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Last
year the New York Enterprise Windows User Group
participated in a Microsoft subsidized MCSE/MCSA
Certification Training pilot program sponsored
by Culminis. During this program we trained
many local IT professionals in four Microsoft
Official Curriculum courses including:
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Twelve in Managing
a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
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Eleven in Maintaining
a Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Environment
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Fourteen in
Implementing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Network Infrastructure: Network Hosts
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Nine in
Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network
Infrastructure: Network Services.
We
also put dozens of members thorough a series of
one day training sessions on Windows Server
2003, Exchange, and Security.
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We
accomplished this through a combination of
daytime, nighttime and on-line training courses
working in conjunction with Microsoft Authorized
Training Centers such as New Horizons and
ThinkPath in New York.
This
pilot program was judged a success, and
Microsoft ended their subsidy at the end of
2003. The reason for this was the desire on the
part of Microsoft to offer further programs such
as this to all Culminis member groups. New
Horizons, however, was so impressed with this
pilot program that they agreed to continue the
same low rates even without the Microsoft
subsidy!
One
unexpected byproduct of this program is that we
impressed two of our member companies (Merrill
Lynch and United Way) so much that they decided
to put our training program into their annual
budget and send multiple staff members through
it.
This is just one more example of the innovative
way that Culminis is helping IT professionals in
its member groups.
Stephen Goodwin, New York Enterprise Windows
User Group VP and Director of Education and
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