The January MVA TechNet Radio show is now live. In this show listen to the MVA Dean discuss the upcoming MVA courses on Private Cloud, System Center 2012 scenarios such as Application Management, Orchestrator, Data Protection, Operations and Service Manager as well SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 courses.
He also lays the foundation for an upcoming Microsoft Solution Accelerators course on the MAP toolkit and how you can get involved in hands on training at your local IT Pro Camps.
To get involved send your questions to Further Episode Questions and we will try and answer them in the show.
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The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the Private Cloud Infrastructure course.
This course focuses on how using technologies and tools from Microsoft can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud.
The course covers the core Windows Server products, and how to use them to build and support the virtualized and physical resources that are part of your private cloud infrastructure. You will be exposed to common cloud computing configuration and management practices, as well as technical details to help you be successful in building a private cloud for your business.
Lastly, you will learn how using tools and technologies from Microsoft as part of your private cloud will benefit both your organization and you as the IT professional.
After completing this course, try out what you’ve learnt by downloading Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center from the TechNet Evaluation Center.
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The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the Understanding Microsoft’s High Availability Solutions course.
This course covers the best ways to provide continual availability to all applications, services, servers and VMs in your datacenter. The modules will cover all the planning, deployment and management considerations for bringing high-availability to every components of your datacenter or Private Cloud.
By the end of this course you will have an understanding of the basics of each of Microsoft’s HA solutions and when each of them should be used. You will understand all the different methods you can use to keep your services up and running.
Technologies that will be covered in this course include:-
- Hyper-V,
- Failover Clustering,
- Network Load Balancing,
- SQL Server,
- Exchange Server,
- IIS, DFS-R, DNS
- And every System Center product (including SC 2012) with a focus on Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
After completing this course, try out what you’ve learnt by downloading Windows Server 2008 R2 and System Center from the TechNet Evaluation Center.
Download Windows Server 2008 R2
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The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 course.
This course provides an overview of the new System Center Configuration Manager 2012 (SCCM) product. After completing this course you will understand the features that enable SCCM to:
- Easily distribute applications to users, regardless of device or form factor.
- Perform software updates.
- Device management improvements.
The course will also cover how SCCM makes it easier to service the rapidly growing number of connected devices in your organization, such as smartphones, tablets, and virtual machines, through centralized global configuration management.
After completing this course, try out what you’ve learnt by downloading SCCM from the TechNet Evaluation Center. Download Microsoft System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products
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The December MVA TechNet Radio show is now live. The show covers what’s happen in the Academy now and what is coming down the line.
This show focuses on the System Center Virtual Manager 2012 and System Center Configuration Manager 2012 courses. Get a sneak peek of what’s in these course. what Consumerization of IT is and how it relates to the System Center Configuration Manager course.
To get involved send your questions to Further Episode Questions and we will try and answer them in the show.
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The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 course.
This course focuses on how using System Center Virtual Machine Manger 2012 can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud.
After completing these three modules you will have learnt about the Virtual Machine Manger 2012 product, and the features it utilizes to build and support the virtualized and physical resources that are part of your private cloud infrastructure.
The course will also expose you to cloud computing at the business level, from the perspective of Virtual Machine Manger 2012, and show how to extend that knowledge to the technical level.
The last module will show you how to manage applications within your private cloud using Virtual Machine Manger 2012 to deploy, update, and manage them.
After completing this course, try out what you’ve learnt by downloading VMM from the TechNet Evaluation Center. Download Microsoft System Center 2012 Pre-Release Products
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The November MVA TechNet Radio show is now live. This month show cover what’s happen in the Academy now and what is coming down the line.
This show focuses on the Private Cloud courses that will releasing at the end of November and looking forward to the courses coming in 2012.
To get involved send your questions to Further Episode Questions and we will try and answer them in the show.
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The September update to the Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises has been released. This guide is referenced in the Office 365 courses on the Microsoft Virtual Academy and will build on the training material in those courses.
