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You heard that right… We are back with the “2 days Server Virtualization certification program” on public demand. We had several requests all these months to conduct the Server Virtualization certification program once again. And now we are happy to say that we have managed to arrange all the

We should also congratulate at this point to all those who appeared the exams last time and we had 99% success rate. That’s Awesome!

We are giving first preference to all those who wanted to attend last time but unfortunately couldn’t since we were exhausted with the registrations limit of 60 attendees. This time we are decreasing the number by 20 more so we are expecting an overall 40 registrations only. So please hurry up and get in touch with the volunteers at the earliest.

Details updated below:-

Course Name: Exam 70-659: TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):

Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator

Venue: “Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd., 4th Floor, Windsor, Kalina, Santacruz (East), Mumbai – 400 098, India”

Date: 2nd and 3rd June, 2012

Time: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (8 Hours)

Speaker: Shabbir Ahmed and Bharat Gupta

Audience pre-requisite: Over 1 year experience in Microsoft System Administrations with some knowledge of Networks and Storage.

More details about this training program can be found in this Training FAQ and Agenda.

Download Registration Form and get in touch with our volunteers who are available all over Mumbai (Western, Central) and Navi Mumbai. All details are updated on the Training FAQ. In case of any queries, we have the discussions forum open.

Learn more about Microsoft Certifications.

Please note that this time we will also have 15 FREE Certification vouchers, however they will only be provided to top individuals based on a test that will be conducted by Microsoft. More details will follow. So make the best of this training program.

This is an IN-PERSON event only happening in Mumbai. No recording will be streamed online. The fees will be Rs. 750/- only per participant which does not include certification.

After registering by filling the below form, if you do not get any acknowledgement from any volunteers within 24 hours, please send an email to regteam@mumbaiitpro.org

Please make sure the email id regteam@mumbaiitpro.org is not caught up in SPAM.

Registration Count: 15/40

Available seats: 25

Hari, Shabbir, Cyril, Ashwin, Bharat

Microsoft Tech-Ed 2012, the largest Technology Event in India  covers over 100 break-out sessions, conference for hands-on learning, deep product exploration and opportunities to connect with industry and Microsoft experts one-to-one.

The Ground field was full of session boards… you might get confused what to attend, what to learn, what to do and finally, where to start.

It’s really confusing for somebody like me who fall in both categories IT Professional and Developer. If I go for Windows 8, I have to give-up Windows Server 8… If I want to learn  ‘Building a Better Web’, I have to forget ‘Reimaging Desktop Deployment’. Nevertheless, I collected my Tech-Ed Media / Press Passport and  attended day’s first Session ‘Windows Server 8 Technical Overview’ by Aviraj Ajgekar.

After session, i thought, leave session…. let’s have some fun.

There was an opportunity for free certification on Virtualization (070-659, 70-400) and Microsoft Office Specialist for 300 and 500 attendees on 1st come first serve basis. I appear for both exam under the guidance of ‘Shabbir Ahmed and Bharat Gupta’ and successfully cleared certification…. so i’m now Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist and Office Specialist. You can checkout my MCP Virtual profile over here.

On 21st March Eve, i was part of User Group conference meet along with other User Group leads / Members and learned what it takes to run an user group like Mumbai IT Pro or any other.  And on second day, had a delicious dinner with Microsoft Staff, MVPs, User Group Leaders at Oko Pan Asian restaurant, Lalit Ashok. On 3rd Day, we acknowledged what Microsoft want to hear from us / User Groups, MVPs, Student Partners in a Meeting with DPE Evangelism Director – Harish Vaidyanathan.

These 3 days were awesomest things to experience, got a chance to meet Industry people, knowing there lots to learn, understanding how we can build a better society with these Technologies, choosing a perfect opportunity swinging around us. Overall it was a perfect package, it was a great experience, really enjoyable.

The Point is Technology will come and go, there always be an another Tech-Ed, but there’s one thing every attendee should know ‘Tech-Ed is all about 3 things – Goodies, Goodies, Goodies’ . Yeah, you hear me right, Microsoft deta hai chappar phad ke. This time Microsoft was giving away Windows Phone, Windows 8 Tablet, Certifications, T-shirts, Traveling Bags and many more. Not only Microsoft, other firms like Nokia, Intel, Plural sight, Plantronics etc.. were also in the list.

To know more What Happens in Tech-Ed India 2012 check out this film ‘Tech-Ed Journey’ Directed / Created by me.  And if you want to learn few sessions from Tech-Ed visit http://www.istream.com/news/show/570/.

All Pictures are uploaded over here.

Welcome to the largest technology event in India – Microsoft TechEd India 2012. Register now to attend the conference for hands-on learning, deep product exploration and opportunities to connect with industry and Microsoft experts one-to-one.

We are excited to be back in India’s Silicon Valley for the third time in a row, after the overwhelming participation that made TechEd the most tweeted event last year.

Indicative statistics from past TechEds suggest that this year too, more than 50 percent of the attendees will be developers, around 22 percent will be IT professionals, and over three percent will be CXOs; a sampling from over 250,000 attendees pegged to participate online and onsite.

You can expect deep-dive sessions and extensive learning through labs, technical sessions and live interactions with experts who shall converge from around the globe.

We welcome you to make the best of this opportunity and share your passion for technology at this year’s TechEd.

Harness the TechEd energy to drive your big ideas this year. Join us as we ‘to Big’!

Register today at http://www.india.msteched.com and look out for exciting offers on group bookings.

One such oppurtunity was provided by our very own MumbaiITPro Usergroup to all the technology lovers- especially the ITPRO’s(who turned out to be the lucky ones indeed).

