Australia Partner In Person & Virtual Training (March–June 2014)

Type:   Technical (Level 300)

Location & Month:   Brisbane (March), Sydney, Melbourne, Perth (April)

Fee: No Charge

The Ahead of the Game Technical Series provides training, demonstrations, and hands-on instruction on how to use the latest Windows Server 2012 R2 capabilities to deliver solutions to small and midsize organizations. This set of training courses is designed to prepare Microsoft value-added reseller (VAR) partners to help your customers get their businesses ahead of the game by providing solutions and services in the areas of virtualization and cloud, mobility and remote access.

Type:   Technical (Level 400)

Location & Month:   Sydney, Melbourne, Perth (April)

Fee: $250 AUD

This 400-level, two-day, instructor-led course provides students with the in-depth knowledge and skills needed to design a complex data centre architecture using Microsoft virtualization and management technologies, including Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V and the System Centre Suite.

Type:   Sales & Marketing

Location & Month:   Virtual - Live Meeting (April, May & June)

Fee: No Charge

Every month, this 45-minute, live webcast provides an overview of the various sales, marketing, licensing and training resources available to help you sell Microsoft SQL Server solutions. It’s your chance to ask questions, dive a little deeper into Microsoft SQL 2012 Server capabilities and gather ideas on how to position it with your customers.

Type:   Technical (Level 300)

Location & Month:   Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide (May)

Fee: $399 AUD

With the commercial availability of SQL Server 2014, a new set of technologies are about to land that can transform your data platform and business intelligence projects. This three day course will help you build your expertise. You will leave this training with new skills to implement the latest features of this expanding product set. This course will cover Microsoft SQL Server 2014, Power BI & Windows Azure.

Type:   Technical

Location & Month:   Sydney (April)

Fee: $499 AUD

This Microsoft Lync training is a limited invitation only workshop for Microsoft's most valued partners who are proactively looking to stay ahead of the market by delivering and using a highly reliable unified communications solution.

Type:   Sales & Marketing

Location & Month:   Virtual – Live Meeting (April, May & June)

Fee: No Charge

Offering an overview of the various sales, marketing, licensing and training resources available to help you sell Microsoft Communications solutions, this live and monthly webcast is always a lively forum for discussion, questions, and insights about Lync Server. Ultimately it offers brilliant nuggets on how to position and sell it in to clients.

Type:   Sales & Pre-Sales

Location & Month:   Perth (March), Brisbane (March)

Fee: No Charge

The Drumbeat Sales day provides partners in sales and pre-sales technical roles with best practice sales training for Office 365. In addition to sharing Microsoft best practice, programs and selling tools, we’ll offer insights into the cloud services market and outline the opportunities awaiting partners who invest in growing an Office 365 practice.

Type:   Technical

Location & Month:   Perth (March), Brisbane (March)

Fee: No Charge

Delivering the capabilities users demand while allowing IT to stay in control, Office 365 is revolutionising the workplace. But it’s a shift that requires IT Pros to adapt their traditional client-server skills for the cloud-computing era. In this three-day technical workshop, IT Pros will see how new features come to Office 365 first, learn about the new tools and processes for migrating on premise workloads to Office 365 and prepare for the new operational role of IT Pros.

Type:   Technical

Location & Month:   Sydney (April)

Fee: No Charge

The Office 365 Summit (previously known as Ignite) are a series of 3 day workshops for Microsoft's most valued customers and partners providing deep-dive technical readiness on all productivity workloads from Microsoft product experts.

Tracks include Office 365, Developer, Exchange, Project, SharePoint, Visio/Visio Services and Yammer. During the Summit, you will also have the opportunity to interact and learn from your industry peers and representatives from Microsoft.

Type:   Technical

Location & Month:   Sydney (April), Melbourne (April), Brisbane (May)

Fee: $300 AUD

The Partner Practice Enablement Boot Camp training starts with an introduction to Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks (Infrastructure Services). It delivers the foundational knowledge needed for users intending to run new workloads in Windows Azure or migrate existing workloads from on-premises.

