An Important Update on Microsoft Training and Certification

Hi Alex, 

Thank you for your helpful articles.  Let me start by saying i been in the industry for near to two decades and i been advocating Microsoft products in every business am blessed to work with.  And i understand Microsoft strategy is to move everyone to the cloud for better profitability for the company which i have no problem with since i want the company to thrive and succeed. However the impact of discontinuing long lasting certificate such as MCSA/MCSE for network administrator is blind and short sighted to say the least. For the following reasons.

1 - Even when Microsoft customers moves to the cloud they still need server admins who knows how to maintain and run those servers hosted by Microsoft cloud. MCSA/MCSE been a gold standard on certifying some ones ability to maintain Microsoft servers operating systems.

2 - many IT professionals who own consulting company businesses will start to shy a way from recommending Microsoft to customers and promoting competitive linux with GUI OS for the simple fact we fully understand it in-out.  we as IT professionals understand those products in and out through the comprehensive certificate such as RHCA and RHCE compared to Microsoft role base certificates which leave Huge gapes of systems administrators. MCSA was the goto to understand Microsoft servers in-out.

Finally am not against pushing customers to the cloud however MCSA and MCSE is a corner stone Microsoft business standing on and removing this will make IT professionals  starting to love Microsoft less than we would like to and is causing us to recommend competitive products to our customers.

Thank you for hearing me and i hope my points gets received.