 Tom here from launch systems and if you want to do more than you know, just turn it on and off again You need some it training. So we're gonna talk about it pro TV and Their review of their product itself something we've actually been using for a long time If you want to learn more about me and my company head over to Lawrence systems calm If you would like to hire short project or Z highest button up at the top If you'd like to support this channel other ways some affiliate links down below to get your deals and discounts on products In service we talked about this channel and yes, there is one for it pro TV And that's where I wanted to start and why do I say it like that? Well, there's an affiliate link and there's a sponsored video Those are two types of sponsorships that you generally see people on like YouTube or podcast or whatever media we're creating You'll find people sponsoring us. I do not get Sponsored by it pro TV, but I do have an affiliate link now The difference is sponsored means they threw money at me to say this and say nice things about them Affiliate links means I have a deal I can give you use that link you get a discount I get a cut of that and everybody wins you get some training at a discount I get some affiliate commissions based on how many people click on it and you start using it pro TV Which is a great service now I want to say it like that too because someone's gonna say but you're just biased because you have an affiliate count And that's why I'm so upfront I'd like to be as transparent possible on this channel if anyone sponsors a video it will say if the video is sponsored If I was given something like a company sent me a product review I say it was sent in review By such-and-such company and free nas and unifier great examples that they've sent me devices to review and some of which I get to keep so my bias if there is one yeah, okay We're all biased a little bit. I guess I try to be as factual as possible But I just want to make sure that's disclosed before I don't want to say it at the end of the video That way maybe go on I want to watch a guy who's got an affiliate link I want someone who doesn't have an affiliate link to tell me about it pro TV So make that decision for yourself and let's dive into what is it pro TV? So it training you'll want to watch that's one of the slogans or binge worthy content. Um, I really do like it We were using them for quite a while prior to me saying hey, let's reach out to them and see if we can do an affiliate link I actually signed up with Leo Laporte's affiliate link He spoke very highly of them and seems to think they're doing a good job now They were fans down here of the back in the day for those you've been in tech was got some great here like myself So if I tee tech TV so it pro TV was this concept going hey that tech TV thing you guys were doing Leo That was pretty awesome. So they were fans of Leo when he was on tech TV Just like I was I miss those early days when that was a great tech channel and all this nerds rejoiced at its existence And then we all cried when it died But that happens life moves on now the trainings move to online Now I have this discount code, but we will talk about pricing now. This is pricing as of April 2020. So don't Consume this is the pricing right now whatever right now is for you But they're monthly fee for the full video library is only 29 bucks a month They're ad labs and tests only another $20 at $49 a month starter pack $0 the other thing you can do is they do have a free seven-day trial You could stay up 16 hours a day times seven and pour a lot of information your head for this there If that was really your goal, I think that would probably a terrible idea But you could try it and really heavily review it before you commit your $29 They actually it's kind of cool that they give you the first seven days You're free and the limited video library you got is great way just to assess it So I'm just saying you can definitely Learn a lot from and they have and bulls run down a few of the features their daily live broadcast Locks us like free content iOS app Android app Apple TV and Roku so you can watch it on you know, whatever noise you want Access to on-demand course library live chat with hosts and other members Post questions to respond in a Q&A form download course video audio. That's with the annual membership only so you can have it local access a dev pro office pro TV creator pro TV and biz pro that's with your standard and take practice tests is Kind of a interesting one that you're only going to get with the premium but launched premium virtual labs These are really cool on the virtual labs and we'll cover that last but that's a really neat feature now Also, I have as a business owner using this so if you're coming at it not from an individual learning side But as a business owner site, yes, they do have different business plans So training for business which does include as well The ability to track all your staff give them assignments and say these are the things I want you to do These are things you work on and then track their progress to it So it's got an entire nice dashboard for managing all that so if you are someone running a business like myself And I do have my staff in here And I do you can suggest that they do training all the time But sometimes people need to be trained on something specific so Assigning your technicians a class makes a lot of sense because training is where it's at. All right, let's dive into a Different account that I have logged in here that's not mine so you can look at it from completely from the side of a User and what user did I create my son Marcus? So I decided that Marcus should because he's not in school right now due to the things going on in April of 2020 I decided that he should go through some IT training on here He's 13 years old and I also wanted his feedback because I have my feedback as an IT