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System Center Configuration Manager Administrator
Sunday, January 04, 2009 12:52 PM

I was talking to another senior ConfigMgr guy today, who is thinking of updating his certification. We talked about what certification he should get to meet his goals. Anyway after reviewing my blog post about System Center Configuration Manager Enterprise Administrator , he said “Wow that is a lot of certs!”. I thought about and following the idea of MCSE and... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: 70-401, ConfigMGr, Study group, 70-640, 70-643, 70-642, Training, self-study, 70-620, 70-622, exam, 70-624, 70-635

1st Anniversary
Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:30 AM

Well today is 1 st anniversary of me taking steps to upgrade my certifications to Windows 2003 / Windows 2008. As many of you know I have blog about my experiences with all the exams. So this blog post is designed to talk about a few things. Which exam I write and pass? Which certifications did I achieve? What exam tips can I give you? Which exams did I write... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Virtual Server , User Groups, 70-401, ConfigMGr, 70-400, MOM, Study group, SMS, OpsMgr, 70-299, 70-640, 70-643, 70-642, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, Ottawa, 70-620, 70-536, 70-293, 70-622, 70-294, SCVMM, Vista, exam, 70-652, 70-403, 70-402, 70-624, Q&A, 70-298, A+, SQL, Windows 2003, 70-649, 70-646, 70-647, 70-431, MDT, 70-635

Job posting
Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:47 PM

Make sure that you stop by the OWSUG Job forums. There have been 10 new posting within the last month with more that half of them for Microsoft! Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Virtual Server , User Groups, 70-401, 70-400, MOM, Study group, SMS, OpsMgr, Canada, Fun Links, SoftGrid, 70-299, 70-640, 70-643, 70-642, MS Support, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, Podcast, System Center, Ottawa, 70-620, 70-536, 70-293, 70-622, 70-294, SCMDM, SCSM, SCE, SCVMM, Vista, exam, 70-652, 70-403, 70-402, MVP, Code, VS 2008, 70-624, Q&A, 70-298, A+, SQL, Windows 2003, 70-649, 70-646, 70-647, 70-431, MCSE, Hyper-v, WQL, MDT, 70-635

70-640 Week 22
Monday, October 27, 2008 8:45 AM

TODAY is the second and last week of EXAM Review day! Please remember to sign up for tonight session and good luck on your exam! Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam

70-640 Week 20 Q&A Answer
Friday, October 17, 2008 8:10 AM

What are AD FS four service roles? Answer: Federation Service Federation Service Proxy Claims-Aware Agent Windows Token-Based Agent Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 20
Monday, October 13, 2008 8:41 AM

This is the last week of reading before exam, review! Please make sure that you sign up for the exam review sessions, so we know how many people are planing to attend. This weeks reading for the self study group is: 17.2 Confiruation and Usering Activie Directoru Federation Services 21 21 Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam

70-640 Week 20 Q&A
Monday, October 13, 2008 8:11 AM

What are AD FS four service roles? Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 19
Monday, October 06, 2008 8:39 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 16.2 Configuring and Using Directory Right Management Services 16 45 17.1 Understadnign Active Directory Federation Services 29 Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam

70-640 Week 19 Q&A
Monday, October 06, 2008 8:06 AM

What AD RMS roles has read-only access to the AD RMS logs? Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 18 Q&A Answer
Friday, October 03, 2008 8:12 AM

What is CRL? Answer: Certificate Revocation List Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 18
Monday, September 29, 2008 8:38 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 15.2 Configuring and Using Directory Certificate Services 28 55 16.1 Understanding and Installing Active Directory Rights 27 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 18 Q&A
Monday, September 29, 2008 8:14 AM

What is CRL? Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 17 Q&A Answer
Friday, September 26, 2008 8:31 AM

What versions of Windows 2008 can be used to publish PKI certs to AD? Windows 2008 Web Windows 2008 Web Core Windows 2008 Standard Windows 2008 Standard Core Windows 2008 Enterprise Windows 2008 Enterprise Core Windows 2008 Datacenter Windows 2008 Datacenter Core Answer Windows 2008 Enterprise Windows 2008 Datacenter Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 17 Q&A
Monday, September 22, 2008 8:32 AM

What versions of Windows 2008 can be used to publish PKI certs to AD? Windows 2008 Web Windows 2008 Web Core Windows 2008 Standard Windows 2008 Standard Core Windows 2008 Enterprise Windows 2008 Enterprise Core Windows 2008 Datacenter Windows 2008 Datacenter Core Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 16 Q&A Answer
Friday, September 19, 2008 8:21 AM

