BPOSitive : Training

Migration Webinar Series

Brett Hill — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:05:00 GMT

Wanted to let you know that there will be a new webinar series starting up.

You will definitly want to attend these to get the latest information on migrating to BPOS.

See http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/archive/2009/11/13/announcing-the-migration-webinar-series.aspx for details.

-brett

BPOS Webcasts on Technet

Brett Hill — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:57:00 GMT

Wanted to post this summary of webcasts on Technet for your viewing pleasure.

http://blogs.technet.com/bpositive/pages/bpos-webcasts-available-on-technet.aspx

Partner Guide: Webcast #2: How to create a new Admin and Sign on with the SSO tool

Brett Hill — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:44:00 GMT

This webcast, #2 in a series, shows you how a Partner can create a new Services Administrator and sign on with that account using the Single Sign On Tool

Partner Guide: How to create trial accounts with customers

Brett Hill — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:24:00 GMT

This webcast (#1 in a series) details how a Partner creates a trail BPOS account for customers.

The Microsoft Online Services Trial Guide has been published

Brett Hill — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:01:00 GMT

The Microsoft Online Services Trial Guide has been published to the Microsoft Download Center.

The Trial Guide was written to enhance the trial experience for customers that are considering the Business Productivity Suite. The guide contains step-by-step instructions for several customer scenarios, including:

· Setting up a 30-day trial account in MOCP

· Basic account administration

· SharePoint Online administration

· Setting up the end user experience

· Converting a trial account to a paid subscription

Windows IT Pro Magazine Webcast on BPOS / Windows Live

Brett Hill — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:18:00 GMT

Microsoft Online Services: Implementation Options and the Path to Migration

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM EST

Sponsored by:

Join John Savill for this free webinar. Microsoft now offers solutions such as Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online, for services you traditionally find hosted within an organization. With Microsoft Online, organizations now have the option to implement services with greatly reduced local infrastructure or management overhead. John Savill looks at the full suite of services available, walks through the licensing options, examines the quality of service and availability options, helps you determine if hosted services is right for your organization, and explores how to migrate to hosted services.

Speaker
John Savill
John is the author of the popular FAQ for Windows and a contributing editor to Windows IT Pro. He is an advisory architect for EMC’s Microsoft consulting practice. He’s an MCITP: Enterprise Administrator for Windows Server 2008 and a nine-time MVP. His latest book is The Complete Guide to Windows Server 2008 (Addison-Wesley).

New - Additional BPOS Training Dates.

Brett Hill — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:41:00 GMT

Hey, I just got word that we're offering some more BPOS deployment and administration courses at specific CPLS learning centers.

It's a one day, hands on class that goes over all the details you need to deploy and admin the services. We arleady did a bunch of these, and demand in these cities was strong, so if you missed the first round - here's your chance. Note the promo code at the bottom before you regsiter at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9644666

I just got word that additional dates have been added to the Administration and Depoyment workshop. We did a bunch of these already and they were very well received. In fact, we're adding more dates to make sure you have a chance to attend as some classes were sold out!

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Business Productivity Online Suite:

Workshop for Deploying and Administering Services

Microsoft is launching Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) to provide enterprise-class software to customers via subscription services that will be hosted by Microsoft and sold with partners. Business Productivity Online Suite consists of Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Office SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Microsoft Office Communications Online, and Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering. The suite provides streamlined communications, simplified management, and business-class reliability and security to customers and a guaranteed 99.9% Service Level Agreement.

This one day event is focused on educating partners around the deployment and administration of Business Productivity Online Suite. Training will be delivered through a series of presentations that focus on developing the skills required to subscribe, deploy, co-exist, migrate, administer, and support the online services. In addition, the workshop includes hands-on technical exercises that help the attendees gain real-world experience in administration, configuration, co-existence, migration and support of the online services.

The objective of the workshop is to enable partners to successfully engage customers in new business opportunities around Business Productivity Online Suite.

