I get asked a lot about Cougar/Small Business Server certifications. A good gentleman from the SBS team heard one of said questions in a recent Live Meeting, and sent me the Q&A below... I'm sharing it here to help inform those of you who, like me...

Did I already poast this? I don't think so. You can learn about Project and Project Server certifications for IT professionals here: MCTS: Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project 2007 MCTS: Enterprise Project Management with Microsoft Office Project...

You are invited to attend a SQL-certification Live Meeting, now scheduled for February 6. As I said earlier , this is a re-re-scheduled meeting... confidence level is high that we'll show up this time. If you registered before, you should not need to...

I'm sure you MCTs have seen this stuff elsewhere, but just in case... info shared with me re: MCT Awards and MCT Forums/Favorite MCT at CertGuard , below. ---- The MCT Awards program provides MCTs with tools to drive more training and exam-taking activity...

YT is heading off for a week of snowy, Great Northwest holiday-ing, as appropriate for many of us this time of the year, in this neck of the woods. In the spirit of a little holiday w00t, I thought you'd enjoy update on our Senorita banana, who seems...

Last year Microsoft started offering "learning plans," basically a tool to help you easily find technology tips/study materials in one place. Not necessarily tied to certification, but that too. For example, there is a learning plan for implementing high...

If you have earned one of the following certifications and have not yet been able to order the corresponding welcome kit or certificate from the MCP site , that is because those materials are in development with our fulfillment centers, as you might have...

Codes and info added to this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/trika/archive/2007/12/17/keep-clam-and-carry-on.aspx

We pushed back the SQL LIve Meeting (if you were registered, you hopefully got a notice along those lines) AGAIN, partially because I didn't have my act together, and partially because we didn't want to waste your time with a meeting if we didn't have...

The Windows Server 2008 MCITP betas (70-646 and 70-647) open on December 21, I think. And invites will go out right round then, so please keep clam. <update December 21> OK, prep guides are live and betas are open for registration now. If WS is...

If you do NOT work with Home Theatre, in a sales or technology role, you will not care about this information. Something else you will not care about is how I just tripped on nothing, and kind of flew through the air in front of this guy Jeff's office...

...it's the MCP site, being ornery, putting its little dukes up in form of an error message for some people trying to log-in this evening. Known issue, people working on it, stand by. In case you are trying to get to the site, I wanted to make sure you...

A reminder to any of you who are holding Pearson VUE exam vouchers that those need to be used at VUE by the end of this month. "Pearson VUE discontinued selling Microsoft professional certification exams on August 31, 2007, and continues to administer...

Oh, don't mind me, typing a little something from my new office. We shuffled offices around again, as is our wont. Now I have one blue wall, instead of one red. And a window to the outside, instead of a window to the hallway and Jeff Hora 's office.*...

per your request, written questions from Wednesday's Live Meeting , below. I've put them in some order but these are verbatim and not proofed and not spellchecked etc etc. Posting to help you guys plan ahead--the "official" info, all proofed and prettied...

Don't mind me, blogging my head off. I think you know that I work for MIcrosoft Learning, and you might know that the guy who runs Microsoft Learning is Lutz Ziob. Not too long ago he gave a spiel to press and other fancy types (like, you know, bloggers...

Here is the recording I promised: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/eventsnew/view?id=msft120507lm_am&pw=AET789&cn= ( jump to minute 4 ). Tomorrow I'll poast a summary and some FAQ from the meeting. In about 10 days, the slides and transcribed speaker...

I often defend Seattle when people say it rains all the time. I say, "Actually, it doesn't rain that much, it is just gray a lot." But this just in, my basement is flooded. And it is still coming down sick in Seatown! I've been carting 5-gallon buckets...

I hope you can come to Wednesday's Live Meeting. Please tell other people, too. Who should attend: Server-certified individuals (NT, 2000, 2003 or MCP) not certified but working with W Server would like to work with W Server! What we...