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Originally posted on the Canadian Developers’ Connection blog by my colleague Susan Ibach.
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 The traditional view of the developer or system administrator is that of a nerd. A complete geek with no social skills whatsoever (Big Bang Theory anyone?) But those of you who have a successful career in IT understand that even though we work with technology, we also work with people. We have deadlines to meet, we have priorities to balance, we have new staff to train, we have users with requirements.
I am a big believer in the value of certification. I think it is well worth the effort to become Microsoft certified in the technologies you use. But that is a blog for another day. Microsoft Certifications test your technical skills. If you are a hiring manager, you want to hire someone with a combination of technical and business or soft skills. This has generated demand from the industry for a certification that demonstrates business skills. How do you know an applicant has the necessary business skills for the role. Enter I-ADVANCE Certification! The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) has developed certifications that validate your business skills for different IT roles. There are six professional designations you can earn:
- Business Management
- Technical Leadership
- Software
- Infrastructure
- Hardware
- Quality Control
In order to offer certification, you need some form of validation that an individual has the necessary skills. ICTC has developed a set of multiple choice exams for each designation with questions to test your knowledge of the competencies. Competencies might include decision making, risk management, business analysis, analytical thinking, or planning and organizing.
Here’s the really good news! They are ready to beta test the I-ADVANCE certification exams and they are looking for subject matter experts (ie YOU!) to do the beta testing. The results of the beta testing will be used to establish the cut score for the exams. Beta testers will take an online exam for one of the six I-ADVANCE designations in order to test the test items difficulty and quality. The time commitment is two and a half hours. Based on the results of this exam, beta testers can receive one-year certification, once the cut-score has been determined and the I-ADVANCE program becomes operational. A great opportunity for you to help ensure the quality of this new certification and possibly earn a new certification in the process.
To register contact Gesine Freund at i-advance@ictc-ctic.ca
My 5
5 non technical skills I think are important to succeed in IT
- The ability to evaluate a tool or technology– Users have problems that technology can help solve. As IT professionals it is up to us to determine which technology is best suited to solve each problem. We need to be able to answer questions like what services or parts of our services are right for the cloud? What should we continue to host ourselves? What do we gain by moving to Silverlight or IE9? Knowing how to evaluate a tool’s strengths and weaknesses so you can pick the right tool for the job is a skill every manager and stakeholder will appreciate.
- A desire to learn – One of the challenges of working with IT, is the technology we work with is always changing. So the most successful IT professionals are those who are are curious about new technologies and make and effort to learn about them. Read a blog, attend a conference, listen to a podcast. See what you can find out about Office 365, or what new features will be offered with Windows Phone 7 Mango.
- Persistence – There will come that day when your code just doesn’t work! And you can’t figure out why! Never give up never surrender! Well almost never
 there does come a point where the answer is, we can’t do it this way (refer to Number 1)
- Research skills – You can’t know everything. You need to know where to get resources on new technologies or new features, like say the Canadian Developers blog
- Willingness to ask questions – Although researching yourself is important, if it takes you half a day to figure out something that someone else could have told you in 5 minutes, you are not using your time effectively. Sadly, on some teams, asking questions is seen as weakness. I believe it is a strength, as long as you have made *some* effort on your own before you ask.
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I am a big advocate of certification – putting your money where your mouth is – and have been for years. Heck, my first certification exam was “windows 3.11 and dos 6.22 for support professionals”. I’m not joking – it was my first cert and first course I took what seems like EONS ago. When I saw this announcement come in – I had to quickly blog about it. From now until June 30th 2011 - if you pre-register your intent, book and pass one of the 4 certification exams related to virtualization, you qualify for a free one year TechNet Plus subscription! Have a look at the exam outlines and figure out if it’s right for you. This is a great opportunity to get some certification muscle to back up your technical know how. If you take and pass either 70-659, 70-669 or 70-652 – you get yourself a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist designation. If you take 70-669 AND 70-693 along with either 70-659 or 70-652 – you are awarded a Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator. Do you have what it takes? Want some certification cred to go along with your street smarts? Here’s the website with the details on the offer. Hurry – the TechNet Plus subscription is limited to the first 1000 registrants. 
