Content and Code wins Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards

Its that time of year again, and the Microsoft WPC (Worldwide Partner Conference) is almost upon us (Washington D.C., USA, July 11th-15th).

But before the conference kicks off Microsoft has announced the award finalists and winners, and Content and Code has won two categories:

• Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year, Information Worker Solutions, Enterprise Content Management (link)
• Microsoft Country Partner of the Year, UK (link)

I am incredibly proud of Content and Code for winning these awards, not least because the award was attained through the RNIB project which I worked on (along with a fantastic team at both Content and Code and the RNIB!). This is a great achievement, and I'm both proud and privileged to have worked on that project, and for Content and Code themselves!

To top this off, Content and Code won Microsoft Worldwide Partner of the Year, Information Worker Solutions, Portals and Collaboration for 2009, so this now makes 2 years running that Content and Code have won a Worldwide Partner of the Year recognition!

The official announcement can be found on the Worldwide Partner Conference site.

SharePoint 2010 Exams Announced

A few days ago Microsoft announced several new SharePoint 2010 exams that will be coming soon to a testing centre near you...

IT Pro Track

• TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Configuring
• PRO: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Administrator

Passing both of those exams will earn you the new certification:

MCITP: SharePoint Administrator 2010
(Microsoft Certified IT Professional)

Developer Track

• TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Application Development
• PRO: Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications

Passing both of those exams will earn you the new certification:

MCPD: SharePoint 2010
(Microsoft Certified Professional Developer)

Unfortunately there are no upgrade paths from SharePoint 2007 (which makes sense, as the structure has changed).

Of course, the exclusive Microsoft Certified Master will continue to run including SharePoint 2010.