person But I wanted someone who's never done working in IT and my son says, you know It's not watching his gamers like he's used to it's not quite as exciting as that But he is enjoying it and learning quite a bit and starting to get some of the fundamentals down Which I think is great. What do they have in terms of courses? Let's just jump there. Yeah, you're getting started Cisco AWS big data biz pro TV just a lot of other things in here virtualization skills six sigma So it's kind of a combination of not only Skills for learning tech but some of the business related skills for getting a job I think that's really cool that they've got that. I've not reviewed much of their business stuff I have done their courses on things I know is how I started because that was my way of evaluating whether or not they were any good Because if I took a thing I knew and went through the course on it I would have a better idea of what or not they were accurate and I do enjoy it I thought they did a great job on there. Um, they keep it very serious not boringly serious But I will say that they are very on point. No shenanigans. I see that because this is something I try to do on my channel when I do a tutorial I follow through and You know try to keep it right to the point walk through each step Some people I've seen insert a bunch of silliness in between I guess to maybe keep you entertained But to me if you go too far into that I don't mind being not serious or joking at the beginning or end or having silly names when I named a server But focused is the important part So I'm not distracted during the interview at least during the review process or tutorial process that I'm doing That you can sort by certification you can start by your job role So these are all the different categories and options that you have on here And then of course you can just jump up the top and search if we want to learn about Linux SSH or Linux security, let's dive into something like that You can just search over here Risk management frameworks, that's actually a pretty good one there Linux essentials. All right, that sounds good cybersecurity and of course we could just go back and Well, we'll click on one of them here and way it comes up like going through the entire risk management framework and Each one all ten minutes forty one seconds prepare for the course and they have each trainer and their trainers are really good Everything's been great. So let's look a little bit closer At a course or a specific one like let's go through the Linux command line You see we've got getting started terminal and shells etc etc Each one of these has show notes down here at the bottom So these are notes you can copy paste things back and forth You could just download the notes as a PDF Now the other really neat things is and we'll go over here. Like I said, it supports Roku Chrome and everything else We got the Chromecast rate from Here the thing I like is we'll go over here as I have transcription turned on and you know, sir One's going really fast. That's because you can Go here and set the speed. I'll talk fast I'm trying to talk a little bit slower for this review But I generally prefer to talk fast and it's also out of habit of listening everybody talk fast because I listen so many things At 2x so that's definitely a thing now the transcript is really interesting here because it's not only a transcript it has Highlighting as they're going so this is running up here at the top The video itself is at the very top and it's going through in transcribing and Highlighting each section of the transcription This makes it if you're maybe even a non-English speaker, but you read English well or you're not sure what they said For any particular reason you can get the entire transcript of every one of these which is just incredibly that they have all this on there Like I said, they've really done a much more extensive job on training than I've seen some of the other systems do I'm but I have not done just because someone's going to ask me about every other one out there I've not done an extensive review of every system out there, but I do really like the presentation style I like the fact that they zoom in on each of the commands They make things very clear and of course everything is right here on the screen if you turn on closed captioning So you can watch each part of it now Practice tests these are important if you plan to get certified certifications are sometimes the Gatekeeper from getting a job that's just a fact of things whether or not you have different feelings and what are not those certifications are valid Some certifications are easy some of them are very difficult and in the early days of tech. I will admit They weren't always that valuable We used to have the joke called you know paper MCSEs people who got their certified professional But didn't know how to do anything that was a common problem I will say certifications over the last 20 years that I've worked in technology have gotten substantially better It's also like I said a way many businesses they go at least if you went through the trouble of this Certification you've gone through some levels of training just saying hey, I know computers. I know how to fix the cloud Can you just hire me to be your cloud engineer? That's not an easy way to get a job. They're looking for some experience and credentials on there now Hands-on learning is where it's at. This is something that means a lot to me I do have this hey fun lab and all the stack of equipment back here This is a feature that to me for the price is pretty outstanding to include this on there I will tell you I spend more even though it's a bunch of you know parts I put together sometimes in old servers You'll spend more Versus all the labs you'll get trying to buy all this and trying to build your own lab not to mention Sometimes standing up the lab can be hard and I'm not discouraging of anyone to