Windows Server training update
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Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 Learning Path
Roles:
- BDM’s
- Sales – & Account Managers
- Licensing specialists
- Tech pre sales
- Implementers
- ArchitectsTopics ex.:
- Growing Your Mid-Market Business Practice with Windows Server 2012 (sales)
- Why Hyper-V? Competitive advantages of Windows Server “8” Hyper-V over VMware (sales)
- Understanding Microsoft Private Cloud Competition (technical)
- Focusing on Customer Benefits for Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 (technical)
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Management & Virtualization Competency Learning Path
- Sales Assessment
- Pre sales Assessment
- ExamsTopics ex.:
- Private Cloud Sales Training (Module 1) – Setting up to sell the Private Cloud
- Private Cloud Sales Training (Module 5) – Increasing Your Revenue
- Private Cloud – Management and Virtualization Pre-sales Technical Specialist Demo Resources
- Microsoft Private Cloud Competition Course
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Windows 8
Early sales & marketing training
Topics ex.:
- Windows 8 Value for Small and Midsized Businesses
- Windows 8 Value for Enterprise Scenarios Part 1
- Windows 8 and Windows RT Devices
-…Early technical training
Topics ex.:
- What’s new in .NET Framework 4.5
- Anatomy of HTML5 sites and Metro style apps using HTML5
- …
Office 2013
- 04/09/2012 Live Meeting Office 2013
- 04/09/2012 Are you licensing ready?
Visual Studio 11
- Introduction to Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) (sales)
- Visual Studio 11: Application Lifecycle Management – Delivering Continuous Value (sales)
- Visual Studio 11: Customer Value and Sales Opportunities (sales)
- Visual Studio 11: What’s New (sales)
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. |
WHAT’S NEW WITH PRACTICE ACCELERATOR
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Pricing |
· Reduction from 10 Partner Advisory Hours to 5 · O365 offering remains available at no-cost for Cloud Accelerate and Cloud Essentials partners |
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· FY12 format was 4 hours 4 days in a row · FY13 format is shorter, with several modules held over a 10-day period, much of it on-demand (English language recordings). Currently there are pilots scheduled in the new format, while most PA sessions are still being delivered in the FY12 format for now |
New Offerings:
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BI Available July 30th, 2012 |
Practice Accelerator for Business Intelligence This PA provides an end-to-end BI solution including on-premise and on-cloud features, based on SQL Server 2012. It provides valuable practical information that helps accelerate deployments along with a set of Bill of Material (BOM) which can in turn be used in customer engagements. This will also be used to share best practices with partners in selecting, deploying, and scaling MS BI solutions, filling out gaps in current offerings and providing information on the Business Intelligence Microsoft Solution Framework (BI MSF). Upcoming Dates:
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Practice Accelerator for Datacenter Management This PA enables partners to develop or enhance a practice based on Advanced Datacenter Management with System Center 2012, helping customers to reduce costs, improve operational efficiencies, and drive business agility by delivering an integrated datacenter solution that takes advantage of industry-leading architectures and principles. PA for Datacenter Management features three distinct scenarios, partners may choose any or all of 1) Infrastructure Management 2) Deep Application Monitoring 3) Service Delivery Upcoming Dates:
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DCCM
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Practice Accelerator for Datacenter Consolidation and Migration This PA helps partners with engagements helping your customers to efficiently and safely migrate their virtualized workloads from VMware to the Hyper-V platform. With Hyper-V, it is easier than ever to take advantage of the cost savings of virtualization through Windows Server 2008 R2. Migration also improves operational efficiencies, and drives business agility by delivering an integrated datacenter solution. This solution encompasses and leverages technologies from Microsoft and the Microsoft Partner Veeam, providing an automated process that performs a full end-to-end of migration of a VMware Virtual Machine. There are also components for migration of Linux workloads. Upcoming Dates:
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We’re pleased to continue providing the following Practice Accelerator offerings (in the FY12 format):
- Lync Server 2010
- Exchange Server 2010
- SharePoint Server 2010
- Optimized Desktop
Management & Virtualization
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SC 2012 Private Cloud/Virtualization Assessment: Now Available in 11 Languages! The Sales Specialist assessment is now available in 11 languages. The assessment will help prime you to sell Microsoft’s Private Cloud with System Center 2012 solution to customers. And remember: the assessment is now a requirement for the Management and Virtualization Competency achievement. On-Demand Technical Training: Private Cloud Jump Start This series of discrete videos—broken out by implementer roles for Configuration/Deployment and Monitoring/Operating —provides an in-depth look at what it takes to deploy and maintain Microsoft’s Private Cloud solution. Each course replaces older, less current content. The original Jump Start training event was hugely successful with more than 4,000 registrants, so if you missed it, here’s a great chance to take a deep technical dive on demand (level 300).
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Dive into the fundamentals of a Lync System & Beta Exam Live
Lync MCM Insights: Volume 1 Available Today in the Partner Learning Center!
