The TechEd session on the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) program, presented by Sondra from my team, was HOT (red font! on purpose! can you tell I'm using Live Writer?). Although we are doing this same session next week via Live Meeting ( register here ), I took notes to share with those who couldn...

MCP Live Meeting: 1 Year In - An Update on Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) As you may know, the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) credential is not your every day certification. Candidates are required to present to a Review Board rather than sit for an exam and are overseen by previously certified...

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. In April, the topic is Perspective Based Architecture...

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 done, in general. Like practicing piano, or submitting...

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 you is in order for Infrastructure Architect Scott...

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 there are 90 MCAs worldwide, to date. You can learn...

The Microsoft Certifed Architect program is a cool program. For this reason, I cannot blame you for asking many, many questions about it in today's Exchange Cert Live Meeting. Even though we were supposed to be talking about Exchange. Just kidding, I like all the questions. Here are some things I know...

Not really shot; just sorry I had bad news for those of you who took the betas. Keep the comments coming... I'll respond again to your comments on that thread ; but there are some other things happening in the meantime, for example, about Exchange : Registration info for the Scott Andersen ( read...

Andy Ruth, the program manager for the Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) program (you might know him from the newsgroups? or perhaps you know him because he's one of the world's top 14 people of all-time?) is heading out to India for our second round of MCA board reviews over there (the first time...

We're kicking around the idea of asking Microsoft Certified Architects (about 70 people are MCAs, to date) to host MCP-only talks on whatever is on their mind... or whatever you want to hear about. The idea would be to have one meeting per month from these well known, high-level architects host Live...