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I’m changing jobs and moving to the Trustworthy Computing organization under Adrienne Hall’s leadership. This was a difficult choice for me to make, but the right one for my career development. I’ve really enjoyed working in the Microsoft Certified Professional...

Here's Erwin's idea: We're looking to take existing groups and consolidate them under "official" MCP LinkedIn groups that can be validated for the folks in the groups are actually MCPs. You'll have a group for each specific credential, such as MCP...

So I’m talking with Liana Antanovich, our Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft certifications. Liana wants to help tell your stories to a bigger audience. Microsoft learning is currently looking to interview those who work in the IT industry...

Microsoft Announces New Benefits for Global Microsoft Certified Professional Community New benefits feature increased access to an internal knowledge base for technical troubleshooting and worldwide community networking. REDMOND, Wash., Nov....

Check out Helmer's blog. Helmer and several others received their scores via the Prometric website today. Congratulations to Helmer and all those who passed this new certification exam. Helmer's Blog: http://blog.hznet.nl Regards, George...

Thanks for everyone's time today during our webcast tonight on MCP 2008 Phase 1 Benefits. There was a question on Windows Live accounts being used for the MCP Secure Site access. I wanted to share out the link for the passport/windows live acccount faq...

There was a question today on the link for MSDN Webcasts. You can find them at www.microsoft.com/webcasts or at http://msdn.microsoft.com/webcasts . George

http://www.exsilioconsulting.com/mcpvoid/default.html I'd love your feedback on this. We're looking for ways to help you promote your skills to your peers and employers. If you don't like this idea, please let us know as well. George

How can customers search for MCPs worldwide? From this link: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/directory/default.mspx

For all you MCPs in the Netherlands(all six of you I'm told), Helmer Zandbergen is trying to search for you guys now, so you need to create your MCP community profile and mark it as visible to the public+MCP+Microsoft, so we can call search for you guys...

Earlier this year, two Microsoft Vice Presidents, Kevin Turner and Gerri Elliott, made abold announcement at MGX this year. That all customer facing-technical employees will obtain a Microsoft Certification. In Kevin Turner’s own words: “ By having everyone...

In the US Army, our Soldiers attend Advanced Individual Training schools to earn our Military Occupational Specialty (MOS). For example in the Infantry branch, as an officer, you have to finish Infantry Officer Basic Course (IOBC) to get you initial designation...

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m the new owner of the Microsoft Certified Professional Program here at Microsoft. I’m happy to announce today that we’re launching some very cool new benefits for Microsoft Certified Professionals community worldwide...

On October 31 st , Please join Trika Harms zum Spreckel , Bill Wall , and myself on a Live Meeting Webcasts to MCPs worldwide as we outline and discuss the cool new MCP benefits that are being made available toMicrosoft Certified Professionals worldwide...

Advice from someone smarter than me… If you already havea microsoft certification, relax. Make sure you don’t put all your eggsin one basket. Try to earn a technical certification in another technology aswell. Red Hat Linux, Novell, Oracle...

I sent this email to Dixon in North Carolina, but figured you guys would also get value outof this discussion as well. Regards, George From: GeorgeoPulikkathara Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:28 AM To: Dixon Subject: RE: George..I'm...

I’ve heard some different perspectives on what the value of certification means. The value doesn’t come from just one angle, such as the price you pay for something. That’s great if all things are equal,but as most of you know it’s not equal among all...

Some folks have been asking me about my martini recipe, so here it is. I’m officially blogging it here. I got this recipe from Fleming’s steakhouse back in 2002, when my friend and mentor, Steve Sheppard, came into town. It’s a great martini recipe for...

If anyone is on Facebook, you can also find my Facebook profile here at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=686161685 . Regards, George, MCSE Published with BlogMailr

We're looking to provide a reward system to those who keep their certifications upto date. How do you want to be rewarded for keeping your certifications up to date? If you are an MCP, I'd love your input on this. Regards, George, MCSE Published...

I was helping our Microsoft Learning Operations team yesterday track down an issue with one of our customers trying to get tuition reimbursement from the Veteran's Administration (VA) for some of their new MCP exams ( 70-630 and 70-631) that came out...

I’m told it is a total of 2,152,049 MCPs worldwide. It’s also listed out here at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx .So assuming the world population is approximately 6,602,224,175 (according to the CIA World FACTBOOK as of July 2007...

How many of you currently use XPS today? I’m talking about XPS(XML Paper Specification) that was shipped with Windows Vista last year. It's a really cool technology that is used in Windows Vista print architecture to optimize printing performance. with...

Looking for information on a particular exam? Be sure to bookmark this site. This is a complete list of certification exams provided by Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcpexams/prepare/findexam.mspx George Published with BlogMailr