[THIN] Re: Courses

Hi Bill,

 

That kind of boss is often also the sort that laughs in your face when you tell him you've spent 60 hours trying to keep everything going last week and you'd like a bit of time off.

 

Bosses aside, the trouble is that most of the course material out there is geared towards Citrix certification. I'm not saying it's irrelevant but it isn't really all that relevant either because it focuses primarily on Citrix product and not on the fact that you are administering a terminal services environment.

 

So no training on application compatibility issues, after all AIE and App streaming handles all that (not). And stuff like user profile management, printer driver management, server tuning etc aren't covered. The basic problem is that while Microsoft owns terminal services now, they have NO official curriculum material on terminal services. Sure you can wade through technet and find a lot of stuff but mostly aside from the various forums you're left to fend for yourself.

 

However there is a lot of useful stuff available from Citrix in the form of the technotes, particularly ctx106727 for troubleshooting which points you in many of the right directions.

 

As a general, useful and holistic training course (TS/Citrix and useful technologies), it'd be hard to go past one of the Brian Madden courses, given either by Brian, Shawn Bass or Benny Trirsch. There is a DVD-based version of the course, but it isn't cheap.

 

regards,

 

Rick

 

--
Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division
 

On 8/2/08, Beckett, William (Bill) <WBECKETT@steelcase.com> wrote:

Hey, I'm in 100, no 110% agreement with you. No comparison but the boss is giving me grief just on the cost of non-instructor lead options. He just laughs in my face when I bring up the $3000 cost and 4-5 days of being out of the office.

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Greg Reese
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 2:50 PM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: Courses

 

personally, I prefer a classroom setting.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Beckett, William (Bill) <WBECKETT@steelcase.com> wrote:

Trying to solicit a few opinions for you guys for what is the best, what are the better 'learn on your own' type courseware out there. Instructor led courses are expensive and the boss never likes when you're away from the office. I know there are a few out there, CBTNuggets, etc. but what are your thoughts?

 

Does not have to be Citrix courses only, Microsoft, VMWare, anything really