{"id":338,"date":"2008-10-30T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=338"},"modified":"2008-10-30T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T13:10:08","slug":"microsoft-virtualization-e-learning-courses-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2008\/10\/microsoft-virtualization-e-learning-courses-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Virtualization e-Learning Courses (Free)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working hard to get IT pros to understand its many different virtualization products and technology.&#160; The list includes Hyper-V, App-V, Terminal Services, and the recently-released System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 management product.&#160; It can be really challenging to keep up-to-date on all of this new technology (especially when some of these things are potential game-changers).&#160; If you&#8217;re willing to invest the time, Microsoft has made numerous e-Learning courses available for online access or download:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/elearning\/course\/6333.mspx\">Free virtualization e-learning collection<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take Microsoft E-Learning Collection 6333: Exploring Microsoft Virtualization Technologies for free! Collection 6333 includes the following: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/elearning\/course\/5935.mspx\">Clinic 5935: Introducing Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/elearning\/course\/6334.mspx\">Clinic 6334: Exploring Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/elearning\/course\/6335.mspx\">Clinic 6335: Exploring Microsoft Application Virtualization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/learning\/elearning\/course\/6336.mspx\">Clinic 6336: Exploring Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Click on the links for the entire Collection, or for individual courses to add them to your e-Learning Library.&#160; You&#8217;ll need to login with a Windows Live ID to activate the content.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;ve used dozens of e-Learning courses (mostly free ones, I&#8217;ll admit) to learn the technical details that aren&#8217;t always readily available on the product marketing web sites.&#160; Most courses are fairly in-depth (including code samples where appropriate), but there are usually some rough edges that seem to be remnants from beta versions of the courses.&#160; Overall, though, I think they&#8217;re an excellent resources.&#160; And, all of the courses listed above are available for the convenient and affordable price of <em>free<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is working hard to get IT pros to understand its many different virtualization products and technology.&#160; The list includes Hyper-V, App-V, Terminal Services, and the recently-released System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 management product.&#160; It can be really challenging to keep up-to-date on all of this new technology (especially when some of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17,30,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-tips","category-vm-management","category-general-systems-admin","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}