As we move towards the end of the second business quarter, and with the festive season fast approaching, a Microsoft Scotland Gold Partner Forum is well-timed for Thursday 6 th December . The venue is the Glasshouse Hotel, Edinburgh , with the event starting...

With the forthcoming launch of SQL Server 2008, as part of the Partner Readiness Program, a Partner Academy Live Session on Business Intelligence Overview will take place on November 28th at 4pm UK time . This session will cover Level 100 - 200 content...

Yes indeed, that's right. If you are either a Certified or Gold Partner with the Independent Software Vendor competency, Microsoft is offering to help your marketing strategies by providing free, a one year online membership to great marketing research...

A new VPC of the CRM 4.0 'Titan' Release Candidate 0 (RC0) is available on our partner site for download by accredited partners. Download the image to start developing your knowledge of this exceptional new release.

Spyware, Viruses, trojans, rootkits - these are the smallpox, and Tuberculosis of the noughties. Like infectious diseases, Malware is constantly evolving. Attacks are getting more sophisticated, and motivation is changing - once it was just vandalism...

Following on last month's Technet event on Windows Server 2003 and Virtualisation, the Technet team are returning to Scotland to run an event in Falkirk once again on the 27th November . The format will once again step away from the use of Powerpoint...

Few of the excellent Gold partner's I talk to are aware of an extremely useful benefit of the Microsoft partner program - the Technical Services Co-ordination benefit. This is a technical advisory service which applies through the lifecycle from pre-sales...

Last week I tried out the Microsoft Dynamics eLearning, which is free and available to Dynamics partners with a support plan. This note may be useful if you or any of your partners are thinking of trying out training online. You can also buy the courses...

As a hardened road warrior at the sharp end of a high tech industry, one must be super organized and efficient to have the edge in the cut and thrust of commerce. Sadly most of us fail to reach these levels of efficiency, and spend several minutes every...

A common request from Scottish Partners in recent months to the Microsoft Scotland Partner Team, has been around how to get Licensing training and assistance specifically for Partners. Yes there is a lot of material on the Partner Portal however we also...