Audience Profile
The primary audience for this course is Windows Server 2003/2008 System Administrators who manage and implement Server Virtualization technologies within their network.
The secondary audience for this course is Enterprise System Architects who plan enterprise server resources with an emphasis on server consolidation.

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
•Install and configure Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.
•Understand Hyper-V Virtual Networking.
•Understand the types of Virtual Hard Drives and their benefits.
•Create and manage Virtual Machines on the Hyper-V server.
•Understand how to configure the Hyper-V server to ensure high availability.
•Monitor the performance of the Hyper-V server.
•Understand how to use existing virtual machines in the Hyper-V server.
•Understand the issues with migrating existing Virtual Machines to Hyper-V.
•Understand how System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) can be used to manage Hyper-V servers throughout the enterprise.
•Use PowerShell to manage the Hyper-V server and the virtual machines hosted on the Hyper-V server.
•Implement a disaster recovery plan for Virtual Machines on Hyper-V.

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Table of Contents:
Unit 1: Computer basics
Topic A: Computer components
Topic B: What makes computers work

Unit 2: Managing computer contents
Topic A: Storing items on your computer
Topic B: Working with folders
Topic C: Working with files

Unit 3: Searching for content and using Help
Topic A: Searching for data on your computer
Topic B: Windows Help and Support

Unit 4: Customizing Windows
Topic A: Shortcuts
Topic B: Gadgets
Topic C: System settings

Unit 5: Using the Internet
Topic A: Browsing the Web
Topic B: Customizing Internet Explorer
Topic C: Social networking

Unit 6: Security and maintenance
Topic A: Basic security
Topic B: Routine maintenance

Table of Contents:
Unit 1: Project management
Topic A: Project plans
Topic B: Layer comps
Topic C: Design principles

Unit 2: Color management
Topic A: Color management basics
Topic B: Color space conversion
Topic C: Printing with color management

Unit 3: Photographic techniques
Topic A: The camera raw format
Topic B: Photographic adjustments
Topic C: Lens adjustments
Topic D: Merging images

Unit 4: RGB image adjustments
Topic A: Color correction principles
Topic B: Measuring color
Topic C: Automatic adjustments
Topic D: Curves adjustments
Topic E: Hand-retouching color
Topic F: Color replacement

Unit 5: CMYK separations
Topic A: Prepress color settings
Topic B: CMYK image adjustments
Topic C: Sharpening

Unit 6: Grayscale and spot colors
Topic A: Grayscale conversion
Topic B: Spot-color images
Topic C: Duotones

Unit 7: Web and video images
Topic A: Web image size
Topic B: Optimizing images for the Web
Topic C: Fine-tuning quality
Topic D: Creating transparency
Topic E: Preparing images for video

Table of Contents:
Unit 1: Creating technical layouts
Topic A: Layers
Topic B: Drawing scales
Topic C: Displaying shape dimensions

Unit 2: Custom themes and templates
Topic A: Custom themes
Topic B: Custom templates

Unit 3: Custom shapes and stencils
Topic A: Special drawing operations
Topic B: Shape behaviors
Topic C: Custom stencils

Unit 4: Business diagrams and Web site mapping
Topic A: Block, tree, and onion diagrams
Topic B: Flowcharts
Topic C: Organization charts
Topic D: Project management diagrams
Topic E: Web site maps

Unit 5: Integrating Visio with other programs
Topic A: Integration with Microsoft Word
Topic B: Integration with PowerPoint
Topic C: Integration with Microsoft Outlook
Topic D: Working with Web-enabling features

Unit 6: Software and database diagrams
Topic A: Documenting software systems
Topic B: Database model diagrams

Table of Contents:
Unit 1: Getting started
Topic A: The Visio 2010 interface
Topic B: Windows, stencils, and objects

Unit 2: Drawing tools
Topic A: Basic shapes and lines
Topic B: Compound lines
Topic C: Editing objects

