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Episode 162 of Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting | Tuesday Feb 18, 12:30-1:30 Sydney time
Tomorrow is episode 162 of the Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meetings and we have a feature topic "The Future of Hybrid Cloud Partners" to be shared by Dean Corcoran, Regional Technology Strategist for Hybrid Cloud and Data Centre Optimization. Full agenda is Commerce and Operations Update Updates from Past Meetings The Future of Hybrid Cloud Partners by Dean 30 Days in 30 Seconds which is a look at recent news items News, Views and Venues looks more deeply at some of the significant announcements and events Skilling, Training and Readiness covering options for education of Sales, Pre-sales and Technical staff Did You See seeks to summarize some of the skilling events in the past month Please join us online for the one hour Teams meeting. If you don't have an invitation just send me, philme@microsoft.com, an email. Also, please note these sessions are not recorded and using any recording apps will be removed from the meeting. Join the meeting to understand why. Content for the meeting is available here. Regards, PhilMicrosoft AI Partner Training Day, Sydney, December 10, 2024 | Sales Track Slides Now Available Here
Thanks to so many of you for attending the Microsoft AI Partner Training Day on Tuesday December 10. I really enjoyed the conversations we had. Please find here the content from the Sales Track with a huge thanks to Rohit Lakhanpal, Roan Kang, Sharlie Raymond, Natasha Fenton, Jaron Cohen, Jordan Hennessey, Arabella Mason and Vanessa Sorenson for taking the stage and sharing thoughts and insights. Have a wonderful holiday season and I do hope to see many of you online for the next "Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Meeting" set for Tuesday, December 17, 12:30-1:30 Sydney time. Regards, PhilMicrosoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Episode 160 Highlights from Ignite, Summary of AI Tour
Hi everyone, we're starting our December call in about 10 minutes so sharing the slides here for you to follow along. Certainly been a busy couple of weeks and I, for one, am looking forward to the holiday season. Regards, philmeEpisode 159 Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting - Azure AI Agents, News, Did You See
I look forward to seeing you online in five hours for our 159th episode of the Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting. Feature topic for today is "Azure AI Agents" to be presented in a panel format. Panelists will be our GPS "Agents of AI" - Abby, Daniel and Dean. We'll also cover recent Commerce and Operations Updates; News and Webinars; Did you see - a summary of some events you may have missed and Skilling. I'll also offer a glimpse of some news to be public on November 12 USA time. Slides for the session are here so you can follow along. If you haven't registered it's not too late. Just click HERE. See you online soon. Regards, PhilEpisode 158 of Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting is set for Tuesday October 15
Running a risk here publishing the approved slides early so you have a chance to review and use them to follow along tomorrow, Tuesday October 15 at 12:30pm Sydney time. Last time I did so it was an "Epic Fail" as on the very morning of the Online Meeting the Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 capabilities were released. Oh well ... taking a risk is investing in excitement 😃 The feature topic for this meeting will be "Update on Azure Virtual Desktop" to be presented by Lourens Van Dyk, Partner Solutions Architect for Azure Core Infrastructure. As usually we'll also look at recent updates to the Commerce and Operations; general business and technology announcements; forthcoming events; and skilling. Please find attached to this post the slides for the meeting and if you are not already registered it's not too late. Just click here. I hope to see you online tomorrow. Regards, PhilEpisode 157 of Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting | Tuesday September 17, 2024
I'm looking forward to seeing you online on Tuesday September 17 from 12:30pm Sydney time for the 157th episode of the Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting. If you haven't registered yet it's not too late. Simply click here for details, the agenda and to register. Attached here are the slides we'll cover so you can "follow the bouncing ball" as we cover the usual topics of Commerce and Operations Updates, the feature topic "A Tour of Microsoft Entra Suite", News, Views, Venues; Did You See; and Technical Updates. Have a good evening. Regards, Phil
Action Pack Renewal Notification
I recently missed my Action Pack Renewal. This was because I did not receive a specific renewal notification. I did receive 'Action required: Link your Partner Center account to Microsoft billing profile' and 'Partner Center account successfully linked to Microsoft billing profile' emails and although these emails mention this was required before renewal and did give the date by which renewal had to be completed this was some time in the future and was not recorded. It was overlooked because in previous years I had received a specific 'Renewal Email' had been sent. I do feel that a specific email should have been issued.Slides from Episode 156 of Microsoft Cloud and Hosting Partner Monthly Online Meeting now available
Hi everyone, please find here the content from the Cloud and Hosting Partner Online Meeting held on Tuesday August 20. In the session we covered highlights from various Commerce and Operations webinars held over the past 30 days, a discussion on questions raised last meeting and via the online form in segment called "Menagerie", some of the changes in content from past meetings, general news in the last month, and some of the recent and forthcoming Skilling opportunities. Enjoy the content and to those that joined in person ... thank you. Regards, Phil
MAPS Excessive Price Increase
I just renewed my MAPS subscription. As a background I'm a one person organisation. For many years the price was A$440 inc GST. This year, the price was over A$710 inc GST. Which is a price increase of over 75%. I was told this was because now all pricing is based on USD so I'm paying the equivalent of US$400, and that it's not a price increase. I'm posting this to raise my objection to the exhorbitant price increase, and find out if other people have also been similarly effected.
