Training Vouchers give your organization access to in-depth technical classroom training that can help IT professionals and developers deploy, manage, and support your organization's infrastructure. Training is delivered by Microsoft Certified Partners for Learning Solutions (CPLS), who use Official Microsoft Learning courseware developed by Microsoft experts.
Training Vouchers help you do the following:
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Support your software investment by preparing your IT staff to efficiently deploy, maintain, and support new technologies.
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Provide your developers with the technical expertise to build line-of-business applications for your organization.
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Reduce your overall training budget.
Available Courses
Some of the courses available through the Training Vouchers benefit include: Implementation Strategies for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (Visual Basic .NET), and Deploying Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007.
View a list of available training
Note: To view courses available through Software Assurance Training Vouchers, in the Program Type list, select SA, and in the Product Type list, select Classroom.
Learn more about Software Assurance Training Vouchers and E-Learning Benefits
In addition, you can convert unused training days and apply them toward the Microsoft Software Assurance Packaged Services benefit, which offers predefined service engagements with certified consultants who can help you plan and prepare for successful deployment of new software.
There are four types of Packaged Services:
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Desktop Deployment Planning Services help lower the cost and complexity of deploying Microsoft Office or Microsoft Windows software.
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SharePoint Deployment Planning Services help your organization lower the cost and complexity of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
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Exchange Deployment Planning Services provides product information, guidance, best practices and hands-on deployment training for a Microsoft Exchange implementation.
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Business Value Planning Services help customers realize a greater return on an Office system technology investment by identifying and designing improvements to business processes.
Learn more about Packaged Services
Customer Success Stories
HOK offered flexible training options for its employees via Training Vouchers. "With SA Training Vouchers, we optimized the valuable time and talents of our IT professionals. In so doing, we helped them to deliver Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 to other employees that much faster."
Dermot Delaney, Software Assurance Program Administrator, HOK | Read full story
PerkinElmer IT professionals used Training Vouchers to learn about advanced Office SharePoint Server 2007 features such as integration with the Office 2007 suite.
"By enhancing the expertise of our IT professionals on collaboration capabilities, these individuals will help other employees make better use of those capabilities."
Drew Lancaster, IT Support Manager, PerkinElmer | Read full story
The following Volume Licensing programs are eligible for this benefit:
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Open Value
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Open Value Company-Wide/Subscription
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Select License with Software Assurance Membership
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Select Plus with Software Assurance Membership
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Enterprise Agreement/Subscription
How It Works
Training Vouchers entitle you to receive courses from a Microsoft CPLS for a specific number of training days. The number of days varies by product and by the number of qualifying licenses for which you acquire Software Assurance. To use the Training Vouchers benefit, you must have a minimum number of licenses covered by Software Assurance; this number varies by licensing program.
For details, refer to the Microsoft Product List for Volume Licensing.
Your Software Assurance Benefits Manager activates the Training Vouchers benefit through the Microsoft Volume Licensing Services (MVLS) Web site and then assigns training days and associated Training Vouchers to designated individuals.
The right to access the Training Vouchers benefit expires with your Software Assurance coverage. If you have created a training voucher and reserved it with a qualified CPLS before the expiration of your Software Assurance coverage, the voucher will be valid for 180 days after the date it was created regardless of the Software Assurance coverage expiration date. Training Vouchers not reserved with a qualified CPLS before the end of your Software Assurance coverage will expire and be forfeited.
Steps for the Notices Contact:
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Sign the Microsoft Volume License Agreement.
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Microsoft will send you a welcome e-mail message that introduces you to Microsoft Volume License Services (MVLS).
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Go to the Microsoft Volume License Services Web site.
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Click the Sign In button. On the next screen, enter your Windows Live ID credentials. If you do not have a Windows Live ID, click Sign Up Now and follow the instructions on your screen to obtain an ID.
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Create an MVLS account.
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Assign a Benefits Administrator(s) to manage Software Assurance benefits (see table above for suggestions as to who in your organization to designate). Microsoft will send a welcome e-mail message to the Benefits Administrator(s).
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After the Benefits Administrator(s) registers on MVLS, assign permissions to manage specific Software Assurance benefits.
Steps for the Benefits Administrator:
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Ensure that you have administrative rights to activate this benefit, or contact your Notices Contact.
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Go to the Microsoft Volume License Services Web site.
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Click the Sign In button. On the next screen, enter your Windows Live ID credentials. If you do not have a Windows Live ID, click Sign Up Now and follow the instructions on your screen to obtain an ID.
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Click on the Software Assurance link. This will take you to the Software Assurance Benefits Summary page.
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Click on Training Vouchers.
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To begin using the Training Vouchers benefit, you must first create a voucher. To create a voucher, you will need to select the number of days associated with the vouchers and also designate the attendee who will be receiving the voucher and taking the course. The attendee will receive an e-mail with the voucher information and a link to available partners to select from.
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Promote the Training Vouchers benefit to your IT staff, Human Resources department, and those responsible for staff development within your organization. Refer to the Promote section for more information.
