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Getting Started with Microsoft #Windows10 for IT Professionals

MVA Windows 10 Deployment

Azure AD ConnectLogon directly with Windows 10 in Microsoft Azure Active Directory

As an IT Pro, how can you securely enable your organization with Windows 10? Find out, in this practical and informative course. Windows offers management features that empower IT professionals to address the current shift toward a mobile workplace, a realization of heterogeneous ecosystems, bring your own device (BYOD) and choose your own device (CYOD) scenarios, and the cloud.

Walk through what’s new in Windows 10 deployment and management, with a team of experts. Look at runtime provisioning, mobile device management (MDM), secure authentication, and much more. Plus, find out what Windows as a Service means for you and your organization.

01 | What’s New in Windows 10 deployment
Focus on upgrading, provisioning, and Wipe-and-Load installations of Windows 10. Take a look at the tools that IT Professionals can use to make Windows 10 deployment happen.
02 | What’s New in Windows 10 Management and the Windows Store

Explore traditional management, with Group Policy, System Center and related components, and mobile device management, which we added in Windows 8.1 and enhanced in Windows 10.

03 | Runtime Provisioning in Windows 10

Since it’s time-prohibitive to re-image a machine, find out the benefits of runtime provisioning (and get precious time back).

04 | Windows 10 Mobile Device Management MDM

Take a closer look at today’s MDM challenges, through more granular device management capabilities.

05 | Protecting Your Data with Containers Without Boxing Yourself In

Since a majority of data leaks happen accidentally, learn how Windows 10 addresses this, without additional cumbersome steps.
06 | A New Era of Threat Resistance for the Windows 10 Platform
Get the details on how Windows 10 addresses ​evolving cyber-threats, with a new approach.

07 | Secure Authentication with Windows Hello
Find out how easy multifactor authentication is now. Learn how to secure your organization via included biometric capabilities made available in Windows 10​. ​

08 | Windows as a Service: What does it mean for your business?
Find out how easy multifactor authentication is now. Learn how to secure your organization via included biometric capabilities made available in Windows 10​. ​

Recommended Resources and Next Steps :
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What’s New in Windows Server 2016 Preview Jump Start #Winserv #Hyperv #NanoServer #MVA

Windows Server 2016

Follow the MVA Jumpstart Course What’s New in Windows Server 2016 Preview

Live Event Details
August 18‒19, 2015
9am‒1pm PDT

Course Outline:

  • Introducing Windows Server 2016 Preview
  • Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2016 Preview
  • Introducing Nano Server
  • Introducing Windows and Hyper-V Containers
  • Software-Defined Storage in Windows Server 2016 Preview
  • Software-Defined Networking in Windows Server 2016 Preview
  • Automation in Windows Server 2016 Preview

Register here on Microsoft Virtual Academy


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#Microsoft Virtual Academy #MVA Take The Challenge and Let’s Rock n Roll

MVA Rock and Roll

Which track will you rock?

No matter who you are — an IT pro, a developer or a student — there’s a topic that you know you need to skill up on. Once you accept the gig, Know It. Prove It. offer you eight MVA learning challenges to choose from, each with 28 days worth of learning.

Select an MVA learning challenge for more information.

MVA Rock

Here you go to the MVA Know IT Prove IT site

The ultimate learning challenge starts 2.1.15 (PST), lot of success and Fun !


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#Microsoft Virtual Academy is the place to be……. #Learning #sysctr #Azure #SQL #Office365 #Sharepoint #MVA

MVA Learning

What is MVA?

Successful technologists never stop learning and great technology never stops evolving. Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) offers online Microsoft training delivered by experts to help technologists continually learn, with hundreds of Microsoft training courses, in 14 different languages. Our mission is to help developers, knowledgeable IT professionals and advanced students learn the latest technology, build their skills, and advance their careers. Through MVA, we offer free Microsoft training, and the entire service is hosted on Windows Azure.

Become an MVA member so that you can earn points for your learning, achieve different levels of badges and status relative to others in your country or around the world, and get certificates when you complete an entire online training course. Your personal dashboard helps you track your progress against your personal learning plans.

MVA learning opportunities combine on-demand Microsoft training courses and live events:
•On-demand, free Microsoft training courses help you learn at your own pace, and when the time is right for your busy schedule.
•MVA’s exciting live online courses include Jump Start training, where you can interact with experts and a worldwide audience of learners from around the world. Through this method of interactive online training, our instructors and subject matter experts will answer the questions you pose in real time chat sessions so that you can apply what you learn right away.

Developers who want to learn how to build apps for the web, Windows or Windows Phone can explore our free Microsoft training courses on App Development training, HTML5 training, C# training including XAML, Game Development training, Cloud Development, Mobile App Development, Web Development and mobile development training.

IT Pros who are looking to evaluate, deploy, administer, update, and manage infrastructure in their organization should checkout our hundreds of online IT training courses. Topics include Management and Security training, Windows Server training, Office 365 training, Windows 8 training, Windows Azure training, Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud Training and Business Intelligence.

From here you go to Microsoft Virtual Academy

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#Microsoft Virtual Academy Free E-books Site #MVA #sysctr #Hyperv #Azure #SQL #Winserv #Education

MVA Ebooks Site

When you want to learn more about all the Microsoft Products like :

  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V
  • System Center 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Azure
  • App Development in the Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2014
  • Windows 8.1
  • and More……….