When does WSRM polices kicks in? Answer: 70% of CPU utilization is when WSRM kicks in. Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

Microsoft Exam Questions
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:39 AM

Another questions that comes up in every study group session is, “What type of question can I expect?” I never been able to true explain what type of questions someone should expect on the exam. I finally found a way to explain what type of questions you can expect on the exam. Here is a simulation of all the exam question types. Hot area questions - This kind... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, 70-401, 70-400, Study group, 70-299, 70-640, 70-643, 70-642, Training, self-study, 70-620, 70-536, 70-293, 70-622, 70-294, exam, 70-652, 70-403, 70-402, 70-624, 70-298, 70-649, 70-646, 70-647, 70-431

70-640 week 16
Monday, September 15, 2008 8:35 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 13.2 Proactive Directory Preformance Management 25 41 14.1 Understanding and Installing AD LDS 16 Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam

70-640 Week 16 Q&A
Monday, September 15, 2008 8:23 AM

When does WSRM polices kicks in?   Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 15 Q&A Answer
Friday, September 12, 2008 8:32 AM

Where, how can you find the tombstone container? What is it used for? The tombstone container is used to store AD objects for a period of time before they are removed from AD. The tombstone container is found at cn=deleted objects, dc=<domainname>, dc=<network name net, com, ca, etc> You need to use LDP.exe or a 3rd party tool to access this container... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 15
Monday, September 08, 2008 8:34 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 13.1 Proactive Directory Maintenance and Data store Protection 53 53 Read More...

by Garth Jones

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70-640 Week 15 Q&A
Monday, September 08, 2008 8:34 AM

Where, how can you find the tombstone container? What is it used for? Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

How to book your Microsoft exam
Monday, September 08, 2008 8:16 AM

This question is one that comes up from anyone who has never booked an exam before. So I will provide a step by step with screen shots on how to book your exam. Note : In some cases I have removed personal details. Go to http://www.prometric.com/microsoft/default.htm Click the Schedule, Reschedule, Cancel, or Confirm an Exam link Click Schedule an Appointment... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, 70-401, 70-400, Study group, 70-299, 70-640, 70-643, 70-642, Training, self-study, 70-620, 70-536, 70-293, 70-622, 70-294, exam, 70-652, 70-624, 70-298, 70-649, 70-646, 70-647, 70-431

70-649
Friday, September 05, 2008 1:44 PM

Well I passed it, this morning!!! Man that was nice, 3 exams done in one shot!!! I think that I am the first one for the study group to pass all three exams! I know that Todd was close because he took and passed two of the beta exams! Even better I got a score of 1000 on the 70-640 exam section too! 850+ on the others. All this studying will help me led the study... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, 70-643, 70-642, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, 70-649

70-640 Week 14 Q&A Answer
Friday, September 05, 2008 8:44 AM

Which tool provide a wizard that can perform object and security translations tasks? Answer: Active Directory Migration Tool Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 14 Q&A
Monday, September 01, 2008 8:45 AM

Which tool provide a wizard that can perform object and security translations tasks? Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 13 Q&A Answer
Friday, August 29, 2008 8:39 AM

What are the forest and domain functional levels? Forest: Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Windows 2008 Domain: Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Windows 2008 Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 14
Friday, August 29, 2008 8:32 AM

I posted this early because of the long weekend. Have a good long weekend. This weeks reading for the self study group is: 12.2 Managing Multiple Domain and Trust Relationships 40 40 Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-640, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam

Self-Study group 70-299,640,642, & 643
Monday, August 25, 2008 12:09 PM

The OWSUG Self-study group exam review sessions have been posted. Space is very limited, please book only for the session you will attending and have already reviewed the material ! These sessions assume that you have reviewed the matter and will be only answering questions that you might have. Location: CTE Solutions Inc. 11 Holland Avenue, Suite 100 Ottawa... Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: Study group, 70-299, 70-640, 70-643, EnergizeIT, 70-642, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Windows 2003

70-640 Week 13 Q&A
Monday, August 25, 2008 8:43 AM

What are the forest and domain functional levels? Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, EnergizeIT, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam, Q&A

70-640 Week 13
Monday, August 25, 2008 8:31 AM

This weeks reading for the self study group is: 11.2 Configuring the Global Catalog and Application Directory Partitions 9 45 11.3 Configuring Replication 24 12.1 Understanding Domain and Forest Functional Levels 12 Read More...

by Garth Jones

Filed under: User Groups, Study group, 70-640, Training, Windows 2008, self-study, exam

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