Tim Tetrick In a blog post from January , I talked about the Microsoft Online Services Document Portfolio as a resource to assist with your Online Services selling efforts.  I’m happy to announce that we have an updated version of the PDF Portfolio now available with completely refreshed content...

Josh Condie - There are significant changes in the pricing, licensing, skus, and key product features of Windows Intune with the new Wave D offering launching this month – greatly enhancing the partner reselling and services opportunity.  Many partners are seeing strong success leveraging Windows...

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Tim Tetrick I want to make everyone aware of a newly updated resource to assist with your Online Services selling efforts.  The Microsoft Online Services Document Portfolio is a collection of over 120 unique documents all related to the Microsoft Online Services business across Office 365 , Windows...

Josh Condie – For those of you who subscribe to the weekly Technet Newsletter, you may have already seen this.  For those of you who don’t, or may not have reviewed the entire newsletter, this resource is worth calling out.  The Work Smart Guide for Windows 8 is a condensed, visual guide to...

Josh Condie – Microsoft Press has just release 3 great new books to arm yourself with as your colleagues and customers begin to explore the new client OS. Help them deploy, manage, use and experience all the new features and form factors that are about to hit the market:   Troubleshoot and Optimize...

B  V  A The Cloud Easy Offer gives your customers choices on Microsoft Online solutions to fit their organization’s unique IT Productivity and investment requirements. Customers who make a qualifying Online Services purchase earn money back, 15% of 1 year subscription in the form of a partner...

Josh Condie – Employees are becoming more and more tech-savvy and demanding greater flexibility with their work style, where and how they access information and what devices and computing platforms they use.  An increasing number of employees are mobile or home-based today and need to work from...

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, featured on Microsoft Sales Specialist, prepares...

B  V  A Did you see the announcement made at Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas about the next version of Windows Intune.  If not, check out the official blog entry on our “Windows for Business” blog - http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/business/   Hopefully you already...

Q: (from Shawn) Intune does comes with windows 7 pro with sa correct?   A: To be precise: Windows Intune comes with the upgrade rights to Windows 7 Enterprise with the same benefits as Software Assurance. From a Microsoft FAQ and Technet article on Windows Intune: Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade Rights...

Q: (from several different partners recently) Can Windows Intune manage my preferred AV tool?   A: From the Endpoint Protection section of the Windows Intune FAQ: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windowsintune/faq/default.aspx Can I use Windows Intune endpoint protection to replace my current...

  Josh Condie – Adding to Woody’s great comments about the value proposition of Windows Intune.  I was preparing for a presentation on Intune recently and came across a whitepaper that IDC recently wrote about the value of Windows 7 for SMBs:  The Benefit of Using Windows 7 in Small and...

So you’ve stumbled into your first online service deal. Now what? How do you turn what you learned into a successful, repeatable business practice? Microsoft Cloud Fast-Track   Bootcamp Are you looking for tools and guidance on closing more Office 365, Windows Intune and Microsoft Online Services...

Q: (from Dave) Can Windows Intune be used to upgrade (crossgrade?) from the Mac OS to Windows 7 Enterprise?   A: I love the term “crossgrade” but unfortunately the answer is “no”. According to the Intune FAQ ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windowsintune/faq/default.aspx ) in the section...

  B  V   A I was recently at the San Diego VAR Summit, while we talked about a lot of the Microsoft Solutions, I was posed a question by a partner that started me thinking about delivering the Microsoft Desktop, so here is what I came up with: Windows 7 Enterprise Edition AV/AS Multi...

Josh Condie – Last Monday, Microsoft announced that the next release of Windows Intune is now available (as of 10/17/2011). With this update, we are delivering on our promise of frequent updates to address top customer feedback and enable new scenarios. While the core architecture of Windows Intune...

By Ron Grattopp ….. Recently, I’ve been doing some partner training on Office 365, and one of the KEY resources available to Microsoft partners that I continually point to is QuickStart for Microsoft Online Services Portal .  It occurred to me that I didn’t remember seeing any previous posts around...

Steve Deming I got the opportunity to attend the Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles this week and between partner meetings, I even got to attend some of the breakouts. One of those breakouts was “Up Selling and Cross Selling Windows Intune and Office 365”. Although most of the information was...

  By Ron Grattopp…..As some of you may know, we announced the beta of the next generation of Windows Intune on day 1 of our Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles (July 11th), early indications are that it’s expected to be rolled out later this year.  If you want to check out the new beta...

Join us for this one-day, hands-on workshop enables attendees to manage and administer computers and software through Windows Intune™. Windows Intune is a new solution that simplifies how businesses manage and secure PCs by using Windows cloud services and Windows® 7 – so your computers and users can...

By Ron Grattopp…..of course, with Windows Intune launching this past week one would expect a lot of commentary on it around the blogoshere.  This particular one, Microsoft's InTune: Price Too High for SMB? , from a “Channel Insider Staff” on the Channel Insider blog caught my attention, and after...

Q: (from Russ) We want to leverage some of the media wave focused on Windows Intune for our own customer facing event – timing is everything. Does Microsoft have materials (slide decks, scripts, data sheets) we can leverage to turn this around quickly?   A: Great timing! I just received an email...