November 2014 Australian Partner Training Update
Below is a list of all the Australian training sessions to help you and your team skill up on the latest technology, solutions and news.
This training is designed to help you stay current on Microsoft technologies and strategies through in person training, virtual instructor led training and on demand training.
If you have any questions/feedback about any of the training below or would like to suggest training for us to run please email the Microsoft Australia Readiness Team at msaupr@microsoft.com
MICROSOFT DYNAMICS PRODUCTS
MICROSOFT DYNAMICS MARKETING
Type: Sales (L200)
Audience: IT Professionals, Consultants, Management
Cost: $299 / Product: CRM / Duration: 3 Days / Location: Sydney (Dec)
With Microsoft Dynamics Marketing, our focus is to enable marketers of all types to create amazing customer experiences by enabling them to engage customers, build pipeline and demonstrate impact. Join us for this fantastic 3 day immersive Instructor led training to ensure your Consultants have the right knowledge to deliver tangible business value to your customers and prospects with Microsoft Dynamics Marketing.
ENTERPRISE SOCIAL LISTENING
Type: Sales (L200)
Audience: IT Professionals, Consultants, Management / Cost: $199 / Product: CRM / Duration: 2 Days / Location: Sydney (Dec)
Customers are more informed and more empowered today than at any other time in history. The rapid uptake of online social media has done much more than just give people new tools for communicating – it has become the catalyst for rising customer expectations. Join us for this fantastic 2 day Instructor led training course to ensure your Consultants have the right knowledge to deliver tangible business value to your customers and prospects with Microsoft Social Listening
MICROSOFT DYNAMICS SALES PRODUCTIVITY WEBINAR SERIES
Type: Sales (L100)
Audience: Sales, Marketing, and Management roles / Cost: Free / Product: Dynamics / Duration: 60 Minute Webinar / 5 Weeks / Location: Virtual (Nov / Dec)
Over five fast paced online training sessions, you'll learn how to maximise the opportunities offered by the Microsoft Dynamics Sales Productivity Solution for sales success. Each week we will share with you something new starting with helping you comprehend the power of CRM Online, look at the Dynamics $7.1 billion opportunity, share with you how to make money, and answer your questions around licensing and operations. This course is a must for anyone looking at introducing Dynamics into their service offering and all partners currently selling Dynamics products.
SHAREPOINT 2013 TECHNICAL TRAINING
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals / Cost: $499 / Product: SharePoint 2013 / Duration: 3 days / Location & Month: Melbourne & Brisbane (Nov)
SharePoint helps you organise information, people and projects and gives IT Pros powerful management controls. Using a mix of presentations and hands-on labs, this course teaches IT Pros how to deploy and upgrade to the new capabilities of SharePoint Server 2013 and SharePoint Online.
LYNC 2013 PSLP DEPTH SUPPORT ENGINEER EXAM 74-338
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, Support Engineer / Cost: $599 / Product: Lync 2013 / Duration: 4 Days / Location: Sydney (Nov), Brisbane & Perth (Feb)
This 4-day course takes designers and engineers deep into troubleshooting Microsoft Lync Server 2013. Review Lync Server architecture as a Depth Support Engineer and access a toolkit to help you discover and solve a range of real-world scenarios for Enterprise Voice, conferencing, application sharing, IM, and Presence.
OFFICE 365
OFFICE 365 IGNITE
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, Consultants / Cost: Free / Product: Office 365 / Duration: 3 Day / Location: Sydney, Perth, Brisbane (Nov), Melbourne, Adelaide (Dec)
Offie 365 Ignite Summit was developed to help drive adoption and deployment of Microsoft solutions through workshops and online resources. Summits are 3 day, 300-level technical workshops delivered by Microsoft experts providing a full immersion experience for customers and partners. The first 2 days will cover the IT Pro Content and the 3rd Day will Cover the Adoption Content.
OFFICE 365 IGNITE (EDUCATION TRACK)
Type: Sales & Marketing (L200)
Audience: Sales, Marketing, and Management roles / Cost: Free / Product: Office 365 / Duration: 1 Day / Location: Sydney, Perth, Brisbane (Nov), Melbourne (Dec)
Education is in the midst of historic transformation and the rise of technology in the classroom is creating tremendous opportunity for partners. Just about every Government and school system in the world is considering digital access programs and, starting in 2015, new global standards will assess how well schools are helping students develop 21st Century Learning Skills, including critical thinking, technical aptitude and collaboration, driving your customers to look for solutions that will help them effectively integrate technology. Microsoft and its partners are uniquely positioned to enable this transformation by providing creative and robust solutions across enterprise management, security, support services, and learning solutions. In this track, focused primarily on technical sales readiness, participants will deep dive into the Education opportunity, learn the Microsoft vision and why and where we've been investing for 20 years, as well as how partners can grow their business by selling and deploying solutions across Windows, Office, and Azure to accelerate common education scenarios. In addition, learn how to support customers through a showcase of local partner solutions.
OFFICE 365 SUMMIT
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, Developer, Consultants / Cost: Free / Product: Office 365 /Duration: 2 Day / Location: Sydney Hilton (Mar 30 – 31)
Office 365 Summit has been developed to help drive adoption and deployment of Microsoft solutions through events and online resources. This 2 day, 300-level technical workshops delivered by Microsoft experts providing a full immersion experience for customers and partners worldwide. The target audience for Office 365 Summit is IT Professionals, Developers, and Sales & Influencers.
SQL SERVER
SQL 2014 & POWER BI TRAINING
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals / Cost: $499 / Product: SQL Server / Duration: 3 Day / Location: Perth (Nov), Sydney (Dec)
This instructor led course has been designed to help you build your expertise. You will leave this training with news skills to implement the latest features of the expanding product set. The 3 days cover the following technologies: Microsoft SQL Server 2014, Power BI & Microsoft Azure.