Dates and Locations

Feb 2, 2009 Waltham, MA

Feb 6, 2009 Bellevue, WA

Feb 12, 2009 Irvine, CA

Feb 12, 2009 Garfield Heights, OH (Cleveland)

Feb 12, 2009 Washington, DC

Feb 17, 2009 Oak Brook, IL (Chicago)

Feb 18, 2009 Tampa, FL

Feb 20, 2009 Dallas, TX

Feb 20, 2009 San Francisco, CA

Feb 27, 2009 New York, NY

Proposed Agenda (subject to change)

Module 1: Subscribing and Activating Business Productivity Online Suite
Module 2: Using the Administration Center
Module 3: Accessing the Services
Module 4: Configuring and Administering Exchange Services
Module 5: Email Migration and Active-Directory Co-Existence
Module 6: Configuring and Administering SharePoint Online
Module 7: Launching and Using Live Meeting

Level: 200 (Intermediate)

Role: Architect, Developer, Exec/Owner, Implementer, Marketing, Sales, Support

Format: Classrooms (Live)

Company Level: Registered

Receive 50% off when you register by Feb 2, 2009!

Enter discount promotion code BPOS550 at check out.

To register, go to

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9644666

About this Course

The hands-on lab workshop is divided into a series of modules that consist of presentations and hands on labs. Additionally, this course has been designed to help students understand the necessary steps to setup basic online services as well as migrate Active Directory accounts and Exchange mailboxes to the online services. It emphasizes conceptual understanding of product features and toolsets, and it provides opportunities for hands-on experience within the key business scenarios around deployment.

How Do I Videos on BPOS

Brett Hill — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:15:00 GMT

Technet is posting a few "how do I" videos on BPOS.

Using the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Application

Wednesday, November 05, 2008, 6:35:51 PM

This video shows how to install & configure the Single Sign-In application available from the Microsoft Online Services dashboard. This demo shows how to: -Download the Sign-In Application -Configure the Sign-In Application -Access MOS services from the Sign-In Application

winvideo-ITPro-UseSignInApplication.wmv

Exchange Online administration

Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 1:19:18 PM

In this video, Marc Hoppers explains how to use the Exchange Administration features provided in Microsoft Online Services. Topics include, adding and editing users, creating distribution lists, setting ups safe senders and blocked senders.

winvideo-ITPro- ExchangeAdministration.wmv

Sharepoint Online Setup

Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 1:18:40 PM

In this video, Marc Hoppers explains how to configure a SharePoint site collection using Microsoft Online Services. Topics include how to provision a new site collection, how to allocate space to the site collection, and how to add users to the site collection.

winvideo-ITPro-SharePointSetup.wmv

New Course available on Partner Portal "Understanding Software-plus-Services”

Brett Hill — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:44:00 GMT

Course Description:

Software-plus-services is transforming the way people think about software. It combines Internet services with client and server software to deliver and create more compelling opportunities and solutions. The goal of the software-plus-services strategy is to empower customers with richer applications and more choices in how software is consumed, and provide partners greater opportunity through a combination of on-premise software, partner-hosted software, and Microsoft-hosted software. Microsoft is dedicated to helping its partners take advantage of this approach.

This 100-level course, “Understanding Software-plus-Services”, provides an overview and help partners articulate the Microsoft software-plus-services strategy with customers. It also is designed to help partners understand how they can deliver upon this strategy and take advantage of the breadth of opportunities that it presents through this valuable and informative training course.

At the end of this course, learners will be able to:

1. Describe Microsoft’s Software-plus-Services strategy.
2. Discuss the importance of Microsoft partner ecosystem and their role in the delivery of this strategy.
3. Explain the difference between SaaS and S+S to customers.
4. Demonstrate S+S in action using real world examples.
5. Prepare plans to explore opportunities to extend your business with S+S.
6. Evaluate and use S+S resources published on the Microsoft Partner Portal.

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/details.aspx?publisher=3&courseid=3194

BPOS training buffet for Partners

Brett Hill — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:12:00 GMT

Check out this link for an all you can buffet of BPOS technical and sales training.

https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=E2FA8C2170C84D8B9BE34327B829594F

Virtual Airlift BPOS Webcasts Posted !

