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Looking for a great way to really demo Office 365 for your customers, have you heard about the “Demo Provisioning Toolkit for Office 365” yet?  With the Provisioning Tool, you create a “Live” tenant in the Office 365 environment, then using the tool, it populates user data for you to utilize to show your customers. 

Objective: This business productivity scenario is designed to let customers experience the entire Microsoft Office 365 productivity platform in the context of a typical business situation at a fictitious company, Contoso.  

Summary:  The activities in this story represent a day in the life of the characters at work during a busy period.  Karen along with her fellow Contoso employees will be keeping up with email, responding to a sales request and finding people and information in order to effectively analyze data.  Simultaneously, she will be communicating and collaborating with co-workers on a sales proposal before creating a presentation and taking their work on the road.

Sales Consideration: All sections and topics need to be tied to the end-to-end business Microsoft productivity solution. The focus is not on technology but on the functionality that can improve communication, collaboration, and efficiencies in an organization, and therefore save the company time and money.

• Quickly create an Office 365 trial tenant with demonstration data
• Auto-Provisioning of Users, Email, Calendar, SharePoint Sites, Lync Profiles, Customization.
• 90 Minutes+ of fully guided demonstration content and script broken out into easy to consume scenarios of productivity.
• Technical setup and configuration documentation
• Deliver rich demonstrations to your customers across all of the Office 365 products and services.
• Accelerate the sales process by giving your customers an Office 365 experience focusing on the future of productivity.

The MSI for the Demo Provisioning Tool is located on http://www.quickstartonlineservices.com
Quickstart provides partners with the most up-to-date sales, technical, and program content for Microsoft Online Services. Below is a preview of content and resources available. To gain access to all of the content and resources on Quickstart, please use your MPN ID to sign in.  Here are the specific links:

Demo Guide: https://www.quickstartonlineservices.com/Partners/LibraryDocuments/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=845
 
Installer:

https://www.quickstartonlineservices.com/Partners/LibraryDocuments/Demo%20Provisioning%20Tool%20for%20Office%20365%20-%20Installer%20Update.zip

Join us for a webcast on 12/13/2011 as we take a look at “How to Demo Office 365 to your customers” where we will highlight the Demo Provisioning tool for Office 365.

Webcast Link: https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/management/LMS_ActDetails.aspx?UserMode=0&ActivityId=782872

Should you need support on your installation of the Demo Provisioning Tool for Office 365, please contact usoffice365demos@microsoft.com

We would also love to hear your feedback.  Please send any and all feedback to the above address, it is much appreciated.

If you have questions about Office 365, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online, please see one of the following resources:

Home: http://www.office365.com

Community Support: http://community.office365.com/en-us/default.aspx

Service Descriptions: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13602

QuickStart: http://www.quickstartonlineservices.com

Quickstartonlineservices.com has instructions for extending this trial as a “demo” tenant as a partner. Please follow the instructions in this document extend the trial if needed.  https://www.quickstartonlineservices.com/Partners/LibraryDocuments/Office%20365%20Partner%20Demo%20Account.pptx