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09:14 AM - Aug 22 / Reply
Margie Gradwohl: We’re excited to announce dates/locations for the upcoming Drumbeat & Ignite events and encourage you to register (https://dynamicevents.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/websitev…) today! Hong Kong, Oct 7 – 10; Prague, Oct 21 -24; Washington DC, Nov 4 – 7; Dubai, Nov 18 - 21 The Drumbeat Sales Day is a 1-day sales training event preceding the Ignite Summit, that provides partners in sales and pre-sales technical roles with best practice sales training for Office 365. More on //drumbeat.office.com. The Ignite Summit Technical Training is a 3-day workshop for customer and partners providing deep-dive technical readiness on all MOD workloads. More on //ignite.office.com.
05:53 PM - Aug 22 / Reply
Weekly Digest for Friday, July 26
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Doug McCutcheon: The US say.. "Have you ever wished for one source to help you understand, sell and deploy Office 365? Wish no more! The June edition of the Office 365 Playbook for Corporate Account partners is now available to this Yammer group. I'd love to get your feedback on the playbook. Can you let me know 1) if this is the right format to deliver the content in; 2) if the content is clear and useful; and 3) if we are missing anything you need (or don't need in the next version!) to successfully sell and deploy Office 365. Thanks in advance for your feedback. " (1 Document attached)
10:00 AM - Jul 19 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: I encourage all partners to take this survey. (1 Share attached)
06:05 PM - Jul 25 / Reply
Drashti Patel: A warm Office 365 welcome to our 600th member! A friendly reminder for those of you that are just joining, we encourage you to do a few quick things: 1. Update your profile and introduce yourself. 2. Join groups to find relevant content and network smarter! https://www.yammer.com/office365partners/groups 3. Keep checking back to for announcements,readiness resources and prizes!
03:28 PM - Jul 24 / Reply
Drashti Patel: 4. Be sure to answer the poll question posted below by @Tanuj Bansal, there is a great prize to be won! Details to come.
03:30 PM - Jul 24 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: At the 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Channel Chief Jon Roskill announced changes to the Microsoft Partner Network that integrate our Cloud Partner programs with subscription and competency offerings, and changes to the Action Pack subscription and competencies are planned, too. Download our guide that details the changes from http://aka.ms/mpnchanges (http://aka.ms/mpnchanges). The Office 365 Cloud Deployment Partner designation will still continue post integration in January. Some of the deployment requirements for membership of this group will be updated. So for all those official Office 365 Cloud Deployment Partners out there, lets plan to hit the new requirements for January.
09:46 AM - Jul 19 / Reply
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Weekly Digest for Friday, July 19
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Doug McCutcheon: Hi, I am looking for partners who have created service offerings for FastTrack, this can be for Step 1, 2 or 3. Why? Well we are releasing some more incentives aligned to the FastTrack deployment methodology, and want to tell the field about partners with package offerings around this. Let me know if this is your company. If you want to start a service packaing offering around FastTrack, go to http://drumbeat.office.com/fasttrack (http://drumbeat.office.com/fasttrack) . Hint as well as hitting this page,to list out a summary of detailed content by hitting the resources tab, and hit the "Deployment Guide" filter.
12:28 PM - Jul 17 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: Here is the deck presented at the FastTrack session at WPC. This is the latest out there for you to use. For more detail on FastTrack go to https://drumbeat.office.com/FastTrack . This is exclusive to Microsoft partners. (1 Document attached)
04:47 PM - Jul 16 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: Hi there, in this standing room only session at WPC we talked about the best practice for selling Office 365, the customer decision framework. For more content go to https://drumbeat.office.com/Customer-Decision-Framework Let us know your thoughts! (1 Document attached)
04:57 PM - Jul 16 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: Thanks for asking , we intend landing our roadmap content in the following newly created blog, see http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/
12:14 PM - Jul 17 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: This deck got used throughout WPC sessions. It is a summary of the partner targeted content investments we have made to help sell and deploy Office 365. Hint: Go to https://drumbeat.office.com/ and access the footer for the latest hyper links. One has changed already, which one? (1 Document attached)
05:02 PM - Jul 16 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: Here is a deck we presented at WPC, about our strategy for enterprise customers in FY14. In this session we will articulate the customer momentum, partner opportunity and FY14 strategy in the enterprise space. Our definition of enterprise is a customer with more than 250 seats. (1 Document attached)
04:51 PM - Jul 16 / Reply
This weeks normal journal posting is taking a back seat to crafting a few Office 365 sessions for WPC.
Hope to see you there!
www.digitalwpc.com
Weekly Digest for Friday, June 28
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Mark Kashman: We announced the new #skydrivepro apps for #win8 & #ios. New blog post here: http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/06/27/s… AND help spread the word in email, tweet or feel free to retweet my tweet (www.twitter.com/mkashman). Install them, demo them ... have fun.
