List of free hosting suppliers for the Visual Studio 2005 beta. They enable you to get .net experience with sql without needing another w2k3 server or extra software on your development machine/lan.
just follow the instructions at Mauro’s blog to get a 17 hour course for free.
Update There are loads of courses available at Microsoft Elearning including security, sql server, biztalk and desktop support.
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Blogworks is a free asp blogging server app that sits on your asp server. Looks neat. The two drawbacks that I see is that it needs a writeable asp page (bad news) in the published webspace and that you can only have one person blogging (or one userid). However, expect that to change soon as it is open source.