Have you visited Gear Up lately? Gear Up has some incredible resources for Sales Professionals – here’s another reason to visit Gear Up today: Gear Up Cha-Ching Instant Win Sweepstakes The new and improved Gear Up website makes it easy to find...

VARs: Looking to grow your business in the new year? Look no further than Microsoft Channel Advantage – rebates, earned advisor fees, and incentives for all! Help accelerate your business growth and profitability with Microsoft Channel Advantage. As a...

  Interested in virtualization? Not quite sure how to relay the value of Microsoft Virtualization solutions to your customers? This series will help, and it’s 100% FREE to you!   Partnercast: Ultimate Sales Guide to MS Virtualization Part 1...

We have yet another awesome opportunity to tell you about that will help you or your team prepare for your next certification exams (see Monday’s post for more resources). It’s an Exam Cram Marathon on Wednesday, June 8 . Here are the details to help...

Developers – You’re in for a treat. We’ve added even more courses to the DevDrive Sweepstakes . Remember, the more you take, the more you’re entered to win a trip to the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving or a Sirius/XM Plus satellite radio...

We mentioned this a couple weeks ago but wanted to make sure you didn’t miss it through the Thanksgiving food haze. We’re incredibly excited about SharePoint 2010 – for those of you who want to get a head start and be ready for deployment, be sure to...

Welcome to this month’s Hot Sheet, a schedule of upcoming live in-person and virtual training opportunities for Microsoft U.S. partners, so you can plan ahead. Looking for on-demand courses? On the Learning Plan Tool , search for relevant training...

Last week, we shared the upcoming MSDN event series on Cloud Computing . We didn’t want to leave the IT Pros out, so for you all, we share the upcoming local training series: TechNet Events:  Windows Azure, Hyper-V and Windows 7 Deployment Explore...

We wanted to take a moment to remind all of you sales pros to take advantage of Gear Up License Advisors (yep, these are free, partners). Like their name sounds, they’re designed to help you initiate licensing conversations. Each License Advisor outlines...

Practice Accelerator is a unique virtual training opportunity for business decision makers and IT consultants. It offers a comprehensive set of reusable tools and best practices that can help you identify customer requirements and project scope, analyze...

Our friends on the Microsoft Partner Programs team wanted to extend the invite to you for their “Get to Know Pinpoint” webcast.  Webcast Details: Event Speaker: Tina Hanson, Microsoft Partner Network Marketing Manager Event Date: December 01, 2010...

Our friends over at MSDev.com have some great content – even better, it’s all free. Check out some of their latest learning opportunities: Get Your Feet Wet on Windows Azure with Updated Content Take the Windows Azure self-paced virtual lab and follow...

Happy Friday all! We hope you have a relaxing weekend planned, and if you have some free time today, check out this new course: Deploying Windows® Phones with Windows Mobile 6.5 on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 This training provides an overview of the...

We can’t believe that the launch of Windows 7 is finally here. We’ve been counting down for some time now and have had several discussions about the resources available to you to prepare for the release of the product. Now that the product has officially...

We talked about the upcoming Microsoft Partner Network transition Tuesday , but here are some additional things to help you know where your organization’s certifications and competencies stand: Information about earning a Microsoft competency and the...

You  may have seen our blog post yesterday about the multiple learning series on BPOS we’ve got for you, but I wanted to call special attention to one in particular. BPOS is a great product (reminder:  BPOS = suite of products that includes...

Developers – this one’s for you! We’re excited today to launch our DevDrive Sweepstakes.     DevDrive Training Promotion for Developers For every course you register and attend from our DevDrive developer training list below, you’ll receive...

Join us for the Preparing your Customers for Office 365 Webcast Series! This 3 part, live series is designed to help partners understand and help their customers prepare for the BPOS to Office 365 transition. Is your organization embracing the Cloud?...

We get mail all the time asking about exam vouchers and other discounts on exams – well folks, here you go! Big thanks to the folks over at Microsoft Learning for offering this great program. These discounts will help you achieve your exam and certification...

We’ve talked recently about some new Exchange 2010 training in market and some incentives to learn more about Exchange , and wanted to follow that up with MORE new training. We’ve got a new labcast available for you to help understand the new capabilities...

Here’s a great resource to help you start planning your Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 customer seminars.  As a reminder, Win 7 & WS2008 RTM is slated for the second half of July and general availability/launch is...

As the next-generation operating system from Microsoft, Windows 7 opens new development, sales , and services opportunities for your business. When you add desktop virtualization, you can increase desktop manageability, reduce TCO, and improve overall...

As businesses look to drive growth, they need to increase collaboration, sharing and access to information but must do so while protecting their assets and infrastructure. Help your customers build the secure infrastructure they need to build their businesses...

Welcome to this month’s Hot Sheet, a schedule of upcoming live in-person and virtual training opportunities for Microsoft US partners, so you can plan ahead. Looking for on-demand courses? On the Learning Plan Tool , search for relevant training...

We’ve had some new training opportunities available recently, as well as some old favorites that have resurfaced. Check these out. Why not? They’re all free. Some are on-demand, and some are live, so read carefully.   Office 2010 Activation Training...