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I wanted to help out my friend Dan Nerenberg in Montreal with something he’s involved with as part of Microsoft Learning and TechEd NorthAmerica. He’s part of a contest that has four teams of certified professionals competing with each other by helping charities and not for profits in multiple cities across the US en route to TechEd in NewOrleans. You can help him by joining the “Team Red” pit crew at www.itgrandprix.com and selecting “Join The Race” to sign in and associate your Live ID with the team. It’s simple to do, fun to follow the exploits of the team and also do something good for yourself (flex some of that certified learning / exams / helping others muscle) as well as others. If they win the points score / challenges (YOU plan an active online role in the points area) $10,000 will get donated to Team Red’s charity of choice – NetHope – an organization that provides IT services and collaboration amongst international aid organizations. Here’s Dan to explain a bit more how YOU can participate in the points challenge. IT Pro Team Blog | IT Managers Blog | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn ----------  Hello Everyone,
For those who don’t already know me my name is Daniel Nerenberg, I’m an MCT, MCITP and an MVP for the past 4 years. I am the Team Leader for the Red Team in the IT Grand Prix. This is a competition being put on to raise awareness of Microsoft Learning, Microsoft training opportunities, and Certification. Starting on May 31st My team will be racing throughout the US to help local Charities solve their IT problems. The winning team gets to donate 10 000$ US to the charity of their choice. Our team is racing for the charity NetHope. They work all over the world to help aid groups leverage technology on the ground better. This could include bringing in technical people to build network infrastructure, or providing training to locals so that they can continue to build and support technology that solves all sorts of problems. This race has 2 components. We will be racing on the ground in each city. We will also have online challenges. That’s where you come in. If you could register as a member of the Red Team’s virtual Pit crew on the website www.itgrandprix.com and help us out with some of the online challenges our team would really appreciate it! Once you’re registered here’s how you can help! Let your followers know all about the IT Grand Prix, ask them to sign up for the RED team! How do you help the team GET POINT? Complete online challenges!! You can start right now: 
Challenge: Take a certification exam Criteria: The team with the most MCP exams taken by their pit crew between May 1 and June 4, 2010 wins the challenge. Action: Register with Prometric and take your exam by June 4, 2010. No other action required. 
Challenge: Recruit friends and colleagues to join your pit crew Criteria: Each certification held by each new pit crew member (though May 21, 2010) is worth points to your team. | 1 point | MCDST, MCSA, MCAD | | 2 points | MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, MCTS | | 3 points | MCITP, MCPD | | 4 points | MCM, MCA | Action: Recruit your friends and colleagues to join your pit crew by May 21, 2010 
Challenge: Participate in Born to Learn Discussion Forums Criteria: In the IT Grand Prix forum, your ground team will moderate discussion threads. Participate in those discussions and the team with the most relevant posts wins the challenge. Action: Visit the ITGP forum, find your team's threads ( your team color will be in the title), and participate in the discussion. 
Challenge: Did you know you can track the number of times your VBC is viewed? Create and promote your Virtual Business Card to win this challenge. Criteria: The team with the most cumulative views of their pit crew's Virtual Business Cards wins. Action: Create your VBC and share it. Make sure you have the VBC linked from our servers (image versions do not count)! 
Challenge: Take the Are You Certifiable Challenge Criteria: Play the Windows 7 track and the team with the highest cumulative score will win. Action: Play Are You Certifiable, (make sure you login with the same Live ID you used to register for IT Grand Prix), and select the Windows 7 track. 
