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Microsoft Solution Selling Process training for partners

by Shijaz Abdulla on 17.01.2012 at 18:53

We organized a Microsoft Solution Selling Process training on January 16 and 17, 2012 at the Marriott Hotel in Doha for salespersons working for our top partners in Qatar.

During the two day program, partners were trained on enabling World Class Selling using the Microsoft Solution Selling Process (MSSP). This equips partners to better understand customer needs and creatively position technologies that benefit the customer, leaving the customer with a positive experience and helping them earn respect as a trusted advisor.

Categories: 'Partners'
Tags: 'MSSP, Partners, training'
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Microsoft Virtual Academy: Free Training

by Shijaz Abdulla on 20.11.2011 at 09:19

Cloud Computing! It’s one of the biggest opportunities for IT Professionals in recent years. But wouldn’t it be great if there was a simple, effective way to get the skills and training you need to take advantage of this opportunity, and also get the recognition and rewards that you deserve?

This is where Microsoft can help give your career a boost.

Visit the Microsoft Virtual Academy training portal now and register to receive free and easy access to training for IT Professionals who want to get ahead in cloud computing. This content was developed by leading experts in the field, and the modules ensure that you acquire the essential skills and gain credibility as a cloud computing specialist in your organization.

MVA courses include:

Introduction to SCVMM, Architecture & Setup
Creating VMs,Template & Resources in VMM
Managing Windows Azure
SQL Azure Security
Identity & Access
Data Security and Cryptography

Categories: 'Uncategorized'
Tags: 'Private Cloud, SCVMM, security, training, virtualization, Windows Azure'
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Qatar Partners: Join us for an Office 365 webcast

by Shijaz Abdulla on 29.05.2011 at 19:06

Microsoft Partners only

Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping to save time and money and to free valuable resources.

Join our Online Webcast with our Partner Technical Consultant Khaled Yehia on Thursday 2 June, 2011 at 11:00 AM. Khaled Yehia was recently in Qatar for the Microsoft University delivery.

For registration please send your Partner ID to Khaled Yehia.

Categories: 'Partners'
Tags: 'Office 365, Partners, qatar, training, webcast'
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Microsoft University at Doha, May 22-26

by Shijaz Abdulla on 29.05.2011 at 14:06

The Microsoft University was executed in Doha, Qatar last week during May 22-26 in the solution areas of Business Intelligence, Collaboration and Virtualization. A total of 33 individuals from 16 different partner organizations benefited from the training event. This included hands-on technical training as well as training for sales team. A gala dinner was organized on the 26^th to celebrate their graduation.

Overall, the event received extremely positive feedback from the partners and they were excited to have been part of this program. The training was delivered by the following Partner Technical Consultants from Microsoft, based in Egypt:

Mohammad Raslan – Virtualization
Khaled Yehia – Collaboration
Yasmine Magdi – Business Intelligence

Virtualization:

Collaboration

Business Intelligence

Categories: 'Partners'
Tags: 'Microsoft Partner Network, Microsoft University, Partners, training'
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QITCOM 2011: Presentations Agenda

by Shijaz Abdulla on 15.05.2011 at 13:00

The schedule of sessions running at the Microsoft booth @ QITCOM 2011 has been finalized. Our partners have an exciting set of sessions lined up for you to choose from.

I’m listing the agenda below for your convenience.

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Categories: 'Partners'
Tags: 'QITCOM, training'
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Qatar Partner Academy 2010-2011

by Shijaz Abdulla on 23.10.2010 at 22:08

I’m glad to announce the Qatar Partner Academy for FY11. Partner Academy is a set of classroom learning activities that we execute each year for Microsoft partners in the country.

If you are a Microsoft partner and you would like to enroll your organization in this training program, please contact me or leave a comment on this post. Prior registration is mandatory, and seats are filling up very fast. Priority will be given to partners based in Qatar.

The following are the courses that we will be running this year.

