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Support for the 2013 versions of Office 365 ProPlus ends February 28, 2017
We just announced the support and EOL for Office 365 ProPlus, take a look at the article here:...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/11/2017
New OneDrive Admin Center Preview
Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Cloud Partners, I hope everyone saw the recent announcement around the...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/09/2017
What’s Happening to Microsoft Pinpoint?
For years, I’ve recommended to Microsoft partners that part of their marketing strategy was to make...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/06/2017
Join your regional January SMB Partner Insider call this Friday, January 6th
Jeff Stoffel Happy New Year everyone! Kick off the New Year with a BANG! Join your local Microsoft...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 01/03/2017
New Cloud PBX Auto Attendant (Preview) and Call Queues (Preview) Training
Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Cloud Partners, I know many of you are excited about the new Cloud PBX...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 12/21/2016
Technical Deep Dive on Windows in CSP
Todd Sweetser Expand your Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) portfolio with Windows 10 by...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 12/20/2016
Announcing the Demystifying SMB Office Mix Series
Jeff Stoffel The pace at which change impacts us is faster than ever before. To compound this, we...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 12/19/2016
Visio Viewer for iPad as well as Visio Online Preview are now available!
Todd Sweetser Good day Cloud Partners! Do you or any of your customers work with Visio drawings?...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 12/14/2016
Project LeadGen–Pricing and Designing Azure Solutions
Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! Ok I’ll admit this one is a bit of a selfish plug . If you haven’t...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 12/14/2016
Missed the December Insider Call? No Worries…
Garrett Bundy Missed your regional December Insider call last Friday? No worries, we've got you...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 12/08/2016
New: Azure training to expand your skills
Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Cloud Partners. Whether you are just getting started in your own...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 12/07/2016
Lights… Camera… PANIC!
In the most recent round of SMB Live events, one of the modules was on modern marketing with mini...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 12/05/2016
Getting Started with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials
Jeff Stoffel I am always looking for training webcasts to share with partners. Here is another one...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 12/01/2016
Windows 10 and EMS Technical Readiness
TS2 is always on the lookout for technical readiness sessions that allow partners to go DEEP into a...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/29/2016
Join your regional December SMB Partner Insider call this Friday
Jeff Stoffel Join your local Microsoft US team for the SMB Partner Insider call this Friday,...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/28/2016
Azure Single Instance Virtual Machine SLA
For years, we’ve promoted that if you wanted a 99.95% guaranteed up-time SLA for an Azure Virtual...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/22/2016
Register today for the U.S. SMB Customer Lifetime Value Academy!
Todd Sweetser Good day Cloud Partners! Do you want to maximize your revenue generating potential and...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/18/2016
Office 2007 End of Life is on the horizon
Todd Sweetser Hi Cloud Partners! As the cycle of life continues so does the end of extended support...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/17/2016
Get Started with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials – 4 part series
Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Cloud Partners, Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials will provide you...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/16/2016
Missed the November Insider Call?
Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! Missed your regional November Insider call last Friday? No worries,...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/09/2016
So You Want to Build an Azure Practice: Business Benefits for You AND Your Customer (Part 4)
Welcome back! In my last post, I wrote about the benefit of scale and reach as it pertains to the...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/07/2016
So You Want to Build an Azure Practice: Business Benefits for You AND Your Customer (Part 3)
In the first two parts of this post, I wrote about the speed to market, as well as the lower cost of...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/04/2016
Join your regional November SMB Partner Insider call
Tim Tetrick Join your local Microsoft US team for the SMB Partner Insider call this Friday, November...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 11/01/2016
EMS Partner Journey
During our SMB Live events this fall, we’ve been encouraging partners follow a prescribed path for...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/28/2016
Influencers, Stores, and Themes – Oh My!
We’ve listening to your feedback! You’ve told us that you would enjoy a closer look at some of the...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/28/2016
So You Want to Build an Azure Practice: Business Benefits for You AND Your Customer (Part 1)
By now, you have a ton of information that Matt and I have shared over the last couple of weeks to...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/28/2016
SMB JumpStart: Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)
Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Cloud Partners, Our new SMB JumpStart: Enterprise Mobility + Security...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/28/2016
Skype for Business Mac is now publicly available
Garrett Bundy Hello Partners, This announcement has been a long time coming, but I am pleased to let...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/27/2016
Build new web and mobile solutions for your customers with Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow
Todd Sweetser Hi Cloud partners! Wanted to share some information on an upcoming training...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/25/2016
So you want to build an Azure Practice: Sharpening Your Azure Knowledge!
As you start to build your Azure practice, you are also going to need to build up your technical...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/24/2016
Missed your regional October Insider call?
Jeff Stoffel Missed your regional October Insider call? We've got you covered. Catch up on all the...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/18/2016
So you want to build an Azure Practice: This Azure “Thing” Changes So Frequently, How Do I Keep Up?
It’s a fact for sure. Gone are the days where new features and capabilities are added every couple...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/17/2016
So you want to build an Azure Practice: MPN and Cloud Platform Competency
Let’s start at the very beginning of the Azure journey. For those who are not part of the Microsoft...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/14/2016
So you want to build an Azure Practice: Series Introduction
I hear from partners all the time that are looking to build their Azure Practice and the...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/10/2016
So you want to build an Azure Practice: Series Home Page
Here you will find all the posts for the So you want to build an Azure Practice blog series, this...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/10/2016
Intune Remote Assistance with TeamViewer
Jeff Stoffel Do you or your customers leverage TeamViewer as a remote assistance solution? Check out...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/07/2016
Partner Training and Enablement
Tim Tetrick Plan ahead, and register for upcoming in-person and virtual partner training courses,...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/05/2016
Quickly Build Azure and EMS solutions with Azure CSP in a Box
Often times when I am talking with partners about building their Azure practice, there is a lot of...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/04/2016
Partner Technical Enablement Playbook (Updated!)
Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Partners, Wanted to share with you the latest version of the Partner...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/03/2016
Register For Your Regional October SMB Partner Insider Calls
Garrett Bundy Join your local Microsoft US team for the October SMB Partner Insider call. The East...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 10/03/2016
Redundant Site to Site VPNs are supported in Azure
Rob Waggoner Question: Most customers now a days are going to have more than one ISP and need a...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 09/30/2016
Just Launched: A New Partner Marketing Experience on MPN
We just launched the new ready to go marketing experience on MPN. You have been great at giving us...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 09/30/2016
Windows Server 2016 was announced at Ignite
Rob Waggoner Good morning partners, I am attending Microsoft Ignite, and earlier this week, we...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 09/29/2016
Modern Microsoft Partner eBook Series – Download All 5 Parts Now!
In march we announced the launch our first eBook The Modern Microsoft Partner Series, Part 1: The...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 09/28/2016
Announcing the SMB JumpStart Series
Garrett Bundy Hello Partners! This year across the entire US SMB Organization we are very focused on...
Author: MSFTTS2 Date: 09/21/2016