Webcasts: Partner Live Academy – Nov/Dec
WVC86AL: Windows Optimized Desktop
Presented by: Rich Reynolds
Webcast Date:11/16/2009
Webcast Start Time: 9:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 100
Partner Audience: Partner Sales
Following the general availability of Windows 7 and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2009 R2, this is your chance to join Rich Reynolds, GM of Windows Commercial team, to hear the benefits you can offer to your customers. The Windows Optimized Desktop is designed to help with today’s imminent IT challenges while ensuring future success for enterprises. Join us to learn how Windows 7 and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2009 R2 combine technology and best practices to specific worker scenarios that result in a more efficient IT organization.
BTS29PAAL: Sales Scenarios: Legacy Connectivity
Presented by: Paul Larsen
Webcast Date:11/16/2009
Webcast Start Time: 9:30 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 200
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker, Partner Marketing, Partner Sales, Partner Developer, Partner IT Professional
Every account team has these valued enterprise customers, which run their daily operations on IBM legacy (“heritage”) mainframe and midrange host systems. It is tough selling into these true blue IBM customer accounts. In this session, we’ll explore scenarios through which you can help your customer modernize and extract better value from this huge investment in IBM. With this information, while demonstrating the value proposition of workload migration onto a more cost-effective development and runtime platform (Windows).
ENV08PAL: Environmental Policy Trends & Their Impact On Your Customers
Presented by: Josh Henretig & Steve Lippman
Webcast Date:11/17/2009
Webcast Start Time: 8:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 200
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker, Partner Marketing, Partner Sales
The challenges of global climate change, energy availability and energy price volatility have governments around the globe adopting policies to promote greater sustainability, energy efficiency, and reduced carbon emissions. Some of these policies will directly regulate the energy efficiency and environmental performance of information technology. Many more of them will require software solutions to measure and manage carbon and resource use, improve energy efficiency, and deliver clean energy breakthroughs. During this Academy Live session, we will explore the following:
What are the key environmental policies and trends that are impacting MSFT and our customer’s business, and creating a demand for software solutions? How can customer facing resources effectively position ICT, and more specifically MSFT technology to address these policies and trends? How can we use environmental policies and trends to accelerate opportunities and increase value with your public/private sector customers? What are the COP15 Climate Negotiations, and what does it mean for MSFT and our customers? What resources are available to help you?
MOS06PAL: U.S. Accelerate Initiative for Microsoft Online Services Partners Monthly Webcast
Presented by: Penelope Delgadillo
Webcast Date:11/17/2009
Webcast Start Time: 9:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 200
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker
Join our monthly partner webcast for the Accelerate Initiative for Microsoft Online Services Partners to receive ongoing program updates, and resources as outlined in the initiative requirements document. The series will run through the end of 2010, providing sales and technical resources, marketing tools and information, readiness and other resources to help you achieve initiative goals. For more information or questions, please contact USMOSG@microsoft.com.
BRD02PAL: Viruses, Spyware, and Malware
Presented by: Stephen Deming
Webcast Date:11/17/2009
Webcast Start Time: 10:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 100
Partner Audience: Partner Sales
A few years ago it was a few simple SPAM messages with an occasional “I Love You” virus tossed in for variety. Now we are faced with thousands of SPAM messages, web sites containing malicious code, and assorted spyware and phishing schemes. These attacks no longer are just mild annoyances but pose a real threat to the security of our confidential information and productivity of our employees. Join us for a frank discussion on how to recognize these attacks and what tools and techniques available to defend our businesses.
VEN26PAL: Best Practice Solutions for Migrating from Lotus Notes/Domino to the Microsoft Platform
Presented by: Steven Pivnik & Ian Bergman
Webcast Date:11/17/2009
Webcast Start Time: 11:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 200
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker, Partner Marketing, Partner Sales, Partner Training, Partner IT Professional
This session is designed for partner organizations that want to learn about best practice approaches and a comprehensive set of solutions that align with Microsoft's Enterprise Notes Migration (ENM) methodology for migrating customers from Lotus Notes/Domino to the Microsoft platform or Microsoft Online. Audience members will learn about the two types of approaches for migrating to the Microsoft platform: the traditional on-premises migration approach and the remotely hosted migration approach. In addition, audience members will find out how to analyze their customer's Lotus environment to properly plan a migration, how to establish robust coexistence between the Lotus and Microsoft platforms, how to migrate email users and applications from Lotus to Microsoft, and how to consolidate and retire the Lotus environment after the migration.
BI71AL: PerformancePoint Server 2007 SP3 – All You Need to Know
Presented by: John Hormaechea, Scott Sebelsky, Theresa Hollenbeck, Peter Bull and Josh Zimmerman
Webcast Date:11/18/2009
Webcast Start Time: 8:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 200
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker, Partner Marketing, Partner Sales, Partner IT Professional
With the BI strategy change in January 2009, there were a lot of questions that were left remaining. Will there be updates? What of my current PPS customers? What is the status of planning and where do I go. Attend this session to learn about PPS 2007 SP3 as well as information on future PPS 2007 update issues (will it work with Windows 7, Office 2010).
