April 2017 Hot Sheet partner training schedule
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Community call schedule
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Week of April 24–28
Date |
Location |
Course, webcast, or call |
Who should attend |
April 24 |
Chicago, IL |
Developers |
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April 24 |
Chicago, IL |
Developers |
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April 24–May 10 |
Online |
Dynamics 365 Accelerate for Customization and Configuration Exam Preparation (2 days/week, 1.5 hours/day) |
Technical roles |
April 24–May 24 |
Online |
Dynamics 365 Accelerate for Operations: Distribution and Trade (Level 200; 2 days/week, 2 hors/day) |
Functional Consultants, Technical Consultants |
April 24–26 |
Online |
Office 365 Cloud Productivity Competency Boot Camp (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
April 24–25
|
Online |
Technical Deep Dive: Migrating applications to Azure (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
April 24 |
Online |
HPe VM Explorer and Data Protector: Backup to cloud for every customer | Technical roles |
April 24 |
Online |
Enhanced development and testing |
Sales Professionals |
April 24 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive on SharePoint 2016 Hybrid Search (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
April 24 |
Online |
Ask the Experts on Azure Active Directory: Hybrid Identity (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
April 25–27 |
Chevy Chase, MD |
Cloud Application Development Technical Bootcamp (Level 200–300) |
Technical roles |
April 25 |
San Francisco, CA |
Developers |
|
April 25 |
San Francisco, CA |
Developers |
|
April 25 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Developers |
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April 25 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Developers |
|
April 25–May 11 |
Online |
Dynamics 365 Accelerate for Sales (2 days/week, 1.5 hours/day) |
Sales Professionals |
April 25–May 12 |
Online |
SMB Jumpstart: Creating Virtual Machines with High Availability |
Technical roles |
April 25–May 19 |
Online |
Technical roles |
|
April 25–May 25 |
Online |
Dynamics 365 Accelerate for Operations: Distribution and Trade (Level 200; 2 days/week, 2 hours/day) |
Functional Consultants, Technical Consultants |
April 25 |
Community call |
Open Source Solutions (OSS) Partner call: OSS on Microsoft Azure demo framework |
Technical roles |
April 25 |
Online |
Government roles |
|
April 25 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive: Configure Cloud PBX with On-Premises PSTN Connectivity (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
April 25 |
Online |
Advanced Analytics Solutions to customer BDM |
Sales Professionals |
April 25 |
Online |
Ask the Experts: Securing Data with Azure SQL (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
April 25 |
Online |
Ask the Experts on Dynamics 365: Development Introduction to Dynamics 365 for Operations (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
April 26–27 |
Chicago, IL |
Windows 10 Partner Technical Roadshow | Technical roles |
April 26–28 |
Nashville, TN |
Cloud Application Development Technical Bootcamp (Level 200-300) |
Technical roles |
April 26 |
Edina, MN |
Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow Hack-a-Thon (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
April 26–27 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive on building connected solutions with IoT (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
April 26 |
Online |
Microsoft Data Warehouse and Big Data Solution for Analytics |
Sales Professionals |
April 26 |
Online |
Marketing roles |
|
April 26 |
Community call |
Windows and Devices Partner Community call: Secure Productive Enterprise for Windows Partners |
Technical roles |
April 26 |
Online |
Ask The Experts: Exchange Online and email security best practices (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
April 26 |
Online |
Business, sales |
|
April 26 |
Online |
Ask the Experts: Building Microservices on Azure Service Fabric (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
April 26 |
Online |
What's new and highlights for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
April 26 |
Online |
Intune and Saaswedo’s Datalert – Telecom Management Integration |
Sales professionals |
| April 27 | Community call |
Technical roles |
|
April 27 |
Denver, CO |
Developers |
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April 27 |
Denver, CO |
Developers |
|
April 27 |
Community call |
Enterprise Mobility + Security Partner call: Secure Productive Enterprise for EMS Partners |
Technical roles |
April 27 |
Online |
Office 365 Ask the Experts: Microsoft Team new chat based workspace in Office 365 |
Technical roles |
April 27 |
Online |
Ask the Experts on Azure PaaS: Azure Container Service – The Cloud's most open option for containers (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
April 27 |
Online |
