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New! Education Partner Webinar Series and Regional Calls 
We are excited to launch a new monthly Education Partner Webinar Series in October. The series is designed to align partners with Microsoft’s sales incentives, solutions, and selling vehicles. The target audience is Partner sales and marketing managers and their field and inside sales teams.Click here for a complete view of the Webinar Series Calendar.
 
Register today for the upcoming National Webinars:
Friday, Oct. 3 - “Are you up to date on US Education Market Trends and Microsoft’s EDU Priorities and Vision?” - WATCH ARCHIVE
Thursday, Oct. 9 – “Office Higher Education Student Purchasing Programs Update.” – WATCH ARCHIVE
Wednesday, Oct 22 - Microsoft’s Forefront Security Suite and the new Security and Reliability Campaign and Marketing Tools”
Thursday, Oct 23 - “Learn about the Novell and Notes Compete Campaign and available Unified Communications Marketing Tools.”
Monday, Nov 3 – “Take full advantage of our AER Website and Program Renewal Tools.”
Friday, Nov 14“Look what’s new with Select Plus and Licensing Refresher (101).”
Tuesday, Nov 18 - “Learn about the new Campus Collaboration Campaign and Marketing Tools.”  

Get Engaged Program Resources 
For partners who engage with us in public sector, welcome to the Get Engaged program! We provide you consultative marketing guidance and resources for your business, to jointly market to customers in state, local and federal governments, as well as education and healthcare institutions. Check out these new resources for your benefit:
 
Get Engaged Overview: what the program is about and how to sign up
Get Engaged Marketing Guide: a consultative guide for marketing in the public sector, complete with examples, resources and tips
 
New Microsoft Dynamics CRM Partner Solution Booklet
This new collateral piece showcases 56 Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions across Federal, State & Local and education from 29 Dynamics CRM partners. Use this new booklet to gain an understanding of the various solutions that our partners have developed on Dynamics CRM and how you can apply these or customized solutions to your organization.

Sunshine Connections
Sunshine Connections is the product of a five-year partnership between the Florida Department of Education and Microsoft Partners in Learning that provides Florida teachers with information and resources to fuel the achievement of every student. To assist customers and partners we are launching a set of technical blueprints that focus on MOSS Implementation, ADFS, database management and IDM.  The Sunshine Connections website is now live at http://www.microsoft.com/education/sunshineconnections/default.mspx. 

Technical downloads for customers/partners now available: http://www.microsoft.com/education/sunshineconnections/technicalresources.mspx
 
Current Offers
 
Need customer Tele-prospecting support?
Microsoft will fund a secure, third party tele-prospecting service for federal partners that need additional resources to call down and qualify customer lists.  Submit your request for this service here by the 4th Tuesday of each month.

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