Wednesday 19 October 2011

MCITP: Server Administrator Completed

I finished the MCITP: Server Administrator a while ago doing both the 70-642 and the 70-646. I stuck to my tried and tested formula of book(s), labs and testing software. I must say I have really enjoyed doing these exams as it's always good to have proof of all your hard work and knowledge gained.
I enjoyed them so much I have decided to go for the Enterprise Administrator MCITP as well, while I am on a roll. I am currently doing the 70-643 Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuring . This one I am enjoying a lot as the main areas are:

WDS
Hyper V
Clustering
Remote Desktop Services
IIS
Windows Media Services
Sharepoint Foundation

I have also read an additional book on Remote Desktop Services as well, which was the resource Kit from Microsoft which I found to be excellent.
There are many projects at work in the pipeline and one of them is setting up an RDS server farm which is covered in this exam. Currently we have one RDS server but I am looking for load balancing and redundancy so I will be implementing a load balanced cluster for this.
I have been using Virtualbox for my labs but could not get Hyper V to run under it. It will however run fine under VMWare and a proper instance of Hyper V.
Not much else to report really, I never had to use any of my second shot vouchers but MS have put the price of the exams up a little but its the first time in 10 years or something, so that's not too bad I suppose!