06:21 PM - Jun 27 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: This presentation introduces the new cloud app model for Office and SharePoint 2013 that will enable developers to build apps using web standards (1 Document attached)
09:29 AM - Jun 26 / Reply
Jul 10
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:30 PM PDT
WPC, Houston, USA, GRBCC: 370 BE
08:36 AM - Jun 26 / Reply
Jul 8
Monday, July 8, 2013 4:30 PM PDT
WPC Houston, USA, GRBCC: 360 BCEF
08:09 AM - Jun 25 / Reply
Drashti Patel: Hey Partners, are you attending WPC in Houston July 7th-11th? If so, join us at www.yammer.com/MODatWPC to stay up-to-date on what’s happening at WPC2013 for Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer, Project and Visio! Here you will: • Get content, connect with partners and join conversations. • Have early access to session and theater content. • Have direct conversations with speakers and the product teams. • Stay current on all the happy hours and special events. • Check out the features and functionality of Yammer first hand. See you in Houston! :)
02:56 PM - Jun 24 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: The new Office 365 ProPlus Whitepaper is Customer Ready ! Leave behind customer-ready whitepaper on the value of the new Office 365 Pro Plus Let us know what you think. Let us know what other content for Office you need. (1 Document attached)
10:00 AM - Jun 24 / Reply
Monday, July 8, 2013 1:30 PM PDT
WPC Houston, USA - GRBCC: Grand Ballroom A
09:35 AM - Jun 24 / Reply
Weekly Digest for Friday, June 21
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Doug McCutcheon: Some WPC statistics on what to expect! Hope to see you there. http://www.digitalwpc.com/ 22 Tracks - ALM and Software Development, Business Leadership, Sales and Marketing, Distributor, Emerging Leaders, Enterprise, The new Office, Hosting & Cloud Service Providers, ISV, Large Account Reseller and EA Direct Advisor, Learning Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics, Public Sector, Reseller, SAM, Server, Data and Tools, Small and Medium Business, System Integrator, Unified Communications, Windows Client, Windows Phone 550 + Speakers — top worldwide subject matter experts, successful partners, satisfied customers, and independent analysts 2 Vision Keynotes 19 Value Keynotes — ALM and Software Development, Distributor, Enterprise, Hosting & Cloud Service Providers, ISV, LAR. Microsoft Dynamics, MPN, OEM, Server, Data and Tools, Small and Medium Business Reseller, System Integrator, The new Office, Unified Communications, Windows, Windows Surface 24 Regional Keynotes — APAC, Canada, CEE, France, Germany, India, Japan, LATAM, MEA, UK,, US SMB, US East. US Central, US West, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland 92 The Commons Theaters Sessions 228 Breakouts Sessions — in-depth reviews of key strategies, and tangible solutions from over 30 business groups 81 Interactive Sessions — collaborative sessions that promote open conversations between speakers and attendees
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11:14 AM - Jun 18 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: This one is bubbling up a bit recently so I thought it was worth posting our session on migrating customers to Exchange Online Protection, https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/manageme… This session will describes how to migrate customers from Postini and other 3rd-party spam gateways to Exchange Online Protection (EOP) across three deployment scenarios. We share how-to information, best practices, and real-world lessons learned.
01:35 PM - Jun 17 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: Announcing the new Forrester Total Economic Impact partner opportunity containing “The Systems Integrator Opportunity For Office 365 Cloud Deployments. The purpose of the study is to highlight the potential opportunity of establishing and Office 365 cloud practice for Microsoft enterprise focused system integrators. For those who cannot download from Yammer, I have created an alternate SkyDrive (1 Share attached)
10:40 AM - Jun 17 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: For those who cannot download this file from Yammer , I have created an alternate SkyDrive download location. (1 File attached)
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10:37 AM - Jun 17 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: We are pleased to announce yet another device has been added to the Office 365 ProPlus subscription. http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2013/06/14/off… Key points of Office 365 ProPlus:- It per user licensing, this is huge. It means you can deploy Office using your subscription on multiple devices, be they Phones, Windows tablets, PCs & Macs It the fullest version of Office you can get for the device. That's right, on a PC this is the full Office client delivered through a service. If you choose to we will ensure that it is always up to date with the latest features When you sign-in to Office you can then benefits from roaming document features & settings. I store on my Skydrive Pro, I access from my multiple devices. I see where I last left off, saving time to get started again on the document. Worried about that legacy application. No problem Office 365 ProPlus supports side-by-side installation with previous version. No banging or crashing into settings or binaries, just a harmonious co-existence until you move that app. You can use your existing deployment tools and processes to control the deployment of the Office 365 ProPlus client.