Guidance on choosing Microsoft Intune Hybrid or Intune on Azure |
Sales Professionals |
April 27 |
Online |
Simplify hybrid cloud management with process automation |
Sales Professionals |
April 27 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive: Hybrid Cloud Storage (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
April 27 |
Online |
Win mission critical workloads with Microsoft Azure and SQL Server |
Sales Professionals |
April 28 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive: Deploying Conferencing and Skype for Meeting Broadcast (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
Week of May 1–5
Date |
Location |
Course, webcast, or call |
Who should attend |
May 1 |
Online |
Nimble Storage: Learn about Cloud Volumes | Technical roles |
May 2–4 |
Irvine, CA |
Cloud Application Development Technical Bootcamp (Level 200-300) |
Technical roles |
May 2 |
Minneapolis, MN |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
May 2 |
Community call |
Technical roles |
|
May 2 |
Online |
Enhance your business with Dynamics 365 using PowerApps, Flow and GigJam (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 2 |
Online |
Educators |
|
May 2 |
Online |
Ask the Experts: Azure Pricing Calculator (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
May 2 |
Online |
Introduction to Skype for Business Technical Series: What's New (Level 100) |
Technical roles |
May 3–4 |
Sunnyvale, CA |
Dynamics 365 for Operations Sales Immersion Workshop Use code sBiM007 to register |
Sales Professionals |
May 3 |
Online |
Sales Professionals |
|
May 3 |
Online |
Introduction to Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (Level 100) |
Technical roles |
May 3 |
Online |
Business Decision Makers |
|
May 4 |
Community call |
Office 365 and Voice Partner call: New security and compliance capabilities |
Technical roles |
May 4 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive: Defining requirements for a Skype for Business deployment (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 4 |
Online |
The business continuity of today – How to challenge tomorrow |
Sales Professionals |
May 4 |
Online |
Application Innovation |
Sales Professionals |
May 5 |
Community call |
SMB Partner Insider call – East Region |
Business, Sales, Technical, Marketing |
May 5 |
Online |
Introduction to Power BI (Level 200)
|
Technical roles |
Week of May 8–12
Date |
Location |
Course, webcast, or call |
Who should attend |
May 8–9 |
Toronto, ON |
Dynamics 365 for Operations Sales Immersion Workshop Use code sBiM007 to register |
Sales Professionals |
May 8–24 |
Online |
Dynamics 365 Accelerate for Sales (2 days/week, 1,5 hours/day) |
Sales Professionals |
May 8–9 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive on building connected solutions with IoT (Level 300; 4 hrs/day) |
Technical roles |
May 8 |
Washington, DC |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
May 8 |
Online |
Higher, faster, stronger – SAP deployment, dev-test and training on Azure |
Sales Professionals |
May 8 |
Online |
Selling Big Data and DW in Azure |
Sales Professionals |
May 8 |
Online |
Technical roles |
|
May 8 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive on Power BI common scenarios (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 8 |
Online |
Introduction to Cortana Intelligence Suite (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
May 9–25 |
Online |
Dynamics 365 Accelerate for Customer Service Exam Preparation (2 days/week, 1,5 hours/day) |
Customer service and consulting roles |
May 9 |
Online |
Creating apps for the Intelligent Cloud: Scalability and architecting (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 9 |
Online |
Introduction to Skype for Business Technical Series: Telecommunications concepts (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
May 9 |
Online |
Cortana Intelligent Suite: Azure Data Factory (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 10 |
Burlington, MA |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
May 10 |
Community call |
Business, sales |
|
May 10 |
Online |
Cortana Intelligent Suite: Big Data Analytics using Data Lake (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 10 |
Online |
Enhance your business with Dynamics 365 for Field Service End-to-End Scenario (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 10 |
Online |
Introduction to SharePoint Online: External sharing with SharePoint Online and partner facing Extranet sites (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
May 11 |
Cincinnati, OH |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
May 11 |
Community call |
Azure Infrastructure and Management Partner Community call: Azure Storage Update |
Technical roles |
May 11 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive: Defining network requirements for Skype for Business deployment (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 11 |
Online |
Cortana Intelligent Suite: Big Data Analytics (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 11 |
Online |