MICROSOFT ANALYTICS PLATFORM SYSTEM (APS) UPDATE
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, Consultants, SMB Resellers / Cost: Free / Product: SQL Server / Duration: 1 Day / Location: Sydney (Feb)
This is a one day refresher course, providing attendees with an update of what has been added to Parallel Data Warehouses as part of the AU1, AU2 and AU3 releases. Attendees must have already attended a previous 4 day Microsoft course ran earlier in the year.
MICROSOFT ANALYTICS PLATFORM SYSTEM (APS)
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: Senior IT Professional / Cost: $599 / Product: SQL Server / Duration: 4 Day / Location: Melbourne (Mar)
This is an intensive 4-day, instructor-led course that focuses on the practical matters of implementing solutions using Parallel Data Warehouse and Hadoop. Highlights are as follows Condensed 4 day course focused on real-world scenarios providing you with ready-to-use skills with your customers, Enhanced Hands-on labs focused on student interaction with the appliance for accelerated learning and fully refreshed & upgraded to reflect all AU3 functions and capabilities.
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE BOOT CAMP CONTENT FOR HOSTING SERVICE PROVIDERS
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals / Cost: $599 / Product: Hybrid Cloud / Duration: 3 Day / Location: Melbourne (Nov); Sydney (Dec)
The 3 day instructor-led hands-on lab technical deployment camps is targeting Hosting Service Providers and System Integrators looking at offering Microsoft Hybrid Solutions. This deployment camp is a level 300 technical course. It will provide service provider and systems integrators with an in-depth knowledge of how to deploy the most recent technologies as a platform for virtual machine hosting and web site hosting.
ENTERPRISE MOBILITY SUITE (EMS)
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professional / Cost: Free / Product: Enterprise Mobility Suite / Duration: 2 Day / Location: Sydney (Dec)
This 2 day EMS (Enterprise Mobility Suite) Technical Training will address multiple topics within Azure AD Premium, Microsoft Intune and Azure RMS, ranging from an Enterprise Mobility Suite Technical overview to RemoteApp and Phone Factor Authentication. Partners will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on trainings that focus on Azure selling scenarios and Enterprise Mobility PoC.
WINDOWS ACCELERATE APP DEV
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, ISV, Developers / Cost: Free / Product: Windows 8.1 / Duration: 3 Day / Location: Brisbane (Oct), Sydney (Nov), Melbourne (Dec), Perth (Feb)
To help ready you our partners to develop on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone, Microsoft has developed the Accelerate App Dev Program. The Accelerate App Dev Program provides both partner training and support to engage customers on site to assist in the development of Windows 8.1 apps. Partners with an application development practice should attend this training event and use this program to accelerate your customer engagements. This three day course focuses on the additional features of Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone and assumes attendees have a strong knowledge of developing on Windows 8.
MODERNBIZ TECHNICAL SERIES FOR SMB
BUSINESS ANYWHERE
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, Consultants, SMB Resellers / Cost: $160 / Product: Microsoft Intune, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1 VDI, Azure Applications, Office 365, Exchange Server / Duration: 1 Day / Location: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane (March)
Want a larger slice of the market for mobility and remote access? This course is designed to help you leverage the latest servers and cloud technologies to deliver the right solutions. We’ll cover Windows Intune, Windows Server 2012, Azure and Office 365 in a mix of presentations and hands-on labs.
CONNECT WITH CUSTOMERS
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, Consultants, SMB Resellers / Cost: $160 / Product: Office 365, SharePoint Online, Azure Security, Powerview / Duration: 1 Day / Location: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide (Dec)
We’re in the midst of a data explosion – and you can help your SMB customers seize control of theirs. Learn how to deliver powerful BI solutions that help them find and combine multiple data sources, gain insights through interactive dashboards and reports and to share them with the company.
GROW EFFICIENTLY DAY 1
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, Consultants, SMB Resellers / Cost: $160 / Product: Windows Server 2012 R2, Azure, Virtualised Infrastructure / Duration: 1 Day / Location: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide (Nov)
The ModernBiz Technical Series course, Grow Efficiently, Part 1: Get the Most out of Your Technology, provides training on how to use the latest Microsoft server and cloud technologies to deliver solutions to small and midsize organisations. With the end of support for Windows Server 2003, the time is right to help SMB customers modernise their infrastructure by upgrading to Windows Server 2012 R2 and moving to the cloud with Microsoft Azure.
GROW EFFICIENTLY DAY 2
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, Consultants, SMB Resellers / Cost: $160 / Product: Windows 8.1, Office 365, SQL Server 2014 on premises & SQL Server in Azure / Duration: 1 Day / Location: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth (Nov)
The Modern Biz Technical Series course, Grow Efficiently, Part 2: Adapt to Change, provides training on how to use the latest Microsoft client, database, and cloud productivity technologies to deliver solutions that help small and midsize organizations grow and adapt to change—from expanding the infrastructure that powers their business applications, to adding new PCs, devices and apps that help employees do their best work.
SAFEGUARD YOUR BUSINESS
Type: Technical (L300)
Audience: IT Professionals, Consultants, SMB Resellers / Cost: $160 / Product: Microsoft Azure, Windows 8.1 Security & Management, Windows Server 2012 R2, SQL Server / Duration: 1 Day / Location: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane (Jan)
Gain the skills to provide solutions to SMB customers in three key areas: mobility with Windows 8 devices, remote access to on-premises LOB applications, and mobile productivity in the cloud with Office 365.