Join us for a deep 300 level technical training on Lync Server 2010, presented to you by Lync MCM experts. The Lync MCM Insights video series will come in three volumes. In volume one’s video series, the first five sessions cover the fundamentals of a Lync system. Lync Internals covers the basics of the Lync client and Lync server. The Lync client section focuses on the sign-in process, provisioning and web service interactions. Whereas, the Lync server section covers the Central Management Store, certificates, user replicator, and several other core server functions. The Lync Edge webinar covers functionality of the three core Edge roles along with the Reverse Proxy. Hardware Load Balancers and Lync Directors are also covered in the Edge session. The Conferencing webinar covers key roles of Lync Conferencing such as the focus, focus factory, and MCUs. The conferencing lifecycle and meeting join process are also covered in the conferencing session. The final webinar covers Lync Migration and Coexistence. This session covers the step by step phases involved in migrated from OCS to Lync, including how to approach a user pilot and performing key post-migration steps.
This training is perfect for those who want to get advanced technical knowledge on Lync, after taking the basic training through Lync Ignite or the MCTS and MCITP related Microsoft Official Courseware. Additionally this is a great prerequisite training towards enrolling in the Lync Masters Certification.
Exam 74-322 Microsoft Lync Server 2010—Advanced Design and Deployment Beta Exam is Live! Increase your Lync expertise and offer greater differentiation in the marketplace, with the new Microsoft Lync Server 2010—Advanced Design and Deployment Exam (available March/April). Select partners will be invited to take the beta exam, at no charge, and if you pass you will receive credit on your Prometrics transcript. This exam will be required in the Microsoft Communications Gold competency, starting October 2012, so get started today! See here for more details.
Click here to take the Beta exam today! (Search by exam title and use the code “lync322” to take this exam for free).
Prepare for the Virtual SQL 2012 Launch event!
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With over 157K downloads of the CTP3 and Release Candidates, and the Virtual Launch Event fast approaching, it’s time to brush up on everything that’s new in SQL Server 2012 and make sure you’re ready to leverage opportunities with our enhanced database platform, BI and developer tools. This update is to ensure you are aware of and can take advantage of training available now. Below you can find: 1. Updated exam information 2. Updated Learning Paths 3. Tech 100-200 (On Demand) 4. Technical On Demand, Hands-on-labs Online 5. Developers 1. Microsoft Learning has updated exam information for SQL Server 2012. Those exams and preparatory courses with links have additional information:
The Hands on Labs have been upgraded to Release Candidate. See the Technical section below for the replacement links. Learning Paths 2. Updated Learning Paths – role-based to help partners find training suitable for them. The SI path has been updated with MSL’s instructor-led courses and exams. § SQL Server 2012 (Product) § LARs § VARs § Hosters Scroll down for a list of on-demand training available now in the Partner Learning Center (PLC): 3. Tech 100-200 (On Demand) We have three mini-course (saved searches): 1. SQL Server 2012: Technical Overview for BI Consultants 2. SQL Server 2012: Technical Overview for Database Administrators 3. SQL Server 2012: Technical Overview for Application Developers that include the following titles: For BI Consultants: § Technical Overview of New Features: SQL Server Code Name Denali § SQL Server: Data Discovery and Managed Self-Service BI § SQL Server Code Name Denali: Credible, Consistent Data § SQL Server Code Name Denali: Complete Data Warehousing Solution For Database Administrators & Developers: § Technical Overview of New Features: SQL Server Code Name Denali § SQL Server Code Name Denali: Required 9s and Data Protection § SQL Server Code Name Denali: Blazing Fast Performance § SQL Server Code Name Denali: Organizational Compliance § SQL Server Code Name Denali: Scale on Demand For Application Developers: § Technical Overview of New Features: SQL Server Code Name Denali § SQL Server Code Name Denali: Optimized Developer Productivity § SQL Server Code Name Denali: Extend Data Virtually Anywhere 4. Technical On Demand, Hands-on-labs Online The following Virtual Hands-on-Labs in the PLC have been upgraded to Release Candidate: § Microsoft SQL Server 2012: Exploring Project Power View – level 200 § Microsoft SQL Server 2012: What’s New in Datawarehousing and EIM – level 300 § Microsoft SQL Server 2012: What’s New in Manageability – level 300 § Microsoft SQL Server 2012: Contained Databases – level 300 § Microsoft SQL Server 2012: AlwaysOn Availability Groups – level 400 5. Developers SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit contains labs, demos, and presentations to help developers learn to develop database and BI solutions using SQL Server 2012. |
Learning Paths § SQL Server 2012 (Product) § LARs § VARs § Hosters Other Resources § Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate (RC0) § SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit § Tutorials for SQL Server 2012 updated for RC0 SQL Server Migration Assistants: · Download of the SSMA for Oracle · Download of the SSMA for Sybase · Download of the SSMA for MySQL § Download of the SSMA for Access
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SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 is coming soon and will bring exciting opportunities. It’s Important to be aware of available training so you can be successful with our enhanced database platform, BI and developer tools. This update is to ensure everyone is aware of what’s available now and what’s coming next.
Training titles below have been organized by Sales & Licensing and Technical, with partner-type and role-specific titles noted. Please promote within your organizations as appropriate. The learning paths are updated continuously as new titles become available, so the links should be distributed and bookmarked for easy reference.
In December, a series of six on-demand sessions describing partner opportunities, as well as drill-downs into specific new capabilities of SQL Server 2012 became available. See “New” section below.
In addition, some of the Hands-on-Labs were updated to the release candidate; others are being replaced. See Technical section near the end.
Scroll down for a list of on-demand training available now in the Partner Learning Center (PLC):
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