Nicht versäumen: Die nächsten Partner Academy Live Meetings im April und Mai 2008

PSE06PAL: Education Solutions - Microsoft Education Product Offerings Geared to Students and Educators

03 Apr 08 at 08:00 AM PST (GMT-07:00)

Level 100

Partner Type: Authorized Education Reseller, CPLS, Direct Market Reseller, Distributor, Enterprise Software Advisor, Independent Software Vendor, Large Account Reseller, Regional Solution Partner, System Builder, Systems Integrator,

Value Added Reseller, Value Added Provider

Partner Role:   Marketing, Sales, Support

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Increasingly educators and students are turning to the internet for research and homework assistance. This updated session covers Microsoft offerings for students and educators to get the most out of their familiar Microsoft Office applications. At the end of the session the audience will:

· Learn about Microsoft education-specific tools developed to provide relevant technologies that will assist administrators, educators, and students.

· Recognize how to aid institutions and teachers in attaining Student, Math, and Encarta in the classroom by providing information, purchasing links, and lesson plan ideas

· Increase perception of these products as tools that help students reach their full potential

SQL37PAL: SQL Server 2008 Server Consolidation TDM Deck

21 Apr 08 at 08:00 AM PST (GMT-08:00)

Level 200

Partner Type: System Integrators

Partner Role:   Architect, Implementer

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Microsoft SQL Server supports multiple options for server consolidation, providing organizations with the flexibility to choose the consolidation approach that best meets their requirements in order to centralize data services management and reduce hardware and maintenance costs. By providing centralized management, auditing, and monitoring capabilities, SQL Server makes it easy for you to manage multiple databases and data services, significantly reducing administrative overheads in large enterprises. SQL Server can provide you with the reassurance of industry-leading performance and scalability, and unprecedented control over server resource utilization to maximize the performance of your consolidated data services. Join this webcast to find out more about the various options for server consolidation with SQL Server, and best practices to get the most out of your environment.

CST19PAL: Customer Analytics and BI with CCF and MEC

23 Apr 08 at 08:00 AM PST (GMT-07:00)

Level 200

Partner Type:  Enterprise Software Advisor, Independent Software Vendor, Managed (Field Managed Service Partner), Regional Solution Partner, System Builder, Systems Integrator and Value Added Reseller

Partner Role: Architect, Developer and Implementer

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The WW Services Industry Solutions Group (ISG) will present a new solution architecture for providing your customers with customer analytics and business intelligence leveraging CCF for contact centers with the MEC BI Solution framework. We will discuss solution strategies and customer scenarios to introduce your customers to customer analytics. This session will also include a live demo which is available for public demonstration and how to begin having conversations with our customers about this exciting new capability for contact centers.

PSX06PAL: Virtualization - Public Sector Hot Topic Series

23 Apr 08 at 08:00 AM PST (GMT-07:00)

Level 100

Partner Type:  Authorized Education Reseller, Distributor, Enterprise Software Advisor, Independent Software Vendor, Large Account Reseller, Regional Solution Planner, Systems Integrator and Value Added Reseller

Partner Role: Architect, Developer, Exec/Owner and Implementer

PLC Registration Link

Live Meeting Link

The session on Virtualization will review the positioning and value proposition of this powerful, performance virtualization technology with strong management and security features. Windows Server virtualization will help the sector reduce costs, increase agility and system availability for production server consolidation, disaster recovery, test and development, and, when coupled with System Center Virtual Machine Manager, the end-to-end management of dynamic datacenters.

PSX06PAL2: Virtualization - Public Sector Hot Topic Series

23 Apr 08 at 07:00 PM PST (GMT-07:00)

Level 100

Partner Type:  Authorized Education Reseller, Distributor, Enterprise Software Advisor, Independent Software Vendor, Large Account Reseller, Regional Solution Planner, Systems Integrator and Value Added Reseller

Partner Role: Architect, Developer, Exec/Owner and Implementer

PLC Registration Link

Live Meeting Link

The session on Virtualization will review the positioning and value proposition of this powerful, performance virtualization technology with strong management and security features. Windows Server virtualization will help the sector reduce costs, increase agility and system availability for production server consolidation, disaster recovery, test and development, and, when coupled with System Center Virtual Machine Manager, the end-to-end management of dynamic datacenters.

