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Upgrade your customers to Windows Small Business Server (Windows SBS) 2008 or Windows Essential Business Server (Windows EBS) 2008 using Solutions Pathway. Boost your margins or pass the savings along to your customers while you supply improved server infrastructure. Small Business Specialists and Networking Infrastructure Solutions partners can save an additional 10 percent.
Help your customers easily upgrade or migrate from their existing solutions as their business needs change. Solutions Pathway, an exclusive program for Windows Essential Server Solutions partners and customers, provides tiered savings that enable you to develop new revenue streams when you help customers upgrade or migrate from their existing solutions to meet changing business needs. Leverage your customers’ existing investments —and help them cost effectively make the transition to the latest Windows Essential Server Solutions offerings.
How It Works
With Solutions Pathway, customers can upgrade or migrate from an existing solution to Windows Small Business Server (Windows SBS) 2008 or Windows Essential Business Server (Windows EBS) 2008. They can upgrade or migrate within the Windows Essential Server Solutions family. Or they can make the transition to a custom solution based on stand-alone server products. Tiered savings apply to any supported scenario and are based on whether the migration is into, within, or out of the Windows Essential Server Solution family of products.
You can easily obtain licenses online. Visit the Solutions Pathway site and enter a current 25-character product key (5×5 key). The system will automatically validate and recognize the associated product and will then provide the available migration paths. It will also automatically calculate the appropriate savings depending on the changes your customer wants to make.
After this process is complete, the software installation media (server and client access licenses) will be shipped.
Savings
Customers and partners can receive savings of 20 or 30 percent, depending on the scenario. Small Business Specialists (SBSC) and Networking Infrastructure Solutions (NI) partners are eligible to receive an additional 10 percent savings.
Enter Solutions Pathway for Small Business Specialists and Networking Infrastructure Solutions partners. 
Enter Solutions Pathway for all other partners and customers
Learn more about joining the Networking Infrastructure Solutions competency.
Learn more about becoming a Small Business Specialist.
Supported Scenarios
The following table lists the supported scenarios for both products within the Windows Essential Server Solutions family, Windows SBS 2008 and Windows EBS 2008.
*The scenario is a limited duration program that ends December 31, 2009. See Terms and Conditions for details.
Solutions Pathway Partner FAQ
Solutions Pathway Purchasing Process Overview
Solutions Pathway: Additional Information
Solutions Pathway General FAQ
Additional Resources
Windows Essential Server Solutions
Windows Small Business Server
Windows Essential Business Server
Windows Essential Server Solutions Ready-to-Go Campaigns
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Your customers’ IT departments are facing more pressure than ever!
Users need more productivity. Business groups want more value. Regulators require better compliance.
To meet these demands, IT departments know they must keep their organizations’ mission-critical, line of business applications up and running, available at all times. And they need your expertise to help them more effectively monitor and manage these IT services. We’ll give you an advance look at the new version of our Service Level Dashboard for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. It’s the essential tool for IT operations, and it’s free!
We’ll demonstrate how you can use the new features in the Service Level Dashboard to help your customers:
· Monitor line of business application health in near real time
· Spot trends in service availability and performance
· Head off problems before they occur
· Reduce costs by streamlining IT operations
We’ll also show you how you can help customers easily create role-specific dashboards to support different departments, like HR, Finance, or Operations. And you’ll see how the dashboard lets you automatically view availability and performance across the entire organization, so you can help customers keep their service level agreements with internal customers.
Be sure to join us for this valuable, 60-minute event—presented by a top Microsoft IT operations expert!
Register to Join Us:
· SAT Partner Webcast Series: Help Customers Keep their Mission-Critical, Line of Business Applications Up and Running!
· Wednesday, April 1, 2009
· 10:00 – 11:00 am PST
· Register for this event here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=0D-B6-4F-B3-1D-88-0E-CE-9D-29-3C-FB-1E-A9-99-29&culture=en-US
· Invite Key: AA3335
· Questions? Contact Beth Harvey, v-bethha@microsoft.com
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Build Applications, Revenue, and Customer Trust.
In this fast-tracked world, you need a flexible, fast, and secure browser. One with developer tools to help you build applications quickly and deploy them reliably. Designed to work seamlessly with other browsers. Develop once, render always—that’s the Internet Explorer 8 mantra, and it means that you can save time and money writing applications for Web-wide deployment.
With the special features of Internet Explorer 8, like Web Slices and Accelerators, you can extend your presence and brand, and create more services opportunities for your businesses. That’s right—the browser might be free, but it can make you money. Find out more about these opportunities for partners.
And it can help you build trust in your business. Because almost everyone using the Internet is at least a little bit worried. About viruses and worms. About spying. About identity theft. That’s why unique features like InPrivate browsing and SmartScreen filter can help you convince your customers that they’re in good hands with your Microsoft-based browser solutions. Stability features like automatic crash recovery build credibility, too.
Download IE8 at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx
Are your customers moving to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2? Want to win that migration business?
Check out this upcoming webcast from the Solution Accelerators team! It's all about how you can use the new features of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 to help customers make the move to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010, now under development, is the new version of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, a Solution Accelerator for operating system and application deployment. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010's tested guidance and automated deployment tools now support migration to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. With MDT 2010, you can migrate customers faster and easier—saving them time and money.
MDT 2010 also includes powerful new features like flexible driver management, Powershell automation capabilities, and access to distribution shares from any location.
The webcast is being presented by Mike Niehaus, the lead developer for MDT 2010. Mike will be demonstrating MDT 2010’s new features, and will show you how you can use MDT 2010’s automated tools to deploy Windows 7 across a customer’s organization. Mike will also cover installation, image creation, and different deployment scenarios. And he'll discuss how MDT 2010 works with other Microsoft deployment technologies like USMT, WAIK, and SCCM.
Join us for this webcast and learn how you can use MDT 2010 to get the inside track on Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 migration engagements!
Register to Join Us:
· SAT Partner Webcast Series: Win More Migration Engagements for Windows 7 Client and Windows Server 2008 R2!
· Thursday, March 26, 2009
· 10:00 – 11:00 am PST
· Register for this event here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=3A-78-05-A7-61-B7-4B-2B-5B-3C-5C-DB-57-52-93-52&Culture=en-US
· Invite Key: 26FA4B
· Questions? Contact Beth Harvey, v-bethha@microsoft.com<mailto:v-bethha@microsoft.com>