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I had an e-mail confersation with the MCP guys over at Microsoft and they assured me that the results will be available to the MCPs at last Nov. 2nd 2007!

Both VUE and Prometric are experiencing delays in getting beta results for 648 and 649 out to candidates he e-mailed me. So it’s just a few more days waiting…

And another source is blogging about the info mentioned above too.

UPDATE : All the people who i talked to and did the 70-648 have their results. For know only the guys/girls who did the 70-649 don’t have the results yet. For as I know their is a problem with the results and they will be available within the coming week (5 – 10 nov). Also see my newer post and the newsest post about this subject.

UPDATED Nov. 13th : Also check out my other posts about this issue : Nov 2nd, Nov 5th, Nov 6th, Nov 13th ).

Interesting news on The WindowsServer Team blog :

As we’re getting closer to release, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is returning to how it was previously available to Windows Server 2008 customers. Specifically, we are going back to making it available as a separate download that is available to customers at no additional charge. This is how Windows SharePoint Services was available to Windows Server 2003 customers (pre-R2). With the beta and RC0 versions of Windows Server 2008, we offered it in the Windows Server 2008 software. Starting with RC1 and going forward, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will have to be downloaded separately. Basically, we made this decision to allow customers to most conveniently obtain the technology while allowing Microsoft to have flexibility in the Windows SharePoint Services development process. If you have not looked at WSS 3.0, be sure to download it and peek around. It offers great collaboration, social computing and document management features and provides a rich composite application development platform based on our .NET technologies. The SharePoint team is working hard on great new features and releases that customers will continue to see delivered via download. For more guidance re: installation/evaluation updates, see: http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/9/e/b9e27997-7a8e-493c-b23b-58eeaa3214c8/WSSGuide.doc.

As you can read on Trika’s blog and previous on my own blog the exam results for the two Windows Server 2008 Upgrade exams 70-648 (71-648) and 70-649 (71-649) should be available on Oct. 29th. But in The Netherlands it’s about 3:20pm and still the Prometric and VUE websites tell us the tests have been taken and no results are available. Even on the MCP Transcript the scores don’t show up….

Trika….George….when do we get the results for the 70-648 and the 70-649…??

The DHCP Server Callout DLL helps to filter out DHCP requests based on MAC address.

When a device or computer tries to connect to network, it first tries to obtain an IP address from the DHCP Server. The Callout DLL (read: hook-in DLL) also works and should continue to work on Windows Server 2008.

The DHCP Server Callout DLL checks if this device MAC address is present in known list (text file) of MAC addresses configured by administrators. If it is present, the device will be allowed to obtain an IP address or the device requests will be ignored based on the action configured by administrator. MAC address based filtering will allow network administrators to ensure that only a know set of devices in the system are able get ip address from DHCP Server. This DLL will help administrators to enforce additional security into network.

After installation, both the DLL (MacFilterCallout.dll) and the installation/configuration instructions (SetupDHCPMacFilter.rtf) are available under %windir%\system32.

Download MacFilterCallout.dll

Additional Information : DHCP Team Blog

Source : TechLog

Just before the guys (and Girls..oke…oke Trika..) at Microsoft HQ bring us the results of the 70-648 and 70-649 beta exams they do a little name change so if we (I hope I passed the exams) get the results within the next few days the names are right at once!

The official announcement on Trika’s blog :

There has been a name change to one of the MCTS certifications in development for Windows Server 2008. Wanted to let you know so you don’t start seeing another name floating around and freak out.

The change is:  MCTS: Applications Platform, Configuring has been finalized as MCTS: Applications Infrastructure, Configuring, to tie in better with Windows Server terminology.

For now i’m just waiting to hear the exam results of the 70-649 I did on august 3rd 2007