Important Information about Microsoft Certification Exams

Important Information about Microsoft Certification Exams The below is a note from Microsoft:

We're making it easier and more convenient for you to register for and take MCP and MTA exams!

Effective immediately, we're partnering with Pearson VUE to bring you new location and appointment options when scheduling your exams. (You can still take our exams at Prometric testing centers through December 31, 2014, but starting January 1, 2015, all of our testing will be delivered by Pearson VUE only.)

When you schedule your exams with Pearson VUE, you'll enjoy several benefits:

Your appointments will appear on your MCP dashboard, where you can manage them and find preparation resources. Your photo may appear on your score reports, helping to prove its authenticity to prospective clients and employers.* Your exam results will appear on your transcript within one business day.

It's easy to schedule an exam with Pearson VUE. You can do it:

On the web, at our Microsoft Learning web site. By phone, with Pearson VUE directly. In person, at a Pearson VUE testing center.

But this is important: regardless of how you choose to schedule, you'll first need:

An active Microsoft Account. We use this to verify your identity and to provide access to MCP benefits and resources. A profile on our Microsoft Learning web site. We use this to keep track of your appointments and allow you to manage them.

Creating a Microsoft Account is easy—and if you're already an MCP, you probably already have one. Use the same Microsoft Account that you use to access your transcript and MCP benefits. Creating a profile is also easy, and you only have to do it once.

If you register for an exam on-line, you'll be prompted to create a profile if you don't already have one. If you want to register by phone or in-person instead, you can create a profile by following these steps:

On the Microsoft Learning web site, in the upper right corner, click Sign in. Sign in using your Microsoft account. Important: If you are an MCP, use the Microsoft Account associated with your member site benefits. In the upper right corner, click Account, and then click Profile Settings. Create, edit, or verify your profile, and then click Save.

For more information on Pearson VUE and Microsoft exam testing, please click here.

*where legally permissible.

 

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View in Browser” does not work only for PowerPoint files and Document Preview has not been working in SharePoint 2013

View in Browser” does not work only for PowerPoint files and Document Preview  has not been working in SharePoint 2013.

Issue: View in Browser” does not work only for PowerPoint files  but its working for Excel files and Document Preview  has not been working.

Solution: As long as we don’t have Office Web Apps installed in a  dedicated server, we will not have this “View in Browser” function for all Office documents. 

PowerPoint Conversion Service Application is to handle PPTX to PDF conversion and not for browser rendering.

 

I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

The workbook cannot be opened or we are sorry, we couldn’t open your workbook.

The workbook cannot be opened  or we are sorry, we couldn’t open your workbook.

Issue: We are sorry we could not open your work book or sorry, but to open this workbook your computer must be running a supported version of Microsoft excel

Solutions: there could be many reasons of the issue. I am providing the solution for the  most common.

Error: We are sorry we could not open your work book

 

 

You can use following cmdlets to get this issue resolved

$webApplication = Get-SPWebApplication –Identity <URL of the Web application>

$webApplication.GrantAccessToProcessIdentity("<insert service account>")

Error: We're sorry, we couldn't open your workbook. It is possibly corrupt or using a file format that's not supported. Do you want to try and open this file in excel?" as shown in below image

1.   Download the file to local system and open it in excel. If it does not open correctly then you can say it is  corrupt and need to be changed.

2.   If it opens correctly then nothing is wrong with file, you have to check for other resolution.

·        it might be the reason that  not started Excel web service on all your web front end servers. Once you start the excel web service on all your web front end servers. This issue will be gone

 

I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.