Provide customers with more choices in the cloud – Open Source on Azure |
Sales Professionals |
May 11 |
Online |
BI Platform in the Cloud |
Sales Professionals |
May 12 |
Hartford, CT |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
May 12 |
Online |
Cortana Intelligent Suite: Machine Learning (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 12 |
Online |
Creating apps for the Intelligent Cloud: DevOps (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
Week of May 15–19
Date |
Location |
Course, webcast, or call |
Who should attend |
May 15 |
Atlanta, GA |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
May 15 |
San Francisco, CA |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
May 15–31 |
Online |
Dynamics 365 Accelerate for Customization and Configuration Exam Preparation (2 days/week, 1.5 hours/day) |
Technical roles |
May 15 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive on Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure using Windows Server 2016 (Level 300) |
Technical roles |
May 15 |
Online |
Ask The Experts Skype for Business: Enterprise Voice Best practices (Level 200) |
Technical roles |
May 15 |
Online |
HVR Software: Continuous Data Integration between on-premises and Cloud | Technical roles |
May 15 |
Online |
Lead the discussion with the client – Boost your sales |
Sales Professionals |
May 16–17 |
Los Angeles, CA |
Technical roles |
|
May 16 |
Irvine, CA |
Developer |
|
May 16 |
Irvine, CA |
Developer |
|
May 16–June 9 |
Online |
SMB Jumpstart: Cloud PBX and PSTN in Skype for Business Online |
Technical roles |
May 16 |
Community call |
Technical roles |
|
May 16 |
Online |
Sales and Presales roles |
|
May 16 |
Online |
Technical Deep Dive on Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure: Containers and Nano Server |
Technical roles |
May 16–June 1 |
Online |
Dynamics 365 Accelerate for Online Deployment (2 days/week; 1.5 hours/day) |
Technical roles |
May 17 |
San Francisco, CA |
Developers |
|
May 17 |
New York, NY |
Developers |
|
May 17 |
Raleigh, NC |
Sales Professionals |
|
May 17 |
Online |
ISV Envision: Discover the latest innovations in depth – Immersive Technologies |
Developers |
May 17 |
Online |
ISV Envision: Discover the latest innovations in depth – Natural Computer Interactions |
Developers |
May 18 |
New York, NY |
Developers |
|
May 18 |
Atlanta, GA |
Developers |
|
May 18 |
San Francisco, CA |
Developers |
|
May 18 |
New York, NY |
Developers |
|
May 18 |
Atlanta, GA |
Developers |
|
May 18 |
San Francisco, CA |
Developers |
|
May 18 |
Community call |
Technical roles |
|
May 18 |
Community call |
Technical roles |
|
May 19 |
Fort Lauderdale, FL |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
May 19 |
Salt Lake City, UT |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
Week of May 22–26
Date |
Location |
Course, webcast, or call |
Who should attend |
May 22 |
Online |
Quantum: Learn about the new FlexTier offering | Technical roles |
May 23–25 |
Los Angeles, CA |
Solution Architects, Technical Sellers, Support Engineers |
|
May 23 |
Chicago, IL |
Developers |
|
May 23 |
Denver, CO |
Developers |
|
May 23 |
Chicago, IL |
Developers |
|
May 23 |
Denver, CO |
Developers |
|
May 23–June 16 |
Online |
SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance |
Technical roles |
May 23 |
Community call |
Sales Professionals |
|
May 25 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Developers |
|
May 25 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Developers |
|
May 25 |
Irvine, CA |
Sales Professionals |
|
| May 25 | Community call |
Technical roles |
|
May 25 |
Community call |
Enterprise Mobility + Security Partner Community call: Intune best practices |
Technical roles |
Week of May 29–June 2
Date |
Location |
Course, webcast, or call |
Who should attend |
May 30–June 28 |
Online |
Dynamics 365 Accelerate for Operations: Retail (3 days/week, 2 hours/day) |
Functional Consultants, Technical Consultants |
May 30 |
Online |
Noobaa: Software-defined object storage for on-premises data centers |
Technical roles |
May 30 |
Community call |
Technical roles |
|
May 31 |
Los Angeles, CA |
Drumbeat Grow Office 365 Partner Workshop (Level 200) |
Sales Professionals |
May 31 |
New York, NY |
Sales Professionals |
June 2017
Date |
Location |
Course, webcast, or call |
Who should attend |
June 14 |
Online |
Developers |
|
June 14 |
Online |
Developers |
|
June 20 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Developers |
|
June 20 |
Chicago, IL |
Developers |
|
June 20 |
Irvine, CA |
Developers |
|
June 20 |
Philadelphia, PA |
Developers |
|
June 20 |
Chicago, IL | Developers |
|
June 20 |
Irvine, CA |
Developers |
|
June 21 |
San Francisco, CA |
Developers |
|
June 21 |
New York, NY |
Developers |
|
June 22 |
New York, NY |
Developers |
|
June 22 |
New York, NY |
Developers |
|
June 22 |
Atlanta, GA |
Developers |
|
June 22 |
San Francisco |
Developers |
|
June 22 |
San Francisco, CA |
Developers |
|
June 22 |
Atlanta, GA |
Developers |
|
June 27 |
Denver, CO |
Developers |