Top Stories for US partners for the week of August 29

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New posts on the US Partner Community blog

• September 2022 Hot Sheet partner training schedule
• Learn, Assess, and Activate: FY23 partner transformation priorities
• Modern Workplace announcements and opportunities for our SMB partners
• What to do after Microsoft Inspire to grow your business 
• Together We Grow: Creating Opportunities Through Partnership
• Build your managed services practice with Microsoft 365 Business Premium
• Inspiring the future through mixed reality
• Momentum builds for Power Platform at Microsoft Build 2022
• Build your managed services practice with Microsoft 365 Business Premium
• Microsoft partner leads in digital transformation
• Want to be a Microsoft Partner? Start at Microsoft Inspire
• The Microsoft Cloud Partner Program – How Indirect Providers Can Help
• The Microsoft Cloud Partner Program – Partner Capability Score Dashboard
• CSP renewals shifting to new commerce exclusively
• What you need to know about the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program

Upcoming community calls, events, and webcasts

Microsoft Partner Network news

• Partner investments and incentives: upcoming portfolio changes
• Let’s seize the opportunity of an accessible future, together
• Enabling your customers to secure their hybrid workplace
• Help make us all better: Join the Microsoft Partner Research Panel
• Eight co-sell tips to help you acquire new customers
• New licensing benefits make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier 
• How to build technical and sales capability in a time-starved world
• Partners are building success with Microsoft Azure solutions
• Celebrating Black futures this Juneteenth
• Explore Microsoft virtualization options during DISRUPT on Tour 2022
• Evolving the Microsoft Partner Network programs
• Counter cyber threats as a Solutions partner for Security
• This year’s Microsoft Build introduced additional ISV partner opportunities
• Accessibility enables greater innovation for everyone
• Drive cloud transformation with Azure-related solutions partner designations
• Small business: the opportunity for business transformation

Featured videos

• Modern Analytics Academy Vignette: Power BI Incremental Refresh and Hybrid Tables
• (34) Modern Analytics Academy – Azure Synapse Link for SQL – YouTube
• Top Azure DevOps Announcements at Microsoft Build 2022
• Modern Analytics Academy Vignette: Power BI Incremental Refresh and Hybrid Tables
• Modern Analytics Academy – Azure Synapse Link for SQL
• Azure Data Academy – MySQL Flexible Server Migration Options
• Modern Analytics Academy – Azure Synapse Link for CosmosDB
• Azure Data Academy – Azure Database for MySQL Deployment Options: Terraform, CLI, ARM, Bicep
• Azure Data Academy – MySQL Flexible Service High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR)

Learning news

• Skill up with Microsoft Learning Partners
• Skilling up on Azure? Explore this quarter’s key new resources
• Walking the walk of a ‘Keep Learning’ culture at Tietoevry
• Microsoft Learn exam readiness provides exam prep strategies
• The 2-Minute Recap: Everything new with Microsoft 365 on Microsoft Learn
• New exam structure for Dynamics 365 certifications for customer engagement apps
• Improvements to the Exam Accommodation Process
• How has Microsoft training and certification impacted your career? Survey date extended!
• 1,100 more colleges to get skilled up through Microsoft Learn for Educators
• Announcing the new certification for cybersecurity architects
• The 2-Minute Recap: Everything new with Security, Compliance, and Identity on Microsoft Learn
• Announcing the new support engineer certification for Microsoft Exchange Online

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