On the first and third Friday of each month, the U.S. Partner Team delivers a newsletter for U.S.-based members of the Microsoft Partner Network. The content you receive in your email inbox as a benefit of your membership is specific to your company’s business and your role (learn more about this in...

On the first and third Friday of each month, the U.S. Partner Team delivers a newsletter for U.S.-based members of the Microsoft Partner Network. The content you receive in your email inbox as a benefit of your membership is specific to your company’s business and your role (learn more about this in...

In your newsletter this week, customized according to your company’s business model, Microsoft Partner Network membership, and your role, you’ll find the latest partner-related information and news to help you utilize your membership benefits, understand your opportunities and close business, and build...

On the first and third Friday of each month, the U.S. Partner Team delivers a newsletter for U.S.-based members of the Microsoft Partner Network. The content you receive in your email inbox as a benefit of your membership is specific to your company’s business and your role (learn more about this in...

by Julie Golding, U.S. MPN Lead Partner advisory hours are used as currency for technical presales and advisory services offered by the Microsoft Partner Services team. As part of your company’s Microsoft Partner Network membership, your organization receives partner advisory hours for attaining a Microsoft...

The New Year is always a good time to take stock and make personal and professional plans for your success in the coming months. Whether you are new to the Microsoft Partner Network (welcome!) or have been with the program for a while (thank you!), I have recommendations that can help you and your colleagues...

by Julie Golding, U.S. MPN Lead Microsoft Action Pack subscriptions provide cost-effective access to full-version Microsoft software for internal use, technical communities, training, and marketing tools—benefits of membership that help you build your practice around Microsoft products and technologies...

This issue of the U.S. partner news is blog only, but still full of great opportunities to review and utilize over the holidays. A reminder to take advantage of licensing promotions that can help your customers update their IT infrastructures and migrate to new Microsoft products—some of these...

by Sharon Collins, Microsoft U.S. Cloud Partner Lead Earlier this month, the Worldwide Partner Group announced the Microsoft Cloud Deployment program . This new program is designed to meet the needs of partners that are deploying Office 365 to enterprise customers. According to Josh Waldo, Senior Director...

With the release of the new Office 365 for businesses on February 27, the new Office is now fully available to businesses, academic institutions, and consumers. To help you find the resources you need to prepare yourself and your business for the opportunities the new Office brings, we have compiled...

On the first and third Friday of each month, the U.S. Partner Team delivers a newsletter for U.S.-based members of the Microsoft Partner Network. The content you receive in your email inbox as a benefit of your membership is specific to your company’s business and your role. This blog post contains all...

In your newsletter this week, customized according to your company’s business model, Microsoft Partner Network membership, and your role, you’ll find the latest partner-related information and news about preparing for Windows 8 ( just a few days away !), understanding changes to competencies that take...

In your newsletter this week, customized according to your company’s business model, Microsoft Partner Network membership, and your role, you’ll find the latest partner-related information and news about optimizing your membership benefits, plus role-based training recommendations for Windows Intune...

Guest post by Vince Menzione , General Manager, Microsoft U.S. Public Sector Partner Strategy I am excited to invite you to attend the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto, Canada next month, July 8-12. The Worldwide Partner Conference is your to time hear about the Microsoft...

In your newsletter this week, customized according to your company’s business model, Microsoft Partner Network membership, and your role, you’ll find the latest partner-related information and news about optimizing your membership benefits, plus role-based training  recommendations for Microsoft...

Posted by Diane Golshan, Managing Editor for U.S. Partner Communications. If you saw Jon Roskill’s keynote at last year’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles in person or online, you may recall that he spent time talking about the four key areas in which the Microsoft Partner Network provides...

It’s always popular with partners and customers, and it’s back, from September 19 through December 31, 2011 . The Big Easy Offer 7 allows U.S. small and midsize business customers who make a qualifying purchase to earn a partner subsidy. Similar to previous Big Easy Offers, you can benefit from subsequent...

Last month in the newsletter and on this blog, I mentioned Virtual Partner Concierge as a source of information that complements the U.S. partner portal and newsletter as well as our social media outreach. Several partners who have checked it out over the past few weeks have responded positively to the...

Happy New Year! I hope you had a restful holiday and a strong finish to 2010, and that you’re ready for a fantastic 2011. You may find some inspiration in the article, “ Marching Orders 2011 ,” from Redmond Channel Partner, where you’ll find tips from Microsoft partner executives and channel experts...

I recently had the opportunity to chat with my teammate Sharon Collins, the U.S. Partner Team lead for the Microsoft Partner Network , about the new membership options and competencies that we launched on November 1. Over the past couple of years, leading up to the launch of the new Microsoft Partner...

As 2010 winds down, I’d like to thank you for reading this online extension of our newsletter and helping us continue to improve our communications approach. Many of you have told me that our e-mail newsletter and using our blog to also make this content available to you are important vehicles that help...

Thank you for such a great response to my post last month about the proposed update to the partner portal home page . Through the online poll, comments on the blog, and e-mails to me, we learned a lot about how you use the home page today and how you would like to use it in the future, and earlier this...

Below are all the items we published in this week’s U.S. partner newsletter. If you feel that the version you received in e-mail, targeted to you according to your company’s partner profile and your role at your company, is missing something critical from this superset, please let me know by commenting...

Below are all the items we published in this week’s U.S. partner newsletter. If you feel that the version you received in e-mail, targeted to you according to your company’s partner profile and your role at your company, is missing something critical from this superset, please let me know by commenting...

As the managing editor of the Microsoft U.S. partner portal, one of my responsibilities is understanding how partners use the site and how we can improve the experience with it. Each month, I look at several data points and read between 200-300 comments from partners who agree to take our Foresee pop...