Webinars & Videos

Our Analysts and Licensing Experts break down critical topics into concise, high-impact videos and webinars, ensuring your team is always ahead of Microsoft roadmap shifts and licensing changes.

Office Servers 2019 (Nov. 2018)

This Webinar provides an overview of the Office 2019 wave of application servers, the capabilities they do and don’t provide, and what customers should know before upgrading.

Selecting Azure Virtual Machines (Oct. 2018)

Jim Gaynor provides guidance to selecting Azure virtual machines for specific tasks.

Azure Database Landscape (May 2018)

This Webinar will provide an overview of the non-Microsoft database and data integration technologies supported by Azure. It will also explain how SQL Server both competes with and complements those technologies.

Managing Windows 10 (June 2018)

In this Webinar, Michael Cherry and Wes Miller explain the new tools and processes organizations need to keep up with the monthly quality updates and semi-annual feature updates required by Windows 10.

Machine Learning Landscape (July 2018)

This Webinar provides a review of Microsoft’s Machine Learning Landscape.

Office 365: E3 vs E5 (Aug. 2018)

Rob Horwitz explains how to choose between Microsoft’s main Office 365 plans for enterprises. This Webinar draws on material from the intensive, two-day Directions on Microsoft Licensing Boot Camp.

Business Intelligence Roadmap (Oct. 2018)

This Webinar explains the roadmap for Microsoft’s primary reporting and data analysis technology.

SQL Server 2017 and Roadmap (Dec. 2017)

This Webinar provides an overview of the new features of SQL Server 2017, and the limitations, minor packaging changes, and future expansion of the product.

Azure Stack Review (Jan. 2018)

This Webinar provides an overview of Stack’s hardware and software and a discussion of Stack’s benefits and risks.

Windows 10 Enterprise Licensing (Feb. 2018)

This Webinar summarizes how Microsoft has engineered licensing rules, feature packaging, support lifecycles, servicing models, hardware support, and other factors to compel large organizations to move to a Windows 10 Enterprise subscription and offers advice on how best to license it. The Webinar draws on material from the two-day Directions on Microsoft Licensing Boot Camp.

Unified Support Overview (Mar. 2018)

This Webinar covers the pros and cons of Unified Support, how it compares with previous offerings, and what customers should know before signing up for the program.

Prepare for 2020 (Apr. 2018)

In this Webinar, a panel of DOM analysts outlines the major technology retirements coming in 2020, how these retirements could impact existing installations, and the most likely replacement technologies organizations will want to consider.