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Windows Server 2012 – available resources & training
How can a Practice Accelerator (PA) help you?
In our readiness calendar we have a broad Practice Accelerator (PA) offer.
But what exactly is this and how can it help me?
Have a look here to learn all about it.
Or visit the PA partner website.
Below you can find the current offer reflected in the readiness calendar.
If you’re not receiving the readiness calendar, make sure to subscribe for the training talk through www.netgenoeg.info or www.justeassez.info
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DATE |
TRAINING TITLE |
AUDIENCE |
LEVEL |
REGISTRATION |
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19-22/11/2012 |
Practice Accelerator Lync 2010 French |
Technical |
300 |
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20,23 & 30/11/2012 |
Datacenter Consolidation Migration Practice Accelerator (ENG) |
Technical |
300 |
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26-29/11/2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Office 365 in English |
Technical |
300 |
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26-29/11/2012 |
Practice Accelerator Lync 2010 |
Technical |
300 |
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3,6 & 12/12/2012 |
Business Intelligence Practice Accelerator -V 2.0 (ENG) |
Technical |
300 |
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3 & 13/12/2012 |
Datacenter Management Practice Accelerator -V 2.0 (ENG) |
Technical |
300 |
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3-6/12/2012 |
Practice Accelerator Lync 2010 |
Technical |
300 |
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3-6/12/2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (ENG) |
Technical |
300 |
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3-6/12/2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Office 365 in English |
Technical |
300 |
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3-6/12/2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Microsoft SharePoint Server2010 (ENG) |
Technical |
300 |
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10,13&20/2012 |
Datacenter Management Practice Accelerator -V 2.0 (ENG) |
Technical |
300 |
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10-13/12/2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Office 365 in English |
Technical |
300 |
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10-21/12/2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Data Center Consolidation and Migration |
Technical |
300 |
Register |
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17-20/12/2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Office 365 in English |
Technical |
300 |
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17-20/12/2012 |
Practice Accelerator Lync 2010 |
Technical |
300 |
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17-20/12/2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Office 365 in French |
Technical |
300 |
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21-24/01/2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Office 365 in English |
Technical |
300 |
Next big thing: New Office
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Welcome ! As you know, last month we started our rolling thunder of readiness activities like Partner Connect & The Bootcamp Week. Many of you participated in the face-to-face events and trainings. We have gotten a lot of positive feedback and excitement from our partner channel. Now that Windows 8 is with customer, the spotlight shifts to the next big thing; New Office! We are pleased to be able to highlight the training resources which are available to you today as you get ready to sell, implement, and service the most exciting release of our flagship productivity suite. We are now entering the last mile when we put all these pieces together, and scale delivery through the Partner Learning Center. Take a look below at all the available training opportunities; both instructor-led and on demand, and reach out to your Microsoft contact with any questions or comments. · On the PLC we now have segment centric courses which introduce the new Office. You will find the Enterprise Pitch and the SMB Pitch of the Next Office. Decks are included with the course in case you need to redeliver. · SMB training recourses – with a focus on Office 365 on Open · Ignite Technical Training · LAR Licensing webcasts · Live@Edu · Product Specific training What’s New OFFICE | OFFICE 365 Office 365 Open and Selling new Office in SMB courses are now available on the PLC! We are pleased to announce availability of Office 365 Open, and courses on selling new Office in SMB. The accompanying decks are downloadable with the contents: · Understanding the new Office Business Model · Making Money with the new Office · Selling the new Office to SMB · Sample Templates for Managed Services Providers Google Compete Courses · New Office: Competing to Win Against Google Apps in the Enterprise Overview: The growth in the cloud marketplace is creating many new business opportunities for partners. There are also growing competitive factors in the cloud space, especially in business productivity solutions. This session is designed to help our Microsoft Partners become stronger in knowing the key value pillars and differentiators in Office 365, to help your business compete to wins against Google Apps in your enterprise customer engagements in winning against and winning back from scenarios. · New Office: Competing to Win Against Google Apps with Small Business Customers Overview: The growth in the cloud marketplace is creating many new business opportunities for partners. In the cloud market space there are also growing competitive factors, no more so than in the business productivity space. This session is designed to help our Microsoft Partners become stronger in knowing the key value pillars and differentiators in Office 365, to help your business compete to win when engaged in Google Apps competitive scenarios such has winning against, and winning back customers. Live@edu to Office 365 Upgrade Partner Opportunity We have an ambitious goal for this fiscal year: upgrade 90 percent of our 85 million Live IDs on Live@edu to Office 365. This presents a significant opportunity to those of you who specialize in federation and provisioning tools. Take advantage of these business opportunities by reviewing the following and training materials. · Watch this quarterly update presentation detailing the upgrade process from Live@edu to Office 365 for education, as well as upgrade incentives available to partners, the upgrade roadmap, training, and resources to get started.
