Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Understanding the New Microsoft MCSE

If you have been around the IT industry for any length of time, you are aware of the Microsoft Certifications of the past. Myself, I am a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) from NT. I also had a few other MCSE certifications that people might be unaware of. I am an MCSE+Security an MCSE+Messaging, and an MCSE+Internet.

Along with the advent of the new Windows 2008 operating system, Microsoft came out with some new certifications and retired the old MCSE. They came out with MCTS and MCITP. Now you might be asking yourself - what the heck are these?  They are the lower level Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist and the more advanced Microsoft Certified IT Professional. The problem with these certs is that no one understood them or used them.