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Help your customers do more with new Windows 10 Pro devices
- Sign up for the March 22 or April 12 webcast
- New low-cost Windows 10 Pro devices for SMB customers
- Windows 10 Pro vs. Chrome partner readiness and marketing campaign
Skype for Business Technical Airlift events
- Sign up for the March 28-30 Airlift in Minneapolis, MN
- April events in Iselin, NJ and Atlanta, GA
- Skype Operations Framework training and assessment
- Skype for Business fundamentals course on demand
Artificial Intelligence across agents, applications, services, and infrastructure
- Microsoft AI expert, Geoff Colon, explains AI basics and busts some AI myths
- The Microsoft AI vision: rooted in research and conversations
- Democratizing artificial intelligence
Capturing the Cloud Application Development opportunity
- Read the blog post by Worldwide Partner Group CTO, Eduardo Kassner
- Download the Cloud Application Development Playbook
- Join the Application Development Partner community Yammer group
- Partner services for developing applications on Microsoft Azure and Office 365
You’re invited: Join the US Partner Team at Microsoft Inspire
- Register for Microsoft Inspire in Washington, DC, July 9-13
- Microsoft Inspire updates from the US Partner Team
- Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Inspire
MPN 101: Your technical training and accreditation resources
- What to know about finding and taking technical training and earning certifications
- Microsoft Azure training and certification offers
- New cloud-aligned certification resources
Growing opportunities for cloud partners with open source
- Joel Borellis, GM US Partner Enablement, talks about Microsoft Azure and open source
- Microsoft Azure training and certification offers for your team
- Microsoft + Open Source page for partners
Azure AD Sync and DirSync end of support is April 13
- Learn about upgrading customers to Azure Active Directory Connect (Azure AD)
- Sign up for the March 23 EMS Partner call
- Azure Active Directory Connect overview and technical documentation
Microsoft FastTrack: Windows 10, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft Teams
- What partners should know about Microsoft FastTrack updates
- Microsoft FastTrack for Windows 10 preview
- Microsoft FastTrack for Microsoft Dynamics 365 preview
- Enhancements to Microsoft FastTrack for Office 365, including Microsoft Teams support
- Microsoft FastTrack website
Simplify your access to Microsoft tools with SOAP
- Sign up for one-click access to frequently used Microsoft sites and tools
- See an example of what a personalized SOAP panel looks like
US Partner Community call schedule
Community calls and a regularly updated, comprehensive schedule of partner training courses are listed on the Hot Sheet.
- March 21 – Data Platform and Advanced Analytics
- March 22 – MPN 101: Managed Services Provider resources
- March 23 – Enterprise Mobility + Security
- March 28 – Open Source Solutions
- April 4 – Application Development
- April 6 – Office 365 and Voice
- April 7 – US SMB Partner Insider calls: East Region, Central Region, West Region
- Full community call schedule
- Recaps of previous months’ calls