Poor training clinic "Introducing Security and Policy Management in Windows Server 2008"
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Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 3:26 AMI am just going through the "Introducing Security and Policy Management in Windows Server 2008" clinic to learn something about this subject and I was shocked at the amount of acronyms in use, at points the training just seems a long string of acronyms.
I have just been on the "How Noncompliant IPSEC-Based NAP clients connect"
Below is a part the transcript :-
In this process, the IPSec NAP EC on the client first forwards the SoHRs to the NAP Agent for remediation. The NAP Agent then forwards the updated list of SoHs to IPSec NAP EC, which then passes it to HCS. Next, HCS forwards the list of SoHs to the NPS server. The NPS server then passes the SoHs to the NAP administration server for validation.
The above may be a technically accurate description of what happens but for learning purposes seems very poor, especially when someone is reading this out.
Surely we can do something better in this day and age in regard to training.
A sort of plain english society for computer training.
Regards,
Andrew- Moved by Ben Watson Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 4:28 AM topic is related to training not LCDS
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Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 4:45 AMHi Andrew,
I am sorry that you did not enjoy the free "Introducing Security and Policy Management in Windows Server 2008" clinic. I just went through it and I agree that it is pretty technical even though it is recommended that you have experience implementing Windows Server 2000 or Windows Server 2003. One of the things we have been discussing internally is having a 'level' classification (Level 100, 200, etc) in our descriptions to better indicate the level of content and to better set people's expectations. For learning purposes the content seems to be fine but that it is geared towards a more advanced audience who would be more familiar with the acronyms being used.
Sincerely,
Ben
Ben Watson
Director, Microsoft Learning
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Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 5:01 AM
Hi there Ben, I must disagree with you regarding the audience.
I have MCSE in NT4 and MCSA's in Windows 2000 and 2003 + 20 years in I.T. and it does not seem very good to me.
Most of the acronym's seem to have been created with Windows 2008 and do not aid in understanding, what is the point of just throwning acronyms about ?
This does not seem to help people who understand the previous versions of Windows.Regards,
Andrew
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Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 5:58 AMHi Andrew,
My MCSE background seemed enough to get me through it but in any case your feedback is valuable and I have forwarded it internally to the clinic team. Given the importance of getting people on previous versions of Windows Server up to speed on Windows Server 2008 we do need to make sure the content is appropriate.
Thanks,
Ben
Ben Watson
Director, Microsoft Learning
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Wednesday, 16 July, 2008 8:27 PMThanks Ben.
Regards,
Andrew
