[THIN] Re: Courses
- From: "Rick Mack" <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 17:24:49 +1000
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.
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> *From:* thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
> Behalf Of *Greg Reese
> *Sent:* Friday, August 01, 2008 2:50 PM
> *To:* thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [THIN] Re: Courses
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> personally, I prefer a classroom setting.
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> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Beckett, William (Bill) <
> WBECKETT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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?
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> Does not have to be Citrix courses only, Microsoft, VMWare, anything really
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