MCM Office Communications Server The Final Part

So I am back home after three intensive weeks of training and study, and again a Jetlag due to the 9 hours time difference.
But this Wednesday we received the final results of the third written exam and the qualifying  lab, and….  I passed them both.
Which means I can call myself, and eight others, a MCM Office Communications Server right now.
And was it worth the expense in time and money? Yes It does, its intensive that’s for sure, but the amount of knowledge you obtain during this weeks is huge, not only by consuming the training material but also to listen to and learn from all the experience of all the other attendants with all kind of backgrounds. And of course, not to forget, all the info we received from the OCS product managers, MSIT, the OCS Documentation team. And last but not least, the effort Adrian MacLean put in as Program Manager of the MCM OCS. Especially his weekly trips to the Safeways, to provide us with enough “energy” food by means of chips, cookies, chocolate, tootsie rolls etc.
The picture below was taken between the third exam and the qual lab at the last Saturday, quite relaxed people?!?! And also, as it is a miracle, taken at one of the rare sunny days at Redmond:-)