24th January 2008, 03:59 pm
Microsoft TechDays 2008 has opened registration.
If you’re in Switzerland and work with Microsoft products, attending TechDays 2008 is a generally good idea. Pricing is okay (around 500.- for normal people, 140.- for students/apprentices) and usually your boss pays for this.
TechDays 2008 will be in Basel, they’ve moved from Zurich again. I don’t know the location, but it has it’s own parking spaces, which is what the Zurich location was sadly lacking.
If you’ve never attended TechDays, here’s what you can expect:
- Many interesting speeches by people that really know their stuff
- Meet other IT professionals
- Good food
- Free NFR versions of WS2008, SQL2008 and VS2008
- See my TechDays 07 Day 1 and Day 2 writeups
If you’re going to attend, leave a comment. It’s always nice to see new faces.
3rd January 2008, 05:51 pm
A few days after i did 70-647, i attended 70-646.
My biggest worry was if Microsoft was able to really create distinguishing exams between the Enterprise Administrator and the Server Administrator part – and i think it worked out really well.
I attended this exam at BCD Sintrag, which isn’t my usual testing location either. Service was okay, no free drinks though.
The shift in focus on the Server Administrator exam is quite visible:
- There was a lot regarding to storage design and configuration – RAID levels, iSCSI, VDS, IO MultiPathing, iSCSI, FibreChannel
- Permissions, permissions, more permissions – Active Directory delegation and delegation of administrative privileges on servers
- The usual Terminal Server questions, and also several RAS questions (VPN, PPTP, SSTP, L2TP, TS Gateway, etc.)
- PKI questions till you puke – make sure to know about the PKI changes in Vista SP1 and how to administrate bigger PKI environments
- No design questions!
- A few firewall / IP configuration questions
- DHCP and a few basic subnetting questions
With this, i’ve got the two new MCITP exams done. Yay.
I’ll see the results in three months. If you want to do the beta exams too, check this posting on Trika’s most excellent certification blog.
