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Demo Showcase Schedule

mbald — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:27:00 GMT

Here is the list of the upcoming Demo Showcase sessions local to Mississauga. We are planning additional sessions for the regions and will post them here when we get some dates, venues.

March 23. 2007	Microsoft Head Office Mississauga
April 27th, 2007	Microsoft Head Office Mississauga
May 25, 2007	Microsoft Head Office Mississauga

We will have the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 scenarios for these sessions also. March 23rd will be using the beta scenarios and we hope to have the released versions for the sessions in April and May.

Next Demo Showcase Session is March 23rd

mbald — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:40:00 GMT

The next Demo Showcase session is scheduled for March 23rd at the Microsoft Head Office in Mississauga. The details of the invite is attached or log onto the Canadian Partner site, where you can also register. We'll be previewing the beta of the new Demo Showcase release which incorporates Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

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Overview:
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The Microsoft Demo Showcase for the People-Ready Business is a sales demonstration toolkit that can help you tailor your presentations to the role of your customers, whether they are in operations, sales and marketing, or IT.

This customized presentation can help your customers understand how Microsoft-based technology combines with your expertise to meet their business needs.

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The toolkit includes customer-ready demonstrations, along with a diverse collection of supporting material such as presentations in PowerPoint®, demonstration scripts, videos, and other pre-sales collateral.
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Each workshop will include both presentations & hands-on exercises on how to demo:

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• Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM
• And a featured Microsoft Dynamics ERP-based product which will change each month (see full schedule on the Partner Learning Centre)
Each participant will need to bring their laptop to participate in the hands-on exercises.

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These workshops will take place the last Friday of each month* starting on October 27th, 2006 – featuring Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV at the Microsoft Canada head office:

1950 Meadowvale Blvd W,
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See the full schedule of the Demo Showcase workshops & more details on the Partner Learning Centre.
Please note that you will have to sign in as a technology partner with your .NET Passport in order to access this site.

* December’s workshop date is December 8th, 2006

Who should attend:
This training is best suited for consultants and technology specialists within Microsoft technology partner organizations who demo solutions to their customers.

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*all sessions are presented in English

Questions?
Please forward your questions to cdnplc@microsoft.com.

Demo Showcase beta scenarios update

mbald — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:17:00 GMT

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 scenarios for the Demo Showcase are currently being tested by internal and selected partners. The scenarios range from Infrastructure Management with SMS and Vista through a number of various collaboration examples involving many of the new features in Office System 2007, to integration of our ERP solutions in MSDynamics.

Just to touch on the previopus post on resources. These new scenarios have good performance on a Vista laptop with 3GB RAM. I did play with the memory and dropped the setting a bit for the Server and Client to see how things would go and I'm happy to report that it didn't detract from the demo experience. I'll post a list of some of the propsed scenarios and the technologies involved soon.

Demo Showcase resources

mbald — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:29:00 GMT

In all the sessions we have delivered on the Demo Showcase, the memory requirement has been the biggest challenge for our partners. In the invite to the sessions we run we do stress the need to have 2GB of RAM on their systems in order to run the images.

Consistently we do get partners showing up with 1.5GB and 1GB of RAM which limits their ability to run the scenarios. This isn't a slight against our partners, it's a business reality that not every role can justify the cost of upgrading the RAM.

What we have managed to do in these situation is use the slider in the Memory setting for the image in VPC, and adjust/tweek the memory in order to run the images. In cases where the partner has 1.5 gb or 1 GB of RAM we'll trim the image requirements to the minimum where they will run adequately. This may be something you have to play with a few times to get the right setting.

In most cases where we have done this with partners we have had success where they can run scenarios that require 2 images with 1.5GB to 1GB of RAM. To run 3 images then you would need the full 2GB requirement.