Software Assurance Training Benefits help boost productivity by providing in-depth, instructor-led technical classroom training for IT professionals and developers, and opportunities to enhance end-user readiness, all designed to ensure effective and efficient deployment, management, support and adoption of new Microsoft software without impacting your training budget. Software Assurance training benefits provides technical and end-user training through two modalities: Software Assurance E-Learning and Software Assurance Training Vouchers.

Technical Training

End User Training

With Software Assurance End-user Training, you can help your employees gain skills to be more productive with their current software, or ready your employees for new versions with individual, self-paced interactive training delivered via Internet or intranet (E-Learning) and/or Demonstration Sessions developed for larger groups by Microsoft experts For further information and resources, please visit the Software Assurance Training Benefits Web page at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/sa .

This catalog represents only the eligible training offerings for the Software Assruance program.

For more information on training resources outside of the Software Assurance program, please visit the Microsoft Learning homepage (http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/default.aspx) and the Microsoft Learning Training Catalog (http://learning.microsoft.com/manager/catalog.aspx).

The filters are described below.

1. Audience—the group of individuals for which the training is intended: IT Pro, Developer, and End User.
2. Product Technology—catalog searches can be focused on a particular product/interest or technology category. For example, a filter could be selected to show all courses for Windows Server 2012 or SQL Server 2012.
3. Language—the language(s) in which a training course is offered.
4. Training Type—the type of training needed: e-learning or classroom.
5. Program Type—training listed here is only available with the Software Assurance program.
6. Offer Type—the category in which programs are offered to customers.
7. Availability—expected availability for a course:
   • Future represents courses available in the next 60 days.
   • New indicates courses that have become available in the last 60 days.
   • Now represents courses available now, including new courses.

The first set of columns describes information about the product. The columns following the descriptive information reflect which “offers” are available for the course. The course list also shows the languages for which the course is available

The column headers are described below.

1. Audience—the three different Software Assurance user groups, including End User, IT Pro, and Developer:
   • End Users are typically interested in Microsoft Office 2010 system or Windows 7 courses.
   • IT Pro users include those individuals that are responsible for the configuration and deployment of technology.
   • Developers include users that are interested in creating Web applications or other services running on Microsoft platforms.
2. Product Technology / Portfolio —this represents the subject of the training.
3. Product Number —the unique number identifying each product.
4. Product Type —the two categories offered under Software Assurance:
   • E-learning (online training).
   • Classroom (also known as instructor-led training).
5. Title —the product or course title.
6. Unit —number of hours, days, or pages, depending on the product.
7. Software Assurance Applications —e-learning courses included as part of the Software Assurance E-Learning benefit (Applications Pool) intended for end user audiences. Courses include Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and others.
8. Software Assurance Systems —e-learning courses that are part of the Software Assurance E-Learning benefit (Systems Pool) intended for end-user audiences. Courses include Windows 7, Windows 8, and others.
9. Software Assurance Servers —e-learning courses that are part of the Software Assurance E-Learning benefit (Servers Pool) intended for technical audiences. Courses include a limited offering of Microsoft® Exchange Server, Windows® Server, and others.
10. Software Assurance SCORM—e-learning courses that are part of the Software Assurance E-Learning benefit available in a SCORM format for use with a customer’s Learning Management System. Only those courses in the Application and Systems categories are available in the SCORM format. Server courses are not included.

Clicking any column header will sort the course list in alphanumeric order by the column header.

The "Q" represents "quarter" and follows the quarters of a calendar year:

1. Q1—January–March
2. Q2—April–June
3. Q3—July–September
4. Q4—October–December

E-learning courses can appear as a collection or as a single course. Only e-learning collections show a plus sign. After clicking a plus sign, the selection will expand to show all courses within the collection.

To export the course list to Excel, click the Excel icon that appears above and to the right of the course list.

To hide filters in the interface, click the Hide Filters icon above and to the left of the filters. Click the Show Filters icon to display the filters again. Note: Filter information is not exported to Excel.

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