As the countdown continues to the launch of the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server, the excitement levels continue to rise and rise, and why shouldn’t they given all that SQL Server 2012 brings with it?! To help make sure you are aware of your opportunity to participate in our Virtual Launch event...

Welcome to 2012, everyone! I certainly hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and New Year’s Day. To kick off the 2012 year, I thought it might be fun to look back at 2011 quickly to see which of the posts here on the blog you all came to and visited the most. With that, below is a list of the top...

As we approach the end of 2011 and the beginning of the new 2012 year, many people are in the process of taking care of last minute items to close out the year. As you are going through those lists of things to get in before the end of the year, I wanted to make sure that you remembered the Microsoft...

Overnight, the new V 2.3 version of the Microsoft Partner Info Mobile App for Windows Phone went live in the Windows Phone Marketplace. For those of you that currently have a previous version of the Microsoft Partner Info Mobile App installed on your phone, you too probably received the update notice...

Looking to simplify your cloud migration planning? If so, you will want to check out the newly released Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 Beta. This new version of the MAP Toolkit brings several new features to help you in your cloud migration planning, including: Hyper-V Cloud Fast...

On the way home from an offsite meeting yesterday afternoon, I had a voicemail from a colleague of mine here at Microsoft that I used to work with quite a bit when I was back in our Midwest District on the U.S. Team saying that he has a partner looking to get into refurbishing PCs to provide to their...

Once again, one of the most popular promotions that we have offered over the years, the Big Easy Offer , is back! That’s right, the Big Easy Offer that provides a subsidy check to customers who make qualifying license purchases that they can they use with a Microsoft partner of their choice for implementation...

As a member of the Microsoft Partner Network, you have access to a large collection of resources and benefits that you can use to run your business, train your staff, enhance your sales & marketing efforts, get support, and much, much more. One of these key benefits that partners receive is “Internal...

As many of you are probably already aware (and if you’re not, you should be), one of the very beneficial benefits included with Software Assurance is a benefit called “ eLearning .” In fact, training is one of the very beneficial Software Assurance benefits that is underutilized by many clients. Here...

I am happy to announce that the updates I mentioned in my Changes coming to Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) August 15th post from a couple of weeks ago are now live across all of the servers and available to our customers and partners around the world, as you can see here to the right...

In my Changes coming to Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) August 15th post here on the blog on Monday, I mentioned that for the upcoming changes coming to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center, we currently have users from customers and partners already using the new interface...

As I mentioned in my Changes coming to Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) August 15th post this morning, the new VLSC interface which is launching on August 15th brings with it a new user experience designed to improve your interaction with the site. Because the new interface provides you...

On August 15th, we will be releasing an update to the Microsoft® Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC), which is the single online resource for Microsoft Volume Licensing customers and partners to view Licensing information, download Microsoft software, and manage Volume Licensing benefits and subscriptions...

As I have mentioned here on the blog several times in the past, the Big Easy Offer is always one that is a favorite among partners whenever it is in market due to the fact that it translated directly into dollars that their customers can use to do more business with them based on deals they close during...

As I have mentioned here in the past, I look to share information with partners across a variety of platforms, some of which include: my Blog , my Twitter account , and my LinkedIn account . Through these various communications, I often share links to a variety of resources, information, downloads, and...

Here is some great news that the U.S.Team has announced for all of the partners in the U.S. – The Big Easy Offer is now back in market and runs from today, May 2nd, until June 30, 2011! As you probably know, the Big Easy Offer has been a very popular offer among partners in the U.S. based on the way...

Here is a good question that came in this morning regarding the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC): “If I have a Microsoft Volume Licensing agreement for a Microsoft product, what versions of that product are available for download through the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center?...

I am very excited to get a chance to connect with the Microsoft partners in the U.S. West Region again this week when I will be joining the Microsoft U.S. West Region SMS&P Team on Friday for their monthly partner call to present on a topic that I get questions on frequently, and used to get when...

Are you using the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) Customer Rewards Offer with your SMB customers yet? If not, here is a great opportunity for all of you partners focusing on SMB customers to drive adoption of online services through the Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS...

This weekend, as we continue making improvements in the online experience for our partners across our various web properties, we will be performing some maintenance and improvements that will require some features to be offline for a little while.  As such, I am posting this update here so that...

Lately there has been a lot of excitement over Microsoft’s Small Business Server 2011 and I have been seeing the number of questions and requests for information on it increasing over the past week or so.  What I thought I would do is post here on the blog a list of resources, information, training...

Are you looking to take advantage of the Microsoft 50%* off N-2 promotion?  If so, you had better hurry up and get your order in!  Why?  Simple, because as announced in my Microsoft 50%* off N-2 promotion continued through end of 2010 post, the N-2 promotion is going to expire at the end...

As I have mentioned in several of my recent posts, such as Simplifying your Microsoft Partner Network Portal Experience , we are constantly working to enhance the experience of our customers and partners to make it easier to do business with Microsoft and to simplify your access to resources and benefits...

For the partners in the U.S. and Canada, you may recall when we first launched the Big Easy Offer: The Big Easy Offer is now live on Microsoft Incentives and since that day, the Big Easy Offer has continued to be a favorite among customers and partners.  The Big Easy provides a way for customers...

Earlier today, I posted about our Microsoft Office 365 announcement as well as the announcement of the beta for Microsoft Office 365 .  In that post I included several links to things like the beta program, Microsoft partner page for Microsoft Office 365, the Microsoft Office 365 website, the Microsoft...