Today, we're releasing Office Mobile for iPhone available at no extra charge from the Apple App Store for Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 ProPlus subscribers. Similar to our free Office Mobile for Windows Phone that ships with every handset, the iPhone app enables great Office content viewing and on-the-go content editing capabilities.
08:31 AM - Jun 14 / Reply
Weekly Digest for Friday, June 14
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Doug McCutcheon: I am watching The Garage Series for Office 365: Touch and the Latest Immersive Experiences Everywhere http://blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/06/12/t…
This week kicks off a six-part series on location in New Orleans and will cover the enhancements around touch and immersive experiences in the new Office. Jeremy Chapman is joined by Tal Krzypow and Tim Bakke to show Office experiences across screens of all sizes - from phones to large panel displays.
05:40 PM - Jun 13 / Reply
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013 10:00 AM PDT
Webcast
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Thursday, June 27, 2013 10:00 AM PDT
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013 8:30 AM PDT
IFEMA, Feria de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:00 AM PDT
08:08 AM - Jun 13 / Reply
Doug McCutcheon: Question for today. As a partner I want to log onto the Demo https://www.microsoftofficedemos.com/, CIE https://www.microsoftcie.com/ or MEC https://www.usmec.com resources. How do I get access to these great resources? To protect our partner assets we give our partners administration capability on who is associated to their registered organization via the Microsoft Partner Network. If you do not know who your administer is or need this changing go here with the request https://mspartner.microsoft.com/en/us/Pages/Support/partner-… where an agent can help you.
01:51 PM - Jun 10 / Reply
The rooms are set, the coffees is ready for brewing. Looking forward to meeting you, if you are attending the Ignite Plus partner readiness event tomorrow, 22nd January 2013. We have lots of great sales & technical sessions for you to attend.
Ignite Plus agenda
Firstly Happy New Year to those who celebrate off the Gregorian calendar.
I am excited to be back on this blog in a new role, I am now looking after Microsoft's all up Office 365 enterprise partnerships, strategy, programs and enablement covering marketing, services & sales.
I will be offering an invitation to join and come and learn about the next new Office 365 services to offered to our customers.
This blog will be dedicated to Microsoft enterprise partners seeking to exploit the great new opportunities presented with the Office 365 services.
Having developed the new Project Online business strategy and service offering over the last 3 years, which can currently be seen under customer preview, I have heard first hand the worldwide enthusiasm by customers for this and the other Office 365 services. This evidence for this continues as customers move their business to Office 365 services today.
So what about partners? In Office 365 it is should be no surprise that Microsoft continues is commitment to partners and the development of partner based business models. It came as a great learning to me, when joining Microsoft in a sales role. how critical partners are to Microsoft's success (and my personal quota).
Jon Roskill best summarized the crucial role and business relationship partners hold with Microsoft at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2011.
“ We enable partners. Every one of those platforms enables profitable partner business models, and we are the only company out there that does this while generating 95 percent of our revenue with and through partners. 95 percent plus…”. Jon Roskill , Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group
So how to jump start an understanding of the new Office 365 services from a sales and technology perspective? Come join us at Ignite Plus for the latest sales and technical readiness training.
Invitation for Ignite Plus
Technical and sales readiness topics on the agenda will include
IGNITE - Get Ready for the next Office 365 Overviews
PLUS - Grow your business with the new Office
PLUS - Understand the new Office
Office 365 for I.T. Pros
Partnering with Microsoft
The New Office
Identity and Access Management
Understand the Microsoft Office 365 Sales Process
The New Office Web Apps
Exchange Online
Winning in a competitive services market place
Project Online
Migrating to Office 365
The Customer Immersion Experience, a selling tool
Visio
Exchange Online Protection
Understand and optimize for the Microsoft Sales Organization
Office Telemetry and application compatibility
Lync Online
Solution Selling, how Microsoft does it
Office 365 Pro Plus
Data Loss Prevention
How to run an O365 Proof of Concept
The new opportunities for developers and custom apps
Business Intelligence
Helping customers with their regulatory compliance (invitation only)
SharePoint Online
How we joint sell with partners to our large customers
Yammer
Understand the advantage of becoming a Cloud Deployment Partner
Archiving & E-Discovery
Learn about the dedicate partner investments for you
So to finish where next?
“And we have a lot of work left to do, we Microsoft and we together, with our 640,000 partners around the globe, but there's no question the path is clear and inevitable. There's no question that Microsoft has chosen to embrace that path together with all of you, and there's no question that we still have more to do to develop the mutual opportunities in the cloud.” – Steve Ballmer, Worldwide Partner Conference 2010
Hi there,
Doug McBlog will be going quiet for a little as the author changes role. In the meantime , I can recommend the following blog.