Microsoft Silver Partner

Burnsy2023 · 10 Feb 2011 at 11:59

Has anyone gone through the process of becoming a MS silver/gold partner? Does anyone have any advice?

Burnsy2023 · 10 Feb 2011 at 13:28

Surely the only cost is the £1.5K enrollment fees (annual) + Microsoft exam fees? (For Silver)

Burnsy2023 · 10 Feb 2011 at 13:45

mikeh501 said:
It depends on what kind of business your in. Were an ISV and one of avenues to get points was to have some of our software veritested to get various accreditations in order to accrue points. This wasnt cheap once you factored in the travel/accom/time etc. We also found that you cant use the same product twice in 3 years so had to do it all again. Very tiresome.

In addition we didnt have any/many MSCD's around the place so would have had to put various people through bootcamps and exams to secure the last few points etc. IIRC it was 2 points for a MCSD etc and we needed 100 or thereabouts.

Maybe theyve made it easier, as we last looked about 3 years ago.

So was that for Gold ISV competency?

Burnsy2023 · 10 Feb 2011 at 20:54

Ev0 said:
Server 2008 is down as going out of main stream support July 2013 on the MS site

If that is indeed the date, it'll almost certainly get extended. Most places are only just upgrading from 2003.