August 2008 - Posts

For those who took the Microsoft Beta Exam 71-652, check your MCP transcript or email to learn whether or not you passed the test. I received this email yesterday, and the result was posted today on the MCP site:

Thank you for taking beta exam 71-652: TS: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring. We are writing to let you know that your results are being processed and are not yet available from Prometric or Microsoft.

The exam was released in its live form on August 25, 2008. Although, in general, we hope to make beta results available on or before the release of the live exam, delays or changes to the process are inherent in a beta. In this case, the processing of your individual scores was delayed beyond the exam release date, and we wanted to let you know the status of your scores to hopefully avoid any confusion or frustration on your part.

To learn more about the beta process, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcpexams/status/beta.mspx.

We anticipate that your scores will be available within a few weeks, but we are not able to provide an exact date. There is no action required on your part; your scores will be available at Prometric and on your Microsoft transcript as soon as our processing is complete. Thank you for your patience.

We sincerely appreciate the contribution you make as a beta tester in the Microsoft Certification program.

Regards,

The Microsoft Certification team

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VirtualizationAdmin.com has posted my article on Integration Services. If you want to understand why you should install Integration Services in your guest OS, read this article. In it, I also review the installation process and the supported guest operating systems.