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Your knowledge about HP ProLiant solutions with Windows Server

December 2011
 
In This Issue:
» Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials edition and ProLiant MicroServer website
» EMEA Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Availability
» Windows on ProLiant Selector Tool
» HP ProLiant Windows Server FAQs
» Windows Server 2003 FAQ
» Windows Server Licensing FAQ Updates
» SMB MVP Community Roadshow
» New Collateral
» Coffee Coaching Channel Expansion
 

Looking for ProLiant Certification information? Check out:
» Windows Support Matrix
» Windows Server Catalog
 
Quick links to the latest HP OEM offerings:
» Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter editions
» Windows Small Business Server 2011
» Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation Edition
» Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Premium Edition
» Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
» HP Insight with Microsoft SCE 2010

SBS 2011 Essentials pre-installed on the HP ProLiant MicroServer is a winning combination for “small” business needs providing a low-touch preinstalled solution for fast deployment and priced low to support up to 25 users with a configuration that includes RAID storage.  The new website www.hp.com/go/sbs2011/microserver provides a wealth of information for your customers - Product details, Case studies, hands on labs for a trial run at SBS 2011 essentials and more. 

When running a campaign at the local level, leverage this rich URL chalked full of information and education on this energy efficient front office solution.  Here’s the part numbers again for quick reference:

* Part Number applicable for each country as follows: US: 658552-001, AUS: 658552-011, BR: 658552-201, JP: 658552-291, AP: 658552-371, EU: 658552-421.

On Nov. 14th, HP has launched Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter ROK edition in French and German languages.  The following SKU’s are now available:

Remember, Datacenter edition is perfect up sell opportunity providing unlimited virtual instances. This product is licensed by processor.  When training your ROK pa

rtner remind them they will need multiples of this product when needing to support 4 and 8 CPU’s. Happy Selling!

Your selling opportunities will be now supported by the Windows on ProLiant Selector Tool. Creating the winning combination of an HP ProLiant server and a Windows Server operating system is as easy as following any of the options presented: either you already know which hardware you’re selling or which software. The tool will display the possible options that can cover your customer needs.

Spread the voice of this tool, which is available NOW in English and in Spanish.

Coming soon the German, Italian and French versions!

Per your request, we have co-written a Frequently Asked Question document to address the FUD in the market place around Windows Server 2003 support. The facts are addressed with reference to the Microsoft public websites and the hard questions you may face from customers like “Why doesn’t HP support Windows Server 2003 on HP ProLiant?”.  This is a public paper - share the URL with anyone, send suggestions to lucy.ellis@hp.com if you believe we missed anything that needs to be covered. 

The international translated versions of the FAQ (without the WMS section) are now available via URL links.  To reference the main location for these links please see www.hp.com/go/rok and click on MORE INFO tab. At the bottom of the page you’ll see the links for the International links.  OR you can find these papers by adding the iso country language codes main URL after the HP.com section. For example for Italian, the “it” is inserted after the hp.com -  http://www.hp.com/it/go/MicrosoftOEMFAQ.  Here are the languages and links:

Beginning in May and continuing into FY 2012, the HP Microsoft SMB MVP Community Roadshow is to reaching every grassroots local IT Pro community group requested by invitation. Over 60+ cities have been visited, presenting an international roadshow traversing US, CA, AU, NZ, UK, IR and into EU in a span of six months. The training provided is from Microsoft MVP’s teaching resellers about Microsoft’s latest Small Business offerings coupled with HP ProLiant entry platforms.  The demonstrations and discussions about these products are from real world experiences.

Here’s some recent feedback from the Israel event: “Thanks for your presentation. After close to 16 years in this business, rarely am I so impressed by a presentation. If I wanted to read MS sale material, I can easily do that on my own. But to get a practical spin on the software features, that’s brilliant”. Rafi Epand, Pangaea Computing Systems

The SBSMigration team leading the MVP’s around the world on this tour are in review for future expansion of the program to more locations in EMEA as well as LATAM and APJ.  Please contact Greg Starks if you are intested in learning more. 

SBS Essentials and HP ProLiant MicroServer
Brochure: The winning combination of MicroServer and SBS Essentials has released a new brochure in order to help your Resellers and Sales Rep have more information about this solution created for SOHOs and SMBs.
Customer Presentation: Also, we’ve created a Customer Presentation regarding MicroServer and SBS Essentials combination. You’ll find key benefits of the bundle and both products.

Windows MultiPoint Server 2011
Brochure: The winning combination of HP ProLiant and WMS 2011 has released a Customer Brochure, where your Channel Partners and resellers will be able to find product features and advantages of this partnership. It’s available on the HP WMS 2011 webpage.
Battlecard: Have on hand the tools for making your sell a success and use this WMS 2011 Battlecard for overcoming any objection and help your customers resolve their IT needs thru the HP and MS partnership.
Customer Deck: Your customers and you will be able to review the new features of WMS 2011 and HP Support on Licensing formats, supported servers and the available part numbers.
Data Sheet: Understand the main product characteristics and differences between all the MultiPoint editions and be able to offer the Premium edition to SMBs or the HP MultiSeat offerings.

If you want to get any of these Collaterals please contact Yuri Luna.

Windows Server 8 website–Coming soon!
Rumor has it! …Windows Server 8 will be arriving soon to the market. In the meantime, HP will release a website so customers that are using the Windows Server 8 Developers Preview and Beta can get information regarding the HP driver support and the servers that are under test. Visit the soon to be released vanity URL: www.hp.com/go/win8server.

Coffee Coaching started as a resource for resellers and partners to LEARN about all HP and Microsoft offerings; but today it represents more, it's a community that has had an incredible growth! At the beginning of last year, we had a 15k members goal. And at the end of Fiscal year 2011, we had 30,000 members!

During this quarter, there's been a lot of announcement launch such as the Extreme IT Makeover, and the FLP trivia games, and support for the SMB MVP Community Roadshow.  Within the Coffee Coaching Facebook page, the FLP tab is becoming very popular.

Our training is from Video and one of our most popular topics during this quarter was the SBS2011 Standard edition on Installation and Migration.  As for the next quarter, here’s a sneak peek: ProLiant Generation 8 Coffee Coaching Sessions, more SBS 2011 Essentials content, and French, Italian, German and Spanish content is on its way!

So stay tuned and remember to spread the word about Coffee Coaching, in your own language: English US, German, French, Italian, Spanish.

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Contact any of us for more information: Brad Kirby (Partner OS & Systems Mgmt); Lucy Ellis (WW PM); Yuri Luna (WW NPI PM); Hector Arevalo (Coffee Coaching PM), Yan Fei Yang (EMEA); Stefanie Hansel (EMEA); Matt Thompson (EMEA); Steven Bark (AMS); Gregor Suryasaputra (APJ); Stella Sakowski (I-SCE PM); Doug Dewerd (IC-SC PM).