I'm certified ;-)

I found the time to sit two of the betas and finish off the other two last week.

They were sensible exams, no stupidly esoteric questions and a fair test of your knowledge.

I'm booked in to take TS: 71-667 - Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring in the morning.

Should be fun

Then I'm taking PRO: 71-668 - Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator on Friday.

Unfortunately I didn't have spare time to book in the developer beta exams. I'll have to do them when they go live.

I just got a place on the SharePoint 2010 Developer Ignite training next week

Microsoft are planning to release two 5 day SP2010 developer focussed courses in June that haven't been released to MCTs yet so this should be a good indication of what will be covered.

Highlight from today

- service applications

this is huge change, No more SSPs, lots of new farm architecture choices. This is going to be fun to teach. Microsoft really need to produce a Sharepoint Architects course for 2010.

I'm sitting on Microsoft's SharePoint Ignite training this week. It's a great opportunity to round out my knowledge of SharePoint 2010 before Microsoft release their new training courses.

There's already been a huge amount written about the new stuff in SharePoint 2010 so I'm not going to repeat what has already been said.

The training is being delivered via Live Meeting and it uses virtual labs. So far the lab experience is painfully slow. This is going to be so much better running on local machines and I'm really looking forward to running the new courses on real hardware

In amongst the flood of new SharePoint 2010 content appearing on MSDN today there are a bunch of Hands on Labs at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm

With beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 being released today as well we just need the the public beta of SharePoint to get goiing...