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Introduced at Microsoft’s Inspire partner conference, the library contains pre-written building blocks that users can snap together without coding to form fully-automated wizards for activities like setting up user accounts and standing up virtual machines.

Called the Wingman Professional Services Program, the new offering is less a strategic pivot into a new revenue source than an effort to help partners get cloud infrastructure practices up and running swiftly.

A first for the company, the move gives members of Microsoft’s CSP program access to a dramatically expanded line of solutions while giving the developers of those solutions access to an entirely new sales channel.

Shared customers of the two vendors can now quote structured cabling and associated construction projects more easily and efficiently.

A new data breach risk scanning feature helps users find unpatched operating systems and applications, device settings that don’t meet configuration requirements, and more than 60 types of sensitive personally identifiable information.

The new TPx Complete package combines unified communications with managed IT and security offerings in a one-stop-shopping package offering 100 percent guaranteed performance and discounts of up to 40% off the cost of individual products.

The roughly 30 rigorously vetted partners to earn the new Azure Expert Managed Service Provider designation so far, which include giants like Rackspace and New Signature, are now Microsoft’s go-to options for outsourced Azure administration.

A wide-ranging series of policy and partner program changes instituted this month by North American Channel Chief Rob Cato (pictured) are designed to get the hardware maker back on track to recording consistent market share gains.

Based on technology from threat monitoring and management vendor Trusted Metrics, which SolarWinds has purchased, the new system offers multitenant intrusion detection, log management, threat intelligence, and more in one subscription-priced package.

CloudJumper’s Cloud Workspace and Streaming App Services products are now go-to options for The 20’s member MSPs.