Community calls and resources summary for April 2017
Connect and engage with Microsoft technical, sales, and business experts in the US Partner Community. Our expert-led communities will help you build your practice and build your business. Community activities include regular calls that you can join live and catch on-demand later, Yammer groups for connection with Microsoft and with other partners, and blog series that provide information and resources.
Practice-building communities
Technically focused and led by Technology Solutions Professionals with product and workload expertise
Business-building communities
Align to your business model, customer segment focus, and areas of interest
If you missed the April blog posts and calls, get caught up using the links in this post. All of our community calls are listed on the Hot Sheet, the comprehensive training schedule.
- Sign up for May and June community calls
- US Partner Community engagement guide
- Read recaps for previous months
Secure Productive Enterprise
- Empower employees in the digital workplace with Secure Productive Enterprise
- Secure Productive Enterprise online
- Introduction to Secure Productive Enterprise for partners
- Secure Productive Enterprise marketing campaign
- Licensing information for Secure Productive Enterprise
Application Development
Serverless computing
Resources
- Azure Logic Apps
- Logic Apps documentation
- Azure Functions
- Azure Functions documentation
- New Azure Functions capabilities
Azure Infrastructure and Management
Azure Stack
Topic resources
- Microsoft Azure Stack overview
- The Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 announcement
- Azure Stack documentation
- Microsoft Mechanics: Operationalizing DevOps practices with Azure and Azure Stack
Microsoft Azure training and certification offers
Data Platform and Advanced Analytics
Azure Data services
Topic resources
- Azure Blob storage using .NET
- Azure Table storage using .NET
- Get started with Azure Data Catalog
- Overview of Azure Data Lake Store
- Overview of Microsoft Azure Data Lake Analytics
- Introduction to DocumentDB: A NoSQL JSON Database
- An introduction to the Hadoop ecosystem on Azure HDInsight
Dynamics 365
Using Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow with Dynamics 365
- Watch the partner call on demand
- Read the introductory blog post
- Step-by-step guide to building your first app with Microsoft PowerApps
Topic resources
On the blog
- Generate new leads, stand out, and drive sales with the Microsoft Dynamics Marketing Services Bureau
Enterprise Mobility + Security
Secure Productive Enterprise and EMS
On the blog
MPN 101
Learning Partner options and Partner Licensing resources
- Community call on demand: Learning Partner options
- Community call on demand: Partner Licensing resources
- Read the MPN 101 blog series
- MPN 101 video playlist
Office 365 and Voice
Secure Productive Enterprise
Topic resources
Open Source Solutions (OSS)
OSS infrastructure management tools
- Open source infrastructure management tools
- OSS on Microsoft Azure demo framework
- Open source and Visual Studio 2017
- Provision and deliver open source demos on Microsoft Azure blog post
Topic resources
- What’s new in Visual Studio Code video
- Visual Studio Code User Guide
- Open source on Azure demo framework
- Community demos on GitHub
Sales training
- Coffee in the Cloud webcast: Compete strategies
- Watch more Coffee in the Cloud and sales training webcasts on demand
- Cloud + Enterprise University Online
- Azure Sales webcasts
SMB Partner Insider
East Region
Central Region
West Region
Windows and Devices
Windows 10 Creators Update
Secure Productive Enterprise and Windows 10
Topic resources
- Windows 10 Creators Update announcement
- Providing customers with more choice and control in the Creators Update