Microsoft Certifications Excel in Four Key Areas

June 6, 2017 Casey Wasserman Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Microsoft, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Stop for a minute and consider the range of Microsoft’s offerings and the longevity of its creations. This is a company that has not only given the world what is perhaps the gold standard in desktop publishing and office productivity software (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) but it’s also infiltrated our home lives as well through gaming and portability. (We’re looking at you, Xbox and Surface!) Microsoft is the foundation for an incredible number of businesses; eighty percent of the Fortune 500 is on the Microsoft Cloud. More than 400 million devices are running Windows 10. In short: Microsoft is everywhere.

Reporting Services: Clearing Up the Terms

July 21, 2015 Gidget Pryor Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Microsoft, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Reporting Services, a feature in SQL Server that supports reporting, can be installed in one of two modes: SharePoint Integrated or Native (non-SharePoint) mode. This option appears at the time of installation and can be changed later. Once selected, the mode determines where users will view deployed reports.

Accelerate Your Path to Three MCSEs by Going Through the Cloud

September 15, 2014 Ron Wen Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

During the past few years, Microsoft’s battle cry has been to take on the cloud, and with the advent of Azure and Office 365, that’s pretty much what they did. Core Microsoft technologies from the operating systems to higher-level services such as messaging, collaboration and telephony are now available as Software as a Service (SaaS). Taking things one step further, Microsoft recently announced their new MCSA: Office 365, which fully validates their commitment to the cloud and the training to support it.

So Long MCITP: Windows Server 2008 Certifications!

December 12, 2013 Ron Wen Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Official retirement of the MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008 and MCITP: Virtualization Administrator on Windows Server 2008 R2 certifications is January 31, 2014. So, what next?