The US StepUp webinar series

We are excited to introduce our new US StepUp webinar series program, replacing the US SMB JumpStart webinar series program. These workshops are designed to help your team understand, adopt, and deploy new Microsoft Cloud technologies to expand your business opportunities. There are three new US StepUp webinar series starting this fall. Each series walks you through specific aspects of the solution.

Select the StepUp workshop series that best fits your organization’s needs and register today!

Proactively securing your customers with Microsoft solutions

Learn how you can secure Identity, Data, and Devices across your customers environments using Microsoft Security solutions. We will be showcasing a variety of offerings including Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Azure Information Protection.

This webinar series is best suited for partner companies who want to learn how to protect their customers against cybersecurity attacks by providing and deploying Microsoft Security solutions across their environments. We recommend your company’s Technical Lead attend this webinar series.

Date Topic
October 12 Enterprise-level identity protection
October 19 Control and protect information
November 2 Regulatory compliance
November 9 Proactive cyberattack detection and prevention

Leveraging Azure for business continuity

Learn how to provide Azure based solutions for your customers to solve their data backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery challenges. This four-week webinar series is designed to help your team understand, adopt, and deploy these Microsoft technologies, while at the same time helping you expand your business opportunities.

This webinar series is best suited for partner companies who are looking to learn the fundamentals and are ready to start an Azure practice today. We recommend your company's Office 365 Technical Lead attend these sessions. If you have already adopted Azure Backup or Azure Site Recovery into your customer solutions, these sessions can be useful for new team members unfamiliar with the technology.

Date Topic
October 31 Introduction to Azure Backup & Azure Site Recovery
November 7 Using Azure Backup
November 14 Using Azure Site Recovery – Hyper-V to Azure scenario
November 28 Using Azure Site Recovery – VMWare to Physical Machines to Azure Scenario

Streamlining database migration to the cloud with new cloud-based migration services

Customers are demanding cloud-based data platform capabilities now more than ever before. In the past, it was difficult for partners to help customers move their on-premises data workloads to Azure due to limited migration tools and complex architectures. That’s all changed with the availability of new Azure enabled tools that significantly ease Microsoft and non-Microsoft data migrations to the cloud. In this three-week series, you will learn about the tremendous opportunities to capitalize on this customer need with the tools and technologies to build a new practice offering.

This program is designed for partners who are looking to understand the business opportunities for application modernization and database migrations with new technologies like Data Migration Services (DMS) and SQL Managed Instance that help accelerate that practice. Technical Leads and Business Decision Makers are best suited for this webinar series.

Date Topic
November 30 Database modernization – the partner opportunity and what’s new
December 7 Introduction to Data Migration Service and SQL Managed Instance
December 14 Using DMS and Azure SQL Managed Instance and GTM Offer

If you have any questions about the StepUp webinar series, please send an email to smbin@microsoft.com.