Woody Walton I wanted to provide a heads up to those of you actively selling our Exchange Online offering in conjunction with the Exchange Hosted Archiving Solution. Many of your customers require an archiving solution for their hosted or on premise...

  Woody Walton I get asked a lot of questions by partners who work with all manner of customers.  The other day I was asked about Office 365 for Education, the successor to our Live@edu services for educational institutions and what was the...

  As part of our broad efforts to improve science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and inspire the world’s next innovators, Microsoft launched a new product that opens young minds to STEM while providing students with a fun way...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Many of our posts have mentioned that Partners can make money migrating their customers to BPOS and Office 365 (in addition to Partner of Record fees)….  Partners may choose to migrate their customers...

    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...

By Ron Grattopp…..Well, I did a little research on “paradigm shift” and I ran across this one site, http://taketheleap.com/ , with what I consider the best simple definition of it: “Moving from one thought system to another ” and this great quote: "...

By Ron Grattopp….. We’re well into baseball season now, so I thought a baseball metaphor title might be reasonable .  I presented a Microsoft all-up cloud story breakout session and helped man our vendor fair booth at a major Distributor’s semi-annual...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Today, I had a great visit with some of the members of the IAMCP chapter in the New Orleans area.  We covered System Center and Intune, but we also discussed some of the resources out there for partners...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- As you begin deploying Windows Intune to your customers, you will want to make sure the end-user/client experience is customized with your Partner information. Windows Intune allows you to “brand” the...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- I’ve been having some great conversations with partners about Windows Intune…. and inevitably I’m asked, “So where do my customers go to download Windows 7 Enterprise?” Here’s how: There are three ways...

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...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Today, Microsoft announced the public beta for Microsoft Office 365 . More than a new version of a familiar product, Office 365 transcends the firewall to enable unprecedented collaboration and sharing...

  It’s finally here!  Sign up at http://www.Office365.com to learn more about Microsoft’s next generation of Online Services. Now you have to find out which version is right for you.   The Small Business version or the Enterprise Options...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- As Bryan posted, the Office 365 Public Beta has just opened up!  You may be having conversations with your customers about the value of Office 365 and we’ve provided some great guidance in some of...

Cloud productivity services, such as Microsoft Office 365, make it possible for small business to access the best productivity technology at a predictable monthly cost.   Office 365 brings together familiar software such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Are you a member of the IAMCP? The International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners (IAMCP) represents Microsoft´s best of breed partners from around the globe. Our organization was formed in 1994...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- The team has consolidated some of the most relevant PARTNER facing materials to help you sell SBS 2011: I have included a few of the highlights under each section below: Product References Windows SBS...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- With the impending launch of Office 365, you are probably reading more about its capabilities and features.  You may also be one of those partners who has an Office 365 beta account! Perhaps you have...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Microsoft Partners – Please join us for the next session of our Cloud Compete Webcast Series – which is all about helping you secure your customer base, grow market share and address the competition!  ...

  Hope you saw the announcement on the SBS Blog - http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/04/05/sbs-2011-essentials-evaluation-now-available-start-downloading-today.aspx SBS Essentials Evaluation Download: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter...

Rob Waggoner   Today we announced that we are making the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.3 available for public download.  The full announcement by Jose Barreto is located at his blog here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2011/04...

Rob Waggoner We have some great training and certification promotions going on right now.  I’ve highlighted a few of them below, check out this link for all of the offers, but here are a few (OK, more than a few) of the offers that got my attention...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- I am absolutely excited that SBS 2011 Essentials is coming soon… and the fact that you don’t have to worry about any CALs makes me even more excited So while we are on the topic of not having to worry...

  Woody Walton You may have recently read my post on Some SBS 2011 Essentials Resources Aggregated .  This is the companion post dedicated to SBS 2011 Essentials big on premise brother Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard edition. This...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Be sure to catch it virtually on April 13th! Click HERE to register! If you live near Charlotte (NC), Greensboro (NC), Denver (CO), or Menlo Park (CA), there are still “in-person” dates available, and...