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Here are a great set of training courses for SharePoint partners. Follow the links to register. These sessions will support partners building a practice around SharePoint, they are aimed primarily at a sales audience than technical . Live Series - Collaboration
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Are you losing business to pirated software? We are introducing a new initiative called Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) notifications. Launching on 25 August, it aims to help honest partners selling genuine software to gain back revenue they have been
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For Partners & OEMs: ISV (Independent software vendor) and IHV (Independent hardware vendor) Partners will be able to download Windows 7 RTM from Microsoft Connect or MSDN on August 6th. There is already a lot of momentum from ISVs and IHVs in the
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I got a question from Mike Herrity yesterday, asking me about the ways that parents can be given access to SharePoint/Learning Gateway, and explicitly whether they needed their own SharePoint licences. As an aside: Mike Herrity is a deputy head at Twynham
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A year ago we started conversations with OGC and Becta to refresh our licensing schemes, with a goal of adding in some more flexibility for individual customers, and responding to changes in the way that all public sector organisations use ICT. With OGC
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Available worldwide on June 1, 2009, Get Genuine Windows Agreement-Academic (GGWA-A) ) is a simple, cost effective way for qualified academic institutions to fully license their Windows Desktop Operating System software on existing Windows PCs. Partner
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There’s a brand new compliance campaign about to hit the streets. It seemed worth sharing with you all and enlisting your support to report any suspect activity via the email address: ukpiracy@microsoft.com There is also a web site at: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/piracy
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Many educational institutions want to extend the school network beyond the physical campus and do more with their technology. This may include offering online learning opportunities; making it easier for students, faculty, and parents to collaborate;
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Here’s a great new resource for EdLARs and Distributors. The aim is to provide a self-help tool for answering those tricky education licensing queries. This resource holds a wealth of information including the following and more: Programme guides, customer
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Non-compliant activity in the Education channel harms us all - Microsoft, customers and reputable resellers. We’ve learned some salutary lessons in the last few months with a growing number of resellers operating fraudulently and currently under
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Microsoft Select Plus for Academic represents an innovative step toward a volume licensing solution that is flexible, easy to manage, and balances growing technology needs with predictable costs in order to realise the most value from their software investment.
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Confused about licensing? For example, how do you licence for different virtualisation scenarios? What are the changes to SPLA? What about Select Plus and Open Value. These roadshows in Reading and Manchester are designed for Licensing Partners to answer
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There’s a great new licensing blog by Emma Healey that you really need to check out. http://ladylicensing.spaces.live.com/ Here are some of the categories covered: Virtualisation Client Access Licenses Product Licensing Rules Product Licensing Transistion
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Hmmm ……. I’m not entirely sure that software licensing can ever be made easy, but the new resources below should help considerably. The Microsoft Software Product License Dependency Reference Guide is designed to help provide customers of Microsoft Volume
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With the news this week on Information Security guidelines for schools – and the obvious need for encryption on teachers’ laptops from now on, you are likely to get more queries from customers about Windows Vista, and BitLocker encryption. (BitLocker
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