Many of the Scottish Partners are not aware of the regular technical readiness webcasts Microsoft provides to its Partner community, so below is the list of forthcoming events being run during 2008.  Registration for these sessions is via the Partner Learning Portal (PLC)

What Is Partner Academy Live?

These are 1 hour managed Webcasts for Partners and Microsoft employees using Microsoft’s Live Meeting 2007. Connect with Microsoft and other partners; listen to Microsoft subject matter experts as they discuss their areas of expertise related to Microsoft’s sales and competitive strategy.  Learn more about Microsoft’s products (including insight into products on the launch horizon); positioning of business value to customers; sharing wins from the field and how the account team won; world class selling skills and best practice; and leveraging Microsoft resources to maximize your productivity. Partner Academy Live caters to all depths of knowledge. 

Partners:  Please check out the PLC Catalog for the latest information on scheduled and recorded PAL sessions!

Forthcoming Webcasts

Environmental Sustainability Session:

Enabling Telework Through Unified Communications. Good for Business. Better for the Earth.

Exchange Server Session:

Exchange Deployment Planning Services: Overview, Requirements & Registration

Governance, Risk and Compliance Session:

Aligning Governance Risk and Compliance to Open New Opportunities

Law and Corporate Affairs Session:

Philanthropy and Community Engagement at Microsoft

Management Sessions:

System Center Landing Page - a link to all System Center sessions on the PLC

Technical Drill-down: How to do Disaster Recovery for SharePoint with Microsoft System Center

PerformancePoint Server Sessions:

Achieving High Performance with PerformancePoint Server 2007: A Product and Competitive Overview

Extending SharePoint Server 2007 with PerformancePoint Server 2007

Public Sector Sessions:

Overview of Microsoft Unified Communications for Caregiver Collaboration for Partners

Connected Health Platform: Core Infrastructure Optimization for Healthcare Campaign Kickoff

FAST Search Opportunities  - Hot Topic Series on Academy Live

SQL Server Session:

SQL Server 2008 Manageability TDM Deck

Windows Server Sessions:

Virtualization Landing Page - a link to all Virtualization sessions on the PLC

Virtualization for Sustainable Computing

Virtualization Futures:  Presentation Virtualization at Microsoft (Terminals Services, VDI and more)

Other Announcements:

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