I’ll be on the road in December in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth doing two full day Office 365 reseller training sessions for Microsoft. These sessions are broken up into a “Start” and an advanced “Grow” session (conducted back to back).

The sessions cover both the technical and business aspects of implementing Office 365. That means you’ll get a deep dive into Office 365 and you’ll also learn successful strategies for selling and implementing Office 365 for customers.

Here’s some feedback from previous attendees:

“Fantastic presentation on adding value to your existing Office 365 practice. Do you want to know the value of the new E5 plans and how it can practically benefit them, thereby increasing your revenue stream? No fluff – just the information that you need to grow your business using Office 365/Azure was presented.” – Jason Shim

“This was a great overview of available opportunities within Office 365 Enterprise now and in the future presented by Robert Crane [MVP] So many great tools on offer to upsell and promote more with PowerBI, Delve and Yammer more in organizations” – Robert Coleiro

“Excellent session today … not like the regular training. We were immersed in practical exercise and working in a small group. You have to think differently when on a team! What we don’t know (and that’s a pretty big area!) we can ask our partner who knows a different skill set to help with the solutions. Great stuff.” – Martin Maloney

“The best training I have been to in recent memory – very practical, customer-focused exercises and loads of great information and resources” – Tristram Morgan

The training is very hands on and requires you to work in teams to solve practical real world challenges presented throughout the day. Importantly, it is also focused on solutions for SMB customers.

Best off all? The training is totally free if you are a Microsoft Partner, all you need to do is register which you can do here:

Office 365 Start – https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKWebId=0x259617bc5f

Office 365 Grow – https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKWebId=0x260206cf75

I hope to see you there.

Just uploaded another online course to my training academy. This one is:

Integrating Azure Active Directory features with Office 365

It will show you how to enable you Azure AD inside Office 365 and then use it to brand your tenant, create a web based single sign on apps portal as well as password reset portal. It also covers how to enable rights management in Office 365.

Each lesson in the course includes a training video, download notes and quiz style questions to test your knowledge.

I have also added this course in as a module to my larger

Getting Started with Office 365 Administration

course which now has 10 sections with over 50 video lessons, downloadable course notes and more!

If you don’t follow my social media feeds then you have probably missed that for November 2015 I’m offering the first 15 people who sign up to the Office 365 admin course a 25% discount. That is over $85 off the normal price but only for the first 15 and only for November, whichever comes first. Sign up today to take advantage of the discount before its gone.

Keep you eyes peeled for more courses and discount from the CIAOPS Online Academy.

I’ve just made available my next online course – Configuring Office 365 Identity which you can view here:

http://ciaops-academy.teachable.com/courses/configuring-office-365-federated-identity

It is aimed at teaching you the basics of configuring ADFS and Single Sign On with Office 365.

The course contains 6 lessons:

1. Understanding Office 365 Federated Identity
2. Preparing the environment for Office 365 Federated Identity
3. Setting up the Federated ADFS Server
4. Converting to an Office 365 Federated Domain
5. Setting up a Federated ADFS Proxy Server
6. Troubleshooting Office 365 Federation Configurations

with each lesson containing a video, downloadable lesson notes and some external resources.

You can sign up for this or any of the other courses I have published via the new URL:

www.ciaopsacademy.com

This course has also been included in the Getting Started with Office 365 Administration course that now covers 9 areas and aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to managing all aspects of Office 365.

I appreciate those who have supported me by already signing up for my online courses. The more support I get, the more courses I can develop.

if you have any suggestions or ideas for online courses that you’d like to see me do please contact me, I’d love to hear from you.

You may have seen on my Twitter feed all the new online courses I have been posting up. You can of course take these courses individually but I have now combined them all into a single course;

Getting Started with Office 365 Administration

The course includes the following material:

1. Configuring Office 365, licensing and creating users

• 1.1 Create a trial Office 365 tenant via the web
• 1.2. Create Office 365 tenant via Volume Licensing
• 1.3. Set Partner of Record
• 1.4. Managing licensing, subscriptions and domains
• 1.5. Adding cloud users
• 1.6. Office 365 administration roles
• 1.7. Company profile and theming
• 1.8. Managing Office 365 Service Settings

2. Configuring users for email on the web and via Outlook

• 2.1. Using Outlook on the Web
• 2.2. Using Outlook on the desktop
• 2.3. Shared mailboxes
• 2.4. Configuring mailbox options
• 2.5. Office 365 groups

3. Configuring shared Document access via office 365 Team Sites

• 3.1. Accessing SharePoint Online
• 3.2. Uploading Documents to Team Sites
• 3.3. Adding apps to Team Sites
• 3.4. Creating sub-sites in Team Sites
• 3.5. Administrating SharePoint Online

4. Working with private documents using OneDrive for Business

• 4.1 The difference between OneDrive and Team
• 4.2 Uploading documents to OneDrive for Business
• 4.3 Synchronising Office 365 files to the desktop
• 4.4 Sharing Office 365 documents
• 4.5 Using the SharePoint Recycle Bin

5. Collaborating using Delve, Yammer and SharePoint

• 5.1. Using Delve
• 5.2. Enabling Enterprise Yammer
• 5.3. Using Enterprise Yammer
• 5.4. Using Office 365 video
• 5.5. Editing office 365 User Profiles

6.  Integrating Skype for Business for all users in Office 365

• 6.1. Install Skype for Business client
• 6.2. Enabling external Skype for Business communications
• 6.3. Adding contacts in Skype for Business
• 6.4. Scheduling online meetings using Skype for Business
• 6.5. Conducting Online meetings using Skype for Business

7. Configuring and managing synchronised Office 365 users

• 7.1. Understanding Office 365 identity management
• 7.2. Installing Azure AD connect
• 7.3. Syncing local AD user to Office 365
• 7.4. Managing users with synchronised identities
• 7.5. Troubleshooting synchronised users

8. Office 365 PowerShell

• 8.1. Configuring Office 365 PowerShell access
• 8.2. Managing users with PowerShell
• 8.3. Managing mailboxes with PowerShell
• 8.4. Managing SharePoint with PowerShell
• 8.5. Managing Skype for Business with PowerShell

With more lessons coming soon.

Each lesson includes a short video tutorial as well as downloadable lesson notes. Each lesson also includes a number for questions to test your knowledge and understanding on the topic.

To celebrate the launch of this new course I have a number of discount coupon codes that will provide a discount of 10% off the normal price of this complete course. I only have a limited number of these coupons so please contact me via email (director@ciaops.com) to receive yours. I expect these coupons to go fast so if you are reading this after November 2015, I’d suggest there won’t be any left. So hurry.

Going forward I’m planning migrate much of my published content into these online courses. You can check out what is there via:

CIAOPS Academy

Where you will find each individual course plus aggregated courses like Getting Started with Office 365 Administration.

Keep you eyes peeled for more courses launching soon.