A blog series providing the latest training, certification, and assessment information to U.S. partners for Microsoft product releases.
The new Office released to manufacturing in mid-October, and general availability is planned for the first quarter of 2013. We have begun releasing sales and technical training courses and certification exams, and encourage partners to begin preparing for the new Office now. This post will be updated as more courses are available.
Partner Resources:
On Demand Training by Role
Business Decision Maker, Sales and Licensing Roles
Microsoft Office 365
- Meet the new Office Keynote
- Understanding the new Office Business Model
- Making Money with the new Office
- Selling the new Office to SMB
- New Office: Competing to Win Against Google Apps in the Enterprise
- New Office: Competing to Win Against Google Apps with Small Business Customers
Microsoft Lync Server 2013
- Lync Server 2013 Overview
- Session: Lync Accelerate: Delivering a Lync Proposal
- Session: Lync Accelerate: Planning for Successful Lync Deployment and Rapid Adoption
- Session: Lync Accelerate: Planning for Lync Engagements & the Lync Customer Trial Programs
- Session: Lync Accelerate: Lync Deployment Options and Reference topologies
- FY13 Lync Accelerate Overview for Partners
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
Technical Roles
Microsoft Office 365
- Installing and Configuring Active Directory Federation Services (Virtual Lab)
- Active Directory Synchronization (Virtual Lab)
- Configuring Active Directory Federation Services and Verifying Federation (Virtual Lab)
Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
- Clinic 40027A: First Look Clinic: What's New for Developers in Microsoft SharePoint 2013
- Clinic 40028A: First Look Clinic: What’s New for IT Professionals in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013
- Clinic 40029A: First Look Clinic: What’s New for IT Professionals in Microsoft Lync Server 2013
New Office Certification Exams
Microsoft Exchange 2013 and Microsoft SharePoint 2013 beta exams:
- 71-341 Core Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (live version available in January)
- 71-342 Advanced Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (live version available in January)
- 71-331 Core Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (live version available in February)
- 71-332 Advanced Solutions of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (live version available in February)
Microsoft Lync 2013 exams:
- 70-336 Core Solutions of Microsoft Lync Server 2013
- 70-337 Enterprise Voice & Online Services with Microsoft Lync Server 2013