Today’s workplace is no longer exclusively the office traveled to each morning. It also can be a virtual location with connections, collaboration, and user choices connected to and from a mobile device - laptop, smartphone, and tablet. Organizational enterprise is currently facing a unique convergence of workplace challenges: 1- Supporting and standardizing the new hardware and operating systems. 2- Implementing BYOD: Bring Your Own Devices policies in conjunction with the requirement to separate personal data from enterprise data on smart devices. 3- Deployment of support tools to control and manage the new workplace and train support teams and employees. This is a logical extension of the consumerization of information technology.

	Mobile Web Device Environments
	Native Apps - Device Specific		Hybrid App Development		HTML5 Open Web Apps
			MS UWP: Universal Windows Platform - Xamarin
	Apple iOS Platform		Microsoft Phone		Google Android OS
	IPhone and iPad		Microsoft Surface Tables		Smartphone and Tablet Devices
	Safari web browser		MS Edge		Chrome web browser
	Opera web browser		MS Edge on Apple iOS/Android OS devices		Mozilla Firefox
	Alternative specialized web browser				Alternative open source web browser

Client virtualization is a key enabling technology that provides the flexibility and agility needed by the new workplace. Virtualization and the stateless desktop can reduce the complexity of compatibility issues between the operating system, applications and hardware devices; this will make it easier and faster to plan, develop, and test, and deploy new applications and patches. Desktops or clients can be provisioned faster and with less effort, resulting in increased end-user and information technology department staff productivity. An application update or virus patch can be applied once at the central server. Upon logon the end user receives the most current version of their desktop, saving time and reducing the margin of error.

A new set of demands is being placed on information technology departments to support reliable flexible services while meeting return on information criteria.

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft operating system and network software continues to have a central place in the software infrastructure of Fortune 1000 companies, government municipalities, healthcare providers and midsized and small businesses. However, advancements in hardware technology along with the emergence of alternative free and low cost open operating system and application software has resulted in internetworking becoming increasingly non-Microsoft. The commanding market leaders in smartphones and tablet computing are Apple and Google Android Corporation. This means that Microsoft Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019/2022 and SharePoint increasingly is being required to interoperate work with Apple iOS and Google Android mobile devices, web apps, software as a service applets, and alternative third party software. Although receiving critical praise from technologists, as of the third quarter of 2012, MS Phone and Windows RT have negligible market share. The assumption is that Microsoft smartphones and tablet computing devices over time will become significant players in the market. Likewise, that Microsoft development tools and framework technologies for mobile computing devices will become more widespread. There is universal agreement that having the knowledge to evaluate and integrate Microsoft SharePoint with MS Windows and alternative third party mobile devices, web servers, databases is becoming an operational requirement.

SharePoint is a suite of services produced by several programs working together to promote collaboration, improve information dissemination, and foster management within an organization. SharePoint runs on and requires that IIS: Internet Information Server, .NET Framework, and SQL Server be installed and running on the server prior to installing SharePoint.

SharePoint is an integrated stack of services.

SYS-ED MS Operating Systems and Internetworking Training

SYS-ED provides industry standard and specialized training on Microsoft operating systems, internetworking, and mobile devices. Our staff are experts on Microsoft software and the longstanding software infrastructure and hybrid software technologies being used by Fortune 1000 companies, government municipalities, and healthcare providers.

SYS-ED applies an multi-disciplinary approach to its MS operating system and internetworking courses and training programs:

	Integration of networking and search; experience with software-as-a-service model and web apps.
	Expertise on performance design with networks in hybrid operating environments: Microsoft, Linux / UNIX and web servers.
	Scripting and programmatic automation of tasks: Batch File Programming, PowerShell, WIMP, WAMP, and LAMP.
	MS .NET Framework application development: ADO.NET, ASP.NET, VB.NET, and C#.
	Application development for the mobile devices: MS Phone, Metro Style Apps, and Desktop Apps

Prior to accepting a training assignment, it is standard policy to require a consultation in order to become familiar with a client’s software environment training objectives. We then develop training strategy inclusive of a tailored course outline, performance objectives, and training aids designed to address specific design and operational requirements. And when SYS-ED is not highly confident that a superior training outcome can be provided, then we will politely to turn away assignments. Upon completion of a course, SYS-ED clients are invited to submit Microsoft operating system, networking, and internetworking questions. Our system consultants and technology partners answer, explain, and where applicable reference source documentation. Questions are reviewed and answered on a first-come/first serve-basis. Few software or consulting companies have been doing Microsoft operating system and internetworking training longer or better.

