I was just discussing with a colleague earlier about how big the Microsoft site is: you can’t see the forest from the trees.\u00a0 I’ve been a TechNet subscriber for over 2 years.\u00a0 I haven’t even looked at one of the services bundled with it.\u00a0 We get access to a bunch of free Computer Based Training (CBT) courses in Microsoft E-Learning, many of which provide essential materials for MS exams.\u00a0 I also was parsing through my MVP emails.\u00a0 One of the perks we get as MVP’s is vouchers for free E-Learning for those courses that must be paid for.\u00a0 Fantastic!<\/p>\n
I signed into the site and I could browse my free courses from TechNet.\u00a0 There’s some good stuff in there.\u00a0 But, I prefer to read this stuff when I don’t have Internet access, e.g. when I’m on the train or down the countryside on a rainy day where there’s no coverage.\u00a0 Not to worry, there’s a E-Learning Offline Player.\u00a0 You select your course materials and you download them to your laptop.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
That means I can read this stuff when I’m commuting to the office – something I’m doing more often for the next few weeks by the looks of it.\u00a0 At least those 2 hours a day on the train will be put to some good use.\u00a0 I need to upgrade some of my MCSE electives and start bashing out the upgrade exams from MCSE W2003 to MCITP: Server Administrator W2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n The downside?\u00a0 I hate<\/em> exams.\u00a0 It took me 4 years to get around to sitting down for the 2nd W2003 upgrade exam.\u00a0 It wasn’t because of lack of preparation.\u00a0 It was purely because of dread.<\/p>\n Don’t worry if you’re not in these programs, there’s loads of free stuff on Microsoft Learning.\u00a0 If you’re lucky enough to work for a company\/organisation that has an Enterprise Agreement then you may have access to a large library of materials too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was just discussing with a colleague earlier about how big the Microsoft site is: you can’t see the forest from the trees.\u00a0 I’ve been a TechNet subscriber for over 2 years.\u00a0 I haven’t even looked at one of the services bundled with it.\u00a0 We get access to a bunch of free Computer Based Training … Continue reading “Microsoft E-Learning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}