite Online IT Pro training to get ready to implement SharePoint 2010 projects. Choose from topics including Architectural changes, Service Applications, Business Continuity Management, Upgrade, Security, Search and ECM etc.

SharePoint 2010 Ignite Online for Developers: For developers, SharePoint 2010 provides the business collaboration platform to rapidly build solutions and respond to business needs. Use the Ignite Online Developer training to learn how to build custom applications with SharePoint 2010. Choose from topics including Development with VS 2010, UI advancements, Sandboxed solutions, Application Lifecycle Management etc.

Download Windows Phone and Silverlight Training Kits
Channel 9 is offering these training kits that include several hands on labs, whitepapers and other tools to help you starting building applications.

• Silverlight Training Course
• Windows Phone 7 Series Developer Training Kit

On April 29th, join Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich, as he will be leading a discussion around the process of planning, testing, assessing and rolling out Windows 7 in an enterprise organization.

Mark will be joined by a panel of IT professionals who are currently in the piloting and deployment process, along with Microsoft subject matter experts who can speak in depth about the technologies. The event will be broadcast live over the web at 18:00 CET, and will be available for on-demand viewing following the broadcast.

The discussion will be open and candid, with the panel sharing insights, dispelling myths and getting down to the real story around technical adoption of Windows technologies. Specific topics will include the role of the pilot and the critical information it provides, best practices and tips & tricks for ensuring a successful effort, tools and technologies that will help automate the pilot and deployment processes, and conducting a frank post-pilot assessment. During the event, Mark will field questions coming in via the web from viewers across the globe.

More info and registration.

Missed a previous Springboard Series Virtual Roundtable? Gain insight, tips, and tricks from Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, industry experts, and IT professionals from around the world from these recorded sessions.

The Microsoft Virtual Labs enable customers and partners to try the newest products from their own desktops at the time that suits them best using nothing but a web browser. 

• Technical Introduction to System Center Essentials 2010
• Technical Introduction to System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

The future of security baseline management has arrived. The new Security Compliance Manager will enable you to plan, deploy, operate, and manage your organization’s security baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications.

Earlier this year the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team announced the beta release of this free new tool. They gathered feedback from IT pros and organizations around the globe, and they’re excited to share the result: a tool designed to help your organization efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.

The Security Compliance Manager will help you accelerate knowledge to merge best practices, customize once to centralize decision making, and export to multiple formats to enable monitoring, verification, and compliance. The tool will ultimately help to accelerate your organization’s ability to efficiently manage the security and compliance process for the most widely used Microsoft technologies.

This end-to-end Solution Accelerator will help you plan, deploy, operate, and manage your security baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications. Access the complete database of Microsoft recommended security settings, customize your baselines, and then choose from multiple formats—including Desired Configuration Management (DCM) packs, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), XLS, or Group Policy objects (GPOs)—to export the baselines to your environment to automate the security baseline compliance verification process.

Windows 7 security just got easier.

Next steps

• Download the Security Compliance Manager.
• Learn more about Security Compliance Manager.
• Help spread the word: Tell your friends about Security Compliance Manager.
• Thoughts? Favorite features? Feedback? Tell it to the dev team.

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