Bill Baer /bɛːr/

Conference season is upon us and it’s gearing up to be a great way to close out the year - join me at the 2009 Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center October 19th through October 22nd, 2009 or for those locally and can’t make the conference join me at the 2009 Pass Community Summit with Burzin Patel November 2nd through November 5th, 2009 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle.

In early November, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Certified Master for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Certified Architect for Office SharePoint Server 2007. [See http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/10/introducing-the-microsoft-certified-master-and-certified-architect-for-sharepoint.aspx] I was fortunate in that I had the opportunity to spend three (3) weeks in this first rotation of the program and was extremely impressed, not only with the depth and breadth of the knowledge that was made available throughout the three (3) weeks, but also the ability to collaborate with the brilliant instructors and students alike.