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Helping partners understand the value of Microsoft solutions.

Public preview of Azure Site Recovery (DR) for Azure IaaS virtual machines is available!

Todd SweetserHi Cloud Partners! I am very excited to let you know that the ability to provide...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 06/02/2017

Join your regional June SMB Partner Insider call Friday, June 2

Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! Join your local Microsoft US team for the SMB Partner Insider call...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/30/2017

Webinar - Incident Response: Getting The Upper Hand in the Cybercrime Fight

Todd Sweetser Hi Cloud Partners! With the recent incidents that have occurred, now is a perfect time...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/30/2017

Improving Office 365 Performance

Here is a great collection of resources to help tune Office 365 performance : Tune Office 365...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/30/2017

The Periodic Table of Office 365

Good afternoon everyone, I recently read a great article by Matt Wade, where he did an Everyday...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/22/2017

Azure Hybrid Use Benefit Guidance Document Now Available

Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! By now, I’m sure that you have heard us talk about the Azure Hybrid...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/19/2017

Azure Hybrid Use Benefit now available directly in the Azure Management Portal

Tim Tetrick In case you missed the news from a couple weeks back, I wanted to highlight the fact...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/17/2017

Office 365 ROI Tool

Q: (from Neal) Hello. I hope all is well. I am trying to find, what I recall as being, an Excel...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/17/2017

Introducing OneDrive Files On-Demand

Jeff Stoffel As expected many exciting announcements were made at Build 2017. I am particularly...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/14/2017

Can I change my onmicrosoft.com domain name?

Q: (from Janelle) Reaching out to you guys to find out if you know for sure if I can or cannot...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/11/2017

Support for Access Web Apps in SharePoint Online Going Away

Q: (from Megan) Is there a good Microsoft resource with more information on the removal of Access...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/08/2017

How to Build a Successful Cloud Practice

Tim Tetrick As part of the strategy to help our partners create and accelerate their efforts to...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/04/2017

Join your regional May SMB Partner Insider call Friday, May 5!

Todd Sweetser Join your local Microsoft US team for the SMB Partner Insider call Friday, May 5,...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 05/01/2017

Newly available Office 365 Advanced Security and Compliance solutions campaign

Todd Sweetser Hi Cloud Partners! Came across this new set of partner resources that revolve around a...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/27/2017

Outlook Customer Manager Now Rolling Out

Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! For quite some time now SMB customers have been looking for a way to...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/24/2017

MileIQ: Another Office 365 Benefit

Q: (from Jeff) How do I find out which O365 plans include MileIQ? It would be nice if there was more...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/18/2017

Updated Partner Readiness Webcasts on Office 365 Enterprise E5

East Region SMB Techcast WHAT: Office 365 E5! Auto-Attendant, Call Queues! But wait, there’s more!...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/15/2017

Great Article: Sell on Value, not on Features

Brent Combest, General Manager, Central Region SMB at Microsoft, just published a great article on...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/12/2017

Just Announced: Price reductions on L Series and announcing next generation Hyper-threaded virtual machines

Good afternoon everyone! I just learned we have some promo pricing for VM’s in Azure you may have...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/11/2017

Registration is open! Four new SMB JumpStart virtual workshops starting soon

Jeff Stoffel I am thrilled to inform you that there are 4 new SMB JumpStart virtual workshop series...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/07/2017

Significant Update to Advanced Threat Protection

Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! Earlier this week we announced some pretty significant (and cool)...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/05/2017

Call Queues and Auto Attendant trainings updated for General Availability

Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Partners, I hope everyone saw the news from last week that the Skype for...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/04/2017

Join your regional April SMB Partner Insider call this Friday, April 7

Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! It’s time for the April US SMB Partner Insider call. Join your local...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 04/03/2017

Azure Marketing Workshop for Partners

Jeff Stoffel I am always amazed at the quantity and quality of learning opportunities we make...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 03/31/2017

