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Here is the May schedule of Technical Enablement workshops, by technology. These online courses offer you information to understand the market opportunity and build your Microsoft product knowledge.

As of April 1, there is no cost to attend Power Start and Momentum Workshops, and registration is open to all partners.

Power Start Workshops – focus on new product features and presales opportunities
Momentum Workshops – build deep deployment and development skills
Practice Accelerator – add a new Microsoft practice or expand an existing practice (Cost: 10 Advisory Hours)

All workshops are presented by Microsoft experts via Microsoft Office Live Meeting. If you don’t see a workshop that fits your schedule, email the Partner Services and Support team or call (800) MPN-SOLVE (676-7658).

For additional training opportunities, you can build your learning plan or view upcoming local activities at any time.

Date	Workshop Title	Level
Microsoft Dynamics
May 10	Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Power Start Workshop: Upgrading from CRM 4.0 to CRM 2011	200
May 15	Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Momentum Workshop: Customizing CRM 2011	300
May 16	Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Power Start Workshop: Getting Started with Dynamics GP Business Portal	100
May 21	Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Momentum Workshop: Creating Workflows and Dialogs	300
May 22	Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 Power Start Workshop: Planning and Budgeting with Forecaster	200
May 31	Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Power Start Workshop: CRM 2011 and Microsoft SharePoint Integration	200
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
May 10	Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Momentum Workshop: High Availability	300
May 14–17	Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010	200
May 25	Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Momentum Workshop: Upgrade and Coexistence	300
Microsoft Lync Server 2010
May 7	Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Momentum Workshop: Enterprise Voice Planning	300
May 14–17	Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Voice	200
May 29–Jun 1	Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Voice	200
Microsoft Office 365
May 1	Microsoft Office 365 Momentum Workshop: Office 365 Directory Synchronization, Federation, and Single Sign-on	300
May 4	Microsoft Office 365 Momentum Workshop: Office 365 Exchange Online Simple Mail Migration Options	300
May 7–10	Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Office 365	200
May 11	Microsoft Office 365 Power Start Workshop: Technical Introduction to Office 365	100
May 17	Microsoft Office 365 Momentum Workshop: Top Support Issues	300
May 18	Microsoft Office 365 Power Start Workshop: Selling Office 365 to Small- and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs)	200
May 21–24	Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Office 365	200
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
May 3	SharePoint 2010 Momentum Workshop: SharePoint Online Overview	300
May 8	SharePoint 2010 Momentum Workshop: Publishing SharePoint Sites	300
May 14–17	Practice Accelerator for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010	200
May 22	SharePoint 2010 Momentum Workshop: Business Continuity Management Features in SharePoint 2010	300
May 23	SharePoint 2010 Momentum Workshop: Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010	300
May 24	SharePoint 2010 Momentum Workshop: Records Management in SharePoint 2010	300
May 29–Jun1	Practice Accelerator for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010	200
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
May 1	Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Power Start Workshop: Running SQL Server on Windows Server Core for Reliability and Availability	200
May 4	Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Momentum Workshop for Database Management: Advanced Manageability Using PowerShell	300
May 7–10	Practice Accelerator for Business Intelligence	300
May 9	Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Momentum Workshop: Performance Optimization in SQL Server 2012	300
May 16	Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Power Start Workshop: Overview	200
Microsoft System Center Family
May 3	Microsoft System Center 2012 Power Start Workshop: System Center Orchestrator	200
May 7	Private Cloud Momentum Workshop: Private Cloud Infrastructure Management -- Configure and Deploy Private Cloud Infrastructure	300
May 14	Microsoft System Center 2012 Power Start Workshop: Overview of System Center 2012	100
May 17	Private Cloud Momentum Workshop: Datacenter and Private Cloud Management -- Configure and Deploy Applications	300
May 21	Private Cloud Momentum Workshop: Private Cloud Infrastructure Components -- Monitor and Operate Infrastructure Components	300
May 24	Microsoft System Center 2012 Power Start Workshop: System Center Operations Manager 2012	200
Microsoft Virtualization
May 7–10	Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)	200
May 21–14	Practice Accelerator for Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)	200
May 30	Microsoft Virtualization Momentum Workshop: Hyper-V Deep Dive	300
Windows 7
May 14–17	Practice Accelerator for Optimized Desktop	200
Windows Azure
May 2	Windows Azure Momentum Workshop: Managing, Debugging, and Monitoring Windows Azure	300
May 30	Windows Azure Momentum Workshop: Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric	200
Windows Phone
May 8	Windows Phone 7.5 Power Start Workshop for Developers: Getting Started with Windows Phone 7.5	200
May 11	Windows Phone 7.5 Power Start Workshop for Developers: Fundamental Concepts	200
May 15	Windows Phone 7.5 Power Start Workshop for Developers: Design Exceptional UI for WP7	200
May 18	Windows Phone 7.5 Power Start Workshop for Developers: Application Features, Part 1	200
May 22	Windows Phone 7.5 Power Start Workshop for Developers: Application Features, Part 2	200
May 25	Windows Phone 7.5 Power Start Workshop for Developers: Common Development Tasks	200
May 29	Windows Phone 7.5 Power Start Workshop for Developers: Integrating WP7 Applications into the Cloud: Windows Azure	200