Doug McCutcheon: The US say..   "Have you ever wished for one source to help you understand, sell and deploy Office 365? Wish no more! The June edition of the Office 365 Playbook for Corporate Account partners is now available to this Yammer group. I'd love to get your feedback on the playbook. Can you let me know 1) if this is the right format to deliver the content in; 2) if the content is clear and useful; and 3) if we are missing anything you need (or don't need in the next version!) to successfully sell and deploy Office 365. Thanks in advance for your feedback. "  
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10:00 AM - Jul 19 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: I encourage all partners to take this survey.
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06:05 PM - Jul 25 / Reply

Drashti Patel: A warm Office 365 welcome to our 600th member! A friendly reminder for those of you that are just joining, we encourage you to do a few quick things: 1. Update your profile and introduce yourself. 2. Join groups to find relevant content and network smarter! https://www.yammer.com/office365partners/groups 3. Keep checking back to for announcements,readiness resources and prizes!

03:28 PM - Jul 24 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: At the 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, Channel Chief Jon Roskill announced changes to the Microsoft Partner Network that integrate our Cloud Partner programs with subscription and competency offerings, and changes to the Action Pack subscription and competencies are planned, too. Download our guide that details the changes from https://aka.ms/mpnchanges (https://aka.ms/mpnchanges). The Office 365 Cloud Deployment Partner designation will still continue post integration in January. Some of the deployment requirements for membership of this group will be updated. So for all those official Office 365 Cloud Deployment Partners out there, lets plan to hit the new requirements for January.

09:46 AM - Jul 19 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: Hi,   I am looking for partners who have created service offerings for FastTrack, this can be for Step 1, 2 or 3.   Why? Well we are releasing some more incentives aligned to the FastTrack deployment methodology, and want to tell the field about partners with package offerings around this.   Let me know if this is your company.   If you want to start a service packaing offering around FastTrack, go to drumbeat.office.com/fasttrack (drumbeat.office.com/fasttrack) . Hint as well as hitting this page,to list out a summary of detailed content by hitting the resources tab, and hit the "Deployment Guide" filter.

12:28 PM - Jul 17 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: Here is the deck presented at the FastTrack session at WPC. This is the latest out there for you to use. For more detail on FastTrack go to https://drumbeat.office.com/FastTrack . This is exclusive to Microsoft partners.
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04:47 PM - Jul 16 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: Hi there, in this standing room only session at WPC we talked about the best practice for selling Office 365, the customer decision framework. For more content go to https://drumbeat.office.com/Customer-Decision-Framework Let us know your thoughts!
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04:57 PM - Jul 16 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: This deck got used throughout WPC sessions. It is a summary of the partner targeted content investments we have made to help sell and deploy Office 365. Hint: Go to https://drumbeat.office.com/ and access the footer for the latest hyper links. One has changed already, which one?
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05:02 PM - Jul 16 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: Here is a deck we presented at WPC, about our strategy for enterprise customers in FY14. In this session we will articulate the customer momentum, partner opportunity and FY14 strategy in the enterprise space. Our definition of enterprise is a customer with more than 250 seats.
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04:51 PM - Jul 16 / Reply

Mark Kashman: We announced the new #skydrivepro apps for #win8 & #ios. New blog post here: blogs.office.com/b/office365tech/archive/2013/06/27/s… AND help spread the word in email, tweet or feel free to retweet my tweet (www.twitter.com/mkashman). Install them, demo them ... have fun.

06:21 PM - Jun 27 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: This presentation introduces the new cloud app model for Office and SharePoint 2013 that will enable developers to build apps using web standards
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09:29 AM - Jun 26 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon:

Jul 10

WPC! Office 365 FastTrack: The Exciting New Office 365 Deployment Approach for Enterprise Customers

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:30 PM  PDT

WPC, Houston, USA, GRBCC: 370 BE

08:36 AM - Jun 26 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon:

Jul 8

WPC! Making Money with the new Office in Enterprise Accounts

Monday, July 8, 2013 4:30 PM  PDT

WPC Houston, USA, GRBCC: 360 BCEF

08:09 AM - Jun 25 / Reply

Drashti Patel: Hey Partners, are you attending WPC in Houston July 7th-11th? If so, join us at www.yammer.com/MODatWPC to stay up-to-date on what’s happening at WPC2013 for Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer, Project and Visio! Here you will: • Get content, connect with partners and join conversations. • Have early access to session and theater content. • Have direct conversations with speakers and the product teams. • Stay current on all the happy hours and special events. • Check out the features and functionality of Yammer first hand. See you in Houston! :)