Brett Hill — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:09:00 GMT

You want details? How about lectures from the people making the services on the latest version of BPOS hitting the web this weekend! I'm super excited to annoucne tha availability of the Virtual Airlift webcasts on the Technical tab of this site. New features for Exchange, the administration console and other parts of the service are all detailed by the PMs at Microsoft in charge of those features.

You want to know about how secure our data centers are? Check out Mike Ziocks highly rated presentation https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Data_Center_Security_And_Reliability_110k.wmv

Interested in SharePoint Online capabilites? See it for yourself https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/SharePoint_Online_110k.wmv

How about Exchange Online and the new Conference Room features? See Ed Wu in his psychedlic shirt at https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Exchange_Online_110k.wmv

Migration and Co-existence details and demo: https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Migration_And_Coexistence_110k.wmv

Of course, there's using the Administration Center including how to add a custom domain to BPOS: https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Microsoft_Online_Admin_Center_110k.wmv

David Wang presents a demo and details about the single sign on tool. Important details are included about how to deploy and configure. https://www.discoveronlineservices.com/Documents/Accessing_Microsoft_Online_Services_110k.wmv

Check out all the Virtual Airlift content on the Technical Tab!

Also, note there's new Business content too on the Business tab.

For Partners! Special Offer on Deploying and Administering BPOS Instructor Led Training

Brett Hill — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:06:00 GMT

Finsihed off the roadshow content this week and all I can say is if you want to get the latest and greatest info, hands on and connected to goodness that is Online Services, you gotta go!

To make it easy, we have a special deal.

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Use Promo Code BPOS50 when registering to take advantage of this 50% discount offer!

[This offer is limited and will expire]

To secure your seat today!

Register Now

This offer is limited to Microsoft Partners.

Overview:

Microsoft is launching Business Productivity Online Suite to provide enterprise-class software to customers via subscription services that will be hosted by Microsoft and sold with partners. Business Productivity Online Suite consists of Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Office SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Microsoft Office

Communications Online, and Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering. The suite provides streamlined communications, simplified management, and business-class reliability and security to customers and a guaranteed 99.9% Service Level Agreement. This one day event is focused on educating partners around the deployment and administration of Business Productivity Online Suite. The objective of the workshop is to enable partners to successfully engage customers in new business opportunities around Business Productivity Online Suite.

About the Course:
This training is divided into a series of modules that consist of presentations and hands on labs. Additionally, this course has been designed to help students understand the necessary steps to setup basic online services as well as migrate Active Directory accounts and Exchange mailboxes to the online services. It emphasizes conceptual understanding of product features and toolsets, and it provides opportunities for hands-on experience within the key business scenarios around deployment.

Target Audience:
This event is intended for technical decision makers, technology implementers, and system integrators who would like to improve their ability to provide services to customers related to Business Productivity Online Suite.

Prerequisites:
Students should have a basic understanding of DNS, and familiarity with SharePoint, Exchange, Live Meeting, and Active Directory. In addition, students should be familiar with the basic operations of Microsoft Office.

Limited seats are available, so sign up for this training today!

Register here: https://training.partner.microsoft.com/plc/search_adv.aspx?ssid=33c6b5ff-8c9c-475c-913e-afbf176a706e

BPOS on the Road!

Brett Hill — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:59:00 GMT

ROADHSOW!

Since the Airlift, I've been working on updating the content to make a 1 day instructor led, technical training on BPOS services. This little gem includes all the details you need to signup, adminster users, configure services, migrate email from Active Directory, setup Live Meeting, use SharePoint, install custom domains, and more!

Hopefully you can make it to one of these. Here's the list:

Oct 21: New Horizons - Minnesota, Edina

Oct 21: Ameriteach - Denver, CO

Oct 23: Vortex Data Systems, Inc - San Diego, CA

Oct 23: ICI Systems, Inc. Washington, DC

Oct 28: Quickstart Intelligence – Irvine CA

Oct 30: The eConsortium Group Houston TX

Oct 30: New Horizons , Boston, Waltham

Nov 4: Quickstart Intelligence - San Francisco CA

Nov 5: Directions Training Center - Chicago, IL

Nov 6: Springhouse Education & Consulting Services, Exton PA

Nov 6: Upgrade IT Consulting Services Alpharetta, GA