Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization University 2008

Stumbled upon the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization University 2008 while searching for some info on BPIO. This site gives you a great overview of what BPIO is all about and how it relates to the Office suite and related products. Mind you that this site is only intended for Partners, so you will need a partner login (usually everyone can associate his LiveId to his company)
Tons of material out there divided into Sales and Technical. The Sales Material section holds presentations, guides, movies divided in sections:

• Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization (BPIO) Campaign
• Business Intelligence
• Collaboration
• Enterprise Content Management
• Enterprise Search
• Unified Communications
• Enterprise Project Management
• IW Led Business Decision Maker Customer Campaigns

The technical part has a FTP link with login credentials. Snooping around that I discovered several courses there on MOSS, Unified Communications and Business Intelligence. You do not only online find tons of course material, but more important also VM’s! The technical materials are divided into:

• ECM – Solution Architect
• Enterprise Search – Solution Architect
• MOSS – Solution Architect
• MOSS – VPC images
• Portals & Collaborations – Solution Architect
• WCM – Solution Architect
• Business Intelligence
• Unified Communication – Office Communication Server 2007

There’s also a link to the online university which links you through to the partner training site. It reveals tons of FREE online courses for you to follow.

Other interesting links on BPIO:

• The BPIO blog: http://blogs.technet.com/obpi/rss.xml
• Infrastructure Optimization site: http://www.microsoftio.com/
• People ready site : http://www.microsoft.com/business/peopleready/default.mspx
  

Enjoy!