Our training team have set up the following 1 day jumpstart sessions in November in addition to the Sharepoint Sessions.

Unified Communications (Exchange 2007 and Office Communication Server)
The Jump-start is an interactive training session which provides you with the technical introduction and understanding of Unified Communication, Exchange 2007 and Office Communication Server from an architectural and solution overview perspective.  The session is an Instructor led “chalk & talk” and does not include any hands-on technical labs.

Topics covered:
· A lap around the architectural landscape – The Microsoft Unified Communication story
· Understanding Exchange 2007 – features out of the box
· Unified Messaging Overview
· Understanding Office Communication Server – what this means to your business
· Integration with Exchange 2007
· Office Communication Server capabilities and architecting a solution
· An overall solution summary

Price: $79 ex GST

Business Intelligence and Performance Point Server
The Jump-start is an interactive training session which provides you with the technical introduction and understanding of Business Intelligence and Performance Point Sever from an architectural and solution overview perspective.  The session is an Instructor led “chalk & talk” and does not include any hands-on technical labs.

Topics covered:
· A lap around the architectural landscape – The Microsoft Business Intelligence story
· Understanding Performance Point Server 2007 – features out of the box
· Architecting Performance Management solutions
· An overall solution summary

Price: $79 ex GST

Johann Kruse is the National Technology Specialist for Unified Communications at Microsoft Australia.  Johann shows a great hands on demonstration of what Microsoft Unified Communications is like in the day of an information worker. The demos of the Touch screen Tanjay and Office Communicator Mobile 2007 are really cool.
 

Don't forget that we are touring Australia with our Unified Communication Launch Events in November.

Launch Events (including TechNet content)
Melbourne Tuesday 13th November
Sydney Monday 19th November

TechNet Events
Canberra Friday 16th November
Adelaide Thursday 22nd November
Brisbane Monday 26th November
Perth Wednesday 28th November

For more resources please visit the Unified Communication Resources area we have set up. 

Our customer and partner communities need more IT Professionals with Sharepoint skills. In response to this we have set up a series of Jumpstart trainings which will provide you with the technical introduction and understanding of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), Enterprise Content Management and Microsoft Search from an architectural and solution overview perspective. We are running them throughout November in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

These sessions are ideal if you are a technical person needing to cross train your Microsoft skills and gain an understanding of how these technologies work together in an overall solution. These sessions are led by an experienced ‘in the field’ instructor to give you the fast track introduction and guidance you need as part of your skills enablement roadmap.

Audience: Technical Pre-sales, Architects new to these technologies, Technical Consultants & System Engineers needing to cross train.

Technical Level: 200

Topics covered:
· A lap around the architectural landscape – The Microsoft 2007 Office System
· Understanding MOSS 2007 – features out of the box
· Collaboration Overview|
· Understanding Enterprise Content Management – what this means to your business
· Enterprise Search capabilities
· Architecting a business solution so that its data is included in the Enterprise Search experience
· An overall solution summary

Price: $79 ex GST

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Amit Pawar is a National Technology Specialist for Microsoft Australia and he chats to us about Virtualization on our comfy Silverlight beanbag.

Virtualization Resources
Webcasts
Virtualization and Windows Server 2008 (Level 300)
Examining Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 (Level 300)
Windows Server 2008: Server Virtualization Solution Scenario (Level 300)
Managing Virtualization with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (Level 200)

Documents
Windows Server Virtualization - An Overview
Virtualization for Windows - A Technology Overview
Virtualization: The Architectural Foundation for Dynamic IT
Application Virtualization: The Next Frontier
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager – General Overview White Paper
Virtualization From the Datacenter to the Desktop

Newsletter
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Gartner has come up with their top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008 and there is no surprise Green IT is topping the list at number 1.

1. Green IT
2. Unified Communications
3. Business Process Management
4. Metadata management
5. Virtualization
6. Mashups
7. The Web Platform
8. Computing fabric
9. Real World Web
10. Social Software

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