Challenge: Update your newsletter subscription preferences Criteria: We recently added the ability for you to choose how you want to receive your MCP or MCT newsletter: monthly, weekly, or even daily. The team with the most people who have updated or confirmed their subscription preferences wins. That's it! Action: Update or confirm your subscription preferences. Update your MCP Flash newsletter preferences Update your MCT Flash newsletter preferences We also have a Facebook fan page where we will update you as we move throughout the challenge you can find here: If you want to find out more about NetHope check out www.nethope.org Thanks so much for helping out! If you have any questions about this don’t hesitate to reach out! Daniel Nerenberg
Principal Consultant InfraOp Inc
MCT,MCITP,MCTS,MCSE,MCSA,MCP
Microsoft MVP – App-V Twitter: @danieldcn | Blog: http://thelazyadmin.com 
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With all the turmoil in the job market right now there couldn’t be a better time to get certified. Certification can be that differentiator with your boss over who stays and who goes, can help you prove your skill set with potential employers and I know of more than one HR department that scans for those letters (MCSA, MCSE, MCITP, etc…) when browsing resumes. There are a lot of options and offers when it comes to getting certified. From the Second Shot offer, which allows you to retake an exam if you happen to fail, to the Are You Certifiable challenge, and more there is no end to options. I was talking with Brian Bourne from CMS, a Toronto based consulting and training company, about their MCITP Bootcamp. One of the big challenges I found when obtaining my Windows 2000 MCSE was getting the knowledge I needed that matched the skills and experience I already had. The other challenge I had was with time. Time is always a limiting factor and while it would be great to take two months off to prep for the exams but that never went over well with management. After talking with Brian for a while that is exactly what the MCITP Bootcamp aims to solve. The 10 Day Boot Camp will prepare qualified Microsoft professionals to earn the Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP): Server Administrator and MCITP: Enterprise Administrator certifications for Server 2008. Students will learn by doing through lectures, demos, labs and solid technical instruction that successfully reduces the 44 day certification to 10 days. The course takes place in September but space is limited. Tuition includes: · Pre-course reading and exercises · Training, course content, books and hands-on labs · 180 day access to all relevant MeasureUp exams. · All exams needed for certification, along with free ‘Second Shot’ retake voucher for each exam if needed. · All exams are written on-premise during the boot camp. · All meals including breakfast, lunch & dinner · Free Wi-Fi Internet in the training centre I even managed to swing a $500 discount code for the bootcamp from Brian for our lucky readers, simply use the code MS09 when registering. And if you are a Software Assurance customer you can use your Software Assurance training vouchers against the cost of the course as well. Find out more here –> MCITP Certification Bootcamp 
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So you were at TechDays and you went home with your 6 month subscription to TechNet Plus and wonder what else there is besides software you can download? How about some free virtualization training and some free exam vouchers? You see there is a lot more to TechNet than just software you can download for your lab, there is a whole bunch of e-learning opportunities as well. I actually took some of the courses below in February to try them out as I prepped for my 70-652 exam. There is some great information there to help you get some hands on prep time and get ready to write the exam. In case you missed the email I’ve pasted it below, and if you are looking to get a subscription you can find out how on the TechNet subscription page. ------------------------- Businesses today are already achieving additional cost savings by consolidating their server environment through virtualization. Due to the unique way that Microsoft builds virtualization into server, desktop, and management platforms, as well as through innovative pricing and licensing, Microsoft customers have the opportunity to lower both acquisition and ongoing ownership costs. As the premier provider of evaluation, deployment, and support resources for Microsoft customers, we are pleased to offer our TechNet Plus Subscribers the opportunity to be among the first certified in Virtualization, with your chance to receive up to $250 value in preparation and exam costs. - FREE ONLINE COURSE OFFER FOR ALL TECHNET PLUS SUBSCRIBERS: Take the five eLearning courses needed to prepare for the Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring exam. (Valued at $160) – see offer details below
- FREE EXAM VOUCHERS FOR THE FIRST 200 QUALIFIED RESPONDENTS: We’re giving away 200 vouchers for exam #70-562 TS (valued at $125) so you can take what you’ve learned and get your certification. – see offer details below
Both the free online course offer and the Windows Server exam voucher offer are valid until May 15th, 2009. Take advantage of this special offer today! Send questions to tnprod@microsoft.com Below is an overview of this exclusive offer for TechNet Plus Subscribers: OFFER REDEMPTION INSTRUCTIONS: To access your free online courses* 1. CLICK - http://www.microsoft.com/learning/access 2. Enter Access Code:9350-Y2W6-3676, and the collection will be added to your “My Learning” page To receive your free exam voucher* Follow these instructions 1. Complete your online training 2. Take a screenshot of your my Learning Page showing status complete for Collection 6319: Configuring Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 3. Send your screenshot in email to tnvouch@microsoft.com. Include in the subject line “Virtualization Exam Voucher Request” The first 200 respondents will receive a certification voucher in email. 