02:56 PM - Jun 24 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: The new Office 365 ProPlus Whitepaper is Customer Ready ! Leave behind customer-ready whitepaper on the value of the new Office 365 Pro Plus Let us know what you think. Let us know what other content for Office you need.
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10:00 AM - Jun 24 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon:

Jul 8

WPC! Value Keynote: Insider Briefing for Office 365

Monday, July 8, 2013 1:30 PM  PDT

WPC Houston, USA - GRBCC: Grand Ballroom A

09:35 AM - Jun 24 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: Some WPC statistics on what to expect! Hope to see you there. www.digitalwpc.com/ 22 Tracks - ALM and Software Development, Business Leadership, Sales and Marketing, Distributor, Emerging Leaders, Enterprise, The new Office, Hosting & Cloud Service Providers, ISV, Large Account Reseller and EA Direct Advisor, Learning Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics, Public Sector, Reseller, SAM, Server, Data and Tools, Small and Medium Business, System Integrator, Unified Communications, Windows Client, Windows Phone 550 + Speakers — top worldwide subject matter experts, successful partners, satisfied customers, and independent analysts 2 Vision Keynotes 19 Value Keynotes — ALM and Software Development, Distributor, Enterprise, Hosting & Cloud Service Providers, ISV, LAR. Microsoft Dynamics, MPN, OEM, Server, Data and Tools, Small and Medium Business Reseller, System Integrator, The new Office, Unified Communications, Windows, Windows Surface 24 Regional Keynotes — APAC, Canada, CEE, France, Germany, India, Japan, LATAM, MEA, UK,, US SMB, US East. US Central, US West, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland 92 The Commons Theaters Sessions 228 Breakouts Sessions — in-depth reviews of key strategies, and tangible solutions from over 30 business groups 81 Interactive Sessions — collaborative sessions that promote open conversations between speakers and attendees

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11:14 AM - Jun 18 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: This one is bubbling up a bit recently so I thought it was worth posting our session on migrating customers to Exchange Online Protection, https://training.partner.microsoft.com/learning/app/manageme… This session will describes how to migrate customers from Postini and other 3rd-party spam gateways to Exchange Online Protection (EOP) across three deployment scenarios. We share how-to information, best practices, and real-world lessons learned.

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01:35 PM - Jun 17 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: Announcing the new Forrester Total Economic Impact partner opportunity containing “The Systems Integrator Opportunity For Office 365 Cloud Deployments. The purpose of the study is to highlight the potential opportunity of establishing and Office 365 cloud practice for Microsoft enterprise focused system integrators. For those who cannot download from Yammer, I have created an alternate SkyDrive
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10:40 AM - Jun 17 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: For those who cannot download this file from Yammer , I have created an alternate SkyDrive download location.
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10:37 AM - Jun 17 / Reply

Doug McCutcheon: We are pleased to announce yet another device has been added to the Office 365 ProPlus subscription. blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2013/06/14/off… Key points of Office 365 ProPlus:- It per user licensing, this is huge. It means you can deploy Office using your subscription on multiple devices, be they Phones, Windows tablets, PCs & Macs It the fullest version of Office you can get for the device. That's right, on a PC this is the full Office client delivered through a service. If you choose to we will ensure that it is always up to date with the latest features When you sign-in to Office you can then benefits from roaming document features & settings. I store on my Skydrive Pro, I access from my multiple devices. I see where I last left off, saving time to get started again on the document. Worried about that legacy application. No problem Office 365 ProPlus supports side-by-side installation with previous version. No banging or crashing into settings or binaries, just a harmonious co-existence until you move that app. You can use your existing deployment tools and processes to control the deployment of the Office 365 ProPlus client.

Office Mobile for iPhone now available for Office 365 subscribers

Today, we're releasing Office Mobile for iPhone available at no extra charge from the Apple App Store for Office 365 Home Premium and Office 365 ProPlus subscribers. Similar to our free Office Mobile for Windows Phone that ships with every handset, the iPhone app enables great Office content viewing and on-the-go content editing capabilities.

08:31 AM - Jun 14 / Reply

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