Want to get up to speed, fast, with PowerShell? SharePoint MVPs Dan Holme and Gary Lapointe join forces to accelerate your learning curve in this one-of-a-kind workshop, live and online. You’ll be working at full throttle, administering and automating SharePoint configuration and management, by the end of three intensive and highly practical sessions.

First, Dan Holme starts the engine with his PowerShell Jump Start. If you’re new to PowerShell, or new to using PowerShell with SharePoint, you’ll discover just how easy it is to use Windows PowerShell and you’ll learn how to learn PowerShell. Dan will introduce the SharePoint object model and the cmdlets that allow you to build and report the logical structure of SharePoint web applications, site collections, and sites.

Then, PowerShell über-guru Gary Lapointe takes the wheel, guiding you through the concepts and skills you need to move from the Management Shell to remote management and scripting. You’ll tackle conditional expressions, iteration, error trapping and more, and you’ll apply what you learn to common SharePoint administrative tasks.

Finally, Gary steps on the gas, with a session packed with real-world administrative challenges and the PowerShell solutions that solve them. When this journey comes to an end, you’ll be screaming for more, and you’ll be ready to take what you’ve learned back to your own SharePoint farm.

You have Windows 7 licenses, but you’re not ready to deploy? Do your Windows 7 deployment skills need more than just a training class? If so, you’re in the right place!WDS, MDT, WSIM, WAIK, USMT, ACT, and MAP, all encompass Microsoft’s alphabet soup of deployment tool acronyms. These products are all free. You can download them right off Microsoft’s website. Yet while downloading them is simple, assembling all the pieces to create a working solution is far from it.

HTML 5 is all the rage today. Learning HTML 5 will ensure that your web applications will work across many different browsers. Of course, that is once all browsers support HTML 5. But that day is coming sooner, rather than later. In this introductory set of webcasts you will learn the new HTML 5 tags to help you build better websites. You will also learn new tips and tricks in CSS 3. Finally you will learn how to add some simple reusable styles to spice up your HTML 5 websites.

A new version of ASP.NET MVC is realized approximately every year and brings new features to the table. However, to maximize the return on your investment in learning ASP.NET MVC you need to make sure you use existing features and capabilities effectively. Recipes and built-in features are great and welcome, but design is what makes them shine. This series of webcasts focuses on keeping your ASP.NET code clean, readable, and easy to maintain. In three sessions, you’ll learn how to make your controller classes thin by using layers and dependency injection and how to keep them readable by moving infrastructure code out of methods. Finally, you’ll learn how to structure your JavaScript code to avoid spaghetti code.

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In this series of classes, Microsoft technology expert John Savill will walk you through eight key technology areas. You’ll come away with not only a solid Microsoft technical foundation but also the skills needed to architect and manage a well-designed datacenter using the latest technologies.