Thursday, May 31, 2012

System Center 2012 is Here!

One of this summer’s hottest products is System Center 2012.  The new classes are rolling out, the seats are going fast.  I wanted to take this week’s entry to introduce the various 2012 System Center courses and allow everyone to get a jump on the product itself.


This course describes how to plan and deploy a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager hierarchy, including the central administration site, one or more primary sites and secondary sites, and all associated site systems. This course also covers migration from System Center Configuration Manager 2007.  This course helps people prepare for exam 70-243.


This course provides direction on producing a high-level design that accounts for requirements for the private cloud environment. Students will learn how to configure and deploy the application infrastructure, how to configure a pre boot execution environment (PXE) server, an update server, and a software update baseline. Students will learn how to sequence and deploy an application virtually, and how to build the core components that are necessary for delivering services in the infrastructure. They will also allocate resources and grant access to the private cloud.


This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to monitor and operate the private cloud in System Center 2012 in the role of datacenter administrators.


This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to configure and manage a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager site and its associated site systems in the role of Configuration Manager Administrators.

Get your seats reserved ASAP as these classes fill up very quickly!

-Matt

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

It's time to DEVELOP your skills!

Develop as a Developer

If you’re in the development business and looking to hone your skills or even advance them, look no further.  Here at Babbage Simmel we have a large selection of development courses covering web and applications in Visual Studio all the way to SharePoint.  Below are a few of our upcoming development classes that are filling up fast.  Be sure to register online to secure your spot!

This course is intended for Web developers who are beginners and have knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or Dynamic HTML (DHTML), along with some knowledge of a scripting language such as Visual Basic Scripting Edition or Microsoft Jscript.

In this course, students will learn to develop advanced ASP.NET MVC and Web Forms applications using .NET Framework 4 tools and technologies. The focus will be on coding activities that enhance the performance and scalability of the Web site application. ASP.NET MVC will be introduced and compared with Web Forms so that students know when each should/could be used. This will also prepare the student for exam 70-515

This course is intended for professional developers who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large development environment. Members of the audience are experienced users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1. The audience understands how to use the new features of SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010.

M-10266 Programming in C# with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
The course focuses on C# program structure, language syntax, and implementation details with .NET Framework 4.0. This course describes the new enhancements in the C# 4.0 language by using Visual Studio 2010.

This five-day instructor-led course is intended for SharePoint Development professionals who are responsible for leading projects, designing solutions, and identifying problems. In this course, students learn the skills and best practices that are required to help organizations design and develop effective SharePoint applications.

-Matt