MS Newsgroups are great places to get your technical questions answered as
well (the been there, done that). The MOC classes that MS put together are
really more about doing labs and learning that geared to be exam prep
classes. I would recommend attending an MOC class for what you need.
HTH
--
Ray Higdon MCSE, MCDBA, CCNA
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"John C" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hope this is the right place for this post, bear with me... I've been
mostly
> a local server/network administrator with some ISP experience for the past
> 4+ years, and "old" MSCE on NT4. In my current job, business has been good
> and now we have 300+ active client web sites on a single W2K IIS5 server,
> with two SQL servers on the back end.
>
> With more growth on the way, I have been preaching the virtues of SANs,
load
> balanced IIS6 web and SQL servers, network based backup etc for the last
few
> months. I have done a lot of reading, and understand most of these ideas
and
> devices at a conceptual level, but have 0 practical experience.
>
> The bosses' vision is that we attend some weekend or week long seminar,
> conference or whatever. We get to work with the "been there, done that"
> crowd, people already running highly available large web sites, farms etc
> and learn directly from them. Then we would know how to set up a scalable
> web/SQL architecture with lots of room for growth. Does such training or
> conferences exist where newbie's are brought up to speed?
>
> If that is not an option, do the MS certification trainings (designed to
> help pass exams) work for this sort of thing? Where have other folks found
> solid curriculum designed to get to the next level of systems admin? Any
> recommendations on where to pick up training for the hardware, software
and
> networking, and development aspects of building a large, database-backed
web
> farm?
>
> Your advice and experiences greatly appreciated, thanks.
>
> John C
>
>
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