Community calls and resources summary for November 2016
Connect and engage with Microsoft technical, sales, and business experts in the US Partner Community. Our expert-led communities will help you build your practice and build your business.
- Practice-building communities are technically focused and led by Technology Solutions Professionals with product and workload expertise
- Business-building communities align to your business model, customer segment focus, and areas of interest
Community activities include regular calls that you can join live and catch on-demand later, Yammer groups for connection with Microsoft and with other partners, and blog series that provide information and resources.
If you missed the November blog posts and calls, get caught up by using the links in this post. Our upcoming community calls are listed on the Hot Sheet, the comprehensive training schedule.
Go to the Hot Sheet for December and January community calls Review the US Partner Community online guide Read recaps for September and October
Application Development
Focus on containers
More resources
- Docker on Azure
- Windows Containers Documentation
- Docker container platform for Windows Server 2016
- Azure Container Service
Azure Infrastructure and Management
Focus on Azure Site Recovery
More resources
- Site Recovery on the Microsoft Azure website
- Site Recovery as part of Microsoft Operations Management Suite
- Azure Site Recovery video
- Site Recovery technical documentation
Data Platform and Advanced Analytics
Focus on Microsoft Cognitive Services and Intelligent Kiosk
- Watch the community call on demand
- Intelligent Kiosk demo lets you create personalized customer experiences
More resources
- Create your Intelligent Kiosk demo instructions
- Intelligent Kiosk Sample on GitHub
- Cortana Intelligence Service and Machine Learning blog
- Cortana Intelligence Suite Azure Services
- Microsoft Cognitive Services
Dynamics 365
Focus on Dynamics 365 Partner Resources
More resources
- Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials
- Dynamics 365 for Financials learning path
- Get started with AppSource
- Systems integrators and AppSource
- Dynamics Learning Portal FAQ
Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)
Focus on identity protection and identity management with Azure Active Directory
More resources
- Azure Active Directory – Identity and access management for the cloud
- Simple and secure identity management solutions
- Identity and access management on the Azure blog
- Identity and access management on the Microsoft Trust Center
ISV and Application Builder
Focus on Xamarin
More resources
MPN 101
Cloud Solution Provider program
- Community call on demand: Cloud Solution Provider program overview and opportunity
- Build a cloud managed services practice and use Cloud Solution Provider as your foundation
- The Cloud Solution Provider program page
Microsoft partner program benefits
- Community call on demand: Make the most of your internal use licenses
- Community call on demand: Your modern marketing resources
- Community call on demand: Know your support options
- Blog post: Know your support options
- Blog post: Technical presales assistance and training benefits
Competency renewal resources
- Community call on demand: Competency renewal process and best practices
- Steps for a smoother competency renewal process
- MPN competency requirements guide (download)
- Online competency renewal guide
Office 365 and Voice
Focus on SharePoint and OneDrive
More resources
- Ignite 2016 SharePoint announcements summary
- The SharePoint Framework
- SharePoint Dev Center
- SharePoint for IT pros
Open Source Solutions (OSS)
Focus on OSS and big data
More resources
- Microsoft commitment to open source expands opportunities for partners
- Apache Spark website
- R & Spark as Yin and Yang of Scalable Machine Learning in Azure HDInsight video
- Apache Mesos videos on Channel 9
- Linux on Azure certification
- Open source on Azure training webcasts
Sales Training
- Watch: Maximize SQL Server Renewals and True-up/Add-on Opportunities
- Data Platform Online on-demand courses
- IoT Online on-demand courses
- Cloud Infrastructure Online on-demand courses
- Enterprise Mobility Online on-demand courses
- Office 365 sales training