o Standard Identity – Installing and Configuring Active Directory Federation Services o Installing and Configuring Active Directory Synchronization o Federated Identity – Configuring Active Directory Federation Services and Verifying· Download these tools to help you upgrade your Live@edu customers to Office 365 for education, and capitalize on more upsell and cross sell opportunities: EXCHANGE SERVER 2013 New! Beta publication of the new Exchange 2013 exams: · 71-341 Core Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (live version will be available January 15th) · 71-342 Advanced Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (live version will be available January 15th) LYNC SERVER 2013 New! Be sure to leverage the newly available Lync 2013 exams: · 70-336 Core Solutions of Microsoft Lync Server 2013 · 70-337 Enterprise Voice & Online Services with Microsoft Lync Server 2013
The Next Generation of Communications You are invited to the Lync conference to learn about the Lync platform futures, and connect in-person with the Lync engineers, consultants, partners and attendees at this one-of-a-kind event. SHAREPOINT SERVER 2013 Now Available! First Look Clinics (FLC):
Target Audience is Developers and IT Pros who already have a foundational knowledge and skill of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Lync 2010. These clinics include high-level demonstration steps based on early release software builds. These FLCs are published to Courseware Library and are being converted to ePub for Courseware Marketplace. New! Beta publication of the new SharePoint 2013 exams: · 71-331 Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (live version will be available February 1st) · 71-332 Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (live version will be available February 1st) LAR Licensing Webcasts – In Your Time Zone LAR Licensing Readiness Series Live Q&A Series with Microsoft Licensing Experts · Series Overview: These webcasts are one-hour online events for Microsoft those in licensing roles to engage with Microsoft Volume Licensing subject matter experts as they discuss licensing core topics of the new Office release. Learn more about answering the deep questions from customers, such as the benefits and features, pricing and licensing, migration and software assurance, and a walk-through of customer examples as they migrate to the new Office. These webcasts cater to L100 – L300 licensing knowledge. · Delivery schedule is available at http://officelicensingreadiness.com/. Sales & Licensing (By Product) OFFICE | OFFICE 365 · Understanding the new Office Business Model · Making Money with the new Office · Selling the new Office to SMB · New Office: Competing to Win Against Google Apps in the Enterprise · New Office: Competing to Win Against Google Apps with Small Business Customers LYNC SERVER 2013 · First Look: Lync 2013 Technical Overview Partner Academy Live Sessions (By Product) OFFICE | OFFICE 365 · Creating New Opportunities with Microsoft CRM Online and Microsoft Office 365 · How To Series: Learn How To Demo Office 365 To Your Customers · How To Demo Office 365 and Take Advantage of Limited Time Offers To Close Deals! · Introducing “The New Office” to Enterprise IT Decision Makers · Introducing “The New Office” to Small and Midsize Businesses · Live@edu to Office 365 Upgrade: Partner Update EXCHANGE SERVER 2013 · How to Introduce “The new Office” to Enterprise IT Decision Makers LYNC SERVER 2013 · Session: Lync Accelerate: Delivering a Lync Proposal · Session: Lync Accelerate: Planning for Successful Lync Deployment and Rapid Adoption · Session: Lync Accelerate: Planning for Lync Engagements & the Lync Customer Trial Programs · Session: Lync Accelerate: Lync Deployment Options and Reference topologies · FY13 Lync Accelerate Overview for Partners SHAREPOINT SERVER 2013 Managed Services Provider Resources · Sample Templates for Managed Services Providers Tech 100-200 (Instructor-led) SHAREPOINT 2013 · Clinic 40027A: First Look Clinic: What’s New for Developers in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 · Clinic 40029A: First Look Clinic: What’s New for IT Professionals in Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Tech 300 (On Demand) OFFICE 365 · Installing and Configuring Active Directory Federation Services (Virtual Lab) · Active Directory Synchronization (Virtual Lab) · Configuring Active Directory Federation Services and Verifying Federation (Virtual Lab) |
Windows 8 Partner Readiness Kit and Other New Resources
The Windows 8 partner readiness kit – available now to Microsoft partners – provides the core materials needed to help you get ready for Windows 8. This kit includes training presentations, plug-and-play demo videos, partner ready event marketing collateral, and more. It is designed to enable Microsoft distributors and OEM partners to put on their own readiness events and activate their channel partners.