SYS-ED has been conducting courses in the public domain since 1980; however, there have been changes in the laws and regulations governing computer training in the state of New York. The schedule on our websites reflects a projected time frame for licensure with the New York State Department of Education - Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision and submission and approval of curriculum.

Work Environment Prototyping

SYS-ED provides educational consulting expertise in the form of classroom configurations which model an organization’s working environment - actual or planned. As part of our training service, we will configure working client specific prototypes: operating systems, servers, web servers, and heterogeneous internetworks. This affords your personnel the opportunity to apply the theory presented in lecture and draw upon the longstanding experience of our systems consultants. As an independent training company, SYS-ED has the privileged perspective to teach Microsoft networks and demonstrate what works as advertised. And truth be told, there have been occasions where our system consultants have written to the source software companies pointing out errors in the source documentation and bugs in the software. Upon completion of a SYS-ED course, your IT personnel will have created benchmarks for utilization back on the job and performed problem resolution.

Courseware for Teaching

Prospective clients can elect to utilize a textbook or SYS-ED courseware. The principles of adult learning are applied to the content, translating subject matter into performance and workshop objectives, narrative descriptions, and diagrams which explain the architecture, demonstrate the administrative tools, and provide troubleshooting guidelines. The courseware incorporates industry standard content and consultancy derived techniques for installing, administering, and optimizing the Microsoft Corporation implementation of Active Directory with open source operating systems, mobile devices, and third party software.

Technology Driven IT Training	In-person Instruction - Extended with Distance-learning	Resource Inputs - Online Education

Distance-learning Service

Video Conferencing Platforms	lnformation Technology in Transition	Alternative to the Training by the Software Companies
MS Operating Systems and Networks Microsoft .NET and Programming Language UNIX and Linux Operating System Platform

SYS-ED offers a subset of its web server, scripting, and application development courses in a web-based learning format. The distance-learning service is an extension of the SYS-ED schedule, inclusive of courseware and training aids. A distance-learning course is lecture, review questions, examples, workshops, validation assessment, and website support services. The standard distance-learning service is 65% lecture.

Private web-based training provides flexibility in scheduling - non consecutive days, time of day - outside of working hours, percentage of lecture during class time, validation assessment, and tailored workshops. Instructor-led classroom instruction at the client location can include blended learning with a virtual classroom available to multiple locations.

Enrollment requires a consultation with the manager sending the employee for the training. The prospective trainee needs to be qualified for the course and service transmission to the client location tested: bandwidth, firewall, base operating system, software requirements, web browser, and set up of hands-on machine exercises.

MDM and BYOD: Mobile Device Challenge

MDM: Mobile Device Management refers to the range of products and services that enable organizations to deploy and support enterprise applications on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Demand for MDM is rising fast as consumer mobility and BYOD: Bring Your Own Device programs continue to grow. MDM software helps organizations to enforce security and regulatory compliance policies while maintaining a required level of IT control across multiple platforms.

We continue to have inquiries regarding whether SYS-ED still offered MS operating systems and networking courses for business professionals and webmasters.

The typical comments were:

In response to these questions:

	Yes, SYS-ED offers industry standard MS internetworking, BYOD, and scripting curriculum: MS Windows Server, MS SharePoint, and scripting courses extended with interrelated infrastructure and development languages from leading software companies.
	Yes since the 1987, SYS-ED has taught fast-track operating systems and networking courses and integrated training programs.
	MS operating systems and networking courses are available in multiple formats: classroom, distance-learning and blended web-based delivery.
	Upon completion of a SYS-ED course, our staff is available to answer MS operating system and networking questions.

Microsoft SharePoint - Extended

The Microsoft SharePoint was designed based upon an integrated configuration of Microsoft software. Microsoft Windows Server and MS Windows operating systems include the MSMQ: Microsoft MSMQ; it provides delivery by placing messages that fail to reach their intended destination in a queue and then resending them once the destination is reachable. It also supports security and priority based messaging and transactions.

SYS-ED staff are reviewing and testing assumptions distributed in software company white papers with respect to the Microsoft BCS: Business Connectivity Services for connecting MS SharePoint and Office 2010+ higher client applications to external data sources and alternative component system software. The shaded gray indicates open source software.