One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

AdamV — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:27:44 GMT

I am an MCP and striving for my MCSA:Messaging then MCSE

I work a lot with small businesses and my MOS:Master qualification helps me provide them an all-round holistic service in building systems for _people_ to _use_ - so I look at how they use their apps as much as the backend infrastructure.

With Sharepoint increasingly moving into this space this combination is really valuable.

So, I would like to see:

MOS qualifications (per app, per level (normal / expert), per version 2000 / 2003). Or at least total normal / total expert / total master. I appreciate this is somewhat different from the technical track, so maybe a different page to show this would make sense.

*wishlist* the overlap of MCP-track and MOS-track ie how many people hold both. (I accept this may be empirically hard to tie together with any degree of accuracy because of the separate registrations for the two systems via different exam houses etc).

re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Jesper Bernle — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:32:31 GMT

Hi Trika!

It would be nice to be able to see how many MCTS: Live Communications Server 2005 there is in the world.

I think that LCS, or really more accurate OCS, will come out of its hiding behind Exchange Server and start taking more ground than ever before.

A nice indicator of how well it´s received in the hands of the IT Consultants, as well as customer demands, is the number of certified professionals.

Regards

Jesper Bernle

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re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

trikah@microsoft.com — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:40:03 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/trika/archive/2007/07/19/evidence-that-you-are-special.aspx

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re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

trikah@microsoft.com — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:31:22 GMT

Larry. That is a great idea. I'll ask if that could be on our list. The thing is, it probably isn't "hard," the question is more 1) how many MSFT policies, people capacity, existing software, database feeds & firewalls, web platform limitations, etc. do we have to navigate to get it done! And, if we can... is this more important than one of the other requests in the list. But I'd love it - I'll see if someone can scope it out for us.

re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

trikah@microsoft.com — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:24:49 GMT

Check it, this request is in the web queue (it won't have all the new certs yet but most/all of your other requests were used). I think it will be updated in the next week? or two? I'll let you know when it is. We have a new person to help with this stuff now, so the plan is to update this page once per month.

re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Meile Zetstra — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:18:01 GMT

Trika,

How about an estimate on when we could expect a new refreshed page with the numbers? Seeing that the current page is dated March 1, 2007, I'ld say it's time for an update.

And of course the many breakdowns mentioned would also be very nice to have.

re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Larry West MCSD, MCPD, MCITP, MCTS x5, etc. — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:59:21 GMT

Trika,

How hard would it be for someone at Microsoft to write a trigger that would poll the certified professional database and update the numbers on a regular (even nightly) basis? Surely, someone at Microsoft knows how to do it!

I agree with the others that the breakdowns should be included.

I am also curious as to how many people besides myself have the MCPD, MCITP, and MCTS (multiple certifications).

re: One in a million. I mean, one in 1,433.

Niall M — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:26:41 GMT

What are the chances of getting these numbers.. I would like it to show the value of the certs in our place