<div dir="ltr">I was just kidding around anyway.<div><br></div><div>For what it's worth, I've been at a Partner for the majority of my career (~10 out of ~13 years), and I can honestly say that, from a post-sales engineering role I serve, there's very little of benefit to me on the partner side. I derive almost all of my value from public documentation, the non-partner support forums, this mailing list, and good old fashion "let's try it and see what it does."</div><div><br></div><div>I find the partner support forum area to be quite dead, and when questions are asked, it's public information that could have benefited a google searcher looking for that answer.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps some partners will chime in here and share with me some nugget of information, and I'll realize, once again, I've been missing out on something for all these years. SMH</div><div><br></div><div>I can see how though, for a pre-sales engineer, that would be quite different. I see <a href="https://community.cisco.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/322131">Srini</a> over in the partner forums just crushing it, basically doing Cisco's job for them, helping all kinds of partners out. Competitors to his own company no less.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 11:49 AM UC Penguin <<a href="mailto:gentoo@ucpenguin.com">gentoo@ucpenguin.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">It wasn’t intended to be mean.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Just an observation.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Would be nice if CCIEs (that aren’t associated with a partner), are given more access similar to what is available to partners.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I can’t count the number of times going through support forums something links to a partner only link.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I’m probably in the minority, but just a different view point.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Sep 24, 2019, at 10:08, Anthony Holloway <<a href="mailto:avholloway+cisco-voip@gmail.com" target="_blank">avholloway+cisco-voip@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Low blow Mt Penguin, low blow. I'm not saying you get developers on the case with you. I think it's more of a backbone TAC (if available) versus the outsourced TAC. I admittedly haven't opened a TAC case since fixing my status, so the benefit has yet to be seen by me. I did notice I can select Sev 2 online, however, Sev 1 was still disabled as an option when I took a cursory look.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 9:32 AM UC Penguin <<a href="mailto:gentoo@ucpenguin.com" target="_blank">gentoo@ucpenguin.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Mine was associated, though I haven’t seen any noticeable TAC improvements.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Sep 24, 2019, at 09:27, Lelio Fulgenzi <<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca" target="_blank">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> | Senior Analyst<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> cisco-voip <<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Anthony Holloway<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Peter Slow <<a href="mailto:peter.slow@gmail.com" target="_blank">peter.slow@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Cisco VoIP Group <<a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Is Your CCIE Status on Your <a href="http://Cisco.com" target="_blank">Cisco.com</a> Profile?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you so much for the congratulations and appreciation! So far no one has mentioned that it helped them get associated, or if they already were, so I'm not too sure if this was a valuable guide or not. I'm afraid I might be the only
knucklehead who earned his CCIE, promptly set it on a shelf, and didn't put it to work for me. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:38 PM Peter Slow <<a href="mailto:peter.slow@gmail.com" target="_blank">peter.slow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ok, so this is kind of big news for me, so I thought I'd share it with all of you; current and future CCIEs.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I got my CCIE Collaboration (45633) five years ago, and had always been told that I would receive preferred treatment when opening TAC cases.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now, I didn't know how to verify that statement, so I just assumed it was happening. Its not unreasonable to assume this was an automatic association. Come to find out, I was wrong, and for five years, I have been missing out on this
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<p class="MsoNormal">First up, just check if your CCO profile reflects your CCIE status, because it might.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Head on over to your <a href="http://Cisco.com" target="_blank">Cisco.com</a> Profile Account Management page:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Then click the CCIE tab<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now, either one of two things will show here:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A) If you see a link to the CCIE program, then you're golden, and you don't need this guide, sorry to waste your time, but at least you can sleep easy tonight.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">B) If you see two fields to enter your CCIE Number and Company Name, then you are not associated<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, if this matches what you see, then we need to make sure some things line up first before just submitting the information, else it will likely just fail.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Step 1) Check your CCIE Profile<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Go to: <a href="https://ccie.cloudapps.cisco.com/CCIE/Schedule_Lab/CCIEOnline/CCIEOnline" target="_blank">https://ccie.cloudapps.cisco.com/CCIE/Schedule_Lab/CCIEOnline/CCIEOnline</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Step 2) Check your CCO Profile<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Step 3) Associate your CCIE to your CCO profile<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now, I had trouble with this one part, and I was getting the following error when submitting<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And that's it. I hope this helps someone avoid 5 years of missed opportunity.<u></u><u></u></p>
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