TECHNICAL TRAINING

Venue: InfoCenter Doha, Near Sana Roundabout.
Lunch & 2 coffee breaks will be provided for all technical trainings.
Timing: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Course	Date	Type
SQL Server 2008 R2 Airlift	Sept 19-20	Technical
Forefront Threat Management Gateway	January 19-20	Technical
Forefront Unified Access Gateway	Feb 8-10	Technical
Unified Communications – Lync IGNITE	December 12-16	Technical
Introduction to Identity Lifecycle Management with Forefront Identity Manager (FIM)	Feb 22-24	Technical
Windows 7 Desktop Deployment	January 11-13	Technical
Exchange Server 2010	Jan 25-27	Technical
SharePoint Server 2010	Dec 19-21	Technical

Dynamic Datacenter with SCVMM + Hyper-V	November	Technical
System Center Service Manager	7-9 December	Technical

Data Protection Manager	Nov 22-24	Technical
System Center Operations Manager	Nov 2-4	Technical

SALES TRAINING

Venue: Microsoft Qatar office, QSTP

Server Products Licensing

November 11, 2010

2pm to 5pm

Sales

Selling Microsoft Productivity

· Unified Communications

· Portals & Collaboration

· Messaging

November 30, 2010

2pm to 6pm

Sales

Selling Dynamic Datacenter

· The Private Cloud Concept

· Virtualization & Advanced management

· Competitive Selling

November 3, 2010

11am to 2pm

Sales

Infrastructure Optimization Assessment training

· Core Infra

· Business Productivity

December 23, 2010

2pm to 5pm

Sales

Selling Forefront Security Suite

· Endpoint Security

· Edge Security

· Server Security

January 2, 2011

2pm to 5pm

Sales

Categories: 'Partners'
Tags: 'Doha, Partner Academy, Partners, qatar, training'
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Gulf Tech Talk [Partners only]

by Shijaz Abdulla on 31.12.2009 at 08:02

Microsoft takes great pride in inviting Gulf partners to Tech Talk. One of the key objectives of the initiative is to help build partner capacity especially on leading-edge Microsoft technologies: To achieve this is Microsoft invites partners to quarterly events where you can experience the best training available to better yourself, your company and your customers.

Microsoft’s success is directly related to their relationships with Partners and the ability to listen to, understand and service the needs of our partners better.

Date: January 7th, 2010

Venue: Microsoft, Building No.8, Dubai Internet City

LiveMeeting is available for partners outside the UAE.
For more information/registration, please contact me.

Agenda	Timing	Speakers
Arrival / Coffee	08:30 AM
Introduction and Welcome keynote	09:00 AM	Wael / Salim
SharePoint 2010	09:15 – 10:15 AM	Mohammed Alaa
SharePoint 2010 session: The purpose of this session is to walk our partners through an overview of the SharePoint 2010 capabilities with a focus on the different investment areas, of this major release. The session is optimized for Partners’ Technical Decision Makers (TDMs) that are already familiar with SharePoint 2007
Exchange 2010	10:15 – 11:15 AM	Zahid Tikrity
Introduce the new version of Exchange and highlight some of the key new features and architectures
Coffee Break	11:15 – 11:30 AM
Business Intelligence / Performance Point	11:30 – 12:30 PM	Mohammed Maseehuddin
Business Intelligence : Review the latest developments and trends in Microsoft BI/DW platform Performance Management Solution : Discuss Performance Management solution overview along with products and technologies
Break	12:30 – 01:30 PM
Virtualization	01:30 – 02:30 PM	Frederico De Domenico
Review the latest developments in operating system virtualization made by Microsoft with the release of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, including Hyper-V R2, Windows Virtual PC, SCVMM, and Med-V
Deployment & Systems Management, MDOP	02:30 – 03:30 PM	Frederico De Domenico
Deployment and Systems Management: review the latest developments in operating system and application deployment and systems management made by Microsoft, including MDT 2010, App-V, VDI, SCCM 2007 SP2, SCOM 2007 R2. I will also give some information as to what to expect in the near future.
Unified Communications	03:30 – 04:30 PM	Zahid Tikrity
Unified Communications: Integrating OCS 2007 with Exchange 2010