Three of my colleagues who also took the exam already got email messages this weekend congratulating them. I did not receive any…bummer, I thought. But checking the Certiport and MCP sites showed me that I also passed.
Information on my MCP member site:
On my Certiport member site:
In my search for a PowerShell warmup script for a SP2010 farm I found two blogs with scripts. I did not have the opportunity yet to change the scripts to my liking but I did not want to wait blogging this. So here they are:
This script uses stsadm to hit the pages. All credits to [...]
An hour ago I have finished the beta exam 77-886 MOS SharePoint 2010. It was not that hard. I got all 87 questions. There were a lot of simulation questions and a few multiple choice.
Mainly the questions were about managing lists and libraries, web parts, my site, search and also parts of central administration.
Here you can find [...]
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I first read about the beta exam at this Born to Learn blogpost.
The Microsoft Learning site concerning this exam can be found here.
All Certiport Test Centers for the SharePoint beta exam are in this PDF document. More details can be asked at the Certiport beta coordinator (betacoordinator (at) certiport.com).
Please come back later. I shall update [...]
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Centric NL mailed me back that taking the test in their Diemen based test center is possible. But with JSR (www.jsr.nl) I made an appointment that I will take the test in their test center in Zoetermeer. Probably next monday, May 23.
Certiport also indicated that Compu’train is able to host the exam in [...]
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Recently I read, like a lot of you, about the new beta exam 77-886. But unfortunately for all Dutch SharePoint users there are no test centers on the list.
So I have send an email to the Beta Coordinator about this and asking her if any centers in the Netherlands will participate.
I received this answer:
Thank you [...]
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During BPCUK I have taken pictures of all speakers of the sessions I attended. Also some pictures of London and the stands. For more pictures go to the photo album on my facebook page.
Steve Smith and “The Queen”
Rick Taylor
Mike FitzMaurice
Started today with Agnes Molnar’s session about document sets. Not so much a deep dive as I hoped. Sawn some nice things but nothing spectacular.
Continued with Michael Noel about Planning extranet environments with SharePoint 2010. A lot of info about FIM and UAG architecture. Tip: use UAG instead of SharePoint authentication. Interesting session.
Third session of the [...]
Yesterday evening we had SharePint in The Old Star near the Conference Center. A lot of visitors and a lot of beer!
I started today with Rick Taylor about Identity Management. Tip: when to use FIM (Forefront Identity Management) which is not working with a lot of SharePoint products or SharePoint FIM, which is, but is not [...]
An exciting first day at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in London.
Today I followed sessions of Brad Smith, Laura Rogers, Gary Lapointe, Darvish Shadravan and Stuart Cochrane & Mark Stokes.
Laura Rogers was nice (her session also ). Good info about DVWP, XSLT and conditional formatting.
Gary did a very good session I think. I learned a [...]