SQL38PAL: SQL Server 2008 Manageability TDM Deck

28 Apr 08 at 08:00 AM PST (GMT-07:00)

Level 200

Partner Type: Managed, RSI, SI, VAP

Partner Role:   Architect, Implementer

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Live Meeting Link

In today’s data-driven world, data and the systems that manage that data must always be secure and available. SQL Server 2008 enables IT to be more productive by providing a more secure, scalable, and manageable enterprise data platform with reduced application downtime. This session will focus on the new manageability features that enhance the productivity and efficiency of DBAs. A few of the new features that will be covered include policy-based administration, fine-grained resource allocation by workload, auditing, and robust performance data collection. These and other manageability features will be presented in the context of trends impacting the manageability of data environments.

PSG08XAL: Citizen Service Platform - Public Sector Hot Topic Series

07 May 08 at 08:00 AM PST (GMT-07:00)

Level 100

Partner Type: Authorized Education Reseller, CPLS, Direct Market Reseller, Distributor, Enterprise Software Advisor, Independent Software Advisor, Large Account Reseller, Managed (Field Managed Service Partner), Microsoft Dynamics Partner, Microsoft Employee, Original Equipment Manufacturer, Retail, Regional Solution Partner, Systems Builder, Systems Integrator, Value Added Reseller, Value Added Provider

Partner Role:   Architect, Developer, Exec/Owner, Implementer, Marketing, Sales, Support

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Introduction to the Citizen Service Platform

In January this year at the Government Leaders Forum in Berlin, Microsoft announced the Citizen Service Platform or CSP, which is a solutions platform built around our core technologies aimed at helping local government agencies deliver better citizen services. The development of the CSP was done in conjunction with existing customers and partners whom have repurposed their solutions to be available as part of CSP. This session will outline the CSP, in terms of business strategy, platform architecture and also position the great partner opportunity that it creates for our local government ecosystem partners.

BI37PAL: Implementing PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring Server in a Multi-Server Environment using Kerberos Authentication and Delegation

13 May 08 at 08:00 AM PST (GMT-07:00)

Level 200

Partner Type: CPLS, Enterprise Software Advisor, Regional Solution Partner, System Builder, Systems Integrator, Value Added  Provider

Partner Role:   Architect, Developer, Implementer, Support

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Attend this webcast to learn about implementing PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring and Analytics in a multi-server environment using Kerberos authentication and delegation.The session will include a live walkthrough of all the steps necessary to implement Kerberos authentication and delegation for PerformancePoint 2007 Monitoring Server.  The session is targeted at developers implementing the PerformancePoint 2007 Monitoring Server in a multi-server environment who require single sign on to access Analysis Services and other data sources.

3 Objectives:

· Learn how to implement PerformancePoint 2007 Monitoring Server using Kerberos authentication and delegation.

· Learn how to identify and diagnose configuration problems typically encountered when implementing Kerberos authentication and delegation.

· Learn how PerformancePoint 2007 Monitoring Server connects and authenticates with data sources.

PSX07XAL: How to Compete against Linux in Public Sector with HPC - Public Sector Hot Topic Series

14 May 08 at 08:00 AM PST (GMT-07:00)

Level 100

Partner Type: Authorized Education Reseller, CPLS, Direct Market Reseller, Distributor, Enterprise Software Advisor, Independent Software Advisor, Large Account Reseller, Managed (Field Managed Service Partner), Microsoft Dynamics Partner, Microsoft Employee, Original Equipment Manufacturer, Retail, Regional Solution Partner, Systems Builder, Systems Integrator, Value Added Reseller, Value Added Provider

Partner Role:   Architect, Developer, Exec/Owner, Implementer, Marketing, Sales, Support

PLC Registration Link

Live Meeting Link

The Public Sector is the heartland of high-performance computing (HPC). Government, research, and higher education makes up more than 40% of the #1 Linux workload. Microsoft has launched a strategic initiative focused on this market segment. Learn more about how this affects you: in this Academy Live session, you will learn about the HPC workload, how to identify and profile HPC in your customers, the new WW sales contest, and how to win against Linux and capture these opportunities. Join Shawn Hansen, Director of HPC Marketing to learn about the trends that define the market, the Windows HPC roadmap, and how to successfully compete against Linux.