Tip 14 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Don’t get caught out not knowing the answers to the easy questions – learn the different Price Level bands for the MPSA/Select Plus and Enterprise Agreements.
Day 13 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 13 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Remember the extra SA benefits that are available to MPSA and Select Plus customers when they have Software Assurance Membership – Training Vouchers and Planning Services.
Day 12 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 12 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Don’t waste time and money by not being completely ready to take your exam. Our Sample Exam gives you a chance to evaluate how close you are with your preparation. There’s a case study to work through with 12 questions to answer, and then 42 general licensing questions.
Time to roll up your sleeves and have a go! http://bit.ly/74-678.
Day 11 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 11 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Make friends with Ali! She’ll help you to remember the differences between Office Standard 2013 and Office Professional Plus 2013 – Access, Lync and InfoPath – so you can recommend the right product in the exam.
General Availability of Azure RemoteApp
Today (11 December 2014) sees the General Availability of Microsoft Azure RemoteApp. This service delivers Windows applications from the Azure cloud and is licensed with a choice of two USLs – Basic for lightweight LOB applications (data entry, for example) or Standard for productivity applications (Office, for example). 40 hours are included in the starting price ($10 and $15) and any overage is billed hourly up to a capped price of 80 hours ($17 and $23) and after that there are no more charges.
See this Microsoft page for full details and some very useful FAQs: http://bit.ly/1slel6c.
Simplification comes to Office 365 Activation
As of 17 November 2014, it’s easier to activate Office 365 subscriptions purchased via Open and Open Value programs.
Firstly, there’s a new streamlined activation method which means that you don’t even have to go into VLSC and the product keys are populated automatically for you – download a user guide for this process here: http://bit.ly/1yOOUQr.
Alternatively, if you prefer to initiate processes like this from VLSC then that’s still possible and you get the benefit of the simplified no-copying-and-pasting-of-product-keys improvements too.
Here’s the user guide explaining this process: http://bit.ly/1wciZbu.
See the Microsoft announcement here: http://bit.ly/1yOLoWd.
Day 10 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 10 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Are you confident when you should use the PUR, Product List or OST? Make sure you can recommend the right document in different situations for the exam.
Day 9 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 9 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. Don’t waste time revising for things that aren’t in the exam – you don’t need to know anything about Visual Studio or MSDN licensing, for example.
MSDN Subscription Administrators’ Guide
If managing MSDN Subscriptions is part of your life, then this Subscription Administrator’s Guide is worth a read.
It’s a comprehensive (45 pages) overview of the all tasks that you’ll need to know how to tackle, with some useful tips and best practice recommendations too.
Get this August 2014 guide here: http://bit.ly/1ucJ3hm
Day 8 – 74-678 Top Tips
Tip 8 for a successful 74-678 Christmas. The new exam includes MPSA so make sure you’re familiar with the key elements of this program. The Get Licensing Ready site has a dedicated track on this topic to get you started: https://GetLicensingReady.com