October 2007 - Posts
"The Microsoft Emerging Business Team has announced a new program for innovative software startups around the world. The Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program helps high potential startups accelerate their partnership with Microsoft. To learn more about
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The Readify Developer Network (RDN) is the easiest way for you to get a head start in new and upcoming Microsoft technologies, including SQL2008, BizTalk R2, Visual Studio 2008 and Powershell. The sessions are presented by Readify's highly qualified and
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For the very first time we are able to bring to our Dynamics Partners – an AX Financials Partner Academy (Instructor Facilitated Remote Training). This is a complete learning path culminating in AX Financials certification. Why this is fantastic for our
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If you are a Gold partner then you will have access to www.msptr.com which is an amazingly well-stocked repository of training collateral and other resources that you can order for next to nothing (i.e. typically shipping) cost. I logged in today to see
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This is aimed at customers but perfectly valid for partners too : Introduction on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging (Clinic 5091)
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As a valued partner, we want to ensure that you are aware of the latest information on the Virtual Earth platform, new training resources, and the new Microsoft Partner Program benefits. Please join us for a briefing that will provide a technical review
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Popfly has been a closed invitation-only beta - until now ! Not know what Popfly is ? Think mashups for non-developers.. Find out more.
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I get quite a few contacts through this blog from (typically but not always) ISVs wanting to find SIs to partner with. As always my first recommendation is to use Channel Builder to request partners to get in touch, but I have decided to help facilitation
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The official worldwide 2008 Wave launch website is up in interim form - bookmark this today as it will be THE web destination for the 'customer' world. And guess who makes a surprise appearance on it ? Our old friend Frank Arrigo , who recently left Australia
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Read all about our vision for Unified Communications as the forma launch kicks off in Bill's latest executive email to customers. http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2007/10-16unifiedcommunications.mspx "The Age of Software-Powered Communications
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BPIO University 2 Day Workshop - Sales Track for Partners This 2 day interactive workshop – targeted at Partners participating in the BPIO Campaigns – has as its outcomes: · to provide an overview understanding of the BPIO Campaign · to provide some relevant
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If you need a great case study of an Australian company deploying OCS, then read on.... " BHP Billiton is the world’s largest diversified resources company. It has 39,000 employees working in 25 countries worldwide and returned a profit of U.S.$13.7 billion
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Via Mike's Marketing for Partners blog : "I receive a lot of PR 'how to' requests from partners .. I've attached this PDF file which provides excellent advice. I hope you find it useful. Attachment(s): How2 PR.pdf " Mike's blog is great for all marketers
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Hot off the press, via Oscar Trimboli on the RideThe2008Wave blog - mark your diaries ! "The major readiness events for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 & Visual Studio 2008 are now locked in to our calendars - please consider marking them in
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Includes Windows Live Events - all the info you need here: http://thespacecraft.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8AA773FE0A12B9E3!39775.entry
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Subscribe today for all the info and resources you'll need on our virtualisation products and plans. It's white hot opportunity for partners ! http://blogs.technet.com/virblog/
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Following our recent Andy Lees partner event in Sydney we've been awash with questions around our virtualisation story and how partners can get involved. Here is one thing you can do today: https://www.quickstartgetvirtual.com "Hello and welcome to the
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https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40017359 We know licensing can appear complex but in fact it's far simpler than it used to be. Here is a good resource to help you get your team better educated on our licensing options and thus they can advise
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Collection 5934: Introducing Microsoft Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn" (Beta 3) In this online collection composed of four clinics, you are introduced to the new features and functionality in Windows Server "Longhorn". This includes server virtualization,
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http://blogs.msdn.com/sbsc_australia/archive/2007/10/11/introduction.aspx Wendy has just joined my team to help our SBSCs and resellers grow their businesses and ours ! Welcome to Microsoft, Wendy ! " Hello SBSC Community! My name is Wendy Smith and I've
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https://partner.microsoft.com/40044033?msp_id=seccomp There are some significant changes - really based on feedback that the previous model didn't map well enough to real life partners. Well, that's been fixed now with some new specialisations, definitions
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Partners need to keep their certified staff exams up to date to ensure compliance with the program requirements but more importantly to demonstrate to customers that they have staff genuinely skilled on the latest MS technologies. We are running a worldwide
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We are just putting the final touches to our next round of partners events. We will have some industry-aligned Gold and Certified networking events (following a very successful pilot last year) and then a new concept for the broader community... Watch
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This launched last week - an important initiative to help our partners ensure up to date skills in your businesses at affordable costs. https://partner.microsoft.com/global/trainingevents/training/40029197 The new PS+ Offer Highlights · Unlimited vouchers
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Via Steve Iatropoulos on our IW PTS team blog : " Have you ever wished you could demo a live MOSS environment without having to wheel around large VM's? Have you ever considered leaving a Web site with your customer to play with after you have done your
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We have just kicked off the formal launch of Unified Communications: 1. New website here: www.microsoft.com/australia/uc 2. Our launch partners listed here: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/uc/partners.aspx 3. The UC specialisation - details here: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/program/competencies/40029082
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Oscar Trimboli, our overall 2008 wave launch lead has just posed this to the RideThe2008Wave blog : ".... Why are partners important? You impact every part of the 2008 wave We can learn from you about great digital marketing and great through partner
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Via Mary Jo Foley : "Microsoft is making source code for the .Net Framework available to interested developers under its Shared Source license, the company announced on October 3. Microsoft will be rolling out the .Net code piecemeal , after scrubbing
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Here is an internal email from Christian Longstaff today on the new search macro he's created in Live.com to help partners and MS staff search easily across multiple Australian-relevant blogs and sites. Check it out here: http://search.live.com/macros/chlong/ausblogs/?FORM=MACWLG
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AIMIA, with the support of Silver Patron Microsoft , is thrilled to announce that the 14th Annual AIMIA Awards, the longest running and most prestigious awards in Australia’s interactive media industry, are now open for entries! As one of AIMIA’s highly
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http://partner.live.com/windowslive/Default.aspx I've blogged this before but as the Live story ramps up now it's probably time for a reminder. This part of the portal gives a whole bunch of info for partners such as: Windows Live Opportunity Windows
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www.voicesforinnovation.org There is a new community forum and some other new features worth checking out. Don't know what VfI is all about ? Think the important policy issues like Open XML and broaden - we'd encourage all Msft partners to sign up to
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See here for a press release on the updated Live.com search engine. I then just tried a sample search and was honestly (!) amazed at the speed improvements alone. Go on try it yourself and let me know what you think: www.live.com (More info available
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Important press release for all our partners to digest - the whole release copied below. 'Live'=consumer+small business aimed, 'Online'=organizations with more advanced IT needs. "Company introduces “Online” services and Microsoft Office Live Workspace,
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Just posted by Christian - exciting as we have been waiting for a while for this to launch. Here begins our work on building what we call the 'next generation' channel - reaching out to web development partners specifically. " If you're in the business
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Announcing Worldwide Partner Conference 2008: Houston, Texas You’re invited to attend the 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston, Texas, July 7-10. The fourth-largest city in the United States, Houston has emerged as the Gulf Coast’s cultural
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Pre-register for APC 2008 Get priority access to the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference by expressing your interest today. Partners who pre-register their details will have priority access to registration; this gives a brief window to secure your
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