Microsoft Datacenter Migration Program Kit (DCM Kit)

DCM Kit is a set of materials in a form of documents, decks and external links to help CSP partners in Hoster DC Migration Program (DCM) with their migration journey.

Last update: March 23, 2021

Getting started

• DCM Migration Journey Overview (pptx)
• Azure Strategic Implementation Guide for IT Organizations New to Azure (pdf)
• Azure Migrate (link)
• Cloud Adoption Framework (link)
• Azure lighthouse cross-customer management at scale (link)
• Well architected framework (link)
• Turning to a new chapter of Windows Server innovation (link)
• Selling Azure Migrate community blog (link)

CSP Onboarding

• Azure in CSP 101 (pptx)
• Azure in CSP Overview (link)
• Partner Center Overview (link)
• Identity and Right Management in CSP model (link)
• API integration with Azure in CSP (link)
• Azure Cost Management for CSP Partners (link)
• CSP regional authorization FAQ (pdf)
• New commerce platform (link)

Understanding Azure IaaS

• Cloud principles playbook (pdf)
• Quoting Azure IAAS (pdf)
• Azure IaaS 101 (pptx)
• Azure Compute Overview (pptx)
• Azure Networking Overview (pptx)
• Azure Storage Overview (pptx)
• Cost optimizations for Azure IaaS (pptx)
• Azure Reserved VM Instances Overview (link)
• Working with Azure Reserved VM Instances in CSP (link)
• Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for Windows Server Overview (link and video)
• Azure IaaS Operations Guidance (link)
• Azure VM Storage Performance and Throttling Demystified (link)
• Deployment of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop in Azure (link)
• Turning to a new chapter of windows server innovation (link)
• Kubernetes ebook collection (link)

Understanding Azure Database Services

• Database migration guides (link)
• Options for running SQL Server in Azure (pptx)
• Azure SQL Database Managed Instance Overview (pptx)
• Azure Hybrid Use Benefit for SQL Server Overview (link)
• Azure Database Services for MySQL, PostgreSQL and MariaDB (pptx)
• Azure SQL Data Warehouse Overview (link)
• Azure Cosmos DB Overview (link)
• Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB (link)
• Onboarding Cosmos DB Best practises (link)
• Optimizing performance and ROI with Cosmos DB (link)
• Best Practices for migrating large databases to Azure Database for MySQ (link)

Understanding Windows virtual Desktop

• Windows virtual desktop (link)
• How to migrate VDI to Azure and WVD (link)
• Getting started: Windows Virtual Desktop ARM-based Azure portal (link)
• Introduction to Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure (link)
• Prepare for Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure (link)
• Provision an Azure tenant and set up Azure Active Directory (link)
• Deploy Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure (link)
• Optimize Windows Virtual Desktop in Microsoft Azure (link)
• Windows Virtual Desktop Sales and Business Value Fundamentals (link)
• Desktop virtualization using Windows Virtual Desktop-service architecture (link)
• Azure academy WVD on youtube (link)
• WVD: Migration guide for remote desktop services (link)

Migration techniques

• Migration Techniques Overview (pptx)
• VM lift & shift using Azure Site Recovery (pptx, video #1 and video #2)
• Azure Database Migration Guide (link)
• Migration from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance (link)
• Attunity Replicate for Azure Database Migrations (link)
• Migrating Access, DB2, MySQL, Oracle and Sybase databases to Azure SQL Database using SSMA (link)
• Converting apps to Azure Containers (link)
• IIS migration to Azure App Service using App Service Migration Assistant (link)
• Mainframe migration to Azure (pptx)
• Azure migrate tutorial Microsoft Mechanics (link)
• An end-to-end process for lifting and shifting your applications to Azure (link)
• Azure Migration Center (link)
• Cloud Migration and Modernization Playbook (pdf)
• Auzre migrate Ebook (link)
• Migration guide for Windows server (link)
• Azure smart calculator (link)

Optimizing Azure environments

• MSP Playbook (pdf)
• Cost optimizations for Azure IaaS (pptx)
• Moving Windows Server and SQL Server licenses from SPLA to CSP (link)
• Azure Architecture Center (link)
• Backup of Azure VMs (pptx)
• Options for monitoring in Azure (link)
• Why it is important to create support requests (link)
• Multi-customer monitoring with Azure Log Analytics (link)
• Azure Security Center Overview (video and link)
• Azure Kubernetes Services Overview (video)
• Performance best practices for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines (link)
• Capabilities for GDPR compliance in Azure (link)
• Cloud Practice Playbooks (link)
• Deploying and Managing Azure Sentinal as Code (link)
• Combining Azure Lighthouse with Sentinel’s DevOps capabilities (link)
• The Ultimate Guide to Windows Server on Azure (link)

Security

• Azure Security Expert Series (link)

Culture

• Five steps to culture change (link)
• Differentiate your organization in three key steps (link)
• MSP playbook (link)

Other learning resources

• Microsoft Cloud Workshop catalog (link)
• Microsoft Learn (link)
• Azure migrate on partner network (link)
• Training center on partner network (link)
• Azure Architecture Center (link)

Certification

• Roadmap (link)

Azure

• improve productivity (link)
• Azure tips and Tricks (link)
• total economic impact study for azure (link)

Azure selling

• Sales and services: A guide to building Resilience (link)

  Cloudlabs Sales training

• (1) Introduction Selling Azure Migrate (link)

• (2) How to match an existing VM with an Azure VM (link)

• (3) Processor generations and the consequences of selecting the right sized Azure VM (link)

• (4) The secrets of the pricing of an Azure VM (link)

• (5) How to make a pragmatich storage cost estimate (link)

• (6) The Cloud Journey (link)

• (7) Selling Quality of Services (link)

• (8) AWS Azure Compete (link)

• (9) The new way of selling Azure Migrate (link)

• (10) GBRAM Core ratios and the impact on pricing (link)

• (11) Assess the viability to migrate a Dynamics customer to D365 (link)

• (12) Building three financial migration scenarios (link)

• (13) Make your Azure business more profitable (link)

• (14) End customer assessment with the CloudLab app (link)