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I first got certified in Windows 2000 sometime in 2002 with my Windows 2000 MCP. At the time I really didn’t put a lot of thought in certifications but used the vouchers my school gave me to write that exam as well as the A+ and Network+ exams from CompTIA. I landed a job with a company in Winnipeg and that is where I found that employers valued certifications. I was lucky to get a good recommendation from a friend who was their current sysadmin and on the promise that I would complete my MCSE on Windows 2000 within the year (this was early January) I was hired. I made the cert in a few months and then soon upgraded to 2003. A few months back, while at an internal conference, I upgraded to MCITP: Server Administrator and then a few weeks back finished the upgrade to MCITP: Enterprise Administrator. Yes I am certifiable, but are you? Not sure? Want to have some fun figuring it out? There is a new online timewaster, err game, called Are You Certifiable where you can take on a number of certification challenges, including playing as Clippy. The game takes the form of a trivia show, but includes a broad range of technical questions geared towards one of two disciplines: Developer, or IT. Some of the questions appear to be taken straight from the pages of Microsoft Certification, so it looks like a good primer for someone preparing to take a MS Certification exam. And then there are some random questions just to keep you on your feet! Check out the game at www.areyoucertifiable.com. Enjoy! And while you are at it, leave a comment with your exam prep tips and share your exam writing tips and experiences! 
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I was catching up on my RSS feeds while recovering from the first day of TechDays Calgary and came across this post on the MS Blogs blog. MS Blogs is a blog that aggregates the product team blogs and is a nice one to add to your feeds to keep you up to date on what’s going on in areas you don’t normally have time to look into. As we are close to finishing up TechDays in Vancouver at the end of January there are a lot of other opportunities to invest in your future and this post highlights a few of them. Definitely worth the read… ------------------------- 
It's important to invest in your professional development both to keep your skills up-to-date and to further your career. Have you set your personal Learning objectives for the year ahead? Microsoft products and technologies are constantly evolving with new releases all the time - are you keeping pace? The last thing you want is to find yourself out in the cold. You may be an expert in supporting Windows 3.1, Windows NT4 Server or Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM). However that's no good if you need to find a new job or want a change in direction and you don't have the knowledge and experience of the latest Microsoft products such as Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Systems Center Operations Manager 2007. If you are looking to build your knowledge as an IT Professional or IT Developer - there are many options and you can find details of the following on the Microsoft Learning Website: Don't forget the Microsoft Events Website. You can find details In-person events, Live webcasts, On-demand webcasts, Podcasts, and access to the latest information on free TechNet and MSDN Virtual Labs. Virtual Labs are a good way to enhance your knowledge - and the best thing is that they are free! If you are looking to really distance yourself and demonstrate you are the best of the best - then Microsoft Certifications may be for you. Learn More.. -
Technology Series: Specialist certifications train IT professionals in implementation, building, troubleshooting, and debugging of a specific Microsoft technology. -
Professional Series: Professional credentials validate the skill set required for a particular job. -
Master Series: Master certifications identify individuals with the deepest technical skills available on a particular Microsoft product. -
Architect Series: The Certified Architect program makes it easy for companies to identify experienced IT architects who have completed a rigorous peer review process. Three things to consider when you develop your career development plan: If you are employed by a company that purchases Microsoft products with Software Assurance are you taking advantage of the free benefits of that program?
Check out the Microsoft Software Assurance - E-Learning Benefits Are you taking advantage of all the FREE training?
Check out the Microsoft Events Website, or leverage the resources on the TechNet and MSDN portals. On the Events site you can find details of In-person events, Live webcasts, On-demand webcasts, Podcasts, and access to the latest information on free TechNet and MSDN Virtual Labs. When training budgets are tight - do you need to pay the full price, or is there a special offer that will save you or your company money?
Check out the Microsoft Learning Special Offers. 
