Azure Infrastructure Workloads
What’s new
- Added use cases for Azure Virtual Desktop Insights to help partners understand deployments of Azure Virtual Desktop, identify cost-saving opportunities, and address resource limitations or connectivity issues.
- WhatTheHacks for Infrastructure and SAP
- A summary on Partner Admin Link (PAL) references
Deep links
- Use cases for Azure Virtual Desktop Insights: Using Azure Virtual Desktop Insights can help partners understand their deployments, identify cost-saving opportunities, and address resource limitations or connectivity issues. (Microsoft Learn)## Partner Attributes
- WhatTheHack - Infrastructure: This resource provides a collaborative learning experience where attendees learn and share knowledge with each other to solve infrastructure challenges on Azure. (WhatTheHack)
- WhatTheHack - SAP on Azure: This resource provides a collaborative learning experience for attendees to learn and share knowledge while solving SAP challenges on Azure. (WhatTheHack)
- Partner Association Playbook: This playbook provides information on how customer success, performance, and skilling category points are acknowledged and calculated towards achieving solutions partner designations. (Presentation)
- Link a partner ID to your account that’s used to manage customers: This link explains how Microsoft can attribute influence and Azure consumed revenue to an organization based on the account’s permissions and scope. (MS Learn)
- Roles and permissions required to receive partner earned credit: This link provides information on the roles and permissions required for partners to be eligible for partner earned credit (PEC). (Microsoft Learn)
- Use PowerShell to link to a new partner ID: This link provides instructions on how to use PowerShell to link to a new partner ID. (Microsoft Learn)
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Partner Center and Marketplace
What’s new
- New user experience in Referrals: This update improves the Referrals workspace in Partner Center, particularly the Deal Details page in the Co-sell opportunities and Leads sections. Partners can now access enhanced features and functionalities to streamline their referral processes and maximize their co-selling opportunities.
Deep links
- New user experience in Referrals: This article provides a detailed description of the new features and improvements in the Referrals workspace, including enhancements to the Deal Details page. Partners can refer to this guide to understand and utilize the new functionalities effectively.
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Data AI Workloads
What’s new
- WhatTheHack for Data and AI
Deep links
- WhatTheHack - Data and AI: What The Hack is a collaborative learning experience where attendees learn from and share with each other. It promotes teamwork and knowledge retention by not providing step-by-step instructions for the challenges.
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Digital Apps and Innovation Workloads
What’s new
- Azure Load Testing references and samples
- Azure Integration services reference and BizTalk transitions
Deep links
- Azure Load Testing samples: This repo contains a collection of samples for using Azure Load Testing. Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load-testing service that enables you to generate high-scale load. The service simulates traffic for your applications, regardless of where they’re hosted.
- Contoso Traders - Cloud testing tools demo app: The Contoso Traders app is a sample application showcasing Playwright, Azure Load Testing, Azure Chaos Studio and more. This repo contains the source code, deployment templates, and demo scripts for exploring these cloud testing tools.
- Microsoft Assessments: Microsoft Assessments help customers work through a scenario of questions and recommendations that result in a curated guidance report that is actionable and informative. Assessments take time, but is time well-spent. (Microsoft Learn)
- Azure draft: Draft is a tool made for users who are just getting started with Kubernetes, or users who want to simplify their experience with Kubernetes. This readme will give you a quick run down on Draft’s commands and what they do. (GitHub)
- WhatTheHack - Application Development: What The Hack is designed to be a collaborative learning experience. Attendees “learn from” and “share with” each other. Without step-by-step instructions given for the challenges, attendees have to “figure it out” together as a team. This results in greater knowledge retention for the attendees. (WhattheHack)
- Azure Integration Services - Whitepaper: Application Integration often requires connecting multiple independent systems, often in complex ways. This whitepaper explains how you can use Azure Integration Services, comprising of API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Event Grid, to integrate both cloud and on-premises applications. (Microsoft Azure)
- Azure Integration Services landing zone accelerator: Azure Integration Services landing zone accelerator is intended for an application team that’s building and deploying an integration platform in a typical enterprise landing zone design. (Microsoft Learn)
- Azure Integration Services Blog: Azure Integration Services Blog. (Tech Community)
- BizTalk Server Migration to Azure Integration Services Architecture Guidance: In this content, we focus on educating customers on the differences between BizTalk Server and Azure Integration Services, provide guidance on what Azure services to use when and provide recommendations on how you setup and execute a BizTalk Migration project. (Tech Community)
- BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services: This guide provides an overview about the reasons and benefits, product comparisons, capabilities, and other information to help you start migrating from on-premises BizTalk Server to cloud-based Azure Integration Services. (Microsoft Learn)
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Modern Work Workloads
What’s new
- Added Modern Collaboration Architecture (MOCA) to enable improved collaboration, communication, and information management using Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Yammer, and the rest of the Microsoft 365 suite.
Deep links
- Modern Collaboration Architecture (MOCA): Learn “which tool when” supported by MOCA, enabling improved collaboration, communication, and information management across the organization using Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Yammer, and Microsoft 365 suite.
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Power Platform Workloads
What’s new
- Added WhatTheHack - Power Platform
Deep links
- WhatTheHack - Power Platform: A collaborative learning experience for Power Platform where attendees learn and share with each other, promoting teamwork and problem-solving without step-by-step instructions.
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Security Workloads
What’s new
- The Microsoft Entra Private Access blog has been added, providing a deeper look into Microsoft Entra Private Access, an identity-centric zero-trust solution. (Tech Community)
- The Conditional Access gap analyzer workbook has been added, which allows the detection of gaps in Conditional Access implementation. (Microsoft Learn)
Deep links
- Microsoft Entra Private Access: Blog providing a deeper look into Microsoft Entra Private Access. (Tech Community)
- Conditional Access gap analyzer workbook: Workbook for detecting gaps in Conditional Access implementation. (Microsoft Learn)
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Security - Sentinel Workloads
What’s new
The Partner Crucible updates for the Security Workloads include an updated reference for PAL (Partner Aware Learning) for FY24.
Deep links
- The Total Economic Impact Of Microsoft Azure Sentinel: Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study on the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Azure Sentinel. The study provides insights into the economic impact of using Azure Sentinel. (Forrester 2020)
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