New Free MVA Courses

New free courses available at Microsoft Virtual Academy
Check out free MVA Courses on Virtualization

Windows Server and System Center Courses:

• Automation & Self-Service with System Center 2012 R2

This course covers Automation and Self service in the Datacenter and looks into the primary components of Service Manager and Orchestrator and the capabilities that are used to build out the infrastructure within the environment. This course specifically addresses the R2 updates, including the new integration stack for SharePoint, and provides patch solutions from Service Manager.

• IT Service Management with System Center 2012 R2

In this course you will learn about the role Service Manager plays in the broader story of Microsoft’s management solution on top of Windows Server 2012 R2. This course dives into topics such as SLA Insights and Analysis, Standardize Service Delivery, Manage Multiple Processes, and OLA Insights and Analysis.

• Windows Server2012 R2 Storage Jump Start: New Choices

Learn more about Automated Tiering, Data Deduplication, Scale-Out File Server, shared VHDX files and Hyper-V live migration over the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol (SMB Direct and SMB Multichannel). This Jump Start assumes a familiarity with Windows Server 2012 storage concepts; take the Windows Server 2012: Storage course to learn more. And you’ll get the most out of the Jump Start if you’ve already taken this one: What’s New in Windows Server 2012 R2 Jump Start.

• Infrastructure Provisioning and Management with System Center 2012 R2

This course will address deployment of compute, storage, and networking resources, and how to construct all of the different resources that we have and construct them together into a private cloud. Finally the course will delve into day-to-day operations to keep the infrastructure up and running, and deploying services to the end users as well as the architecture behind it all.

• Infrastructure Monitoring with System Center 2012 R2

This course covers new monitoring capabilities and opportunities offered in Systems Center 2012 R2. Moving away from physical boxes being monitored only by individual teams, this course goes over all monitoring opportunities, including Private Cloud Monitoring, Public Cloud Monitoring, Hybrid Cloud Monitoring, OS and Workload Monitoring. Also included in this course is information about proactive monitoring integrated through System Center Advisor, and an overview of the new customized widget dashboard

Other new free courses:

• Implementing a Data Warehouse with SQL Server Jump Start
• Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Jump Start
• Core Solutions of Exchange Server 2013 Jump Start
• Windows Application Compatibility and Migration
• Big Data Analytics
• Getting Started with Microsoft Big Data