You have to go to this awesome Microsoft Virtual Academy site for Free E-books

MVA Elevate

And ofcourse you can follow online Microsoft Courses and Live Events at Microsoft Virtual Academy site for Free

 


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Learn More about #CloudOS with Microsoft Virtual Academy for Free #sysctr #Azure #Winserv

MVA Mountainss logo

What is MVA?

Successful technologists never stop learning and great technology never stops evolving. Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) offers online Microsoft training delivered by experts to help technologists continually learn, with hundreds of courses, in 11 different languages. Our mission is to help developers, knowledgeable IT professionals and advanced students learn the latest technology, build their skills, and advance their careers. MVA is free of charge, and the entire service is hosted on Microsoft Azure. Become an MVA member so that you can earn points for your learning, achieve different levels of badges and status relative to others in your country or around the world, and get certificates when you complete an entire course. Your personal dashboard helps you track your progress against your personal learning plans. MVA learning opportunities combine on-demand courses and live events:

•On-demand courses help you learn at your own pace, and when the time is right for your busy schedule.
•MVA’s exciting live events include Jump Start training and MVA Live Q&A where you can interact with experts, and a worldwide audience of learners from around the world. Our instructors and subject matter experts will answer the questions you pose in real time chat sessions so that you can apply what you learn right away.

Developers who want to learn how to build apps for the web, Windows or Windows Phone can explore our courses on App Development training, HTML5 training, C# training, and Windows Phone app development.

IT Pros who are looking to evaluate, deploy, administer, update, and manage infrastructure in their organization should checkout our online courses on Windows Server training, Windows 8 training, Microsoft Azure training, and Microsoft Virtualization.

For Microsoft CloudOS you can follow these great Courses on Microsoft Virtual Academy site :

Microsoft AzureMicrosoft Azure

Microsoft Azure Cloud Services Courses

System Center 2012 R2Microsoft System Center

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Courses

Windows Server 2012 R2 Hybrid CloudMicrosoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Courses

Learn a lot about Microsoft and have FUN with these great courses on MVA 🙂

See also these downloads and Explore the Free Virtual Labs Online :

Windows Server 2012 R2Hyperv 2012 R2Sysctr

 

 

 

 

Virtual LABS


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Virtualizing Your Data Center with #Hyperv and System Center Free online event #sysctr #MVA

MVA Virtualizing your Datacenter
Virtualizing Your Data Center with Hyper-V and System Center
Free online event with live Q&A: http://aka.ms/virtDC
Wednesday, February 19th from 9am – 5pm PST
 
If you’re new to virtualization, or if you have some experience and want to see the latest R2 features of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V or Virtual Machine Manager, join us for a day of free online training with live Q&A to get all your questions answered. Learn how to build your infrastructure from the ground up on the Microsoft stack, using System Center to provide powerful management capabilities. Microsoft virtualization experts Symon Perriman and Matt McSpirit (who are also VMware Certified Professionals) demonstrate how you can help your business consolidate workloads and improve server utilization, while reducing costs. Learn the differences between the platforms, and explore how System Center can be used to manage a multi-hypervisor environment, looking at VMware vSphere 5.5 management, monitoring, automation, and migration. Even if you cannot attend the live event, register today anyway and you will get an email once we release the videos for on-demand replay! 
 
Topics include
•        Introduction to Microsoft Virtualization
•        Host Configuration
•        Virtual Machine Clustering and Resiliency
•        Virtual Machine Configuration
•        Virtual Machine Mobility
•        Virtual Machine Replication and Protection
•        Network Virtualization
•        Virtual Machine and Service Templates
•        Private Clouds and User Roles
•        System Center 2012 R2 Data Center
•        Virtualization with the Hybrid Cloud
•        VMware Management, Integration, and Migration
 
Register here: http://aka.ms/virtDC
 
Also check out the www.MicrosoftVirtualAcademy.com for other free training and live events.


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Following courses on #Microsoft System Center 2012 via MVA #sysctr

System Center 2012

System Center 2012 helps you manage your IT environments across traditional datacenters, private and public clouds, client computers, and devices. Using these integrated and automated management capabilities, you can become a trusted IT service provider for your business. System Center 2012 captures and aggregates knowledge about systems, policies, processes, and best practices so that you can optimize your infrastructure to reduce costs, improve application availability, and enhance service delivery.

By completing the following courses on System Center 2012, you will gain in-depth knowledge on the new System Center 2012 product, and each of its component technologies. In addition, you’ll build the necessary skills to grow in your IT role and career through Microsoft’s System Center 2012 technology.

Courses:

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Microsoft free online learning with MVA and Technet Virtual Labs for the IT pro

Microsoft Virtual Academy

Improve your IT skill set and help advance your career with a free, easy to access training portal. Learn at your own pace, focusing on Microsoft technologies, gain points and get recognition.
For the IT Pro is this the Virtual Academy free learning portal from Microsoft to go to.
They have the following courses allready :

Go here to the Microsoft MVA free portal yourself

TechNet Virtual Labs enable you to quickly evaluate and test Microsoft’s newest products and technologies through a series of guided, hands-on labs that you can complete in 90 minutes or less.
You get a real online Hyper-V environment with the Microsoft product you choose to evaluate.

Go here to the Microsoft Technet Virtual Labs yourself

Here under you see the pictures of Virtual Lab Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 :