1. Practice Accelerator Building Practices

2. Practice Accelerator What is it? A training program designed to help you create a successful deployment business through repeatable methodologies and best practices Who is it for? Partner roles: practice leads, technical planners, implementers, and consultants What do you get? Training and resources to support the entire customer engagement Why attend? To learn best practices for consistently successful customer deployments How much? Use five of your partner advisory hours benefit as partner with a gold or silver competency. ** O365 no cost for Cloud Essentials & Accelerate partners For more information and registration Practice Accelerator OverviewMicrosoft Lync Server 2010 Business IntelligenceMicrosoft Office 365 Data Center Consolidation and Migration Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Data Center ManagementOptimized Desktop Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

3. Practice Accelerator Success Stories

5. PA in FY13: Two Delivery Models 4 hours a day for 4 consecutive days Applies to: 1. Exchange 2. Lync 3. SharePoint 4. Office 365 5. Optimized Desktop 10+ hours divided for Different roles Live and On-demand sessions Applies to: 1. Datacenter Management 2. DCCM 3. Business Intelligence

6. PA / Competency Mapping Practice AcceleratorRelevant to these Partner Competencies SharePointContent & Collaboration ExchangeMessaging LyncCommunications Business Intelligence Optimized DesktopDesktop V2 replacement will align to new devices competency Datacenter ManagementServer Platform DCCM – Datacenter Consolidation & MigrationVirtualization Office 365Small Business Practice Accelerator offerings do not count towards the requirements to earn a competency. This is only to illustrate the offerings and relevant competencies.

7. Practice Accelerator for Office 365 Special Offer: No cost for Microsoft Cloud Essentials and Cloud Accelerate partners.

8. Practice Accelerator for Lync Server 2010

9. Practice Accelerator for Optimized Desktop

10. Practice Accelerator for Exchange Server 2010

11. Practice Accelerator for SharePoint 2010

12. Practice Accelerator for Business Intelligence

13. Practice Accelerator for Datacenter Management

14. Practice Accelerator for Datacenter Consolidation and Migration BECOME ELIGIBLE To be a Virtual Machine Migration Toolkit partner upon PA Completion.