The Partner Readiness Team is pleased to announce the release of five classroom courses for the 2007 Office system.  Deliveries for most of these courses start in December, so please sign up as soon as possible. The courses are:

2007 Microsoft Office System Core Training: This two day technical course explores the core of the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Students will interact with the client-side technologies that drive information worker productivity locally and the server-side components that extend productivity to teams, divisions, and partners. For more details and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007OfficeCore

2007 Microsoft Office System ECM and Forms Workshop: In this one day course you will learn how to use Office SharePoint® Server 2007, SharePoint Designer 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 to customize and extend solutions for the Web site of a fictional company called Litware Incorporated, an enterprise chain of retail tennis gear and apparel store with an online presence. For more details and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007ECM

2007 Microsoft Office System Performance Management Workshop: The goal of this two day training course is to give you an in-depth look and hands-on experience of the capabilities of both ProClarity and Business Scorecard Manager. you will explore how both of these technologies to provide a unified solution that address BI challenges, including the need to help businesses effectively communicate and analyze performance. For more information and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007PerfManagement

2007 Microsoft Office System Portals and Collaboration Workshop: This course utilizes new and improved features for Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2007. With the practical application of these new features, attendees will be able to see a portal site implemented post-installation to production. For more information and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007Portals

2007 Microsoft Office System Unified Communication Workshop: This one day course focuses on the knowledge transfer of critical elements of Unified Communications, including: Unified Messaging, Real-time Collaboration (including Microsoft® Office Live Communications Server, Microsoft® Office Communicator and Microsoft® Office Live Meeting), Microsoft® Speech Server, Microsoft® Office System, Windows Mobile®, and the telephony piece of UC. For more information and to enrol, click here: www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/2007UnifiedComms.  (Please note – at the moment only December, January and early February dates have been scheduled. More will follow.)

Exchange Server 2007 Ignite Technical Training Workshop – a two day course that covers the architecture, installation and configuration of Exchange, as well as providing information on security, compliance, archiving and remote access. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/exchange2007ignite

Office for Developers Training – This three-day course with Hands-On Labs will take you through the process of building solutions on the Microsoft Office 2007 platform and services. The course will focus on the growing service opportunities and the new features of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of applications. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/partner/readiness/officedevelopers

Coming soon: 2007 Microsoft Office System Enterprise Search Workshop: This course will train Microsoft partners about Microsoft’s Search strategies and solutions—Windows Live™ Search center, a single application from which to search—consolidating their favorite Microsoft Search technologies (Desktop, SharePoint®, and MSN/Windows Live search on the Web). Live Search gives you the tools needed to easily and consistently harness the explosion of information in your organization, right from your desktop.