The kit is available now and approved for use by Microsoft and Partners for sales and presales training events: http://bit.ly/ULcIjq
Other resources available now:
- MSL Exams for the IT Pro http://bit.ly/SrJUxl and Developer (HTML 5 http://bit.ly/SrJUxl and C# http://bit.ly/Que94I)
- Windows 8 Demo Showcase http://bit.ly/PBJm4d
- Campaign assets: Modern Tools for Businesses http://bit.lly/SiL8cK and Flexible Workstyle http://bit.ly/QQnKk6
- Gear Up http://bit.ly/QueiVJ
NEW! Learning paths by partner type:
- LARs http://bit.ly/UP77KJ
- SI http://bit.ly/STtiJA
- Disti http://bit.ly/QXJaM2
- VAR http://bit.ly/Ux6xwz
- ISV http://bit.ly/S3ycJw
Assess Your Readiness for Windows Server 2012
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Many of you have already taken some of the 60+ courses now available in the Windows Server 2012 Readiness Learning Path. But do you know you can also take online assessments to test your knowledge? § Pre-Sales Technical Competency Assessment for the Private Cloud, Management and Virtualization: This 60-question assessment (don’t forget to take the 4 courses that contribute to it first) quizzes pre-sales technical roles on the key selling points and technical aspects that will help enable you to make your first Windows Server 2012 sale. Passing the assessment by 80% or better contributes to the achievement of the Management and Virtualization Competency. § Windows Server 2012 Licensing Assessment: While not related to a competency achievement, this 9-point assessment exam will ensure you know the basics of the new pricing and licensing schema in this release. But you only get 3 tries to pass, so make sure you’ve taken the latest licensing courses first. § Coming Soon! In October, we will be releasing the Windows Server 2012 Sales Specialist Assessment. In the meantime, you should take the 5 sales courses that will prep you for the upcoming assessment. |
All about Windows Server 2012
It’s a Content Explosion! 27 New Windows Server 2012 Courses for Implementers
You can now find deep technical training on Windows Server 2012 in the Windows Server 2012 Readiness Learning Track. Broken out by seven popular technologies, these 27 new courses will help implementer roles learn about and prepare to execute new installations. Check out this training today!
§ Implementer: Identity and Security
§ Implementer: Management and Deployment
Join the Call: Windows Server 2012 Disclosure
On July 5, join us for a special “Get Licensing” session dedicated to the launch of Windows Server 2012. With this latest release, Microsoft is taking the next big step in bringing what we have learned from running some of the world’s largest datacenters to our customers. With more than 300 new features and enhancements, Windows Server 2012 can help increase deal sizes by offering higher-value, comprehensive services, enable new sales scenarios, and appeal to a broader range of customers. Mark your calendar to attend the call and find out all the details.
Now available via MCT Download Center and Courseware Library, a three-hour Hands On Lab (HOL), 40006A – Hands On Lab: Windows Server® 2012.
This HOL compliments the First Look Clinic (40005A) that we released earlier this month and is one of the first few learning products from Microsoft Learning on the Windows Server 2012. This Hands On Lab is built on the Windows Server 2012 Consumer Preview (Beta release) software and will cover some of the key new features and functionality in Windows Server 2012. It will cover Management features such as Server Manager, Windows PowerShell, Server Core, Active Directory, IP Address Management (IPAM) and Dynamic Access Control. It will also cover some of the significant changes that have taken place in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012. Read the syllabus for more information.
