Achieving Microsoft Licensing Accreditations including the Microsoft Licensing Sales Specialist (MLSS) and Microsoft Licensing Sales Expert (MLSE)  shows that partners understand both our licensing programmes as well as the licensing of our products, helping you to become a trusted advisor to your customers. We're updating the MLSS and MLSE accreditations to reflect our latest technologies. The updated MLSS exams will be available for you to take from week commencing 23 February 2009 while the update MLSE exams will be available from week commencing 2 March 2009.

In response to partner feedback requesting the simplification of our licensing accreditations, we have also created a new 'starter' accreditation - Microsoft Licensing Sales Specialist Lite (MLSS Lite). Partners can take the MLSS Lite exams as of week commencing 16 February 2009.

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