Learn how to create a connected workplace in Office 365 with OneDrive and SharePoint at the SharePoint Virtual Summit on May 16th

Todd Sweetser Hi Cloud partners! Wanted to let you know that Microsoft is pleased to announce the...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 03/28/2017

Office 365 Groups, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer…. Oh My

With all the great innovative options and updates available in Office 365 there have been some...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 03/23/2017

Save the date: Microsoft Cloud Architect Boot Camp

Tim Tetrick When: May 15-19, 2017Where: The Westin in Bellevue, WARegistration Fee: USD $1,800.00...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 03/14/2017

New Windows Pro Devices vs. Chrome Devices - Partner Profitability and Customer Capabilities Showdown

Jeff Stoffel Microsoft has released new LOW COST Windows 10 Pro devices under $300 for commercial...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 03/10/2017

SMB JumpStart Hybrid Identity and Enterprise Mobility + Security program available on-demand!

Jeff Stoffel I am excited to inform you that SMB JumpStart Hybrid Identity and Enterprise Mobility +...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 03/06/2017

You're Invited: How to Build a Business Intelligence practice

Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Partners, I am excited to extend an invitation to join an exclusive new...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 03/04/2017

New Service Health Dashboard–now Generally Available

Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! For a while now we have had the Service Health Dashboard “update” in...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 03/03/2017

Join your regional March SMB Partner Insider call this Friday, March 3rd!

Todd Sweetser Join your regional March SMB Partner Insider call this Friday! Join your local...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 02/27/2017

The Microsoft Trust Center as a Resource

Jeff Stoffel I was discussing our cloud security, privacy, and compliance standards today with a...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 02/24/2017

Join us at SMB Live and build your Microsoft cloud practice

Tim Tetrick This year’s SMB Live events, coming to 22 cities across the United States, include a day...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 02/15/2017

Available now! Free Windows Server 2016 virtual labs

Todd Sweetser Ran across this recent announcement and wanted to share it with our partners! From the...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 02/14/2017

Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) Attack Simulation Playbook

Good afternoon Partners. I just learned about an exciting new tool you can leverage to help show...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 02/14/2017

Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) Partner Community

Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Partners, Build and extend your enterprise mobility practice, and help...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 02/11/2017

Modern Thoughts on Modern Enterprise Security

Good morning Partners. I just read a great article talking about Microsoft’s overall approach to...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 02/07/2017

Modern Thoughts on Modern Enterprise Security

Good morning Partners. I just read a great article talking about Microsoft’s overall approach to...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 02/07/2017

Office Go-to-Market (GTM) Guide for ISVs

Todd Sweetser Hi Cloud Partners! I know that many of you out there may have an ISV side to your...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/31/2017

Join your regional February SMB Partner Insider call this Friday

Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! Join your local Microsoft US team for the SMB Partner Insider call...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/31/2017

Partner Online Technical Training Available at No Cost

Jeff Stoffel Where do I go to get more information or training on __________ (fill in the blank) is...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/24/2017

So you want to build Azure Practice: Focus on Azure Backup!

As I mentioned in my post, about a month ago(sorry for the delay, got sidetracked) I talked about...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/20/2017

New Windows 10 upgrade benefits for Windows Cloud Subscriptions in CSP

Todd Sweetser Hi Cloud Partners! Found some info that could be a large benefit to those looking at...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/19/2017

Intune Deployment Planning, Design and Implementation Guide

Tim Tetrick I wanted to highlight this great new Intune Deployment Guide that just recently...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/19/2017

Microsoft StaffHub is Generally Available!

Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! Do you work with customers that have frontline employees, things like...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/12/2017

How Do You Build a New Business Practice?

Recently Microsoft employees like me have been focusing on helping partners adopt new technologies...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/11/2017

Azure Virtual Machine JumpStart

In line with the Hybrid Identity and Enterprise Mobility + Security JumpStarts held in the fourth...

Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/11/2017

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