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 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.

Microsoft Cloud Compliance Risks (July 2017)

This webinar discusses the online services compliance issues no one is talking about, how Microsoft might deal with them in the future, and what organizations can do today to help protect themselves.

Business Intelligence Landscape and Roadmap (Aug. 2017)

This Webinar provides an overview of the major components of Microsoft’s BI platform, significant shifts in its BI strategy that have occurred over the past year, and the roadmap for Microsoft BI technologies going forward.

Enterprise Roadmap Update (Oct. 2017)

This Webinar outlines the most important roadmap trends revealed at Ignite, and their likely impact on Microsoft’s enterprise customers.

Skype for Business Online and Teams Roadmap (Nov. 2017)

This Webinar provides a roadmap overview for Teams and the Skype for Business, and highlights the key elements of each service customers should be tracking.

Azure Roadmap (Mar. 2017)

This Webinar includes a discussion of Azure trends and updates, an overview of key Azure services, and descriptions of IT scenario categories where Azure offers a solution.