In addition to the PDF version of the Deployment Guide, an updated web edition has been released. The web edition provides all of the same content of the document version, as well as the following:
- Concise search and index features that filter search results to what you need from the Deployment Guide
- Auto expanding table of contents guiding you to the information needed
- Bookmark feature allowing you to reference back to a topic quickly
- Microsoft Translate technology and is available in approximately 30 languages
About the Deployment Guide
The Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises presents important deployment planning concepts and deployment procedures. The deployment guide is organized into the sections that provide specific types of information for specific types of deployment personnel in your organization.
Here is a quick overview of what you will find:
- Deployment Overview section. This material provides the high-level look at the deployment and organizational requirements to deploy Office 365. It has valuable information for your IT decision-makers, program managers, and technical implementation leads.
- Plan and Prepare sections. These sections describe the particular tasks and activities required to get ready and fully implement your Office 365 deployment. The tasks are generally presented in the order in which you address them during your deployment. Topics discussed in the Plan section generally reappear in the Prepare section with instructions for carrying out a task. The Plan and Prepare sections contain content that will interest specific types of technology experts in your organization.
- Migrate section. This section describes the tasks for moving your users’ mailboxes to the Office 365 environment so you can begin using the Office 365 as part of your production environment.
Please send feedback and suggestions about the Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide to modgfdbk@microsoft.com.
About the Microsoft Virtual Academy
The Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) is a free program delivering structured learning paths for IT Professionals on various Microsoft products and solutions.
You can enroll for free at www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com. and follow us on Twitter at @MSVirtAcademy
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The first of the monthly Radio shows we are recording about all things MVA is now live. Over the next few months we’ll have features about what’s happen in the Academy now and what is coming down the line.
In the first show we celebrate the first 6 months of the global MVA, we’ll cover what we’ve done in the last 6 months and look ahead to the what is coming down the line.
One feature we will include in future episodes is the chance to have your question answered on air. For the next episode you can send us your question via email and we will pick the best ones, going forward we will give you the option to send us your question in video form for inclusion in the show.
Send you questions to October Episode Question
September Episode: Happy 6 Month Anniversary MVA
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The Microsoft Virtual Academy team would like to announce the release of the Office 365 for the IT Pro – Lync Online, SharePoint Online & Deployment course.
Wondering how Exchange Online differs from Exchange on premises, and what it takes to migrate or coexist between the two? The Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) has a new course that covers this new Exchange Online product and offering.
If your organization looking for new ways to collaborate then the new Lync Online and SharePoint Online offerings provide organizations with ways to collaborate using tools users are used to while benefiting from new cloud based subscriptions.
This 5 module course covers the collaborative aspects of the new Lync Online and SharePoint Online offerings. The course starts with two modules covering Lync Online Overview and configuration and then SharePoint Online Overview.
The middle two modules cover the key topics of SharePoint Online Administration, and Extensibility and Customization. IT Pros will be able to see the various aspects and roles to SharePoint Online Delegated Administration and demonstrations of the various elements of Site Collection and Site Level ownership.
When the topic of Extensibility and Customization of SharePoint comes up the initial reactions is that it’s a developer topic. This course aims to show the power and simplicity of SharePoint Online development and how power users and/or designers can easily perform in-browser customizations as well as “no-code solutions” in SharePoint Designer 2010.
Finally this course ends with a look the key aspects of planning, preparing, and migrating to Office 365.
This course is part of a series of 3, with other course on the Office 365 Platform and Exchange online available at the MVA.
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Recent Entries
- MVA January TechNet Radio show Now Live!!
- Announcing the release of the Private Cloud Infrastructure course
- Announcing the release of the Understanding Microsoft’s High Availability Solutions course
- Announcing the release of the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 course
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- Announcing the Release of the ‘System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012” course to the Microsoft Virtual Academy
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- Announcing the Availability of the Microsoft Office 365 Deployment Guide for Enterprises – September Update
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