Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia
New Technical Training Schedule Launched
We have an exciting technical training schedule for partners just launched:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/11/2008
Reminder on how to understand your tech support benefits
We had an enquiry recently from a partner wanting to clarify the SLA on the Business Critical...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/11/2008
New on Partner TV - all about CargoWise
https://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/02/01/partner-tv-cargowise.aspx Christian talks to...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/11/2008
Take our wave launch quiz and win a t-shirt
Via Christian: " As per the normal tradition of a launch, the obligatory T-shirt is an absolute...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/11/2008
Port25 re-launched - Open Source Community Engagement
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/08/2008
Software Plus Services and BizTalk
Good post by Steve Clayton in the UK including a link to a useful white paper on the subject. I have...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/07/2008
Important Information for Action Pack Subscribers - Vista Update
We are really pleased with the following changes which Action Pack subscribers should have been told...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/06/2008
Sharepoint Capacity Planning Tool Available
Via Mark Harrison: "The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool v1.0 is now available. The SharePoint...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/05/2008
Daylight Savings Update - including planning guide
Australia Eastern (New South Wales, Victoria, Australia Capital Territory and Tasmania) and Central...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/05/2008
RTM of Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008
A couple of big announcements we've just made - yes, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 have...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/04/2008
Second Shot Offer on MCP exams - extended to June 30th 2008
Partners need to keep their certified staff exams up to date to ensure compliance with the program...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/03/2008
More free licensing training for partners - Sydney and Perth
Helping influencing (non-reselling) partners understand the basics of our licensing models is a key...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/03/2008
New on Partner TV - all about one of our partners - Networking Plus
https://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/02/01/partner-tv-networking-plus.aspx Want to tell...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/01/2008
Partner-TV: Sarah Arnold on Partner Conference Awards
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/30/2008
For Fun - life at Microsoft conference calling ?
Made me smile - I can't possibly comment if that is what we do when waiting on conference calls to...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/30/2008
Announcing: Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Via the ECM team blog: "Hello, ECM Team Blog readers. My name is Rob Silver. I'm a technical writer...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/28/2008
New MSDN Code Library
This just launched - https://code.msdn.microsoft.com Think a simpler form of Codeplex for samples,...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/28/2008
Executive Mail on Virtualisation
Today one of our senior executives (Bob Muglia) published an article to customers and partners...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/22/2008
Project Management Quick Reference Guide for Project 2007
From the Project team blog (this looks like a useful end-user Project guide): "It can sometimes be a...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/20/2008
News for security and management partners
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/jan08/01-14securitypartners.mspx Summary: IDC...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/17/2008
Learn more about our virtualisation promise
https://www.microsoft.com/virtualization The is quite a lot up there on this relatively new site:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/17/2008
Windows Server 2008 and Sharepoint resources
Useful looking post from the official Sharepoint team blog, on deploying Sharepoint on WS 2008: "...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/17/2008
2008 Microsoft Partner Program Awards - early heads up
2008 Microsoft Partner Program AwardsEach year, Microsoft recognises partners who have delivered...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/17/2008
News on the Australian Sharepoint Conference - forum not conference
Via Siatro in our PTS team:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/16/2008
Wow - event registrations 'flying off the shelves'
Following this announcement on the 'wave launch' event for partners, I wanted to give a quick update...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/16/2008
Register for Heroes Happen {2008} – THE biggest launch event of the year! (Australia Only)
The launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 represents the largest...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/13/2008
Microsoft Announces Offer to Acquire Fast Search & Transfer
Press release: "REDMOND, Wash., and OSLO, Norway — Jan. 8, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”)...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/08/2008
Right License, Right Customer and Licensing the Big Six - training for resellers, SIs and ISVs in Melbourne
Helping bothreselling and non-reselling partners understand the basics of Microsoft product...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/08/2008
Meet Wendy Smith on Partner TV - talking about small business and SBSCs
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/07/2008
Happy New Year from the team
Just gone live on Partner TV - a little Happy New year from us all in the Microsoft partner team to...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/07/2008
Partner Program Re-enrolment
Over the next few months quite a large % of our partners will be ready to re-enrol in the partner...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/01/2008
New Solution Accelerators Released - deployment, virtualisation, Office security and Sharepoint
I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday if you had one, a merry Xmas if you celebrate it, and I wish...
Author: NickM77 Date: 01/01/2008
Voices For Innovation Progress
We launched the VoiceForInnovation.org initiative a few months ago and have seen some great recent...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/19/2007
Hyper-V beta ships early :-)
"Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V beta ships early to customers and partners. REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 13,...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/15/2007
WIN $10,000 of marketing collateral with Unified Communications
Via Mike Heald's Marketing For Partners Blog: "WIN $10,000 of marketing collateral with Unified...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/12/2007
Partner Portal Hub for Wave Launch Goes Live
Step 1: Go to the partner portal homepage: https://partner.microsoft.com/Australia/ Step 2: Sign in...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/12/2007
Register for info on the Wave Virtual Launch Event
https://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/cool-stuff/default.mspx This will be an interactive...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/11/2007
BizTalk RFID training now available for partners and customers
Via Chris Vidotto's great blog on BizTalk and Application Platform:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/11/2007
Office 2007 SP1 available
Details here. Download here.
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/11/2007
More Help in Marketing for Partners
Many of you will know Bruce Rasmussen who works with us in delivering sales and marketing training...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/11/2007
Free End User Training for Sharepoint
We hear from partners almost every day that one of the issues in landing Sharepoint projects is...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/11/2007
Server VS Client Comics
For a bit of fun, check out the comics on the Windows Server website (see top right). For the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/10/2007
Last RDN of the year - Workflow Foundation and Powershell for .NET Developers
The team at Readify sent me this today. A great way for partners to get some free technical training...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/10/2007
Dynamics in Focus - a series of briefings for partners and customers
Microsoft Dynamics in Focus Our Dynamics team is conducting a series of complimentary Live Meeting...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/08/2007
Windows Server 2008 RC1 available
https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/audsel.mspx
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/07/2007
3 new posts on Marketing for Partners
Mike Heald has put up 3 new useful posts on his marketing for partners blog: "Optimise Secure Your...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/06/2007
For Your Technical People - PDC 2008 dates announced
"Save the Date! Announcing PDC08 October 27–30, 2008Pre-conference October 26, 2008Los Angeles,...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/06/2007
Congrats to Jeff Wharton - a winner of 1 metre of MS Press book !
Jeff is one of our MCTs (and a certified partner) in Canberra and won a competition called Speaker...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/05/2007
Refer your midsize customers to the Infrastructure Optimisation Assessment Tool
This has recently gone live - customer facing assessment tool. You can now refer your customer to...
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/03/2007
For Fun: StayAtHomeServer.com
https://www.stayathomeserver.com/ A bit of fun from the Windows Home Server team:
Author: NickM77 Date: 12/03/2007