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January 31, 2014
Partners: Redesigned Microsoft Action Pack subscription debuts Feb. 24

The Microsoft Action Pack subscription has long provided Microsoft Partner Network members with cost-effective access to internal use software licenses and technical, sales and marketing resources, writes Diane Golshan on the US Partner Team Blog. Now, a “new, robust, universal subscription model” will debut Feb. 24.

January 30, 2014
Works with Office 365 identity program now streamlined for vendors

As Office Blogs explains, “Identity management for Office 365 involves the use of an organization’s existing directory both for user lookup and for password authentication with Office 365. Identity management has two integral aspects that go hand in hand — federation of the authentication system and directory synchronization for the directory user lookup. The Works with Office 365 – Identity program qualifies third-party federation options.”

January 30, 2014
Brad Anderson describes the virtuous cycle of cloud computing

Customers who use the public cloud see benefits from lower prices. But organizations that also use private and hosted clouds can only benefit if their public cloud vendor “has at the core of its strategy an intention to take everything that it is learning from operating that public cloud and delivering it back for use in datacenters around world – not just in its own,” writes Brad Anderson, corporate vice president, Windows Server & System Center.