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Surface Weekly
Hi Authorised Surface Community, This week’s important updates:
Surface Book Promotion – EDM for you to use Surface 3 offers extended Accessory Update Compete Marketing Assets Technical Updates: Surface 3 and Duplicate MAC addresses
Surface Book Promotion: EDM now available Last week we announced the Surface Book 256 i5 8GB GPU Plus Complete for Business Warranty Promotion. Until the 30th June, this offers provides up to a further 15% additional discount on the Surface Book and Business Warranty bundle. Please contact your Distributor for final pricing and details. Total discount: $386 ($335/ book + $51 /warranty) Promo period: 5th of April to 30th of June TP4‐00004 9C3‐00009
BOOK 256GB I5 8GB GPU COMMER Complete for Bus 3YR Warranty Surface Book
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No bid grid, no special pricing
Deal reg is applicable
Attached is an edm for you to customise and use to promote to your customers. Make the most of this fantastic Surface Book promotion today!
Surface 3 Offers – now extended until end of June Great news! The Surface Edu Bundle and additional discount on Surface WiFi and Surface 3 LTE skus has been extended beyond the original March end dates ‐ now available until the end of June. Here are details:
Surface 3 Education Bundle Promo Effective until end June 2016, Surface 3 EDU bundles are eligible for an additional discount of up to 20%. Bundle Code
Bundle Description
Special Price
Promo Code
3068718
Surface 3 4/64GB with Windows 10 + Type Cover + Pen (Hard Bundle)
$591 ex GST
S3EDU‐64
3081715
Surface 3 4/128GB with Windows 10 + Type Cover + Pen (Hard Bundle)
$620 ex GST
S3EDU‐128
Surface 3 Discount Offer Effective until end June 2016, we are offering an additional discount on Surface WiFi and Surface 3 LTE skus.
Transaction Volume Requirements
Per unit discount
Product
Product Type
Surface 3 WiFi
Tablet
50‐249 units
$35 ex GST
Surface 3 LTE
Tablet
50‐249 units
$35 ex GST
Surface 3 Type Cover
Type Cover
50‐249 units
$35 ex GST
Surface 3 Docking Station
Docking Station
1‐249 units
$70 ex GST
(taken off standard buy)
Accessory Update 3rd Party Accessories Ingram Micro is your one stop shop for all your Surface needs. 3rd Party Accessories are a key part of the Surface story and provide a great margin opportunity. Ingram Micro carries a large range of Surface compatible accessories from many vendors such as Kensington, Maroo, Otterbox, STM, Startech, Targus… to name a few. Please reach out to our sales team for quote, or view Techlink for available products
Surface Type Cover with Fingerprint Reader Type Cover with Fingerprint Reader has launched! This is a premium addition to the Surface accessories family. Customers are seeing huge value in this biometric technology and its integration with Windows Hello – especially due to its backward compatibility with SP3. This short video explains why customers would buy a Fingerprint Reader Type Cover over a normal Type Cover. Be sure to include reference to the below website in your marketing and sales materials. https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/accessories/surface-pro-4-type-cover-fingerprint
Compete Marketing Assets How do you convince customers to try Surface over Mac, Chromebook, iPad or Android Tablets? Look no further – on the Ingram Surface Partner Zone to help you! Battlecards and Differentiated Value Propositions which go up against each of our major competitors. We all know that we have the most productive devices on the planet with Surface, and here are all the reasons why – a set of Compete Marketing Assets to help you convince your customers.
Technical Update: Surface 3 Update An update for Surface 3 (Wi‐Fi & LTE) devices is now available. Stability improvements around Wi‐ Fi, Type Cover & Touch Panel among various other efficiency improvements have been included in this update. A reboot is required for the update to apply correctly and it is recommended that this occur immediately after install. For full details of the changes visit our Surface IT Pro blog post: http://blogs.technet.com/b/surface/archive/2016/03/01/february‐updates‐for‐surface‐3‐ devices.aspx
Technical Update: Duplicate MAC Addresses
Are your customers wanting to deploy their images via their network but are only using a single Ethernet adapter/Dock? Check out this TechNet article that talks to working around the duplicate MAC address issue that will arise in this type of deployment scenario.