Reaching Out to Microsoft Partners in Australia
Learn about the changes to the security competency
https://partner.microsoft.com/40044033?msp_id=seccomp There are some significant changes - really...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/10/2007
Second Shot Exam Offer
Partners need to keep their certified staff exams up to date to ensure compliance with the program...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/10/2007
Forthcoming Partner Events - heads up
We are just putting the final touches to our next round of partners events. We will have some...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/10/2007
Partner Skills Plus - a great partner initiative
This launched last week - an important initiative to help our partners ensure up to date skills in...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/08/2007
A free MOSS Portal for Information Worker Competent partners in Australia
Via Steve Iatropoulos on our IW PTS team blog: " Have you ever wished you could demo a live MOSS...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/08/2007
Unified Communications Launch
We have just kicked off the formal launch of Unified Communications: 1. New website here:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/07/2007
Win an Xbox just for sharing your 2008 Wave ideas
Oscar Trimboli, our overall 2008 wave launch lead has just posed this to the RideThe2008Wave blog:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/06/2007
.NET Source code being released...
Via Mary Jo Foley: "Microsoft is making source code for the .Net Framework available to interested...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/05/2007
Check out our new Live Search Macro - search easily across multiple MS Australia blogs and sites
Here is an internal email from Christian Longstaff today on the new search macro he's created in...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/05/2007
Announcing the 14th Annual AIMIA Awards - get your entries in !
AIMIA, with the support of Silver Patron Microsoft, is thrilled to announce that the 14th Annual...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/05/2007
Reminder - the Live portal for partners
https://partner.live.com/windowslive/Default.aspx I've blogged this before but as the Live story...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/04/2007
Voices for Innovation Website Updated
www.voicesforinnovation.org There is a new community forum and some other new features worth...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/04/2007
Updated Live.com search engine
See here for a press release on the updated Live.com search engine. I then just tried a sample...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/02/2007
Microsoft Charts Its Software Services Strategy and Road Map for Businesses
Important press release for all our partners to digest - the whole release copied below....
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/02/2007
Action Pack for web partners launches
Just posted by Christian - exciting as we have been waiting for a while for this to launch. Here...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/02/2007
WPC 2008 - in Houston
Announcing Worldwide Partner Conference 2008: Houston, Texas You’re invited to attend the 2008...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/02/2007
Pre-register now for Australian Partner Conference 2008
Pre-register for APC 2008 Get priority access to the Microsoft Australia Partner Conference by...
Author: NickM77 Date: 10/02/2007
ISV Innovation Days
Posted by Christian to our Ride The 2008 Wave blog: " ISV Innovation Days will allow you to connect...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/27/2007
ARN awards
Had a great night on Weds at the ARN IT Awards. Many congrats to the team at ARN for pulling off a...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/27/2007
Windows Server 2008 RC0 releases
"Built using an unprecedented level of customer feedback, the advancements in Windows Server 2008...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/25/2007
Technet Team Touring - for infrastructure partners...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/24/2007
Office DevCon event - Sydney, 3rd and 4th November
Via our MVP Program Manager - very much aimed at all Office developers, including partners. "We’d...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/23/2007
Want to see what Silverlight video streaming can do - check this out !
https://halo3.msn.com/videos.aspx Updated with some awesome trailers (warning - some quite...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/22/2007
Tafiti - it's all gone a bit Halo...
Check out the new Halo 3 skin on www.tafiti.com
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/21/2007
BPIO University - 1 day jump starts for partners
If you are in a pre-sales or sales role and are talking to technical or business decision-makers,...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/21/2007
Partner Academy (=distance online, with instructors) Courses for Windows Server 2008, Exchange and SQL 2005
Sign up today to attend the Microsoft Partner Academy training classes on: 1. Windows Server 2008 2....
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/21/2007
Performance Point Server released
"REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 19, 2007 — As part of its commitment to providing industry-leading business...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/20/2007
2 new Partner TV videos launched today
Martin Gregory, the Director of our Server and Tools business (=Mr Wave Launch). and Ric Holland...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/20/2007
Check out the revised technical training schedule
Posting the BizTalk training article made me think that it's worth prompting partners to check out...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/20/2007
Technical Training on BizTalk 2006 R2
There have been some very significant enhancements to the BizTalk platform in R2. This Jumpstart has...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/20/2007
Get paid by us for delivering a Sharepoint deployment plan
This has been in works for a while, and has now gone live. The Sharepoint equivalent of the Desktop...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/19/2007
Some Great Free Windows Server 2008 Resources
- All partners can today download a free copy of an ebook on WS2008 from...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/18/2007
Partner-TV: CargoWise talks about Open XML
We've launched a new Partner TV video today - hear from a partner (Richard from CargoWise) on the...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/18/2007
Official Microsoft Worldwide Team blogs
One of the Vista team in the US went to the trouble of creating a list of Microsoft team blogs -...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/16/2007
SBS Partner training - now with a date in Canberra
This technical training focuses on the Small Business Server 2003 Release 2 and will be delivered in...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/13/2007
Not too late to register for the BizTalk Launch - tomorrow in Sydney
https://www.microsoft.com/australia/servers/biztalk/event/default.mspx
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/13/2007
Readify WCF and WF master classes - final seats available
Partners who crave deep dive expert training on WCF and WF may be very interested in these courses:...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/12/2007
My Partner Conference Keynote Slides - on Slideshare.net
We will be making all keynote decks available on the main partner portal shortly but for now here is...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/12/2007
Hosting Roadshow Announced
Via Christian: When? Tuesday 6 Nov 2007, 8.30am Where? Sydney: Clifton and Associates - Sydney CBD,...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/12/2007
The news is out - CTP of Virtualization coming with Windows Server 2008 RC
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/sep07/09-11virtualization.mspx "This week at...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/12/2007
PTS Oz Infrastructure Blog
Our great Partner Technology Specialists team run 2 blogs - one is the IW blog which I've promoted...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/12/2007
Partner Conference - Post Event Resources Available
We have released a bunch of post-event resources. Start here for the main resources page. Or if you...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/12/2007
Wave launch activities - give us your ideas
We are working on the final phase of 'wave launch' planning, although we will of course innovative...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/11/2007
Coming soon - the partner performance dashboard
Those partners that went to Denver for the worldwide partner conference will have seen Kevin Turner...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/11/2007
3 new 'People Ready' local case studies published
We know partners like to have case studies available during the sales cycle - and we also know that...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/09/2007
Silverlight 1.0 released
Back on deck now, and lots of announcements came out whilst I was on leave. One around the release...
Author: NickM77 Date: 09/09/2007
Wow - what a great conference !! Thanks to everyone
Well partner conference is over and thank you to all the partners who attended and made it such a...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/31/2007
The 2008 Wave Launch Blog - Ride The Wave !
https://blogs.msdn.com/RideThe2008Wave/ This blog will be a multi-author one from Microsoft Australia...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/31/2007
Announcing Partner TV Australia
We announced live on stage this morning this exciting new communications initiative - Partner TV....
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/31/2007
Portal Nuggets #6 - Close More Sales - Free Pre-sales support
Did you know that the portal has information on our free pre-sales support service - this is...
Author: NickM77 Date: 08/30/2007