MITP, for the first time introduced a two-day session/training for the IT Pro’s which was purely certification oriented. The intention of the two-day program was to make people aware and simultaneously expert on one of the hottest and at the same time widely used topic in every IT organization – VIRTUALIZATION.  Its the technology (which many of you might be wondering/might have heard or probably may have worked upon), which has definitely prooved to be a major factor in reducing costs for almost every organization.

This was indeed the luckiest thing for the ITPRO’s to gain the knowledge and simultaneously be certified on one of the hottest booming topic Virtualization. (Paper 70-659 : Microsoft Certified Virtualization Specialist).

This two-day(full-time) event was held on 17th and 18th of December, at Microsoft Office Campus – Santacruz, Kalina and was conducted by the experts in the Virtualization field - Mr. Bharat Gupta(MCT, MCVS), Mr. Shabbir Ahmed(MCT,CCIE,MCVS) and Mr. Muhammed(MCVS)

As the objective of the the session was purely to get people certified on Microsoft’s Virtualization Platform,the whole training plan was divided into two days covering the entire course-ware and core concepts.

Day-1 started with introduction to the core topic-Virtualization, its benefits, why its so powerful and widely used these days. The program clearly focused on the Microsoft’s Virtualization Product- Hyper-V!!

It covered right from the basic concepts as to what is Hyper-V, why is it better than other vendors etc to the actual core technical concepts like architecture, type 1 – type 2, Monolithic and Micro-Kernel, Hyper-V Clusters etc.

Post-Lunch session involved a few demos on the product itself. The speaker had created a small lab set-up for demonstrating the concepts to the audience. The demos actually really helped the participants in grasping and understanding the core concepts of the Hyper-V product.

The agenda for the Day-2 was decided such that after the entire course-ware is covered by our speaker – Mr. Bharat, the participants will be benefitted by a quick walkthrough again at the end by our co-speaker Mr. Shabbir Ahmed.

Day-2 was a more hectic as the participants were emerged in the core concepts involving Hyper-V Clusters, Snapshots, Storage Management etc. The speaker also showed us the usage of one of the products from  Microsoft’s System Center Suite – SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager)

Bharta provided a brief outline as to why SCVMM is required im managing the entire Virtual Machines. Bharat also provided demos on creating Hyper-V Cluster, Taking Snapshots, P2V and V2V implementation, importing and exporting of the Virtual Machines etc.

Post -Lunch demos were pretty interesting and kept the participants on their toes to grasp more.

Finally, our co-speaker Mr. Shabbir Ahmed provided a brief outline on the Licensing Structure of the Microsoft Product along with the walk-through of the course-ware.

Day-2 was concluded by providing the participants with discount coupons for the certification exam.

I would like to conclude by thanking the combined efforts of the whole MITP team for organising such a wonderful technical event and that too within a short-time.

I can’t resist to provide a special thanks to Mr. Vinay Mane for feeding me and the participants with that awesome food for both the days.
Special thanks to the Caterers – again brought.hired by Vinay. Trust me guys the food was really awesome.

All the required resources along with the  photos and videos of the events to be uploaded soon.

P.S : The certification is to be given before 31st December, 2011 by the registered participants.

Thanks,
Harmesh Rohira

• Do I really need a IT certification in addition to the university degree?
• What is the value of an IT Certification in the IT industry?
• I am not an IT graduate, does IT certification help?
• Why not only do a training course?

Further to the new Get Certified initiative by the volunteers of MumbaiITPro, we have a collection of resources from Microsoft that will help with a

Though you get several other options to find your answer, here are some important ones with reference to this certification program:-

Do you really need to get certified in Virtualization technology?

So how do you get started being certified as Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and what is it all about?

Understand the exam policies and for every query, get answers here.

Do you have more resources worth sharing? Do let us know in the comments or on the forum.

In just three short years, Hyper-V market share has grown over 16% (IDC WW Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, March 2011) and in July 2011 Gartner released its Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure placed Microsoft in the Leaders quadrant. This shift to Microsoft Virtualization has been clear the past six months as IT Professionals are flocking to the Hyper-V certification and Microsoft Private Cloud solutions. It’s easy to see that organizations who invest in IT Professionals with proven skills in current virtualization and Private Cloud skills will be a step ahead in this ever-changing cloud world.

Get the right skills to move ahead:

Virtualization helps organizations save costs, increase resource availability, and improve agility. Virtualization is a rapidly growing trend in the IT marketplace and a vital step in moving your IT infrastructure to the cloud. But to get the most value, you need the right skills.

To join the ranks of the most skilled IT virtualization professionals, Microsoft suggests to start with Exam 70-659: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization certification.

MumbaiITPro user group organizes a 2 days virtualization certification training program on Exam 70-659. The event happens on 17th and 18th December, 2011 and it is mandatory to get certified as Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization after you pass the Exam 70-659.

Exam 70-659: TS: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization: counts as credit toward the following certification(s):

Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Windows Server 2008 R2, Virtualization Administrator

The certification training program will be held at “Microsoft Corporation (I) Pvt. Ltd., 4th Floor, Windsor, Kalina, Santacruz (East), Mumbai – 400 098, India”

More details about this training program can be found in this Training FAQ and Agenda.

Download Registration Form and get in touch with our volunteers who are available all over Mumbai (Western, Central) and Navi Mumbai. All details are updated on the Training FAQ. In case of any queries, we have the discussions forum open.

Learn more about Microsoft Certifications.

REGISTRATIONS CLOSED

[Update: 12th December, 2011]

Thank You everyone for the overwhelming response. We have reached our registration limit and is the time now we officially close the registrations. Please stay updated with our future events on the website.