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MPN news
- Why you should be a Microsoft Inspire Sponsor or Exhibitor
- How to differentiate your business
- How to develop a culture of transformation
- Stand out from the crowd with amazing CX
Azure Reserved VM Instances General Availability & preview of Azure Migrate
- Azure Reserved VM Instances GA announcement
- Learn more about Azure Reserved VM instances
- Learn more about Azure pricing
- Get an overview of all services within Azure
- About Azure Migrate
- Resources, tools, and offers
- Azure Migrate documentation
Microsoft 365 Business General Availability
- Unlock new Microsoft 365 Business revenue opportunities for your practice
- Find detailed, step-by-step instructions to transition customers from preview offer to Microsoft 365 Business paid offer
- Read the Microsoft 365 blog post
- Review Microsoft 365 Business partner opportunities and new/updated sales and technical resources
Stay informed and engaged with US Partner Community & Microsoft
- Updated online guide: Stay informed and engaged in the US Partner Community
- Modern bot development with Dynamics 365
- What is serverless computing?
- Modern Workplace Quarterly Update
- Using Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection to quickly detect and respond to data breaches
- Drive professional services engagements with Microsoft funded security offerings for partners – Part 1 of 2
- Deep dive on Kubernetes for container orchestration
- How I learned to stop worrying and love containers
New Solution Area Technical Communities
- New Technical Communities for Microsoft US Partners
- December Hot Sheet – New community call schedule
New partner webinars and events available now
- ISV Application Builder Training Series
- Revenue Growth Academy Webinar Series: Increase your customer value
- Join the Cloud Ready program and grow your cloud practice
- The US StepUp Webinar Series
- Cloud Growth and Profitability Office Hours Series
- The Leading Edge Webinar Series
- Hot Sheet training schedule
US Partner Community partner call schedule
Community calls and a regularly updated, comprehensive schedule of partner training courses are listed on the Hot Sheet.
- Tuesday, December 12, 9 am Pacific Time, Introduction to Bots for Dynamics 365
- Friday, December 15, 10:00 am Pacific Time, Applications and Infrastructure Community call: Serverless
- Friday, December 15, 12:00 pm Pacific Time, Special Azure Applications and Infrastructure Community call: Azure Reserved Instances
- Full community call schedule