I finally made it to MCSE
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Congratulations!
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Awesome man. What is the next cert you're going for?
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@Tim_G said in I finally made it to MCSE:
After over 6 straight years of actual larger-Enterprise (heavy Windows/Linux infrastructure) experience and 3 intense years of practice and self-study, I finally made MCSE: Server Infrastructure (2012 R2).
http://www.mycertprofile.com/Profile/1943383021
My real (relevant) experience hadn't started in a business environment until closer to 2004, but it has been a goal of mine since then.
It just feels good to have finally reached that goal in a good way.
Congrats! From one MCSE to another. I am Windows 2000 MCSE
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@IRJ said in I finally made it to MCSE:
@Tim_G said in I finally made it to MCSE:
After over 6 straight years of actual larger-Enterprise (heavy Windows/Linux infrastructure) experience and 3 intense years of practice and self-study, I finally made MCSE: Server Infrastructure (2012 R2).
http://www.mycertprofile.com/Profile/1943383021
My real (relevant) experience hadn't started in a business environment until closer to 2004, but it has been a goal of mine since then.
It just feels good to have finally reached that goal in a good way.
Congrats! From one MCSE to another. I am Windows 2000 MCSE
NT4 MCSE+I
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@IRJ said in I finally made it to MCSE:
@Tim_G said in I finally made it to MCSE:
After over 6 straight years of actual larger-Enterprise (heavy Windows/Linux infrastructure) experience and 3 intense years of practice and self-study, I finally made MCSE: Server Infrastructure (2012 R2).
http://www.mycertprofile.com/Profile/1943383021
My real (relevant) experience hadn't started in a business environment until closer to 2004, but it has been a goal of mine since then.
It just feels good to have finally reached that goal in a good way.
Congrats! From one MCSE to another. I am Windows 2000 MCSE
Me too!!! Good to see some other folks with such dusty certs.
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@RojoLoco said in I finally made it to MCSE:
Me too!!! Good to see some other folks with such dusty certs.
Dusty old certs. I had a bunch of certs for Netware back in the day.
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@travisdh1 said in I finally made it to MCSE:
@RojoLoco said in I finally made it to MCSE:
Me too!!! Good to see some other folks with such dusty certs.
Dusty old certs. I had a bunch of certs for Netware back in the day.
I would call those "crusty"...
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Great job!
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@wirestyle22 said in I finally made it to MCSE:
Awesome man. What is the next cert you're going for?
That's actually tough for me, because I enjoy it all and I want to do it all. I'm truly an IT Generalist.
That said, I do like the direction of Server 2016 and is a lot of fun to work with. So I think I want to focus on the newer aspects of Windows Server 2016 technologies including HA, storage, Hyper-V, and working with System Center 2016... as well as a lot of supporting aspects around them such as security, automation, and mobility. (basically, think private/public cloud) I think that's pretty future oriented for a while at least.
When I said I enjoy it all and want to do it all, I mean it... I also want to continue working with and staying actively involved with RedHat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu at the very least.
I think the next step I'm going to take is upgrading my MCSA to the "MCSA: Windows Server 2016". I've been going through that stuff the past year anyways... but I want to be there at an expert level, so I'll be focusing heavily on that first.
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@Tim_G said in I finally made it to MCSE:
Windows Server 2016 technologies including HA, storage, Hyper-V, and working with System Center 2016
Half of that has no place in the SMB market though. So you need to think about where you want to work if you want to use those.
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@JaredBusch said in I finally made it to MCSE:
@Tim_G said in I finally made it to MCSE:
Windows Server 2016 technologies including HA, storage, Hyper-V, and working with System Center 2016
Half of that has no place in the SMB market though. So you need to think about where you want to work if you want to use those.
I agree. I would also venture to guess that MCSEs probably aren't paid what they are worth for SMB. After all MCSE is an enterprise cert. MCSA gives you everything you would need to know for SMB.
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@travisdh1 said in I finally made it to MCSE:
@RojoLoco said in I finally made it to MCSE:
Me too!!! Good to see some other folks with such dusty certs.
Dusty old certs. I had a bunch of certs for Netware back in the day.
Ahhhh...my dusty Netware 5 cert. I have that somewhere.
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Congratulations!
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Congrats!!!!
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@IRJ said in I finally made it to MCSE:
@JaredBusch said in I finally made it to MCSE:
@Tim_G said in I finally made it to MCSE:
Windows Server 2016 technologies including HA, storage, Hyper-V, and working with System Center 2016
Half of that has no place in the SMB market though. So you need to think about where you want to work if you want to use those.
After all MCSE is an enterprise cert. MCSA gives you everything you would need to know for SMB.
This is almost 100% true. Almost all of my MCSAs content consisted of stuff relevant to both SMBs and large enterprise. Where the MCSE was more focused on large enterprise content... all about HA, Federation, SCVMM... system center stuff. Not just that, but you can look at the break-down here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-70-413.aspx#question-types
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-70-414.aspx#question-typesThe MCSE also dives into some things covered in the MCSA, but at a much deeper level. Not just large enterprise focused stuff.
But you do learn a lot of things you can still apply in SMBs... such as the business continuity and also storage focuses, just to name a quick two. Those apply equally to SMBs, but you may not use System Center "DPM" in a small SMB. Or you might, if you start at one who already has it for who knows why.
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@JaredBusch said in I finally made it to MCSE:
@Tim_G said in I finally made it to MCSE:
Windows Server 2016 technologies including HA, storage, Hyper-V, and working with System Center 2016
Half of that has no place in the SMB market though. So you need to think about where you want to work if you want to use those.
Working for a single SMB won't make me six-figures. I'm shifting my focus to where it makes sense for my purposes.