Unit 3: Basic diagrams
Topic A: Planning a diagram
Topic B: Creating a basic diagram
Topic C: Working with text
Topic D: Organization charts

Unit 4: Formatting drawings
Topic A: Formatting text
Topic B: Formatting shapes and lines

Unit 5: Working with pages
Topic A: File and print properties
Topic B: Working with background pages
Topic C: Working with links

Unit 6: Network and brainstorming diagrams
Topic A: Network diagrams
Topic B: Rack diagrams
Topic C: Brainstorming diagrams

Unit 7: Customization and reporting
Topic A: Layout and connection techniques
Topic B: Shape properties
Topic C: Reporting

Table of Contents:
Unit 1: Basic design options
Topic A: Publication setup
Topic B: Custom colors
Topic C: Building blocks
Topic D: The Graphics Manager pane

Unit 2: Typography
Topic A: Styles and font schemes
Topic B: Graphics in typography
Topic C: Precise spacing control
Topic D: Symbols and special characters

Unit 3: Long publications
Topic A: Sections
Topic B: Bookmarks

Unit 4: Mail merge and catalog merge
Topic A: Form letters
Topic B: Data sources for the recipient list
Topic C: Catalog merge

Unit 5: Interactive forms
Topic A: Editing Web forms
Topic B: Modifying form properties

Unit 6: Web site publishing
Topic A: Adding elements to a Web site
Topic B: Finalizing and publishing a site

Unit 7: Customizing Publisher
Topic A: Customizing the Ribbon
Topic B: Customizing the Quick Access toolbar

Table of Contents:
Unit 1: Getting started
Topic A: The Publisher interface
Topic B: Navigation and selection techniques
Topic C: Publisher Help

Unit 2: Basic publications
Topic A: Publication basics
Topic B: Object positioning

Unit 3: Multi-page publications
Topic A: Multi-page layouts
Topic B: Master pages

Unit 4: Working with text
Topic A: Text box linking
Topic B: Paragraph formatting

Unit 5: Tables
Topic A: Table basics
Topic B: Table structure
Topic C: Table formatting

Unit 6: Layout and design techniques
Topic A: Text boxes
Topic B: Graphics adjustments
Topic C: Stacking and grouping objects

Unit 7: Finalizing publications
Topic A: Publication output
Topic B: Print preparation

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Outline:
Page layout
Topic A: Headers and footers
Topic B: Margins
Topic C: Page breaks

Styles and outlines
Topic A: Examining formatting
Topic B: Creating styles
Topic C: Modifying styles
Topic D: Working with outlines

Templates and building blocks
Topic A: Template basics
Topic B: Building blocks
Topic C: Document properties

Outline:
Topic 1: Organizing with Folders
Creating Account Folders
Creating Personal Folders
Creating a Functional Folder Hierarchy

Topic 2: Using the To Do Bar
Scheduling your day
Seeing your Daily Task List on your Calendar
Navigating your Calendar from any view

Topic 3: Using Categories and Organize feature
Organizing / Grouping Outlook Items by color category
Mail
Tasks
Contacts
Appointments

Topic 4: Automating your mail activity by Using Rules
Automatically flag messages
Move/Forward received messages
Automate e-mail filing

Topic 5: Integrating your calendar and tasks
See your Calendar and tasks together
Convert e-mails to task and Appointments

This is the first course in the Microsoft Office Project 2007 Official Curriculum series and will serve as the entry point for other Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses covering Microsoft Office Project 2007 and the Microsoft EPM 2007 Solution.

Audience
This course is intended for both novice and experienced project managers and schedulers. These individuals would be involved in or responsible for scheduling, estimating, coordinating, controlling, budgeting, and staffing of projects and supporting other users of MS Office Project. A familiarity with key project management concepts and terminology is recommended as well as basic Windows navigation skills.

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Get Started with Microsoft Office Project 2007.
• Create and Define Projects.
• Work with Estimates and Dependencies
• Work with Deadlines, Constraints, and Task Calendars
• Assign resources to tasks.
• Understand Task Types and the Schedule Formula.
• Analyze Resource Utilization.
• Track progress.
• Customize and Format Microsoft Project views.
• Create project reports which analyze project, resource and task data.
• Manage multiple projects.

