Microsoft Dynamics UK Blog

Hi All, for those of you not on holiday, why not come down to Thames Valley Park and get some training on the new and improved Partner Marketing Application, a free tool that is available for use by ALL Dynamics partners that can be used to create high quality presentations for prospects and customers.

Two versions are available - beginners (new) and intermediate (familiar with previous version), use the links below to register.

- 18th August 2008, 13:30-16:30 (Beginners), Room, Everest 2, TVP, Reading

- 18th August 2008, 10:00-12:00 (Intermediates), Everest 2, TVP, Reading

Posted By Fee Nolan

Microsoft UK is proud to be launching Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 on 25th September 2008, Reading, Thames Valley Park.  This full day event is designed for you, your customers and your prospects to demonstrate how these two exciting products represent landmark deliverables on the Dynamics Roadmap.

How to register?
Partners can register online or by telephone - please make sure you are signed up to the Microsoft Dynamics RSS Feed to get further details on what promises to be a great event.

To sign up for the Dynamics RSS Feed please click here.

Posted By Fee Nolan

Calling all Dynamics Sales and Presales - the Dynamics Team and special guests are pleased to announce that we will be running a Sales Excellence Day on the 15th September at Thames Valley Park.

To view further details and register for this extremely exciting and informative day you can click here

Posted By Fee Nolan

Please note a webinar around the Deman Planner subject will be run on Friday, August 1 at 1PM Eastern Time

Join The Start Team on August 1, for a free webinar to help clarify some Demand Planner terminology and also solve a few common irritations noted amongst Demand Planner users. This will cross all Dynamics Products.

Click here to Register for this Webinar

Posted By Fee Nolan

No, it's not the trialing of a new friend, well actually, it could be in some sense! So at Partner Conference we announced the availability of a little tool called DemoMate is a tool that can be used to create, share and present software demonstrations, and it's now available to order from the following link for a 90 day trial.

http://www.demomate.com/wpc/

Definitely worth giving it a go :0)

Posted By Fee Nolan

The Partner Community is a group of networks set up and managed by individuals, partner organisations, and Microsoft employees.  The aim of this Community is to help members to communicate, share documents, and connect with other members and with Microsoft more effectively. 

We'd like to encourage you to join the Dynamics Partner Community.  Currently, this is the Alpha Test release of the Partner Community site, so your participation at this early stage will greatly help shape the focus and effectiveness of the community.   The full release is scheduled in the next few months.

Discussion groups are currently:

AX Roadshows

CRM Roadshows

NAV Roadshows

GP Roadshows

Certified for Dynamics Programme

It’s really easy to access and participate in this new online network, simply...

·         Go to the www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/community

·         Select the ‘Explore the Partner Community’ button

·         Sign-in using your Windows Live ID (that you use to access other partner programme benefits)

·         Join a Network from the current list on the left hand side

Posted By Fee Nolan

Please use the following link for AMR's view on the announcements made at the recent US Convergence event in Orlando (now with the link ;0))

http://www.amrgroup.com/Content/View.asp?pmillid=21272

Posted By Fee Nolan

The attached link to PartnerSource will give you a guide to how to get the right mix of resource within your Dynamics Practice.

https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/newsevents/news/newsgeneral/RightResourceMix.htm

Posted By Fee Nolan

We're putting on some Sure Step training on next year. See below for the next sessions:

CRM – Feb 29^th

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?systemid=1754071

CRM – April 25^th

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?systemid=1754073

ERP – Feb 28^th

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?systemid=1754074

ERP April 24^th

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?systemid=1754072

Posted by Tom Brookes

Hi All, please find below details of the various Microsoft Office Performance Point Server events coming up in the next few months both for customers and partners.

LONDON – 19TH November

Customer AM session – Auditorium 1, Victoria office

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032356729&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6680 ref 6729

Partner PM Session – Auditorium 1, Victoria office

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032356834&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6680 ref 6834

LONDON - 28^TH November

Customer AM session – Meeting room 5, Victoria office

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032356839&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6680 ref 6839

Partner PM Session – Meeting room 5, Victoria office

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032356838&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6680 ref 6838

EDINBURGH - 22^nd January

Customer AM session – Spey conference room, Edinburgh Office

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032355870&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6680 ref 5870

Partner PM session – Spey conference room, Edinburgh Office

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032356303&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6680 ref 6303

READING – 20^th February

Customer AM session – Memphis, TVP Office

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032356963&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6680 ref 6963

Partner PM session – Memphis, TVP Office

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032356970&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6680 ref 6970

MANCHESTER – 12^th March

Customer AM session – Renaissance Hotel, Rapheal Suite

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032357157&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6683

Partner PM session - Renaissance Hotel, Rapheal Suite

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032357163&Culture=en-GB

Tel: 0870 166 6683

Posted By Fee Nolan

I came across this list of SharePoint links the other day on one of the SharePoint guy's blogs. I'm getting more and more SharePoint queries everyday as a reult of the Dynamics integration that we have.  There's loads of great content - here are some of the links but check out his site for the full list:

Main SharePoint Website http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver

SharePoint Frequently Asked Questions including licensing can be found at http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepointserver/HA101655351033.aspx

The SharePoint team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/

Microsoft Sharepoint Resource Pages:

• WSSv3:  http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/8a9690e4-6917-4aab-82ce-cdbe989a20531033.mspx?mfr=true
• MOSS:  http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
• MSDN Developer Portal: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905503.aspx
• Capacity Planning Pages: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/64f7f9fb-3994-477f-9e6d-570812c3d5131033.mspx?mfr=true
• Training and Certification: Learning Manager on Microsoft.com

Posted by Tom Brookes

After seeing many of you at the Roadshows this is just a reminder to you regards the Microsoft Dynamics RSS Feed. You can now set yourself up to receive RSS feeds about the latest partner events, training, tools, & marketing initiatives available on the UK Partner Portal/PartnerSource.

You can stream the content based on product and role, and if you're running Office 2007 you can receive the updates in Outlook via an RSS feed! Yey!

Take the following link to the UK Partner Portal to get yourself set up!

Use this document to help you understand and articulate the roadmap for the Microsoft Dynamics line of business solutions - really useful since it covers off many of those questions you might get asked by prospects or indeed ask yourself regards the Dynamics Strategy moving forward.

Take the following Link on PartnerSource to download the document.

Posted By Fee Nolan

All the information on the promotion can be found on the partner portal here.

Posted by Tom Brookes

This portal provides you with a single location to find out about the latest Dynamics training including Microsoft events and classroom training provided by our Training Partners.

You can view training details by product and type of training. You'll then be linked through to either the Partner Learning Centre or Training Providers sites should you wish to register for the training.

Click here to go to Portal

Posted By Fee Nolan