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Training materials to get you started

Find everything from fundamentals to deep-dives on Microsoft Azure. Check out these video series and courses.

Learn how you can launch your business to the cloud

Learn Microsoft Azure fundamentals

Watch this series of three minute videos to learn how easy it is to create virtual machines, web apps, and databases.

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Training for Microsoft Azure couldn’t be easier

Train when you want

Access a host of on-demand Microsoft Azure training on the Microsoft Virtual Academy.

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Directly connect with the engineers behind Microsoft Azure’s cloud services

Join us for Azure Fridays

Hear directly from the engineers who build Microsoft Azure. Learn about the services and capabilities we offer.

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Streamline processes, respond faster

See how you can increase the efficiency of your deployment processes and meet customers’ needs faster with this Microsoft Azure webcast lab. Receive guidance on migrating your existing apps and testing your Microsoft Azure environment while leveraging the tools and services you have available.

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With the speed of delivery of the features and functionalities coming from the Azure product team, the trainings have really helped us stay up-to-date.

- Amir Jafri, CTO, eBECS

Microsoft Azure events in your area

We run events for app builders and ISVs all the time. Find out what is happening in your area or region.

Azure Tour

Top engineers from our Redmond headquarters visit cities around the world to provide free insights and training.

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Microsoft Developer Network events

This network offers a wealth of technical events to get developers trained, connect with other peers, and gain insight.

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Build is our flagship event for developer

Build brings developers together

This premier developer conference offers you advanced training, peer networking opportunities, and keynotes from our top leadership.

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Interested in developing with Office 365?

Office users throughout the world spend an average of two to three hours each day in Office clients. The Office 365 platform gives you the opportunity to reach these users with your business solutions, automate the day-to-day solutions, and even create custom solutions. Discover training to help you learn how to tap into this market and begin developing.

Get training from Office developers

Get on-demand training for all skill levels from Office product team members on through the Microsoft Virtual Academy.

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Explore the Office Dev Center

Start expanding the world’s offices. Access online courses and hands-on labs to help you start building Office 365 apps today.

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Tap into our developer community

The Channel 9 community allows you to connect with the people behind Microsoft's products, including Office 365.

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An introduction to Office 365 development

Explore how you can build your solutions directly into Office 365 using the app model. Learn how to call the Office 365 APIs from your stand-alone web and mobile device applications to leverage services, like OneDrive for Business, Mail, Calendar, People, and Sites.

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We've made a big commitment to Office 365 because Microsoft made a big commitment to us. I can't tell you how fired up we are about the support we've seen from Microsoft.

- Van Murray, Vice President-Cloud Services, NeoNova

In-person training opportunities

Whether you're looking to connect with other developers and our engineers or learn about the latest technology innovations and product solutions, we offer a host of live events to meet your needs.

Innovate. Learn. Connect. Ignite.

Learn new skills that will empower you to build high quality, innovative applications in a multi-device, multi-platform world.

Discover Ignite

Explore the power of partnership

Come to the Worldwide Partner Conference to make important connections that will help you deliver world-class customer results.

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Developer training for the future of technology

It's all about developers at Build

Get deep training so you can to take advantage of the incredible advances in Microsoft's platforms, including Office 365.

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The best of both worlds

Microsoft's hybrid cloud allows you to optimize IT resources by keeping critical data on-premises, while providing limitless scale, compute, storage, and networking for the countless day-to-day needs of your operation and your workforce.

Hybrid cloud best practices

Get step-by-step guidance for planning, building, deploying, and operating with a hybrid cloud solution that works best for you.

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Move with Microsoft Azure

Explore how to manage data and apps without more hardware, create off-site backups, and prepare for disaster recovery.

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Creating a website in the hybrid cloud

Microsoft Azure websites are flexible, scalable, and highly secure, allowing you to build applications for business workloads.

Find out how

Build the intelligent cloud

Learn why Microsoft is the right choice for hybrid cloud solutions. Understand how you can support customers with diverse requirements across on-premises and cloud, for infrastructure, platform, and services. Only with Microsoft can you bring all this together to provide precisely what each customer needs.

Most B2B companies are hesitant to go all in on cloud, so the combination of Insite & Avanade allows organizations to do more, faster with less by moving their most critical business practices to the cloud.

- Brian Strojny, Co-founder, Insite Software

In-person training opportunities

Whether you're looking to connect with other developers and our engineers or learn about the latest technology innovations and product solutions, we offer a host of live events to meet your needs.