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UPDATE: Help Desk Contest Winners

In honor of MCDST's release, winners of help desk heroism/horror submissions announced.

• By Michael Domingo
• 03/18/2004

For his compelling story, which we'll publish in a future print edition of MCP Magazine, Brian receives the grand prize, which includes:

• Mark Minasi's Windows XP & Server 2003 Resource Kit, by Mark Minasi (Sybex)
  
• Mastering Windows XP Registry, By Peter Hipson (Sybex)
  
• Windows XP Home and Professional Editions Instant Reference, By Denise Tyler (Sybex)
  
• Inside Windows Server 2003, by William Boswell (Addison-Wesley)
  
• The Ultimate Windows Server 2003 System Administrator's Guide, by Robert Williams, Mark Walla (Addison-Wesley)
  
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide, by Don Jones, Mark Rouse (Sams Publishing)
  
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Unleashed, by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Omar Droubi, Kenton Gardinier (Sams Publishing)
  

Prizes were provided courtesy of Addison-Wesley, Sams, and Sybex.

Among the submissions were five runners up:

• Marvin Androschuk (Canada)
• Dana Cummins (Tacoma, Washington)
• Howard Feldsott (New York)
• Rick Haslam (Canada)
• Nicholas Kummer (Detroit, Michigan)

For their submissions, they'll receive one of the above listed books and their submissions will appear in a future print edition of MCP Magazine. Congratulations to all!

Microsoft's new Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician title became available upon the release of two exams, 70-271, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Windows XP, on January 12 and 70-272, Supporting Users and Troubleshooting Desktop Applications on Windows XP, on February 4. For more information on the MCDST certification, click here.