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Mark Your Calendars! Tampa TS2 Event Date Notice
Partners – Have you registered for our event in Tampa? Make sure you’ve got the correct date on your calendar – April 15. You may have seen a mistake on our e-mail invitation and we apologize for the confusion but we hope to see you out at the event!
Free Licensing Fundamentals Bootcamp w/ TechData (Ft. Lauderdale)

Earn Additional Income. Build Continuing Revenue. Expand Your Services.

LICENSING FUNDAMENTALS BOOTCAMP:

Discover, learn, and take advantage of the opportunities offered by Microsoft® Licensing. Effectively offering solutions to your customers with proper product licensing opens new opportunities for additional income, develop continuing revenue streams, and expand your services business.  Attending this interactive half-day class can help you differentiate your services from your competitors and grow your revenue in this challenging economy.

This course will cover:

• What you should know about Microsoft’s licensing programs for small & medium business customers
• How to choose the right licensing for your customer
• How to leverage Microsoft tools to accurately quote customers
• How you can increase your revenue by leveraging the right licensing programs
• How to use our incentive programs & financing to create value for your customers and increase your profitability
• When to position Essential Business Server vs. Small Business Server
• How Office Communications Server & SharePoint 2007 can grow your client footprint

We will also feature an introduction to Microsoft’s server strategy including conversations on Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 as well as Microsoft’s Unified Communication and Collaboration strategy focusing on Office Communications Server 2007 and the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007.

This course is designed for client facing resources including: sales managers, account executives, and technical resources involved in preparing licensing proposals.

►  EVENT INFO

Class:           Licensing Fundamentals
Date:            April 6, 2009
Time:           10am – 2pm
Location:      6750 North Andrews Avenue,                
                   Suite 400
                   Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33309
Phone:        954-489-4800

 

Register Here 

Directions to  Ft. Lauderdale Office
Looking for some in person training in the Greater Southeast?
In-Person Learning                                                                

Primary Product

Event

Start Date

City

State

Description

BPOS

Partner Sales and Tech Night

4/21/09

Miami

FL

This series is focused on educating both sales and technical resources on how to effectively sell these solutions from a pre-sales perspective.  Come learn and gain a better insight of these products and how to position these solutions to drive services engagements and new pipeline. 

 

Partner Sales and Tech Night

4/22/09

Ft. Lauderdale

FL

 

 

Partner Sales and Tech Night

4/28/09

Tampa

FL

 

 

Partner Sales and Tech Night

4/29/09

Orlando

FL

 

 

Partner Sales and Tech Night

5/5/09

Birmingham

AL

 

 

Partner Sales and Tech Night

5/5/09

Alpharetta

GA

 

 

Partner Sales and Tech Night

5/12/09

Charlotte

NC

 

Licensing

Advanced Licensing Workshop with Synnex

5/8/09

Alpharetta

GA

In this two hour follow-up to the popular Licensing Fundamentals Bootcamp we will focus on viewing the entire deal, identifying the best licensing program for a particular situation, and executing on Software Assurance.

Licensing

Licensing Boot Camp with Tech Data

4/10/09

Tampa

FL

Effectively offering solutions to your customers with proper product licensing opens new opportunities for additional income, develop continuing revenue streams, and expand your services business.  Attending this interactive half-day class can help you differentiate your services from your competitors and grow your revenue in this challenging economy.

 

Licensing Bootcamp with Synnex

5/8/09

Alpharetta

GA

 

 

Licensing Bootcamp with Tech Data

4/6/09

Fort Lauderdale

FL

 

Office Communications Server 2007

Unified Communications Voice Ignite Training

5/4/09

Tampa

FL

This 5-day hands-on technical workshop is intended to enable you to design, deploy and administer Microsoft Unified Communications voice solutions in production, including gateway and IP PBX interoperability.  

Server Virtualization

TS2 for Partners: BPOS, Virtualization & SBS/EBS 2008

4/14/09

Ft. Myers

FL

Join TS2 for an in depth look at several new important offerings that will resonate with your customers and provide new avenues of profitability for your business. Come with your questions and feedback ready for an involving and open discussion.

 

TS2 for Partners: BPOS, Virtualization & SBS/EBS 2008

4/16/09

Tampa

FL

 

 

TS2 for Partners: BPOS, Virtualization & SBS/EBS 2008

5/5/09

Jacksonville

FL

 

 

TS2 for Partners: BPOS, Virtualization & SBS/EBS 2008

5/12/09

Atlanta

GA

 

Windows Vista

SB2: Solution Building for System Builders

4/14/09

Ft. Myers

FL

Calling all System Builders!  Looking for customer solutions? Want to give feedback to Microsoft?  These half-day events were created just for you! Join us to learn first-hand the solution building features of Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Essential Server Solutions with technical demos, tools and resources. 

 

SB2: Solution Building for System Builders

4/16/09

Tampa

FL

 

 

SB2: Solution Building for System Builders

5/12/09

Atlanta

GA

 

 Dynamics In-Person Learning                                                                        

Primary Product

Event

Start Date

City

State

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Dynamics® CRM Customization & Configuration Partner Academy

4/7/09

Alpharetta

GA

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Dynamics® CRM Installation & Deployment Partner Academy

4/6/09

Alpharetta

GA

Microsoft Dynamics GP

GET MORE! Microsoft Dynamics® GP Sales Seminar

4/2/09

Fort Lauderdale

FL

Microsoft Dynamics GP

GET MORE! Microsoft Dynamics® GP Sales Seminar

4/20/09

Alpharetta

GA

Microsoft Dynamics Other

Demo2Win!® Workshop for Microsoft Dynamics® Partners

4/9/09

Fort Lauderdale

FL

Microsoft Dynamics Other

Discovery2Win!® Workshop for Microsoft Dynamics® Partners

4/14/09

Fort Lauderdale

FL

Have you installed Internet Explorer 8 yet?

Your customers will probably be asking you about it, so check out the following link for some partner messaging around it!

https://partner.microsoft.com/40074178?msp_id=ie8

Personally, I've found that IE works pretty well, but I have run into a few webpages that have had some rendering/load issues....  Please make sure that any web apps or browser based apps are compatible with IE8 before your customers make the switch!