Training available to Microsoft Partners...

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I've have been advised that the following courses are now available for registration, though there are limited spaces available. I appreciate some of these courses may not be relevant to some of you but if you would like to register for one of the following events, please visit the Partner Learning Centre. The venue for each training course will be visible on the webpage along with any associated training costs.

  • *New SharePoint Backup, Administration and Migration Lab Workshop, 19th/20th November 2008

This one day hands on lab workshop is targeted at consultants and administrators keen to explore the benefits of the DocAve software platform for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007.  For more information & registration details please click here.

  • Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close enterprise projects by using the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 enterprise tool. Click here for more information.

  • Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5

This three day instructor led course introduces developers to Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. The course will provide developers with the opportunity to gain solid hands on experience in: LINQ, Workflow Services , Windows Presentation Foundation and ASP.NET AJAX Integration, Key features of Visual Studio Team System 2008  Click here for more information

  • Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization University

This two day BPIO U (Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization University) course is  a comprehensive sales programme that will prepare and arm strategic partners with knowledge & tools to drive growth and win customers on the Microsoft business productivity platform. Click here for more information

  • SQL Server 2008 Database Infrastructure and Scalability

This three-day training course will help database administrators understand how to exploit the new performance, scalability, manageability and high-availability enhancements introduced in SQL Server 2008. They will also learn how to exploit these capabilities, ensure application scalability and how to manage a database using the new features. Click here

  • Introduction to SQL Server 2008 BI Solution Development

This three day course is designed to give developers the confidence to tackle a BI project, and the content is equally relevant to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. This should be attended by developers who are new to the Microsoft BI platform, not those who are familiar with BI development but wish to update their knowledge to SQL Server 2008. Click here

  • Essential SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence for Developers

This two day course is targeted at experienced BI developers (or those who have completed the Introduction to SQL Server 2008 BI Solution Development course above) and wish to learn how to exploit the new features of SQL Server 2008 in their BI applications. Click here

  • Implementing and Maintaining Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Course

This is a residential, intensive and compressed course intended for those partners who want to get a head start on the SharePoint certifications and consists of 5 intensive 12 huor days with 24 hour labs availability and an instructor, with exams taken in the week.  Click here for more information

  • Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint™ Server 2007 Technical Training 

This four day instructor-led workshop provides students with the knowledge and skills to architect and build Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft® Office PerformancePoint Server 2007. This session covers both Monitoring and Analytics and Planning.  Click here for more information

  • Planning in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint course

This four and half day Planning Series course walks through setup of a budgeting solution for an enterprise level entity. Company and business scenarios are presented to the students with requirements and budget assumptions, offering a discussion on how to prepare for a Planning implementation. As part of the class deliverables, students create an application, set up dimensions, models and load data. Click here for more information

  • Developing with SharePoint Server 2007  

This course explores the development opportunities with Microsoft’s most recent release of SharePoint Products and Technologies. The first half of the course focuses on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) where you will learn how develop fundamental WSS building blocks such as features, application pages, site pages, Web Parts, custom list types, site columns, content types and custom workflow programs. The second half of the course focuses on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). You will learn how to assemble and configure business solutions by using and extending the portal and web content management features of MOSS as well as other server-side services such as the Business Data Catalog, Forms Services, Excel Services and Report Center.  Click here for more information

  • Developers Guide To Web Content Management

This five day training course is designed to provide SharePoint developers with the basic and intermediate information and skills they need to extend, customize, and deploy a Web content management (WCM) publishing site implementation. The primary audience for this course is SharePoint developers who are responsible for the successful implementation of a WCM site. Click here for more information