Office 365 and Voice partner training schedule – Fall 2016

Office 365 offers customers familiar, top-of-the-line productivity tools and built-in security plus compliance and privacy controls that help keep data safe.

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Office 365 Roadmap

Join the Office 365 Partner Community

• Read the blog series
• Join the Yammer group
• Register for community calls
• Training and enablement

For a comprehensive schedule of partner training, refer to the Hot Sheet training schedule, which is regularly updated as new partner training offerings become available.

SMB Live roadshow events

Take your partner business beyond Office 365 by incorporating cloud platform and security solutions using Microsoft Azure and Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS). The US SMB Live roadshow events are coming to 21 US cities this fall. In each city, there is a business training and a technical training.

• Business training: Differentiate your cloud practice for growth and profitability
• Technical training: Implement and execute your cloud solution architecture with EMS and Azure

Sign up for SMB Live in the city nearest you

Sales training courses

Date	Training title and link to register
September 28	Sales excellence: What’s new in Office 365 for state and local government More sales excellence webcasts
October 20 in New York, NY	Office University Bootcamp for partners
November 2 in Bellevue, WA	Office University Bootcamp for partners
November 3 in Chicago, IL	Office University Bootcamp for partners

Technical training courses

Date	Training title and link to register
August 30	Ask the Experts: What’s new/planned in Office 365 Services
September 1	Office 365 Partner Community call: Gaining enhanced visibility and control with Office 365 Advanced Security Management
September 2	Identity in Office 365 and Azure Active Directory
September 6	What’s new in Skype for Business
September 8	Skype for Business Technical Series: Reference architectures and design
September 9	Getting started with Microsoft Planner
September 12	Ask the Experts: Cloud Connector Edition and AudioCodes CloudBond
September 13	What should I know about upgrading to Skype for Business
September 15	Skype for Business technical series: Meeting and Video
September 15	Grow and manage your business with Office 365 Internal Use Rights
September 16	Ask the Experts: Understanding data loss prevention and encryption in Office 365
September 20	Skype for Business technical series: Server Core and Voice improvements
September 22	Skype for Business technical series: Hybrid deep dive
September 23	Ask the Experts : Yammer development deep dive
September 26	Skype for Business technical series: Edge architectures and configuration
September 27	Ask the Experts: What’s new/planned in Office 365 Services
September 27–28	Skype for Business Online Academy (4 hours/day)
October 4	Grow and manage your business: Move to Cloud with SharePoint 2016
October 6	Office 365 and Voice Partner Community call
October 6	Grow and manage your business: Move to Cloud with OneDrive for Business
October 11	Grow and manage your business: Business to business extranet
October 12	Project Online: Office 365 Project and Portfolio Management solution
October 13	Grow and manage your business: Hybrid Search with SharePoint 2016
October 18	Grow and manage your business: Hybrid OneDrive and Sites
October 20	Grow and manage your business: Office 365 Planner and Groups
October 25	Security and compliance monitoring for an organization with Office 365 Management API
November 3	Office 365 and Voice Partner Community call
December 1	Office 365 and Voice Partner Community call

Related competencies

• Cloud Productivity competency
• Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions competency
• Communications competency

Partner content

• Cloud SureStep
• Microsoft FastTrack: getting your customers to the cloud
• Cloud Services Partner Dashboard
• Technical services for Microsoft Office 365
• Sign up for Office 365 using your internal use rights

On-demand technical training

• Office 365 technical learning path
• Skype for Business learning path
• Cloud Productivity competency learning path
• Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions competency learning path
• Communications competency learning path
• Microsoft Virtual Academy
• Channel 9

On-demand sales training

• Drumbeat Start for Office 365
• Sales Boot Camp: Pitching business productivity to your customers
• Volume licensing readiness for Office 365 E5
• WPC session OFC01 New Office 365 value and opportunity: Expand your practice and reach new customers
• WPC session OFC04 Office 365 partners on CSP are leading the pack: Learn why, and how the Cloud Solution Provider opportunity is growing
• WPC session OFC13 The future of Microsoft SharePoint is now: How we are reinventing content collaboration

IT Showcase

• Skype for Business at Microsoft
• SharePoint at Microsoft