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So I was off last week and just went through my email and my RSS feeds and found three things related to SBS 2008 that might be of interest. First off, SBS 2008 has been released to manufacture. Now there is a lot that is different in SBS 2008 but a lot that is the same. I'm working on getting this information together to fill you in on the details but you can find out more at the SBS 2008 portal now. Now if you are about to buy and/or sell SBS 2003 R2 there is an offer you should know about. First off be sure you are buying SBS 2003 R2 (either edition) with Software Assurance (aka SA) as this will give you the upgrade rights to the same edition of SBS 2008 when it becomes available through the regular channels. This is going to cost roughly $100-200 more but to offset this there is a $100-200 rebate (again depending which version you purchase) that is available to cover that additional cost. You can find out more here https://sbsrebate.com/home.aspx It should be noted that there will be a price increase for SBS 2008 so you might want to take advantage of this before the October 31st 2008 deadline. Lastly I was catching up on Philip Elder's blog (one of my favourite Candian SBS bloggers) and saw that there is a free beta exam offer on for the 71-653: TS Windows Small Business Server 2008 Configuring going on. You can get the code in his post on the subject here http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2008/08/sbs-2008-free-beta-exam-71-653-until.html 
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote this blog post on our annual trip to the mothership for implant upgrades technical training. It is always a great time meeting with the rest of the world wide team and we had fun sharing ideas and experiences with Jeff Alexander (Australia), James O'Neill (UK) and Steve Lamb (UK) to name a few. If you follow my Twitter you probably saw a few comments regarding the "commonwealth team" and that was us :)
Now asides from some technical training sessions and the odd party (thanks to the Unified Communications team and the Forefront and System Centre teams) I did manage to get some certification exams taken care of. You are probably aware of the changes made to the Microsoft certifications last year (if not you might want to check this webcast) and may have had some questions. For people just starting out their career or looking at certifications for the first time I think the changes were for the positive. I find they allow for a more focused path while still offering some of the broader certifications, albeit with a different name.
For those of you like me who are already an MCSE on Windows 2003 things look a little more complicated but I am going to try and clear them up. If you have your MCSE on Windows Server 2003 you have two upgrade choices, MCITP Server Administrator or MCITP Enterprise Administrator. The official definitions are below and I'll leave it to you to decide what is best for your career and certification goals.
MCITP: Server Administrator - Server administrators are recognized among their peers and managers as leaders in the day-to-day operations management of Windows Server 2008.
If this is for you the upgrade path consists of two exams, 70-646:Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator and 70-649:TS: Upgrading Your MCSE on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008, Technology Specialist
(Click on the images for the full roadmap PDF)
The other option is.....
MCITP: Enterprise Administrator - Enterprise administrators are recognized among their peers and managers as leaders in Windows infrastructure design. I would go on to add that you would also be a leader in the day to day operations and management as well :)
If this is the path you choose your upgrade will consist of three exams 70-649:TS: Upgrading Your MCSE on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008, Technology Specialist, 70-647:PRO: Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator and a client exam, either 70-620 (Configuring Vista) or 70-624 (Deploying Vista and Office 2007)
As you can see along the way you also obtain a whole bunch of other specialist certifications that you can expand on as well. So what (and how) did I do? Well I managed to write and pass three exams, 70-620, 70-646 and 70-649 effectively upgrading my certifications to MCITP: Server Administrator and leaving one left for MCITP: Enterprise Administrator (you can have both certifications). I'll admit it felt pretty good to pass those exams. I hadn't written an exam since 2003 and I knew the exams had changed so I wasn't sure what to expect.
So what is your certification plan? Got any questions on the other certifications or the process if you are an MCSA? Post a comment or use that every handy Email link at the top left of the page and drop me a line! 
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It is that time of the year, time again for myself, Rick, Damir and now Pierre to head down to the mothership to upgrade our skills. Keeping your skills up to date is one of the bigger challenges an IT Pro faces. Over the next week and a half we'll be attending sessions, taking in some hands-on labs and even writing a few certification exams. One my agenda I have a few different tracks I am taking and exams I am writing and I am inviting you along.
Well I can't fly you down and sneak you in the door you can learn some of the same things I am with the TechNet Virtual Labs. So what is on my agenda...
Well I need to update my certifications. I received my MCSE in Windows 2000 and upgraded it to 2003 when those exams came available. There are two options for me to upgrade to 2008....
Server Administrator, which focuses on the day to day operations and management, requires a 2003 MCSE to pass 70-649 and 70-646
Enterprise Administrator, which adds skills focused on design, requires a 2003 MCSE to pass 70-649 as well as 70-647 and one of either 70-620 or 70-624.
