For those of you who have seen my posts in the past, you may already have some idea that I’m a nerd and I love technology. And just to confirm your first impressions, my nerd quotient rises when technology is used in new and interesting ways. Over the...

B  V  A I was recently out looking for the update to the Systems Management and Virtualization merge on the Microsoft Sales Specialist site, and ran across the new Windows Intune Sales Specialist Accreditation: “The Windows Intune accreditation...

Rob Waggoner I get this question pretty often when I talk about the benefits of Open Value. Open Value provides ongoing benefits that go far beyond just the software license.  Check out my video where I talk about the additional benefits our customers...

B  V  A Hopefully you are aware Microsoft, based on feedback from many partners, changed the Virtualization and Systems Management individual competencies into one competency starting in May 2012.  For more information check out this post...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Please let them know that this is not possible. As you probably know, Office 2010 can be purchased a few ways: PKC, FPP, OEM, or VL…. Do you know what all of those letters mean?  Do your customers...

Join us on Friday, May 18, at 10:00 AM Central Time May's Agenda will include: Central Region Highlights and Insights WPC — the latest information to help you know what's happening with WPC2012 5 Reasons to Pick Office 365 Over Google Office 365 User...

Josh Condie – The Online Services Partner Update Newsletter is a great resource for the evolving world of resources (demo environments, pre-sales, etc.), programs and support for both new and mature Microsoft Online Services partners.  I highly encourage...

Rob Waggoner   Q: (from Stuart) Is App-V OS independent?  By this, I mean can you run applications that are incompatible with Windows 7 by using App-V on a Windows 7 workstation? A:  No, App-V does not provide any OS compatibility assistance...

For those of you who have seen my posts in the past, you may already have some idea that I’m a nerd and I love technology. And just to confirm your first impressions, my nerd quotient rises when technology works the way it’s supposed to. Recently my nerd...

B  V  A Wanted to provide an update to what was originally called – Office 365 Demo Provisioning Toolkit – See original post here The team recently upgraded the original toolkit to now be known as Office 365 Demo Provisioning Assistant , some...

Q: (from Matt) A client is asking about Microsoft Search Server Express and it’s something I’m not too familiar with.  I’ve done a little bit of research but it looks like this product is designed for mid-large companies (total data at the client...

Q: (from Geoff) Does Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Developer Edition deliver the same functionality as Standard, Business Intelligence, or Enterprise edition?   A: From: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144275.aspx “SQL Server 2012 Developer...

Q: (from Aja) What courses are available as part of the eLearning benefit delivered as part of Software Assurance?   A: It took a little searching, but off of the www.microsoft.com/licensing site, I went to the Software Assurance page, selected Training...

B  V  A Ron Grattopp, one of my TS2 teammates recently did a great blog post on all the Microsoft Cloud resources and where they currently exist out in the Microsoft World, it reminded me of a recent publication I ran across while prepping for...

By Ron Grattopp …..As you likely know, there have been some major changes in the Microsoft Partner Network program as well as the MPN Portal so it’s time to update this list of resources for you.  I’d also like to give a shout out to Diane Golshan...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- As Microsoft Partners, many of you are familiar with selling our core solutions, but you may have run across a few instances where your customers were looking for a CRM or ERP solution.  You were...

Woody Walton   Hello All! I wanted to remind everyone that tomorrow culminates the our 4 part webinar Series, Expand Your Cloud Practice. As you have guess from the title of the post the forth and final installment is About SharePoint Online and...

  Woody Walton   Last Tuesday the Office 365 Technical Blog posted an update that was extremely important as regards SharePoint Online.  In the post Storage Update for SharePoint Online Enterprise Plans , Josh T spilled the much awaited...

Rob Waggoner A few months back, I shared the Forefront for Exchange and SharePoint, the Elevator Pitch video , and today I wanted to share the video that covers the Forefront Servers and the System Center Endpoint protection solution.  I combined...

Rob Waggoner   If you are already looking at or running System Center 2012, be sure to install Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for System Center 2012 as well.  It includes some last minute updates that did not make it into the RTM package.  CU1...

Q: (from Bill) Could you verify this benefit and help me understand it further?   A: (with help from Todd Sweetser – Thanks) I wasn’t aware of this, but “Yes”, Office 365 licenses do confer client access (CAL) rights for equivalent on-premise technologies...

Q: (from Laura) Hi, I’m not sure if you are the person that I would go to with these types of questions but maybe you can point me in the correct direction.  We are MS Partners and we would like to use some advisory hours for a SharePoint migration...

Rob Waggoner   Have you ever gone to install an application into a customer’s environment, especially a new customer’s environment, only to find that Active Directory, DNS, or even Exchange isn’t properly configured?  How do you handle that...

B  V  A The 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference is the partner event of the year—a unique event that will bring partners from the U.S. and around the globe together. Here are the top 10 reasons to attend:  Register now at Digital...

  Josh Condie - Practice Accelerator is a Microsoft offering designed to help partners build a technical services practice around Microsoft solutions. Practice Accelerator is a comprehensive set of reusable tools, resources, and best practices introduced...