NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON WINDOWS NETWORKING TIPS 11/08/04 Today's focus: About Microsoft's 'free' training
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Microsoft's 'free' training - give or take a $50 registration ��fee * Links related to Windows Networking Tips * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by RSA Security Protect your Windows(R) networks-inside and out. Introducing RSA SecurID(R) for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) solution. This breakthrough technology uses industry-leading two-factor authentication to safeguard your Windows(R) environment from internal AND external attacks. No more passwords to remember, no more wasting IT's time. For more on why strong authentication is the smart move, read our FREE White Paper: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=87825 _______________________________________________________________ SECURTIY SUMMIT: CAN SECURITY BE A COMPETITIVE EDGE? Recently 23 prominent IT executives and academics gathered at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH for a daylong roundtable to address such questions. CIOs and VPs from some of the largest and most well-known companies in the US shared with peers their security fears, goals, frustrations and challenges. Find out more: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=87876 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: About Microsoft's 'free' training By Dave Kearns Often, when I open my e-mail inbox on the morning a newsletter has been delivered, I'm greeted with one or two messages carrying a subject line relating to that newsletter. This means that the topic has "pushed a button" with one or two readers who wish to share a thought or experience. Sometimes there's a dozen or so notes referring to the newsletter. That usually indicates that I asked a question at the end and folks are responding quickly, before they forget. Anytime there are 20 or more e-mails awaiting me, I know I've made a mistake, an error, a faux pas. Last week there were over 50 e-mails lurking in my inbox to point out the egregious, um how would Roget put it? "aberration, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, confusion, delusion, erratum, false move, false step, fault, faux pas, flub, fluff, gaffe, goof, howler, illusion, inaccuracy, inadvertence, lapse, misapplication, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconception, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misprint, misstatement, misstep, misunderstanding, muddle, neglect, omission, overestimation, oversight, slight, slip, slip-up, snafu, solecism, trip, typo, underestimation" (Roget's New Millennium Thesaurus) In the newsletter entitles "Microsoft offers free training," I said that "Microsoft has a couple of free one-day, hands-on labs coming to a town near you in the near future." I also said that "The actual cost, in and of itself, isn't an important factor in evaluating a training opportunity," and that may be what saves me. Because in the case of the two hands-on labs I mentioned, the "actual cost" is only free after you've paid the $50 to register. Somehow, I overlooked that little detail. As the altar boys used to respond to the priest at a Latin mass, "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa." Roughly translated, that's "my bad, my fault, boy was I ever wrong!" The Active Directory Fundamentals Hands-On Lab as well as the one on Migrating from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 are still great buys at $50 each. They aren't for everyone. The Active Directory lab is really an introductory course for computer literate (but not directory savvy) folks while the migration class won't do much for those who no longer have NT 4 servers. Still, for those who can benefit (and I think you know who you are), the $50 is a small price to pay for such valuable training. For everyone who took the time to point out the error, and especially to those who believed me rather than Microsoft, my thanks go out to you. Keep scrutinizing what I say and what everyone else says, too. There's a huge amount of data traversing the Web every day and not all of it is 100% accurate. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Register for Windows Server System Hands-On Labs http://www.nwfusion.com/nlwnt794 _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Dave Kearns Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>. Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management. Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these respective addresses: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Systems Special Report: Bridging the Gap; Enterprise ROI IT professionals today don't indulge in the latest-greatest technology for their own sake; instead they concentrate efforts on projects that are most likely to help achieve business goals. 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