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&lt;P&gt;In this video, &lt;A href="https://blogs.msdn.com/acoat" mce_href="https://blogs.msdn.com/acoat"&gt;Andrew Coates&lt;/A&gt;, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Australia talks about TechEd North America and reasons for partners to attend TechEd Australia.&amp;nbsp; Get the latest news from &lt;A href="https://blogs.msdn.com/acoat" mce_href="https://blogs.msdn.com/acoat"&gt;Andrew’s blog&lt;/A&gt; and for more information about TechEd visit &lt;A href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched" mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched"&gt;www.microsoft.com.au/teched&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Want to know more about sponsor and exhibitor opportunities? Contact Fran Barlow on (02) 9870 2639 or &lt;A href="mailto:franba@microsoft.com" mce_href="mailto:franba@microsoft.com"&gt;franba@microsoft.com&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9698165" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Technical/default.aspx">Technical</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Events/default.aspx">Events</category></item><item><title>Partner-TV: TechEd 2009</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2009/05/25/partner-tv-teched-2009.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 13:16:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9634581</guid><dc:creator>chlong</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/comments/9634581.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9634581</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;embed src="http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" width="432" height="364" id="ga0hm0k7" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="c=v&amp;v=4d8f010a-d96c-437b-b12f-79b21a88c0fd&amp;ifs=true&amp;fr=msnvideo&amp;mkt=en-AU&amp;brand=ninemsn"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;noembed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=4d8f010a-d96c-437b-b12f-79b21a88c0fd" target="_new" title="Partner TV: Finula Crowe May 2009"&gt;Video: Partner TV: Finula Crowe May 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/noembed&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Finula Crowe, Marketing Manager for Developers, Designers and IT Professional at Microsoft Australia talks about TECHED!&amp;#160; Fin talks about where, when the venue is, why you should go and how to register!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For more information about the event + preparing + connecting to TechEd, visit &lt;a title="http://microsoft.com.au/teched" href="http://microsoft.com.au/teched"&gt;http://microsoft.com.au/teched&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you’re interested in sponsoring the event, &lt;a href="http://www.msteched.com/australia/Public/becoming-a-sponsor.aspx"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; or contact &lt;a href="mailto:franba@microsoft.com"&gt;Fran Barlow&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msteched.com/australia/Public/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.msteched.com/resources/Content_Files/TechEd09_email_signature1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9634581" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Technical/default.aspx">Technical</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Events/default.aspx">Events</category></item><item><title>Partner-TV: RDA Group and Hume Business Solutions on Sure Step</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/11/05/partner-tv-rda-group-and-hume-business-solutions-on-surestep.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:58:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9043353</guid><dc:creator>chlong</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/comments/9043353.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/commentrss.aspx?PostID=9043353</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed id="75j53rjg" pluginspage="http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" width="432" height="364" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="c=v&amp;amp;v=811f8507-b3a3-4004-9912-f76f1a2e05ea&amp;amp;ifs=true&amp;amp;fr=msnvideo&amp;amp;mkt=en-AU&amp;amp;brand=ninemsn" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=811f8507-b3a3-4004-9912-f76f1a2e05ea"&gt;Video: Partner-TV: RDA Group on Sure Step&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;embed id="38u9nv4r" pluginspage="http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" width="432" height="364" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="c=v&amp;amp;v=616ed5c8-21c7-4f9a-9efd-e7f9c42a8161&amp;amp;ifs=true&amp;amp;fr=msnvideo&amp;amp;mkt=en-AU&amp;amp;brand=ninemsn" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" /&gt;&lt;noembed&gt;&lt;/noembed&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=616ed5c8-21c7-4f9a-9efd-e7f9c42a8161"&gt;Video: Partner-TV: Hume Business Solutions on Sure Step&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ian Cook from &lt;a href="http://www.rdac.com.au/"&gt;RDA Group&lt;/a&gt; and Gavin Leathem from &lt;a href="http://www.humecomputers.com.au/"&gt;Hume Business Solution&lt;/a&gt; talk about how they use &lt;a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/partneressentials/serviceplans/surestep"&gt;Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/partneressentials/serviceplans/surestep"&gt;Sure Step&lt;/a&gt; is a new set of tools, methodology and services that can help you deploy, migrate, configure or upgrade Microsoft Dynamics solutions more effectively. Enjoy increased profitability and greater customer satisfaction by enhancing your service delivery and working more efficiently. If you&amp;#8217;re enrolled in a Partner Service Plan for Microsoft Dynamics, you have complimentary access to Sure Step and can &lt;a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/partneressentials/serviceplans/surestep"&gt;get started today&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;.