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 in training delivered via Microsoft Live Meeting...

  Josh Condie – Below is the schedule for all of the upcoming Practice Accelerator sessions scheduled for next 3 months.  The cost to attend a Practice Accelerator session is now only five Partner Advisory Hours!  A high-value training offering that can help your business expand across...

Josh Condie – Microsoft has just announced the 2 certification paths to receive your MCSE for SQL Server 2012.  These tracks will be built upon the new technical certification redesign that Microsoft introduced just a few months back.  Following the April launch of SQL Server 2012, two new...

Josh Condie – In my many interactions with our SMB partner community throughout the year, I often come away with requests to assemble and consolidate targeted training resources for partners looking to start a new practice or update old skillsets in preparation for a new product release.  Until...

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 last few weeks, I’ve seen several blogs talking about...

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 edition lets developers build any kind of application...

  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 in training delivered via Microsoft Live...

B  V  A Josh Condie, one of my teammates on TS2 did a great post on the upcoming changes of SQL Server 2012 with regards to the licensing changes - http://blogs.technet.com/b/uspartner_ts2team/archive/2011/11/30/a-concise-sql-server-2012-licensing-overview.aspx With General availability coming...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- With the upcoming versions of System Center 2012 and SQL 2012 around the bend, are you ready to bring your customers up to date? ======================= Dear Partner, Join us on April 4 to learn and understand the new System Center and the new licensing...

  Woody Walton As many of you know, March 7th is the launch of SQL Server 2012.   With a little over one one week to go, the time is now to dig in and see what SQL Server 2012 is all about!  You can join in the festivities next week by attending the virtual launch event ( register...

B   V   A SQL Server 2012 is coming soon and will bring exciting opportunities  with our enhanced database platform, BI and developer tools.   Training titles below have been organized by Sales & Licensing and Technical, with partner-type and role-specific titles noted...

  Josh Condie – With the Release Candidate for SQL Server 2012 now available it is now more important than ever that Microsoft effectively communicate the significant licensing changes that are coming with the new release.  Below is the best, concise summary that I have seen. SQL Server 2012...

  Looking for a way to start with SQL Server or Visual Studio??? I recently delivered a SQL Server 2008 R2 webcast and while talking about the versions the Express edition, which is FREE, came up.  One of the big changes from SQL Server 2008 Express edition is the database size.  It is...

    Have you heard about Microsoft Sales Demos located at http://www.mssalesdemos.com .  This site was developed by the Microsoft Business and Products group to provide solutions and demonstrations across the full range of Microsoft technologies. Users have access to live hosted Virtual...

by Ron Grattopp…….Although PowerPivot has been available for a few months now, I recently saw the following Network World blog post ( How Microsoft PowerPivot will disrupt BI ) and thought it was an interesting take on the impact of PowerPivot, Microsoft’s “ PivotTable on steroids ” (link to a webcast...

Woody Walton I have been working with both SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 Report Builder 3.0 quite a bit in the past month and I thought I would take the time to share a few things with you that I learned that were not readily apparent with Report Builder 3.0. You see I come from an infrastructure...

With the updated version’s of SQL Server Migration Assistant’s you can now migrate an existing database platform currently running on MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, and Access to any edition of SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, or SQL Server 2005.  Brand new to this release is the ability for MySQL and...

Woody Walton I have been delivering Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 familiarization sales training to our various transaction partners over the last few weeks and I wanted to share a a few questions that I think are representative of what many of you may be thinking about or asking yourself. One of the...

Woody Walton Every time Microsoft ships a new version of a product we all have to adapt to change, and that change comes on many fronts.  Depending on who you are, it could mean learning the new capabilities and enhancements in the product and how they make sense for your customers, how has the...