I chose the Enterprise Administrator path and have scheduled 70-620 and 70-649 and have been reading up on the requirements and focusing on certain areas. I've used the following materials to get ready and think I am.
Exam 70-620 is all about configuring Windows Vista. Having used Vista for the past two years it should be a no-brainer but I downloaded the Windows Vista 30 Day Trial VHD so I could experiment without blowing up my day to day machine. There are quite a few Vista Virtual Labs available and I got down and dirty with a few of them, namely
Windows Vista System Image Manager
Managing Windows Vista Using the New Management Technologies
Customizing Microsoft Windows PE for Vista Deployments
That combined with my experience using the OS has me confident I will pass the exam.
Exam 70-649 is an upgrade exam that combines to core skills required to implement and manage a 2008 server. It covers AD, Network and Application configuration. I've spent a little more time on this as it is a new release and most of my experience was with betas and I wanted to ensure I was doing things the RTM way :) Again I downloaded the trial of Server 2008 and started plugging away. I did find some Server 2008 Virtual Labs as well. Now some of these I have built my own versions of and you saw during the Heroes Happen Here events like
Remotely Managing Server Core
Securing Branch Office User Accounts
But others like...
Network Access Protection with IPSec Environment
Deploying SSTP Remote Access
Managing Active Directory - Directory Services
all taught me a few things I thought I knew! Will I pass them both? I think so and I will be sure to let you know when I return. While we are gone things are going to be awfuly quiet here on the Canitpro blog but hopefully I've given you enough to keep you busy for the next 10 days! If I didn't there is a whole lot more covering SQL to ForeFront to System Center over at the TechNet Virtual Labs portal! 
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When you talk to many folks in the industry about the role of an architect in an organization, very often the conversation switches to a development focus. Things like "architects are the folks that design the applications our developers write" or "architects ensure the developed applications meet company standards", and so on. The reality is that there are many different types of architects out there - enterprise architects, solutions architects, infrastructure architects and many more. In fact, Microsoft has recognized architects as a category of individuals within the ICT industry and has certifications available for messaging architects, solutions architects, database architects, and also infrastructure architects.
As technical professionals you may be interested in looking into what it means to be an architect and if this is a growth path for you and your career. Last year another team within Microsoft Canada that we work very closely with held a Web Cast series for aspiring architects that was attended by over 1200 individuals and covered a number of strategies that can help developers and IT professionals to transition to the architect roles. The Aspiring Architect Series 2008 builds on last year’s content and covers a number of topics that are important for architects to understand.
Check out in the 2007 Aspiring Architect Webcast Series to see what was covered, and then plan to attend one or more of the sessions of the 2008 Aspiring Architect Webcast Series:
June 16th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Introduction to the aspiring architect Web Cast series
June 17th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Services Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Bus – Beyond the hype
June 18th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – TOGAF and Zachman, a real-world perspective
June 19th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Services Oriented Architecture (Web Cast in French)
June 20th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Interoperability (Web Cast in French)
June 23rd , 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Realizing dynamic systems
June 24th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Web 2.0, beyond the hype
June 25th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Architecting for the user experience
June 26th, 2008 – 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. – Conclusion and next steps
We are hopeful that you will find the upcoming series to be a very useful investment of your time. 
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So the Heroes Happen {Here} launch has come to an end. After a long haul on the road the teams are back at home, relaxing, catching up and getting ready for Energize IT 2008. You might be wondering what you can do with all that information we shared with you on the launch technologies? Where can you learn more? What about certification? Well I've got some answers to those questions. Interested in getting certified in the 2008 technologies (or even earlier technologies)? Would you be more interested if I told you that you can get %40 off the price of an exam? Well over at www.microsoft.com/learning/hero you can register to receive 40% off the cost of an exam if you attended any of the launch related activities including any community launch events being held by local user groups. If that isn't enough, what about 40% off a TechNet Plus Direct subscription? We did have a 20% offer a while back but again for launch attendees there is a special 40% discount. Head over to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/subscriptions/default.aspx and use promo code TLNW08 to get your discount. Now even though the tour is over, stay tuned as we get the videos edited and up online so you can see the demos again, grab the build documents to build the virtual environment, and follow the step-by-step demo scripts and try them out for yourself. Just because we aren't in your hometown, doesn't mean we don't have a lot to keep you busy! 
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