Under The Stairs : training

Microsoft PowerShell V3 Course (10961) Announced

Under The Stairs — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:49:00 GMT

Microsoft’s just published details of it’s ‘official’ course on PowerShell V3 . This is being written by Don Jones, so it should be a pretty solid course. I look forward to teaching this course, which is meant to go live in May. I don’t know who the TE...(read more)

PowerShell Weekend PowerCamp–Coming very soon

Under The Stairs — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:51:00 GMT

As many of you know, I’ve long been an advocate of all IT Pros (and devs!) learning more about PowerShell. There are a lot of ways to do this, and one great way is to attend a short (read 2 day at the weekend), jump start events. And as it happens, there...(read more)

PowerShell Master Class Returns to Stockholm–March 8-10 2011

Under The Stairs — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:53:00 GMT

I’ve just had confirmation from Lab Center that I’ll be running another Introduction to PowerShell master class event in Stockholm on March 8-10. Lab Center is one of the best training centres that I’ve had the privilege to work with – and given the great...(read more)

First PowerShell PowerCamp A Fantastic Success

Under The Stairs — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:32:00 GMT

Last Saturday (Dec 4th) a group of 29 hearty souls sat down at an absurdly early hour and began to experience the first ever weekend PowerShell PowerCamp. After a short intro from super-star technology writer and consultant Jon Honeyball, I took the floor...(read more)

PowerShell Training

Under The Stairs — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:12:00 GMT

I’ve been doing quite a lot of PowerShell training of late for organisations big and small. The biggest organisation was Microsoft’s Hotmail team where I ran a week long class over the summer – organisations with that many servers to manage could not...(read more)

More PowerShell Training

Under The Stairs — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:39:00 GMT

It must be the season – but I’ve got another 5-day PowerShell course coming up in December. I’ll be teaching in London from December 13th – December 17th at Global Knowledge’s Baker Street centre. I’ll be running the full 5-day 10325 PowerShell V2 Microsoft...(read more)

PowerCamp Weekend PowerShell Session–FULL!

Under The Stairs — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:03:00 GMT

WOW – I know PowerShell is on the minds of a lot of IT Pros, but the reaction to the weekend PowerCamp has been pretty overwhelming. We’re full but are taking names of folks for standby should some of the currently committed folks need to backout. However...(read more)

PowerShell Weekend PowerCamp is Full!

Under The Stairs — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:04:00 GMT

In a blog post last week , I announced a weekend PowerShell PowerCamp event. At the time of writing, we had a few folks interested. But following Jon’s article in PC Pro and my blog post – the event has generated a huge amount of interest. The original...(read more)

Weekend PowerShell Camp Event On The Cards

Under The Stairs — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:26:00 GMT

I’ve been advocating PowerShell to folks far and wide over the years – including evangelising it to my pal Jon Honey ball of PC Pro fame. His problem, like a lot of folks, is that there just is never the time to learn it – plus he knows VBS so that’s...(read more)

Microsoft Launches Course 10325–Automating Administration with Windows PowerShell 2.0

Under The Stairs — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:06:00 GMT

Over a year after Microsoft launched Windows PowerShell V2.0, Microsoft Learning has now launched a formal course with the above title. This is long over due but very welcome. From Microsoft’s announcement, this “five-day, instructor-led course...(read more)

PowerShell Master Classes

Under The Stairs — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:56:00 GMT

I’ve been teaching my PowerShell Master Classes both in Europe and in the US over the past 6 months. After two classes in Stockholm, I taught in the US (teaching Microsoft’s Hotmail Engineering team), and in Copenhagen – plus a one-day session for a client...(read more)

Training and the Cloud

Under The Stairs — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:26:00 GMT

I’ve been having some discussions with a client about the impact of cloud computing on the IT training business, particularly IT Professional training. If you believe the hype, cloud computing will take all the problems of running your IT suite and make...(read more)

PowerShell Master Class – More Sessions

Under The Stairs — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:12:00 GMT

I’ve had a gratifying response to my first PowerShell Master Class event . Like all first time runs, you learn some things by running the event. One of which is that three days is not long enough. So future events are not four days. Not that I neede...(read more)

Formatting with PowerShell

Under The Stairs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:53:00 GMT

PowerShell is an increasingly important tool for the IT Admin. In it’s early version, it didn’t do much, but with products like Exchange, SharePoint 2010, and System Centre being so PowerShell focused, it’s a tool every IT Admin needs to learn and learn...(read more)

OCS R2 Training Materials

Under The Stairs — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:54:00 GMT

Microsoft has released an OCS R2 learning Portal – you can find this at: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/ocs2007/r2/default.mspx . It contains some training resources for OCS R2. However, the page is both already out of date, and is short on links...(read more)