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January 2008 - Posts

• Second shot extended until June 30, 2008

  To re-write a failed certification exam attempt register here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/secondshot/default.mspx The second-shot has been extended until June 30, 2008. Read More... Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 4:15 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Custom AD course taught in Harrisburg, PA

  Last week, I taught a custom AD course which consisted of several topics of AD architechture and security as it relates to Active Directory. Materials used to compile the course were taken from MS Press self-study kits 70-293 and 70-294. Sources were Read More... Posted Sunday, January 20, 2008 12:15 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• server 2008 beta 3 VHD from microsoft.com

  I downloaded the server 2008 beta 3 eval VHD from http://www.microsoft.com/vhd last week. Is it ever a cool little playground... Inside the package you get 2 VHDs already setup. 1 DC and 1 server configured only with server core. I was greeted at first Read More... Posted Friday, January 11, 2008 3:55 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Rant of an IT pirate

  I am going to teach a custom Active Directory course from January 14 to January 18 for the state of Pennsylvania. Nothing quite firms concepts in an IT pirate's head like having to know them well enough to teach them. If I had to teach each course Read More... Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 6:15 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments

• Study groups so far

  We have completed 1.5 years of study groups. So far we tackled: 70-290, 70-291, 70-294, 70-620. There are self-study groups happenning now for 70-298, 70-299 which are on Windows Server 2003 Security, 299 is administration and 298 is design. There is Read More... Posted Saturday, January 05, 2008 6:03 PM by Brad Bird | 0 Comments