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In this Windows 7 training course, you'll focus on successful configuration of the IT Pro tools and applications that ship with Windows 7. You will learn to identify technical problems that can occur on your organization's client computers, and you'll discover the Windows 7 tools used to monitor and maintain those computers. By the end of this course, you will have installed and configured a Windows 7 desktop that is secure and on the network, while focusing on five main troubleshooting areas: operating system, hardware, networking, security, and applications.

Audience Profile
This course is intended for experienced enterprise-level IT professionals who focus on a broad range of desktop operating system, desktop application, mobile device, networking, and hardware support issues. Technicians who have experience with Windows server operating systems, and whose jobs require them to stay knowledgeable and skilled on new versions and technology updates as defined by the business environment.

This course is intended for Windows 7 desktop support technicians who resolve Tier 1 and 2 problems on desktop computers. A minimum of three years of experience configuring and supporting desktop or laptop operating systems is recommended.

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Audience Profile
This course is intended for IT professionals who are interested in:
Expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Windows 7 Client.
Acquiring deep technical knowledge of Windows 7.
Learning the details of Windows 7 technologies.
Focusing on the "how to" associated with Windows 7 technologies.
Most of these professionals use some version of Windows client at their work place and are looking at new and better ways to perform some of the current functions.

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Configure and troubleshoot group policy in Windows 7.
Assess and resolve application compatibility issues.
Configure disks, partitions, volumes, and device drivers to enable a Windows 7 client computer.
Configure file access and printers on a Windows 7 client computer.
Configure network connectivity on a Windows 7 client computer.
Configure wireless network connectivity on a Windows 7 client computer.
Secure Windows 7 client desktop computers.
Optimize and maintain the performance and reliability of a Windows 7 client computer.
Configure mobile computing and remote access settings for a Windows 7 client computer.

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Audience
The primary audience for this course is individuals who want to become a Web Server Administrator in an enterprise environment. Also, individuals who are assuming a new role requiring skills to manage content served by an IIS 7.0 Web Server over an intranet, extranet, and internet would be interested in this course.

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Describe the IIS 7.0 modular architecture
• Describe the IIS 7.0 workloads
• Describe the three methods for installing IIS 7.0
• Install IIS 7.0 using each of the three identified methods
• Configure common features for IIS 7.0
• Validate functionality of configured features.

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Audience
This course is intended for information technology (IT) professionals and developers who need to implement data transfer or extract, transform, and load (ETL) solutions by using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services.

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Describe SQL Server Integration Services and its tools.
• Create an Integration Services package.
• Implement control flow in an Integration Services package.
• Implement data flow in an Integration Services package.
• Implement logging in an Integration Services package.
• Debug and implement error handling in an Integration Services package.
• Implement checkpoints and transactions in an Integration Services package.
• Deploy an Integration Services package.
• Manage and secure an Integration Services package.

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This course covers both C# and VB.net. All examples in the book and all of the labs show the code both in VB.net and C#.

Audience
The target audience for this course includes both novice programmers who have a minimum of three months’ programming experience and intermediate-level programmers who are otherwise new to .NET Framework development, and want to learn how to use Visual Basic or C#.

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
• Describe the key features of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2005.
• Create a simple Windows Forms application.
• Explain programming fundamentals.
• Create and use data types and variables.
• Control program execution by using conditional statements and loops.
• Explain the fundamentals of object-oriented programming.
• Create simple object-oriented applications.
• Develop the user interface in a Visual Studio 2005 application.
• Validate user input on a Windows form.
• Implement debugging and exception handling in a Visual Studio 2005 application.
• Access data in a Visual Studio 2005 application.
• Create simple Web applications and XML Web services.
• Explain the key features of the .NET Framework version 3.0 technologies.
• Test and deploy Microsoft .NET Framework applications.

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