Want to get up to speed, fast, with PowerShell? SharePoint MVPs Dan Holme and Gary Lapointe join forces to accelerate your learning curve in this one-of-a-kind workshop, live and online. You’ll be working at full throttle, administering and automating SharePoint configuration and management, by the end of three intensive and highly practical sessions. First, Dan Holme starts the engine with his PowerShell Jump Start. Then, PowerShell über-guru Gary Lapointe takes the wheel, guiding you through the concepts and skills you need to move from the Management Shell to remote management and scripting. Finally, Gary steps on the gas, with a session packed with real-world administrative challenges and the PowerShell solutions that solve them.

You have Windows 7 licenses, but you’re not ready to deploy? Do your Windows 7 deployment skills need more than just a training class? If so, you’re in the right place! WDS, MDT, WSIM, WAIK, USMT, ACT, and MAP, all encompass Microsoft’s alphabet soup of deployment tool acronyms. These products are all free. You can download them right off Microsoft’s website. Yet while downloading them is simple, assembling all the pieces to create a working solution is far from it.

HTML 5 is all the rage today. Learning HTML 5 will ensure that your web applications will work across many different browsers. Of course, that is once all browsers support HTML 5. But that day is coming sooner, rather than later. In this introductory set of webcasts you will learn the new HTML 5 tags to help you build better websites. You will also learn new tips and tricks in CSS 3. Finally you will learn how to add some simple reusable styles to spice up your HTML 5 websites.

A new version of ASP.NET MVC is realized approximately every year and brings new features to the table. However, to maximize the return on your investment in learning ASP.NET MVC you need to make sure you use existing features and capabilities effectively. Recipes and built-in features are great and welcome, but design is what makes them shine. This series of webcasts focuses on keeping your ASP.NET code clean, readable, and easy to maintain. In three sessions, you’ll learn how to make your controller classes thin by using layers and dependency injection and how to keep them readable by moving infrastructure code out of methods. Finally, you’ll learn how to structure your JavaScript code to avoid spaghetti code.

In this series of classes, Microsoft technology expert John Savill will walk you through eight key technology areas. You’ll come away with not only a solid Microsoft technical foundation but also the skills needed to architect and manage a well-designed datacenter using the latest technologies.
Administrators face a hideous battle today with more demands on technology from the business and an ever increasing number of technologies. This series will give you the edge to stay ahead of the curve. You’ll gain the expertise needed to take your datacenter and your organization’s entire IT approach into 2013 and beyond with confidence. Each Master Class builds on the previous one, giving you the opportunity to put into practice skills learned before building on that knowledge with the next unit. With nearly a full weeks’ worth of content spread over a four-month period you’ll gain a huge amount of knowledge in easy-to-absorb units to ensure you gain the most benefit.
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