"So, a booth babe and a geek walk in to a bar..."

As promised, the link to today's morning presentation: here . Here is a summary: MCSA and MCSE are still the right certifications if you are working with WS2000 or WS2003. MCSA and MCSE will not retire. In one year, the WS2000 MCSA and MCSE...

OK, so I finally have something new to add to the ongoing discussion about the Vista beta retakes . First of all, I am sorry it has taken us—that is the Microsoft Learning certification team—so long to work out how to make it right (or at least a little...

If you have a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) credential, you are one of 1,433 people worldwide. If you have a MCSE on Windows Server 2003, you are one of 68,668 worldwide. For more, check out the page we just updated here . Let me know...

Answer is 3. 70-236 to earn the MCTS; then 70-237 AND 70-238 to earn MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator. We are updating the prep guides to say this clearly - as shown below in 238 example... 70-238 Credit Toward Certification: When you pass...

For both MCSA and MCSE 2000 and 2003, 70-620 ("Big Vista" exam) can be used to satisfy: core exam for client requirement OR general elective just not BOTH in the same track. In this post , I said that 620 can be used as a CLIENT ELECTIVE...

Sounds like there are now two more months to get in on the TechNet Plus Direct offer of Exam Insurance fame. When you purchase Exam Insurance , register and take an exam by April 30, 2007 , you will receive a one-year subscription to Microsoft TechNet...

Retake invite for 621 and re-registration invite for 623 are both scheduled to be sent out on March 22. The invitations will not be sent out broadly until 72 hours after that point so re-takers and re-registering peeps get a seat if desired. For the background...

A. Indian food. In this morning's meeting on Server Certifications (link to come soon), I gave somebody a really wrong answer that thankfully was caught by an attendee, we'll call him "Rob," because I believe that is his name. The question was "If...

The MCP site will be down for routine maintenance starting tomorrow, for about a day and half. The official message is: The MCP/MCT web sites will be unavailable from March 27 at 9:00 AM PST until March 28 at 5:00 PM PST due to a planned maintenance...

I'm talking to all y'all MCSA and MCSEs out there. A few customers brought this up in a recent meeting: Why are MCSEs being ignored?? Why is all the new certification stuff focused on just developers and DBAs? and I thought that seemed a reasonable...

I should have mentioned that our first Microsoft Certified Architect live meeting went really well; it was a smaller group so we got to lots of very specific questions about things like, for example, everyone's favorite: event sinks. A very big thank...

At the end of this month we will host a Live Meeting about Server certs; I know there are a lot of you with questions about what is coming for Longhorn and implications to what you are working on now. Let me know if you have specific questions; then I...

Our registration info for the next MCA-led Live Meeting (March 21) is now up on the MCP site . The presenter will be Allen Stewart from Microsoft (no, not all MCAs work at Microsoft... but the first few we've asked to present happen to...). I believe...

If you are trying to pass exam 70-431 or upgrade with 70-431 and 70-447 ... We now have 6 Microsoft Press titles (including the 431 training kit) for 30% off in addition to the discount on all related E-learning titles & practice tests I poasted about...

If you have taken a Microsoft Certification beta exam and haven't gotten your scores by the time the exam goes live (usually it takes six to eight weeks to get scored for a beta**) then you need to follow up with your test provider <edited per Andy...

Mitch has an interesting post and comments on what is being done to prevent fraud/misrepresentation in certification. Check it . I'm sure many of you are already familiar with CertGuard , which is also referenced in Mitch's post. Along these same lines...

A few more cert grids are now live on the Microsoft.com/learning site.... MCTS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Application Development MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Application Development MCTS: Microsoft...

Last Chance to Register for an MCP Live Meeting: Windows Server Certification Microsoft Certification planners will provide an overview of Windows Server certifications and requirements—updates on the 2000 track, resources for your 2003 credential...

We've got registration open now for the April 18 Live Meeting to introduce/explain the IT certifications for Office 2007 (not to be confused with our new 2007 Office System certifications for office workers ). Let me know if you have specific questions...

More on Allen Stewart, our Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) presenter for the Virtualization Technologies meeting on Wednesday, below. I should have posted this earlier. This is just one of many things I should have done earlier, or just should have...

Live as of March 2: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-500.mspx

Last few weeks for this promotion: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/upgrade/default.mspx . If you have questions about your upgrade path, let me know. And/or check these developer-learning-product-expert blogs if you have learning-product-specific...

Join Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) Lewis Curtis in our third talk in a series of English-language MCA Live Meetings for MCPs... the idea is to give you a chance to hear from, and ask questions of, some the industry-leading thinkers on current topics...

Like this: http://blogs.msdn.com/ officerocker/ Maybe my blog should be called "So, a booth babe and a Certified Rocker!(TM) walk in to a bar..." Alternately, "So, a booth Rocker! and a geek walk in to a bar..." Or "So, a booth babe and a geek Rock...

Hello. So, we're getting better about explaining why and how we made changes to the structure of MIcrosoft Certification that we announced in November 2005, but I know that we aren't even half-way there to get all customers and employers totally familiar...