The new Office has already been made available for our volume licence customers (yep, that pretty much means every education customer in Australia has been able to install it since early December, so I know what some IT teams will be busy with over the summer holidays). Well, to go with it, there's a pile of new training courses under the 'Ignite' brand for partners and customers coming up in the next couple of months (the first run of these filled up too quickly).
And some of them are free, whilst others you'll pay for, but they all offer the same great experience of hands-on Office training in Australia:
Lync Ignite – four day training workshop
The Microsoft Lync Ignite is a training workshop for partners and customers who are proactively looking to stay ahead of the market by delivering and using a highly reliable unified communications solution. The four day Ignite workshop includes presentations that cover a wide variety of Lync topics, both on-premise and online, and hands-on labs that create an interactive Lync experience (so you'll be bringing your laptop…)
- Sydney 19 – 22 Feb
- Perth 25 – 28 Feb
- This course lasts four days, and costs $480 plus GST
To find out more, see the full agenda, and register for Lync Ignite training
Exchange, Office and Office 365 Ignite – three day training workshop
The Exchange, Office and Office 365 Ignite workshop has been designed as deep technical training for IT implementers and Exchange administrators, who either develop, design or deploy for their organisations or customers. The training content is a mix of presentations and hands-on labs that parallel real world experience delivered by Microsoft certified experts. The content provided throughout the course requires both a technical background and experience with prior versions of the product and/or service in order for the content to be valuable
- Brisbane 30 Jan – 1 Feb
- Perth 30 Jan – 1 Feb
- Melbourne 9 – 11 April
- Sydney 16 – 18 April
- This course is free BUT we do charge $500 for no-shows (because you'll have taken a place somebody would have used!)
SharePoint 2013 Ignite workshop for developers– three day training workshop
The Microsoft SharePoint Ignite bootcamp was created to enable our partners and customers to effectively design, deploy, and administer solutions specific to SharePoint products. The course comprises deep technical training across all product associated workloads. The training content is a mix of different level presentations as well as hands-on labs that parallel real world experience.
- Melbourne 4 – 6 Feb
- Sydney 11 – 13 Feb
- Brisbane 18 – 20 Feb
- This course lasts four days, and costs $450 plus GST
SharePoint 2013 Ignite training for IT professionals– two day training workshop
The Microsoft SharePoint Ignite bootcamp was created to enable our partners and customers to effectively design, deploy, and administer solutions specific to SharePoint products. The course comprises deep technical training across all product associated workloads. The training content is a mix of different level presentations as well as hands-on labs that parallel real world experience.
- Melbourne 7 – 8 Feb
- Sydney 14 – 15 Feb
- Brisbane 21 – 22 Feb
- This course lasts four days, and costs $300 plus GST
City by city summary of Office training in Australia
Sydney
- SharePoint for developers: 11-13 Feb
- SharePoint for IT professionals: 14-15 Feb
- Lync for customers and partners: 19-22 Feb
- Exchange, Office and Office 365: 16-18 April– the free Sydney one!
Melbourne
- SharePoint for developers: 4-6 Feb
- SharePoint for IT professionals: 7-8 Feb
- Exchange, Office and Office 365: 9-11 April– the free Melbourne one!
Brisbane
- Exchange, Office and Office 365: 30 Jan-1 Feb– the free Brisbane one!
- SharePoint for developers: 18-20 Feb
- SharePoint for IT professionals: 21-22 Feb
Perth
- Exchange, Office and Office 365: 30 Jan-1 Feb– the free Perth one!
- Lync for customers and partners: 25-28 Feb