January 2008 - Posts
http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/01/30/partner-tv-sarah-arnold-on-partner-conference-awards.aspx Sarah provides advice for partners wanting to consider submitting award nominations for the world wide partner conference in Denver this year
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Made me smile - I can't possibly comment if that is what we do when waiting on conference calls to kick off :-)
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Via the ECM team blog : "Hello, ECM Team Blog readers. My name is Rob Silver. I'm a technical writer working on the IT Pro content team for Office SharePoint Server 2007. I'm excited to announce that the Office SharePoint Server 2007 content teams for
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This just launched - http://code.msdn.microsoft.com Think a simpler form of Codeplex for samples, snippets and the like - but for the community of developers. Great way for partners to get more productive by leveraging a resource built and updated by
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Today one of our senior executives ( Bob Muglia ) published an article to customers and partners outlining our vision for virtualisation. Read it here: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2008/01-21virtualization.mspx
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From the Project team blog (this looks like a useful end-user Project guide): "It can sometimes be a challenge for new users to find their way through Microsoft Project on their way to becoming project managers. The Project team has just produced another
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/jan08/01-14securitypartners.mspx Summary: IDC research in the UK and US has just been finalised Partners in the security competency or in the SSA program have statistically higher profitability and other
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http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization The is quite a lot up there on this relatively new site: resources, information, white papers, links etc.
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Useful looking post from the official Sharepoint team blog, on deploying Sharepoint on WS 2008: " With the upcoming launch of Windows Server 2008 you'll start to see more resources related to SharePoint deployments on Windows Server 2008. First to note
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2008 Microsoft Partner Program Awards Each year, Microsoft recognises partners who have delivered exemplary solutions built on Microsoft technologies. Awards are presented to winning partners at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, this year in
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Via Siatro in our PTS team: http://blogs.msdn.com/ausptsiw/archive/2008/01/17/upadet-on-the-aus-sharepoint-conference.aspx "Hi All – The Information Worker Business Group of Microsoft Australia has made the decision to run a more focussed SharePoint Forum
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Following this announcement on the 'wave launch' event for partners, I wanted to give a quick update - with a target of 1700 attendees across all 6 major cities, we have already got close to 1000 registrations - only 2 days since sending out the first
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The launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 represents the largest outreach to IT professionals and developers in the history of Microsoft. As a Microsoft Partner, the launch represents an opportunity for you to become a
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Press release: "REDMOND, Wash., and OSLO, Norway — Jan. 8, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA (OSE: “FAST”), a leading provider of enterprise search solutions, through
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Helping bothreselling and non-reselling partners understand the basics of Microsoft product licensing is a key priority for us this year. Following the successful delivery of this course in 2007, we are re-running it as follows (more cities and dates
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/01/07/partner-tv-wendy-smith-talking-about-small-business.aspx Wendy recently joined my team as Channel Development Manager - working with partners focussed on smaller customers including the SBSC community.
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Just gone live on Partner TV - a little Happy New year from us all in the Microsoft partner team to all Microsoft partners ! Video: Partner-TV: Happy New Year from the Australia Partner Team
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Over the next few months quite a large % of our partners will be ready to re-enrol in the partner program. We have launched a small portal to help you manage through the process: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/40011092 There are resources to
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I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday if you had one, a merry Xmas if you celebrate it, and I wish you all a happy and profitable new year ! The first good piece of news for our partners in 2008 is the release of some new solution accelerators. "Solution
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