ENV09PAL: Optimizing Your Infrastructure for Sustainability: New Tools & Resources To Help You Address Environmental Sustainability With Your Customers
Presented by: Josh Henretig, Yoav Land & Robert Hanegraaff
Webcast Date:11/18/2009
Webcast Start Time: 8:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 200
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker, Partner Marketing, Partner Sales
The WW ES Team, in partnership with the WW IO team, have developed a comprehensive set of materials that help field sales roles guide both BDM and TDM conversations and initiatives into actionable technical processes that delivers environmentally sustainable benefits for our customers.
These tools will help field sales teams align Environmental Sustainability business drivers & priorities, to specific capabilities and MSFT products that support them. At the end of this session, you will better understand both the business opportunity that Environmental Sustainability/Green IT presents, as well as the tools and resources to help you drive a successful engagement with your customers.
WNS159PAL: Windows Server 2008 R2 File Services Overview
Presented by: Joel Garcia; Sabrinath Rao
Webcast Date:11/18/2009
Webcast Start Time: 8:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 200
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker, Partner Marketing, Partner Sales, Partner Training, Partner Developer, Partner IT Professional
In this session, come and learn about the “untold” file services story in Windows Server 2008 R2. Discover the file services innovations that are now available with Windows Server 2008 R2. Learn how you can position to customers why Windows File Servers are cost effective, enterprise ready, and have a great better together story with Microsoft and 3rd party infrastructure. This is the first in a seven part series of webcasts to help you better understand and position Windows Server File Services to your customers.
WES27PAL: Virtualization: Defined. Building your Virtualization Practice and Solution Offerings
Presented by: Dave Sobel
Webcast Date:11/18/2009
Webcast Start Time: 9:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 100
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker
Virtualization is becoming mainstream; are you ready with your practice? Learn from Dave Sobel, author of “Virtualization: Defined. A Primer for the SMB Consultant”, how to build your consulting practice, get trained and offering solutions, and solutions you can start delivering right away. Learn about server consolidation assessments, Virtual Desktop Infrastructures, and how to deliver high value solutions to your customers.
MOS17PAL: Let Microsoft Online Services Make You a Star!
Presented by: Lauren Delgado
Webcast Date:11/18/2009
Webcast Start Time: 10:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 100
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker
Join us for our monthly webcast where we provide an overview of Microsoft Online Services and discuss partner program opportunities. Microsoft Online Services are enterprise-class software delivered as subscription services, hosted by Microsoft and offered by partners like you to generate predictable, recurring revenue. Help customers increase their efficiency with the messaging and collaboration solutions in the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite. Sell Microsoft Online Services to earn advisor fees, expand your base, and serve new segments. Join each month for important updates and a chance to win an X-Box 360 Pro Console System and Rock Band 2 Kit. Questions? Contact usmosg@microsoft.com.
SQL113PAL: Early Launch Briefing – SQL Server 2008 R2
Presented by: Jack Tang
Webcast Date:11/20/2009
Webcast Start Time: 8:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 200
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker, Partner Marketing, Partner Sales, Partner IT Professional
This session provides an early view of SQL Server 2008 R2 and its key features and benefits. SQL Server 2008 R2 is a significant release with opportunities to help you building or updating your solutions to delight the customers. Come learn more about these opportunities, and begin planning for SQL Server 2008 R2.
WES33PAL: Virtualizing Windows Essential Business Server 2008 with Hyper-V
Presented by: David Fabritius (Digital One Corporation); Brent Reeser (Star Technical)
Webcast Date:11/23/2009
Webcast Start Time: 9:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 300
Partner Audience: Partner Training, Partner Developer and Partner IT Professional
Virtualization continues to be one of the hottest opportunities in the industry today for businesses of all sizes. Join us to learn how you can virtualize Windows Essential Business Server 2008 using Hyper-V. In this session, we will discuss several virtualization scenarios, demonstrate how to deploy and manage EBS 2008, and share some best practices for configuration
CSD14PAL: Windows Azure Platform - Launch Update
Presented by: Stephanie Selin
Webcast Date:12/3/2009
Webcast Start Time: 8:00 AM (Pacific)
PLC Registration Link for Partners
Level: 100
Partner Audience: Partner Business Decision Maker, Partner Marketing, Partner Sales
Windows Azure platform will launch at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC) November 17-19, 2009!
http://microsoftpdc.com
Don't miss out on the latest news coming from PDC, and join us for this Launch Update Partner Academy Live webcast.
We will give you a summary review of all launch announcements, updates on the Windows Azure business model, licensing and pricing, and of course share with you how to get ready to build and sell with Windows Azure.
