[AccessD] Action Pack, now with special edition toolkit for Web Solution Providers

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Oct 10 09:01:35 CDT 2007


Well, I just renewed to avoid that hassle for another year. 


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:50 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Action Pack,now with special edition toolkit for Web
Solution Providers

Hi Jim

That's right, but only every second year, and it is an on-line course:

https://partner.microsoft.com/actionpack
https://partner.microsoft.com/40044196

Some of these my colleague can do with closed eyes ...

/gustav

>>> jimdettman at verizon.net 10-10-2007 14:35 >>>
Gustav,

  I hate the Microsoft exam circus as well and in fact gave up on the SBS
certification because of it.  But got bad news for you; the Action Pack will
shortly require passing a Microsoft exam in order to continue to receive the
subscription.

  They want to get rid of the deadwood<g>.

Jim. 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:09 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Action Pack, now with special edition toolkit for Web
Solution Providers

Hi all

We (my employer and I) don't want to spend money on the "MS exam circus" as
the ROI is zero. Thus, our official Small Business Specialist status will be
lost (and our clients don't care as they hardly knew that anyway). No big
deal. 

However, that status have the additional benefit that combined with the
Action Pack Subscription (where the ROI is huge) you are offered Visual
Studio Standard 2005 for free. So no SB partner => no free VS which is bad
now that VS2008 is close.

But a new free add-on to the Action Pack is now announced which could be of
interest for those of you not having Visual Studio yet or have felt the
limitations of the free Express editions, a "special edition toolkit" for
Web Solution Providers:

https://partner.microsoft.com/webresourcekit 

It includes Microsoft Visual Studio Standard 2008 and Expression Studio.
The estimated ship date for the kit is January 2008.

One of the steps to obtain the kit is to:

  Successfully complete one of three free online courses and the
  associated assessment with a score of 70 percent or higher ..

These seems to have a duration from 0,5 to 1,5 hours, so you have to pay by
spending some of your valuable time!

/gustav


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