build a lab amazing if you have the Skills and time to do it, but if you're focused on training and you are working on being a cloud engineer You need access to a cloud lab that simulates something that you've got set up. Well, that's what this is right here They have a really slick amount of virtual labs in here It's all included with your higher-end subscription course But if this is something you want they have it all done in a browser builds out everything else and Let's find a good Linux lab in here And spin one up. So let's install SQL age service Let's jump over to this one right here Launch hard disk layout. That sounds cool. This was a lab for the CompTI Linux and we'll go ahead and what do we want here default? Yeah, high contrast. That's fine we'll go ahead here and we'll do this all in real time as we speak here and Let's see let's power it on and Close this lecture lab guide go through here You kind of get the idea that it's pretty fast here and we're watching it step-by-step spin up takes about That long to spin the lab and get going it's all done right here in your browser and We'll go ahead and Press center and it's going to boot up this a lab demo for CompTIa link designing hard disk layouts And away we go pretty straightforward for building it now I didn't have to build any virtual machines or anything else like that. They take care of it They have restart start over again. Oh look, it's acting funny. There we go now. Let's boot it up. Hey look we have a My own Here we go my own sent OS install so I'm ready to start playing around with it and following the guide from the training I just did so I can learn how to Implement and actually hands on the keyboard try it and of course the first step is Regurgitating what you learned and just typing the same commands the second step in learning is more frequently All right now We're going to see how I can customize it myself and having a lab is way better than breaking your own machines for sure These aren't Yeah, here we go tools and resources. Oh, they have an intranet everything. This is interesting I've been I never even opened the browser in there. I've just gone through I don't use the virtual labs as much because we have our own lab I know my staff has used them more than I have for some of the Cisco training They were doing and learning well the last couple things I want to cover on IT pro TV is Q&A forum so they do have a general discussion forum where you can have discussions They do have the on-air which is cool Which I believe right now because it's 943 a.m. They should yeah, they get their live show going so this is Fun to wow hijacker hijacks YouTube accounts to broadcast build gates themed crypto Ponzi scheme That's interesting. They do cover the news and Rapid-fire questions who got poem some great conversations you can have in here So it's very much like a similar to a live YouTube stream as well. Their staff is very knowledgeable I've been on their podcast as well great great bunch of people and then they have the learning coach system down here at The bottom to help you with the coach's playbook for getting certified job resources And talk to some of them They've got they've thought a lot about how to make sure that this is a good experience from top to bottom So my review of both as a user and yes I know people say I'm biased because there's an affiliate link, but I'm really happy with IT pro TV It's been good for my staff. It's been good to assign learning to them. They have found it very helpful I have found it helpful. I went and done some of the courses myself. I mean, I don't know everything It's really really difficult to know everything or keep up with things So sometimes just going through and picking out some of the course outlines I just went through because I'll admit it. I am not good at using I'm a var log message guy more so than the journal control messages So I know how to use them in basic, but there's some good training on it I just went and watched that one yesterday and thanks Don that helped me get a little better at it I just been such a long-time Linux here as you get used to using far along messages and anyways I found their training to be accurate. Like I said watching things no problem following along and setting it up and Redoing some of my scripts that I should have redone a while ago that we're looking in var log messages That could have easily I didn't remember all the different filter commands for journal control So that's a good one to start if you want to start there Or if you are new to Linux start at journal controls that are var log messages because journal controls the newer way But then someone's gonna have an argument about system D and you can learn both There's the best part and they have training on both all the system D functions and all the older and how to do messages I'm overall really happy with it pro TV. How's that? Their training's been great I may do some of their business training because I find it kind of interesting and now that I have a sales person I may see what he thinks of it. I mean he's not gone through Any of the training on here at all because I mostly think of it as a technical thing But they do have all the business training as well, which I think it's fascinating So I'll leave my affiliate link if you'd like to use it if you just want to sign up for it pro TV and say screw that Tom guy don't want to help him out That's fine, too They got a great team over there and signing up for their services is you know like I said I think it's a good thing so my review is thumbs up on it pro TV alright Thanks, and thank you for making it to the end of the video if you liked this video Please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to Lawrence systems calm fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums not Lawrence systems calm where we can carry on the Discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time