MCP Monthly Flash: May 19, 2011

The MCP Flash is a newsletter for Microsoft Certified Professionals. New delivery options are available. Click here to confirm your subscription preferences.   Updated Communication Designs Over the next few months, you will notice a new look to our MCP communications, including this newsletter, the MCP member site, and our email communications. The most obvious change is a new color scheme to signify the intended audience. Green=technical; orange=Office; red=trainer. When speaking to all audiences, we will use a “rainbow” to represent everyone. These changes in no way affect your certifications earned and/or the design of your certificates. Original Publication Date: 05/19/2011 Program Announcements Improved MCP Member Site Coming Next Month Starting in mid-June, you’ll notice a new look and feel on the MCP, MCT, and MOS member sites, including a new dashboard home page. Other improvements include an updated Logo Builder tool and easier access to your MC ID and profile information. Future updates will include an improved certification planner tool, a new MCP eStore, and new special offers and benefits. The new site allows you to leave feedback at the bottom of each page, so please do so. Your feedback is critical in helping us build a site that meets your needs—so please let us know what you think! Original Publication Date: 05/19/2011 Events Update Your Résumé/CV and Interview Skills with Advice from the Experts Time to refresh your résumé or prepare for interviews? Get ready for your next career move with these recent online sessions from Career Factor and the Microsoft Certified Career Conference. Read the full article » Original Publication Date: 05/10/2011 Certification/Exams Microsoft Certified Master (MCM): SQL Server Learning Snacks in the Training Catalog Now available in the Training Catalog: a collection of freely accessible MCM-level instruction delivered as Learning Snacks. Review the various titles and use this collection to help you prepare for the MCM SQL Server 2008 exams. Read the full article » Original Publication Date: 05/13/2011 Announcing Spring Cleaning! It's the time of year to sort through Microsoft Learning training and certification resources. During our "spring cleaning," we found many complimentary Microsoft Press e-books and chapters, exam coaching sessions, Leaning Snacks, online training, and much more! Find complimentary resources for Windows Server, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, Visual Studio, virtualization, and even Microsoft Office. Sign up to access Spring Cleaning resources. Original Publication Date: 05/12/2011 Manager-to-Manager Best Practices In this Manager-to-Manager Best Practices video, Phil Olea explains why an investment in Microsoft Certified Professionals delivers positive results for his organization. Read the full article » Original Publication Date: 05/09/2011 Lock In Exam Savings: Purchase Microsoft Certification Packs by June 30, 2011 There is still time left to take advantage of this fantastic offer and lock in today's exam price before it goes up on July 1, 2011. Microsoft Certification Packs are the first step toward certification, which can help you get a job, earn a promotion, or become indispensable in your existing role. Microsoft Certification Packs map well to all of our certification paths by providing configurations of 2, 3, 4, or even 5 exams. Plus, you can save up to 20 percent and get free retakes if you fail any exams. You must take the first exam of your pack by June 30, 2011, and then you will have until December 31, 2011, to take all the rest of them. Learn more about these discounts on certification exams. Read the full article » Original Publication Date: 05/04/2011 Microsoft Press/Books E-Book Deal of the Week: Save 50 Percent on Microsoft Press E-Books Microsoft Press e-books from oreilly.com come with full digital rights. You get complimentary lifetime access, multiple file formats, and updates at no cost. And now, exclusively through this newsletter offer, you can save 50 percent on all Microsoft Press e-books. Use discount code DDMF2 in your shopping cart to take advantage of this offer. To receive the weekly e-book offer alerts, you must subscribe to the daily or weekly MCP Flash newsletter. Original Publication Date: 05/19/2011 Special Offers Cloud Power: Create the Next Big App So you've got an idea for that next big app and you need to get it launched as quickly as possible. Maybe it's a mobile app, something you want to run on Facebook, or a project that stretches your ASP.NET skills. Tune in to this five-part online event series and learn how to harness the cloud or get your apps into it. We'll share hands-on lessons, make it real with code samples, and set you up with a 30-day complimentary Windows Azure Pass. Join us as we explore the topics that matter most for today's developers. Original Publication Date: 05/16/2011 Microsoft Virtual Academy The Microsoft Virtual Academy helps you to improve your IT skill set and advance your career with a complimentary, easy-to-access training portal that allows you to learn at your own pace, focusing on Microsoft technologies. Read the full article » Original Publication Date: 05/09/2011 Monthly Edition May 2011 In This Issue » Program Announcements » Events » Certification » Press » Special Offers Resources » Born to Learn blog » MCP Member site » Special Offers for MCPs Learning Portals » Exchange Server » Microsoft Dynamics » Microsoft Forefront » Microsoft Lync Server and Microsoft Office Communications Server » Microsoft Office » Microsoft SharePoint » Microsoft SQL Server » Microsoft System Center » Microsoft Visual Studio » Virtualization » Windows » Windows Azure » Windows Phone » Windows Server » Find Training by Product or Technology If you would prefer to no longer receive this newsletter, please click here to unsubscribe or reply to this message with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. To set your contact preferences for other Microsoft communications, see the communications preferences section of the Microsoft Privacy Statement. Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 USA Sign Up for Other Newsletters                         © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. Terms of Use | Trademarks | Privacy Statement      Wednesday, May 18, 2011 [+/-] TechNet Flash: Special Tech·Ed 2011 Edition Unsubscribe | Customize TechNet Flash Volume 13, Issue 10 | May 18, 2011     Top Stories     Service Pack 1 Unveiled for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Scheduled for release at the end of June, SP1 will include updates across the client suites and server products. Check out the list of improvements and new features, and stay tuned for more details, on the Microsoft Office Blog. Tech·Ed Keynote on Demand Robert Wahbe and Jason Zander deliver the keynote address at Tech·Ed North America 2011 in Atlanta. Post-keynote interviews: • Robert Wahbe on IT in the Cloud • Jason Zander on ALM • Watch all the TechNet Edge Videos from Tech·Ed Your Featured Content Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 Beta Arrives Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 builds on System Center Configuration Manager, allowing customers to implement endpoint protection as part of a unified infrastructure for securing and managing physical, virtual, and mobile client environments. Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Certified Master Program for Exchange Server 2010 Starting in summer 2011, IT engineers and consultants all over the world will have an opportunity to earn MCM status on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 by passing the required exams at one of many international testing centers. NetApp and Cisco Join the Hyper-V Fast Track Program We are proud to have NetApp and Cisco participating in the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program and delivering pre-validated private cloud solutions for customers. Check out what they are saying about this solution. See the TechNet Edge video of NetApp Technical Architect Alex Jauch, and Cisco Engineer Josh Heller discussing the architecture of this newly launched solution.   Enhanced Hardware Virtualization Support for Exchange 2010 The Microsoft Exchange team announced at Tech·Ed North America 2011 updated support scenarios for Exchange Server 2010 running under hardware virtualization software. Results of the Tech·Ed Windows Azure Survey See what others are doing with Windows Azure and the benefits they are seeing. Video: Tech·Ed 2011 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions •  Fundamentals of IT Leadership: Making Every Situation a Win-Win with Your Employees and Stakeholders •  Notes from the Field: Common Pitfalls of Early Exchange 2010 Deployments •  Lessons from the Field: Learn from the Experts on Building Clouds and Their Effect on Your Enterprise Tech·Ed Sessions on Channel 9 Watch select recorded sessions from earlier this week at Tech·Ed 2011 in Atlanta, including these two IT sessions: •  Office 365: The Future of Productivity •  Collaboration in the Cloud with SharePoint: A New World of Productivity   TechNet Flash Sponsors GFI Software, and Idera: •  Get the Fast and Easy Antivirus Protection You Deserve •  Free SharePoint Migration White Paper for TechNet Flash Subscribers Editor's Note TechNet Flash Editor Mitch Irsfeld Tech·Ed 2011 Special Issue Tech·Ed North America is always a bellwether event for Microsoft and our IT professional customers, and this year's show, in progress in Atlanta, is no exception. So we thought we'd try something different for the newsletter and focus exclusively on news and content from Tech·Ed. Much of the discussion and news from Tech·Ed North America 2011 has been centered on Microsoft's cloud platform. Since the conference is still going on, we will follow up with another TechNet Flash newsletter next week that focuses on new resources for cloud computing. ... Read more ADVERTISEMENT Get the Fast and Easy Antivirus Protection You Deserve When it comes to AV, fast and easy is exactly what you need. Try VIPRE Antivirus Business free for 30 days and see for yourself how fast and easy it is. Events Register to Attend Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 October 3 - 6, 2011 Anaheim, CA Network and hear experts from Microsoft and around the world share their experience and knowledge about a variety of SharePoint topics. ADVERTISEMENT Free SharePoint Migration White Paper for TechNet Flash Subscribers Upgrading to SharePoint 2010? 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