Type:   Technical

Location & Month:   Sydney (April)

Fee: No Charge

The Windows Azure Architect Summit is a two-day training workshop covering 8 CORE modules conducted by our worldwide team of Azure specialists. In this workshop you will learn how to implement large scale Azure solutions, with specific focus on technical and business benefits offered by the Microsoft cloud platform.

Type:   Sales & Marketing

Location & Month:   Sydney (March), Melbourne (March), Perth (April), Brisbane (March), Canberra (May)

Fee: No Charge

This one day, instructor-led pre-sales course, to help you understand Windows Azure, its relevance and positioning. It will take you through Azure scenarios which will help you understand and understand monetisation opportunities.

Type:   Sales & Marketing

Location & Month:   Virtual - Live Meeting (March, April, May & June)

Fee: No Charge

Providing an overview of the various sales, marketing, licensing and training resources available to help you sell Microsoft Cloud solutions, this one-hour monthly live webcast is also a great forum for discussion and a chance to ask any tough questions you may have.

Type:   Sales & Marketing

Location & Month:   Virtual - Live Meeting (March, April & May)

Fee: No Charge

To get your head in the game around Cloud Technology, join our 12 week Cloud Coaching Class. As your Cloud Coach, we'll equip you with all the skills you need to come out fighting - and win.

Type:   Sales & Marketing

Location & Month: Virtual - Live Meeting (March, April, May & June)

Fee: No Charge

With a live webcast devoted exclusively to education, this invaluable and open monthly forum provides an overview of the various sales, marketing, licensing and training tools available to help you sell to the education industry. It’s also your opportunity to ask those burning questions - and get brilliant answers.

Type:   Sales & Marketing

Location & Month:   Sydney (May)

Fee: $50 AUD

As the technological landscape evolves and morphs, new vendors are looking to capitalise. So in a session devoted to gaining the competitive advantage, we’ll provide you with all the tips, tricks, tools and product knowledge needed to identify, leverage and close sales opportunities. This session not only offers insights on how our competitors work, it provides a great opportunity to ensure the right solution is deployed at the right time with great results.

Type:   Technical (Level 300)

Location & Month:   Sydney (May)

Fee: $725 USD

With highly complex infrastructure and unique integration demands, Enterprise customers need partners with answers. Get ready to handle implementation and development challenges in this space with a 4-day, 300-Level Training course covering the latest developments in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, client scripting for forms, UX customisation, ribbon and site map customisation, the bulk import / export of data and a whole raft more.

Type:   Technical (Level 300)

Location & Month:   Sydney (May)

Fee: $660 USD

With highly complex infrastructure and unique integration demands, Enterprise customers need partners with answers. Get ready to handle implementation and development challenges in this space with a 3-day, 300-Level Training course covering solution architecture, capacity planning, performance, optimisation, virtualisation and more.

Type:   Technical (Level 300)

Location & Month:   Sydney (May)

Fee: $950 USD

Designed to equip pre-sales consultants with the skills to successfully match product capabilities with customer needs, this 5-day workshop takes a deep dive exploration of all facets of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 technology – how it works, client needs, customer scenarios, it’s value over competitive ERP products and plenty more.

Type: Sales & Marketing

Location & Month:   Sydney (May)

Fee: No Charge

The Dynamics Business Model Transformation Workshop is a one-day workshop designed specifically for senior management teams of Microsoft partners who want to understand how to design a cloud practice to deliver expected profit, and how to chart a path to guide your company through the transition.

Type: Sales & Marketing

Location & Month:   Sydney (April)

Fee: No Charge

The Dynamics Live is an important event in the Dynamics calendar for Partners held every 6 weeks. Take this opportunity to meet the Dynamics team in person and discover Microsoft’s strategy for business solutions directly from the leadership team. The session will end with top level go-do for the month and networking opportunities.

Type: Sales & Marketing

Location & Month:   Virtual - Live Meeting (May)

Fee: No Charge

Connect with the Dynamics team at The Dynamics Hour. These sessions are scheduled quarterly for the Dynamics partner community. The Dynamics Hour will focus on a general business review followed by key topic updates by keynote speakers, including news and events, and finalised with critical actions for the month.