Desktop Deployment Planning Services is a Software Assurance Planning Services Benefit that offers desktop deployment planning in 1, 3, 5, 10, and 15 day planning and design sessions designed to help guide customers through deployment planning desktop implementation, focusing on Office 2010 and Office 365, and Windows 7. What's New: Get your customers ready for the Cloud!
DDPS engagements will help to:
Value proposition: Deliver strategy, architectural design and deployment planning to assist the customer to deploy the optimized desktop. Learn more.
Program OffersDDPS currently has three offerings, plus additional guidance for planning the Office 365 deployment:
Planning Engagement - Deployment architectural design and strategy to assist the customer planning the production deployment of the Office 2010 desktop and Windows 7 in their environment. Learn more Office 365 PoC Engagement - This 3-day Proof of Concept is designed to help customers understand Office 365 capabilities, determine the customer readiness for migration to the Office 365 services, and receive a hands-on experience of Office 365 in a lab environment. Learn more PoC Jumpstart Engagement - The Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Jumpstart offer involves a partner-led engagement delivering a sample Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, Windows 7 Enterprise Operating System, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), and Internet Explorer 8/9 internet browser rollout in a PoC environment. Learn more PoC Light Engagement - A modified version of the Jumpstart engagement which allows for completion in 3 or 5 days. Learn more Office Compatibility PoC Engagement - This 3-day structured engagement helps address compatibility questions and common concerns surrounding the migration and utilization of existing applications, files, and add-ins while providing a cost-effective process to manage risk. Learn more Office 365 Planning - You can now incorporate Office 365 planning in your DDPS engagements. Microsoft Office 365 delivers the power of cloud productivity to businesses of all sizes, helping to save time and money and free up valued resources. Learn more These engagements can vary in length (1-day, 3-day, 5-day, 10-day and 15-day) depending on the amount of Software Assurance Benefits customers have available.
PoC Light Engagement - A modified version of the Jumpstart engagement which allows for completion in 3 or 5 days. Learn more
Office Compatibility PoC Engagement - This 3-day structured engagement helps address compatibility questions and common concerns surrounding the migration and utilization of existing applications, files, and add-ins while providing a cost-effective process to manage risk. Learn more
These engagements can vary in length (1-day, 3-day, 5-day, 10-day and 15-day) depending on the amount of Software Assurance Benefits customers have available.
Who Can Participate?
Specialized partners enrolled in the Microsoft Partner Program. Learn more.
Learn More
- Who can participate?- An interactive view of the process- DDPS FAQ
- Planning Services FAQ
- Getting Paid