&lt;/u&gt; If you&amp;#8217;re not enrolled, you can &lt;a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/partneressentials/serviceplans/surestep"&gt;sign up now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/partneressentials/serviceplans/surestep"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="292" alt="Webpart_DynamicsSureStep[1]" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/ozpartnertv/WindowsLiveWriter/PartnerTVRDAGroupandHumeBusinessSolution_E07F/Webpart_DynamicsSureStep%5B1%5D_3.jpg" width="447" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;noembed&gt;&lt;/noembed&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9043353" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Technical/default.aspx">Technical</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Partner+Program/default.aspx">Partner Program</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Benefits/default.aspx">Benefits</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Dynamics/default.aspx">Dynamics</category></item><item><title>Partner-TV: DevSta</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/09/29/partner-tv-devsta.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:50:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8968621</guid><dc:creator>chlong</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/comments/8968621.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8968621</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;embed src="http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" width="432" height="364" id="32ej371v" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="c=v&amp;v=54505d23-1104-4796-9b12-9f2f3580e3d8&amp;ifs=true&amp;fr=msnvideo&amp;mkt=en-AU&amp;brand=ninemsn"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;noembed&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=54505d23-1104-4796-9b12-9f2f3580e3d8" target="_new" title="Partner-TV: DevSta"&gt;Video: Partner-TV: DevSta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/noembed&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=54505d23-1104-4796-9b12-9f2f3580e3d8"&gt;Video: Partner-TV: DevSta&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Catherine Grima talks about &lt;a href="http://devsta.microsoft.com.au"&gt;DevSta&lt;/a&gt;, Microsoft Australia’s latest competition for Developers, where the first &lt;a href="http://devsta.microsoft.com.au/prizes.aspx"&gt;prize&lt;/a&gt; is a trip to Vagas for two people + five nights at the Venetian Resort Hotel + two tickets to MIX09 + MSDN Premium + Xbox 360 + a Samsung Omnia.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Visit the &lt;a href="http://devsta.microsoft.com.au/"&gt;DevSta site&lt;/a&gt; download the &lt;a href="http://download.microsoft.com/documents/australia/devsta/ChallengeBrief.pdf"&gt;brief&lt;/a&gt; and for tips and tricks on what the judges are looking for.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You have just 200 hours and 8 minutes to create your nomination. &lt;a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9583278"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; for full terms and conditions and details of how to enter. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="238" alt="DEVSTA {Challenge 2008}" src="http://www.microsoft.com/australia/images/edms/dev028/header.jpg" width="650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8968621" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Technical/default.aspx">Technical</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/Partner+Program/default.aspx">Partner Program</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/tags/NextWeb/default.aspx">NextWeb</category></item><item><title>Partner-TV: Swavley and Associates on Online Technical Community</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/09/15/partner-tv-swavley-associates-on-newsgroups.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8951944</guid><dc:creator>chlong</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/comments/8951944.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8951944</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;EMBED id=pa4l1boq pluginspage=http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer src=http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf width=432 height=364 type=application/x-shockwave-flash mce_src="http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" flashvars="c=v&amp;amp;v=086d6f48-8956-4c2d-8a8e-d1885c155d68&amp;amp;ifs=true&amp;amp;fr=msnvideo&amp;amp;mkt=en-AU&amp;amp;brand=ninemsn" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/EMBED&gt;&lt;NOEMBED&gt;&lt;/NOEMBED&gt; 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&lt;P&gt;Sarah Arnold, Microsoft Australia's Partner Program Manager, is launching a campaign today to increase the awareness of some of the benefits in the &lt;A href="https://partner.microsoft.com/australia" mce_href="https://partner.microsoft.com/australia"&gt;Microsoft Partner Program&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The first benefit is the &lt;A href="https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40014662" mce_href="https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40014662"&gt;Online Technical Community&lt;/A&gt; (aka Managed Newsgroups)&amp;nbsp;and Stephen Swavley of &lt;A href="http://www.swavley.com.au/" mce_href="http://www.swavley.com.au/"&gt;Swavley &amp;amp; Associates&lt;/A&gt; talks about how they use this service.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;What is it?&amp;nbsp; When you have a technical issue or question, you can: &lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI&gt;&lt;B&gt;Get answers to specific questions&lt;/B&gt; – as you can join technical communities based on Partner type, or business or product interest.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;B&gt;Enjoy the confidence that your information is safe and secure – &lt;/B&gt;Microsoft support professionals monitor each community and respond to all posted questions and inquiries, although &lt;EM&gt;response times vary by community.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;B&gt;Connect with customers and Partners – &lt;/B&gt;by sharing ideas, discussing issues, or finding resolutions to common problems.&amp;nbsp; &lt;B&gt;&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;&lt;B&gt;Quickly find reliable, accurate advice – &lt;/B&gt;when you connect to Microsoft Online Technical Communities, you know you are engaging with quality professionals who can provide detailed, expert advice on a range of areas and issues. &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;A href="https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40014662" mce_href="https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40014662"&gt;Go there now &amp;gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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