Windows Server 2012 readiness
Microsoft announced licensing and pricing updates for the
upcoming release of Windows Server 2012. With the simplified licensing
structure and more than 300 new and enhanced features, Windows Server 2012 is
set for a successful launch to customers worldwide later this year. Make sure
you are ready to go by taking advantage of these learning opportunities:
- Bookmark the Windows Server 2012 Learning Track, which is now
busting at the seams with new licensing, business, sales, and technical
training—more than 35 new courses added in the last two weeks! - Look for upcoming sales/licensing roadshows and technical bootcamps
coming to your area. These events will begin in July and run through early fall
and will help you learn about all aspects of the product release from value
proposition through hands-on technical training.
This is a great year for Windows Server. Be a part of this wave of excitement and opportunity!
What’s New
It’s a Content Explosion! 27 New WS 2012 Courses for Implementers
Looking for deep technical training on Windows Server 2012? You can now find it in the Windows Server 2012
Readiness Learning Track. Broken out by seven popular technologies, these 27 new courses will help implementer roles learn about and
prepare to execute new installations.
- Implementer:Virtualization
- Implementer:Storage
- Implementer:Networking
- Implementer:Identity and Security
- Implementer:Management and Deployment
- Implementer: Remote Access
- Implementer: Web/App
Sales Pros: Get Trained on WS 2012
Windows Server 2012 sales courses are now available for sales specialists to hone their
sales techniques on the latest release. These five short courses will help you
create better conversations with customers, address objections, match product
features to customer needs, and speak to compete news. These courses will also
prepare you for the upcoming sales assessment that will be available later this
fall.
Windows Server 2012 Disclosure
On July 5th we had a special “Get Licensing” session dedicated to the launch of Windows Server 2012.
You can listen to the call recording and find out all the details. You can also take these
courses to learn more:
- Getting Started with Windows Server 2012 Licensing, July 2012
- Windows Server 2012 Product and Program Overview July 2012
- Windows Server 2012 Pricing and SKU Overview July 2012
WS 2012 Business Guidance for SMB Partners
If you are a mid-market or small business partner who wants to understand how Windows Server 2012 can improve
your business practices, take a look at new courseware released this week:
- Growing Your Mid-Market Business Practice with Windows Server 2012
- Growing Your Small Business Practice with Windows Server 2012
Now available via MCT Download Center and Courseware Library, a three-hour Hands On Lab (HOL) :
40006A – Hands On Lab: Windows Server® 2012.
This HOL compliments the First Look Clinic (40005A)
that we released earlier this month and is one of the first few learning
products from Microsoft Learning on the Windows Server 2012. This Hands On Lab
is built on the Windows Server 2012 Consumer Preview (Beta release) software
and will cover some of the key new features and functionality in Windows Server
2012. It will cover Management features such as Server Manager, Windows
PowerShell, Server Core, Active Directory, IP Address Management (IPAM) and
Dynamic Access Control. It will also cover some of the significant changes that
have taken place in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012.
Sales & Licensing (On Demand)
- Selling Windows Server 2012: Understanding the Opportunity
- Selling Windows Server 2012: Product Overview
- Selling Windows Server 2012: Sales Scenarios & Strategies
- Selling Windows Server 2012: Compete and Objection Handling
- Selling Windows Server 2012: Transforming your Customer Conversations with the Whiteboard
- Growing Your Small Business Practice with Windows Server 2012
- Growing Your Mid-Market Business Practice with Windows Server 2012
- Getting Started with Windows Server 2012 Licensing, July 2012
- Windows Server 2012 Product and Program Overview July 2012
- Windows Server 2012 Pricing and SKU Overview July 2012
- An Overview of Windows Server “8” Beta
- Why Hyper-V? Competitive advantages of Windows Server “8” Hyper-V over VMware
- Windows Server performance improvements and optimizations
- Using Windows Server 8 for building private and public IaaS clouds
- Introducing Windows Server 2012 e-Book
Partner Academy Live Sessions (On Demand)
Tech 100-200 (On Demand)
Windows networking with PowerShell: A foundation for data center management
[Enabling the hybrid cloud using remote access appliances](https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/SAC-668T " (PC, XBox, MCE)
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Network acceleration and other NIC technologies for the data center
Using Windows Server 8 for building private and public IaaS clouds
Designing systems for continuous availability and scalability
Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-node with remote file storage
Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-node with block storage
Tech 100-200 (Instructor-led)
Tech 300 (On Demand)
- What's New in Hyper-V with Windows Server 2012, Part 1
- What's New in Hyper-V with Windows Server 2012, Part 2
- Hyper-V Network Virtualization for Scalable Multi-Tenant Datacenters with Windows Server 2012
- Enabling Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V Workloads Using Hyper-V Replica with Windows Server 2012
- Changing the Landscape with Hyper-V Live Migration with Windows Server 2012
- IP Address Management with Windows Server 2012
- Hyper-V Switch Extensibility with Windows Server 2012
- Cost-Effective Business Critical Storage: Storage Spaces with Windows Server 2012
- The New File Server for Information Workers with Windows Server 2012
- Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2012
- Hyper-V Over SMB: Remote File Storage Support in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V
- Cluster Shared Volumes in Windows Server 2012
- Unified Remote Access in Windows Server 2012
- Introduction to Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 2012, Part 1
- Introduction to Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 2012, Part 2
- What's New in Active Directory with Windows Server 2012
- Overview of Server Management and Powershell in Windows Server 2012
- Designing a Unified Access Strategy with Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 Cloud Optimization with Branch Cache
- What’s New in Internet Information Services (IIS) 8 with Windows Server 2012
- Internet Information Services (IIS) 8 Application Initialization with Windows Server 2012
- Server Storage on Windows Server 2012
- Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012
- Architecting Cloud Optimized Infrastructure with Windows Server 2012
- Deploying Windows Server 2012
- Remote Desktop Services for Windows Server 2012
- What's New with Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server 2012: Open Web Platform for the Cloud