Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia
WPC Registration is open - hurry, hurry, hurry !
https://partner.microsoft.com/global/trainingevents/wwpartnerconference And note there is an RSS...
Author: NickM77 Date: 04/08/2008
Remix 2008 Australia - dates announced
Via Christian: " Details on ReMix Australia have been announced. The details are: 1 day in 2 cities...
Author: NickM77 Date: 04/05/2008
Green IT solutions from Australian Microsoft partners - tell me more
I was invited to participate in a CRN roundtable today on Green IT with some resellers and other...
Author: NickM77 Date: 04/03/2008
Our Mining Website goes live
We have been investing in the mining customers base driving demand through to partners and helping...
Author: NickM77 Date: 04/02/2008
Ecma Office Open XML Document Format Appears to Win Approval as an ISO/IEC Standard
Thanks to all the partners in Australia who supported this - we believe this is great news for the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 04/01/2008
Desktop Optimisation Pack 2008 Released
"Today marks the release of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2008 - a set of tools for...
Author: NickM77 Date: 04/01/2008
Reminder - Night School - Sydney Partner Training on WS2008 and Sharepoint
This is our new concept to help partners who prefer evening training options - we often find when we...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/28/2008
New Online Course for Registered Partners - Making the Most of Your Registered Partnership
We are pleased to announce a brand-new training course specifically designed for Registered Members...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/28/2008
Virtualisation Resources - updated
On this website: https://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/resources.mspx - there are many many...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/27/2008
Dataract Interview on OBACentral.com
This is a great video interview of one of our Gold ISVs - Dataract. Craig talks about his journey to...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/27/2008
Daylight Savings Change Support
For many partners who manage customers' infrastructure you will hopefully be already sorted on this...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/27/2008
Vista SP1 Support Hotline - for partners and customers
https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?ln=en-au&prid=11274&gprid=500921
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/25/2008
2 way APIs for Windows Live and top social networks
We've just announced this - exciting stuff - here is the announcement from Angus Logan: "We just...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/25/2008
MOSS training - level 200. Brisbane, Melb and Syd. Move quickly !
Microsoft Partner Readiness Training - 2-day - Let's Talk about MOSS - Level 200. Instructors: Ivan...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/19/2008
WSJ Article - How to Tap IT's hidden potential
This article did the rounds at work - it is a good read and we felt had a nice 'IO' type flavour:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/19/2008
Vista SP1 Available Now on Windows Update
This is great news for partners and customers !...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/18/2008
BI top of Aussie CIOs priority list again
Via ARN: "For the third year in a row, business intelligence (BI) applications have been ranked the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/17/2008
Worldwide Partner Conference Awards - reminder - April 8th closing
From an email intended for partners I was sent: " DON’T MISS THE AWARDS SUBMISSION PERIOD! The...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/17/2008
Meet our new SMSP Director - Paul Voges
Pip Marlow's successor (and my new boss) has been announced :Paul Voges, previously the Director of...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/12/2008
New Essential Server (Centro) Product Team Blog
https://blogs.technet.com/EssentialBusinessServer/ This compliments nicely our own local SBS and...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/12/2008
ISVs: Attend an Austrade mission to Microsoft HQ
(Via Christian) Australian Trade Delegation to Microsoft: Gain early access to MS’s strategic vision...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/12/2008
Exciting initiative from us on Child Protection
Whilst not directly involving our partner channel, I think this is something you should all be aware...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/12/2008
Deep Zoom on Silverlight Developer Reference
Nice idea - using the new Silverlight 2 'Deep Zoom' feature on the Silvierlight developer reference...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/12/2008
Mix 08 summary for designers
For partners with designers in their companies, this will be a useful summary of all the news coming...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/12/2008
Web partner - guide to our partner program
Christian has posted a great guide, linking to the MIX08 sessions as well, for web dev and design...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/10/2008
New on Partner TV - hear about TPTS via Networking Plus
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/07/2008
Online Virtualisation Training for Partners
For Aussie partners, the second of these sessions is around lunchtime local time so definitely worth...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/07/2008
Free Partner Licensing Training - Melbourne and Adelaide. Including Wave products
New Improved! Right License, Right Customer & Licensing the Big Ten (Now including Visual Studio...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/06/2008
MS Nightschool - technical and sales training outside your working day
We often hear from partners that you are too busy to do substantial training in the business day as...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/05/2008
MIX 08 Highlights so far
Our MIX08 event is in progress in Las Vegas and significant announcements are pouring out. To keep...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/05/2008
Win a trip to Bryon Bay with iMate and build publicity for your business
This could be a great opportunity for partners to have some fun, and raise some publicity for your...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/04/2008
Announcing Video.Show - a blueprint for user-generated video sites
Tim Sneath has just posted this - I think this could be of serious interest to partners - how to...
Author: NickM77 Date: 03/03/2008
Announcing our partner mining sector campaign+vision
As you all know sometimes we execute global marketing campaigns with local customisation - but in...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/29/2008
Australian Partner Conference 2008 - announcing location and pre-registration
Yes, we have opened up pre-registration. Our venue is smaller than last year so you need to register...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/29/2008
Photos from Sydney partner launch event
See...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/29/2008
Game On - It's Launch Time
Well after months of planning and ramping up - it's time to formally launch our wave products to...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/27/2008
Microsoft Dynamics Open House - an initiative to help partners with new people
"Are you an IT Salesperson, Developer, Business Analyst or Consultant and have heard of a range of...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/27/2008
New Assessment and Deployment Tool for the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 Launch
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/27/2008
New on Partner TV - Emantra with an offer for free IIS hosting
https://blogs.msdn.com/ozpartnertv/archive/2008/02/27/partner-tv-emantra.aspx
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/27/2008
New ! Partner Sales Training - Effectively Selling Solutions Involving Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008
This 2 day interactive sales training course provides participants with the knowledge and skills...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/26/2008
New Interop Principles
A little slow to blog this but an important announcement nevertheless and with definite implications...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/25/2008
Training and the skills shortage
I have local responsibility for the CPLS channel (=official Microsoft training partner) including a...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/25/2008
CRM 4.0 Launch Event Details
https://microsoft-crm-au.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!4D66C5AE1389F5D8!284.entry
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/21/2008
News on our new SMB Windows Server options
This is an important announcement for our infrastructure partners and SBSCs in particular - all...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/21/2008
A new initiative from Microsoft to help with skills shortage - introducing DreamSpark
I think this is very exciting and wil ultimately help feed people into the partner ecosystem:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/20/2008
Advanced Sharepoint technical content available
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/18/2008
Windows Server 2008 Customer FAQs - useful read for partners
- Where can I find prescriptive guidance on upgrading to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/18/2008
Vista SP1 available now for Technet subscribers to download
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/14/2008
New Voices for Innovation website launched
https://www.voicesforinnovation.org Lots more functionality in there - you can now personalise the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/14/2008
Test out your IIS7.0 applications for free
Emantra have launched an innovative service based on WS2008 to help partners and customers test the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 02/12/2008