Wednesday, January 13, 2010

SharePoint 2010 Certifications

IT Professional track

Before taking the 70-668, 70-667 has to be passed.

70-667+ 70-668 = SharePoint 2010 MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional).

70-667 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring

Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover configuration of SharePoint 2010 including deployment, upgrade, management, and operation on a server farm.

70-668 PRO: SharePoint 2010, Administrator

Microsoft Official Curriculum: Will cover advanced SharePoint 2010 topics including capacity planning, topology designing, and performance tuning.

Developer track

Before taking the 70-576, you need to pass the 70-573.

70-573 + 70-576 = SharePoint 2010 MCPD (Microsoft Certified Professional Developer).

70-573 TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development

Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led course designed for developers with six months or more of .NET development experience. Course covers what you need to know to be an effective member of a SharePoint development team using Visual Studio 2010.

70-576 PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

Microsoft Official Curriculum: Five-day instructor-led training course designed for development team leads who have already passed the Developing on SharePoint 2010 technical specialist exam. The course covers choosing technologies for and scoping a SharePoint project, best practices for SharePoint development, configuring a SharePoint development

All SharePoint 2010 exams and certifications will be available in June 2010.

For more information: https://partner.microsoft.com/40121316?msp_id=sharepoint2010ready

Monday, January 04, 2010

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Sunday, January 03, 2010

Windows Vista themes are not applying properly...

I had a problem in getting my default Windows Vista themes back, due to some reason. When I look at my personalization option under control panel. I am getting this for Themes options.
After several analysis, I found that Themes are managed as separate service in Vista. When I checked the same in the service I found that Themes service is Disables/Stopped. Once I started the themes service in my laptop, I got all my default Vista style themes back working fine.


Hope this helps some...

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