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Microsoft offer customers with Software Assurance a pre-paid service delivered by Microsoft partners. The service offers customers 1, 3, 5, 10 or 15 free consultancy days with SharePoint specialists to develop a customised SharePoint 2010 deployment or upgrade plan.

The benefits include:

  • Personalised service and expert advice from professional
  • Opportunity to evaluate SharePoint and how it can support your business
  • Access to best practice and tools from Microsoft
  • A customised roadmap to deployment based on a comprehensive assessment

SharePoint deployment planning service

For those customers looking to implement SharePoint 2010 or 2007 for the first time the planning service is invaluable to mapping out a roadmap to successfully deploy and roll-out a SharePoint solution that meets the needs of your organisation.

SharePoint 2010 upgrade planning service

The SharePoint 2010 upgrade planning service is targeted at customers that have already implemented SharePoint and want to get more value from their investment by upgrading to SharePoint 2010.

Engagement Day Details

Following are details of what you can expect from the different engagement types.

1-Day – Includes a Strategy Briefing Session to introduce SharePoint 2010 and discuss the immediate and future value of moving to 2010

3-Day – Includes an Architecture Design Session to document the current 2007 deployment end to end, discuss upgrade options and flag areas of potential concern (in addition to the Strategy Briefing Session)

5-Day – Includes an Upgrade Plan to provide formal documentation of the upgrade based on data collected (in addition to the Strategy Briefing and Architecture Design Session)

10 and 15-Day – Both the 10 and 15 day engagement could include a Pre-Upgrade Checker that utilizes the pre-upgrade checker tool to assess upgrade readiness and provide a formal analysis of the results along with recommendations for problem resolution (in addition to the Strategy Briefing, Architecture Design Session, and Upgrade Plan)

If you’re interested in finding out more about how this methodology could help your organisation, or you just want some advice about SharePoint, call our team on 020 7099 6911