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MLSS, I passed!

A big thanks go out to Lesley March the (used to work at Microsoft but now works with them) licensing trainer and James Henderson, the Scottish Partner Manager.

Lesley was about the best at explaining Microsoft -isms I have ever encountered, from either the training or marketing perspective! Also, doing the 7 courses in one day is quite hard work for us partners and for Lesley! The MLSS is normally done over 2 days at least I think. Time to think about those 23 Software Assurance benefits

Thanks to James for organising the event and for showing willing by taking the course himself. He admitted later that he didn’t know quite as much as he could when it comes to the SMB side of licensing and the issues us SBSC partners face daily regarding licensing our clients software.

Saw James the next night at the Edinburgh SBS Users Group meeting which was the most lively I have ever seen it. James gave a run down of the changes at Microsoft Scotland (and UK) when they move the Edinburgh office to Waverly Gate (Google-Waverly Gate Microsoft, for details in the press). This new headquarters will include a technology center and new Partner suite. These will be Partner driven and can only make Microsoft Scotland a more responsive and less ‘provincial’ outpost