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

At the suggestion and example of many of you good people, for example, our friend Wayne , we are hosting a Certification 101 Live Meeting in April. Certification 101: Getting Started with Microsoft Certification Audience: IT Professionals, developers...

Remember the 24 hour live meeting-athon I told you about yesterday? The recordings from those sessions, with 15 minute sessions on: Virtualization in Windows Server 2008 Improved Web programming by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Resource Governor...

A question and answer session with the general manager of Microsoft Learning was just posted, if you want to check it out . "... in the coming months we will launch a new testing experience based on the Windows Server Hypervisor technology. By leveraging...

Sign up to get a notice on the day the Visual Studio 2008 exams and SQL Server 2008 exams go live. VS are coming up soonish, and SQL are a long way out. I encourage you to let go of your legacy methodologies--floundering, shooting-in-dark, wild poking...

I bet 80,000 blogs have pointed out that the virtual launch site for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 is open now. it's like an online trade show, with British avatars pointing you around the place and little online "booths"...

Right now I am drinking a cup of coffee and staring out the window. I'll probably keep doing this for a little while.

This just in: the Microsoft Learning homepage had a make-over today. Take a lookie loo . In related news, Two Ladies (does anyone else love Cabaret ?) from my team have started a blog about our web site*, content, usability, and other things. These bloggers...

It's last call. Reminder that we are coming up on the final days of 22 exams, some of which will have been in market for more than eight years, bless their hearts. As we've been announcing over the last year, these are going away--if you wanted to add...

Hi, have you met Lonn? Have you met Ben? Perhaps you should, if you are interested in hearing what they have to say about Microsoft Learning instructor-led training, courseware, and some other stuff. One reason that I think you might like Lonn, as I do...

If you are an MCDST, and if you happened to notice something get added to your transcript that shouldn't have been there, you might now notice that it is gone again. If you are not, and you did not, then your work here is done. --------- When we updated...

It is 7:42 AM on Monday in Redmond, and I am sitting in conference room 18/3002 by myself, wondering why everyone else is 12 minutes late for this meeting. UPDATE: I just checked my inbox to find a CANCELLED notification, sent on Saturday night at...

Windows Server 2008 MCTS exam release date is getting closer; we're looking at somewhere around March 10. As I said earlier, you can sign up to get an "exam live" notice from us when 70-640, 60-642, and 70-643 are available at Prometric. This...

Maybe you have met Mike Mulcare before? He works here, at Microsoft Learning, and focuses on e-learning and the best way to help you guys learn. Actually, you should just ask him what exactly he does, because I can't keep up. He might not do that at all...

I'm helping out at TechReady in Seattle in the evening tonight, which is nice. There are some Microsoft technical types here, too, doing practice tests and reading books so they can pass their exams this week in the test center next door. All the technical...

Yes. Exam 70-351: Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006, Configuring : earns a stand-alone MCTS certification, per this poast   can also be used as a general elective credit toward your MCSA or MCSE on Windows Server 2000 or 2003...

We have gotten requests from many of you in the community to provide some kind of support for Microsoft Certification communities in networking and community portals. Put a little Web 2.0 in your pipe and smoke it, for once , you've said. Per George...

I got an e-mail this morning saying that we're caught up with welcome kits (re: the delay I mentioned earlier ). So, if you haven't been able to order your shipment of one of the welcome kits below, you should now be able to from the MCP site (which still...

sorry I'm way behind on everything. here is the link: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/lmevents/view?id=msft020608pmlm&pw=ATT10273347 tell me if it doesn't work, i haven't watched it yet. and, I wanted to point out that it is the SAME picture of me...

As I mentioned, some things are happening. They include: SQL SERVER CERTIFICATION LIVE MEETING TOMORROW Despite my best efforts to cancel this for a third time, we're on. Registration information here: http://blogs.msdn.com/trika/archive/2007...

Of certification: Do you have a good story about how certification helped your organization become more efficient/make better stuff/find a great team/keep a great team, etc? We'd like to hear it, per George's post: http://blogs.msdn.com/mcp/archive/2008...

Oh, wait.     It looks like there are a few other people as raw as you.   http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/certified.mspx    But your game is still, um, pretty tight, or whatever.       "Ask around the streets, man, I'm certified, cross seas all...

Big launch kick-off event for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and SQL Server 2008 coming up in Los Angeles, California, in February. I'm sure it will be quite the to-do. Other things you can do to be part of the fuss, if you, like me, will not...

Hey, certified professionals in US and Canada. You might have heard that parts of the middle east and asia are shut down by an " Internet blackout ." Per one article , "the biggest impact to the rest of the world could come from the outages...