Welcome to the K2 Partner Community
We're happy to have you as part of the extended K2 team. Whether you're a sales or technical person, this section includes all of the information you need to get started being successful with K2.
As a technical person, your organization looks to you to be the expert in all things K2. The roadmap below will help you get there faster. Follow the step by step guide to get up to speed – Fast!
Being successful with K2 is highly dependent on having a strong Microsoft foundation. If you are not very familiar with Microsoft technologies, before you begin with the K2 Technical Path it’s important to make sure you brush up on your Microsoft skills. K2 has compiled a list of additional
Microsoft resources that should be a prerequisite before you begin your K2 learning.
With a solid foundation in Microsoft technologies, you are ready to begin learning all about K2. The first step is to participate in the
K2 Solutions Professional course. K2 Solutions Professional is the first in a new range of K2 Official Learning Resources aimed at enabling professionals to build enterprise solutions on the K2 platform. Our goal with the K2 Solutions Professional learning resource is to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for individuals who want to build their career on servicing K2 products and K2 powered solutions.
To find an upcoming session of the K2 Solutions Professional course, view the Partner Events calendar.
Additional technical readiness materials are available in the Learning Center section of this site.
In any K2 project, the first thing you will need to do is install the software. Before you show up at a customer site, here are several ways that you can learn about how to install K2 software:
1. Listen to the How To K2: Partner Edition session on
K2 Installation Services. This webcast demonstrates the methodology the K2 Services team uses when planning a K2 installation at a customer site. It provides insight into what K2 does as part of the infrastructure engagement, what needs to be in place before that engagement and the requirements during the engagement.
2. Do your own K2 installation. Instructions for installing in both a single server or multi-server environment can be found
here.
3. Create your own VPC
K2 creates several virtual machines for use by our employees, customers and partners. To request a VPC, complete the VPC request form and we will ship one to you. However, building your own VPC utilizing your TechNet or MSDN keys to activate the VHD permitting allows you to have a VPC that does not expire and provides another way to practice your installation skills.
A full build document is available for each core that K2 has created. They include details on the products installed, the order they were installed, and all configuration settings. This document can assist when it is necessary to build a virtual machine with similar configurations.
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K2 Core 4.1 Configuration Guide for K2 blackpearl: 64-Bit Base Virtual Machine for K2 4.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Office 2010, Exchange Server 2010 and Dynamics CRM 4.0 |
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K2 Core 4.2 Configuration Guide for K2 blackpoint: 64-Bit Base Virtual Machine for K2 4.5 and Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Office 2010, Exchange Server 2010 and Dynamics CRM 4.0 bits. |
With K2 training completed, it’s now time to test your K2 skills by going through the
New to K2 Scenario Example. The focus of this exercise will be to take a business process through multiple iterations to progressively introduce more complex pieces. The end result of this effort should be to provide exposure to many of the most common functionality encountered when working on K2 engagements.
As you are working through these sessions and run into any questions, there are several places to find answers:
- Search Knowledge Base articles posted in the K2 Knowledge Center
- Visit the K2 Underground
The K2 Partner Online Hosted Environment is intended for partners to evaluate the software, complete readiness and internal training activities and create customer demos. It provides K2 Partners pre-configured K2 solutions with walk-through and step-by-step guides to build your own workflows in both K2 blackpearl and K2 blackpoint environments.
For all of the latest K2 videos, visit K2tv
Please visit the Supplemental Courses page to start learning about K2 on your own.
The K2 Value Proposition: This section includes content to help you position K2 with your customers shortening your sales cycle.
Solutions: The videos in this section are from solutions K2 has created to showcase how K2 can help customers solve their workflow needs within a specific department or industry. Many of these videos are part of a larger Solutions group available for partners on the Solutions page.
K2 software features and functionality: These videos are brief demonstrations of frequently used technical features of the K2 platform.
K2 Knowledge Center: The Knowledge Center is a repository of K2 technical material. This site includes useful information for all K2 products including:
- Knowledge Base articles
- User guides
- Developer reference guides
- Product training materials
- Compatibility matrices
K2Underground: The K2 Underground is a community site that exists to provide K2 users a place to meet, interact, participate in discussions and share their ideas, experiences and creations with each other. It is also your place to have conversations with and post questions to community leaders and K2 personnel. Within the K2 Underground is the K2 blackmarket which was created in order to facilitate project and code sharing in the K2 community.
As a sales person, your organization is counting on you to bring in new business. To do this, you need to make sure you can identify potential K2 opportunities and position K2 to potential customers.
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Listen to the How To K2: Partner Edition session on K2 as a platform - “Understanding K2 and the K2 story” This webcast discusses features and capabilities of the K2 platform, K2 positioning, the difference between K2 blackpearl and K2 blackpoint, and more.
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Read K2 case studies for examples of how K2 has helped solve customer problems. |
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Review the K2 presentations and videos made available to you in the Sales Resources tab and on K2TV |
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