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Build your team’s cloud skills with new Microsoft Azure training and certification offers
- Read the announcement about how these new offerings benefit partners
- Visit the partner portal for details and to sign up for offers
- Sign up for free online Azure courses and learn about fundamentals, virtual machines and networks, identity, and storage
- Enroll in free Microsoft Azure training for AWS Experts
Microsoft Inspire is the new name for our annual partner business and sales conference
- Read the announcement about Microsoft Inspire
- Learn more about the event
- Microsoft Inspire is July 9 – 13, 2017 in Washington, DC – Register today
Community call schedule for the week
- December 13 – Data Platform and Advanced Analytics: Add value to your Internet of Things solutions with real-time analytics
- December 13 – Dynamics 365: The Common Data Model and its role on Dynamics 365
- December 14 – Enterprise Mobility + Security: Technical and sales resources for EMS
- December 15 – Windows and Devices: Application Compatibility and Windows Upgrade Analytics Service
- Get links to watch previous December calls on demand
- Sign up for January community calls
Partner Spotlights: Customer stories of digital transformation, enabled by partners
- alligatortek and Feeding America
- Qorus Software, SharePoint Revolution, and North American Roofing
- Adafruit and the Maker Movement
- People for Innovation at WPC 2016: Empowering future generations to achieve more
- eLynx and SMEnergy – Making energy management more efficient
Unlock additional value by using your Signature Cloud Support benefit
- Learn more about Signature Cloud Support
- MPN 101 Support Options blog series
- Watch the on-demand video about MPN support options
- Compare Microsoft Partner Support Offerings
New technical journeys for Microsoft Azure
- Get started in infrastructure modernization
- Cloud Application Development technical journey
- December 12-13: Technical Deep Dive – Connected Solutions with Internet of Things
- December 12-14: Technical Deep Dive – Enterprise Mobility and Security
- December 13: First Steps in Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service
- December 16: Ask the Experts – Exploring Azure App Services
- See all of the technical presales and deployment services offered by Partner Technical Services
- Fast Start courses for Azure
- SMB Partner Tech series for Azure
Introducing Microsoft Teams – the chat-based workspace in Office 365
- Read the announcement about Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Teams Developer Preview
- In our community: Introduction to the Microsoft Bot Framework
- Power BI teams up with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft FastTrack: Get your customers to the cloud quickly
- Sign in to the Drumbeat website for FastTrack partner resources
- Take a look at the FastTrack website
- Technical resources to accelerate Office 365 deployment
- Technical resources to accelerate enterprise mobility deployment
- Designing a trustworthy cloud with Office 365
- Skype for Business Operations Framework assessment
- SMB Partner Tech series for Office 365
Working toward earning a Cloud Competency? The Cloud Enablement Desk can help
- Nominate your partner business for Cloud Enablement Desk assistance
- Watch the Cloud Competency Attainment videos for Office 365, Azure, Dynamics CRM Online, and Enterprise Mobility
- Learn more about the MPN cloud competencies
- Download the MPN competency guide
Plan ahead for training into January 2017
- December 2016 Hot Sheet partner training schedule
- Community call schedule for December and January
- Follow learning paths of on-demand training recommendations for Microsoft products and technologies
- New! Windows 10 Enterprise Partner Deployment Opportunity course
- New! SQL Server 2016 sales learning path