Check out these top stories for the latest news of the week for Microsoft partners in the Americas.
Find upcoming skilling opportunities you won’t want to miss.
See also Partner Skilling Resources and the Partner Skilling Calendar.
Skilling Spotlight
Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Business Applications
Achieving certification during Business Applications Certification Week helps you stay ahead by deepening your ERP and CRM knowledge, exploring low-code tools, and driving innovation through expert-led training.
Mar 24-28, 2025
IST, GMT, PDT
Spotlight
Cosell Operations Service for Skilling (AskSkilling):
The Co-sell Operations Service for Skilling is a new service where partners can submit skilling related questions to our agents. The agents will respond within 24 hours.
This service helps partners understand the skilling offers available to them in their area and ensures they have the resources they need to build skilling capacity and capability.
You’re invited to join the upcoming Office Hours to learn more about this new skilling service. During these sessions our team will review the Partner Skilling Playbook, review the H2 skilling events calendar and answer any skilling questions you may have.
Please find below the schedule for sessions based on your time zone:
March 12, 2025 | Asia 1:00 PM IST | EMEA 9:30 AM GMT | Americas 10:00 AM PDT
April 9, 2025 | Asia 1:00 PM IST | EMEA 9:30 AM BST | Americas 10:00 AM PDTThese sessions are scheduled for the 2nd Wednesday of every month.
Register here.
For any questions or support, email AskSkilling.
Sales & pre-sales skilling
Enhance your sales and pre-sales capabilities with expert-led training to boost your skills, communicate value, and accelerate the customer journey.
Accelerating AI Solutions Partner Series
Mar 25-27 (IST, GMT, PDT)Partner Sales Bootcamp for Secure Productivity
Mar 25 (PDT)
Azure Project Ready
Enhance your Azure skills to effectively architect, deploy, and implement cloud and AI solutions, ensuring you are project-ready and can drive customer success.
Microsoft Fabric Workshop: Real Time Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Insights with AI
Mar 11-13 (IST, GMT, PDT) Building governance and security strategy for AI success
Mar 18-20 (IST, GMT, PDT)Azure OpenAI
Mar 24-27 (IST, GMT, PDT) Proactive resiliency: Reduced risk for reliable workloads
March 25-26 (IST, GMT, PDT)
Business Applications Project Ready
Enhance your expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform to streamline deployments, helping you become the go-to expert for client projects.
Transform frontline operations with AI in Dynamics 365 Field Service
Mar 17-19 (IST, GMT, PDT)
Modern Work Project Ready
Accelerate your path to Modern Work certification to master Microsoft 365 tools and productivity solutions, empowering your team and boosting efficiency.
Security Project Ready
Accelerate your path to Security certification to master cybersecurity and threat protection, ensuring you can effectively safeguard modern IT environments.
Defender for Endpoint, Identity & OT – Better Together Bootcamp
Mar 3-4 (IST, GMT, PDT) Implement Microsoft Security Copilot
Mar 18-20 (IST, GMT, PDT)
GitHub
Validate your skills with GitHub Copilot to enhance your expertise and drive success across projects.
Access the GitHub Copilot study guide, to help prepare for the exam.
Industry events
Enhance Your Industry Expertise: Leverage sales and AI training to foster innovative solutions, accelerate business growth, and deliver tailored strategies for complex challenges.
Sustainability Sales Bootcamp
Mar 5 (PST, IST)Retail Sales Bootcamp
Apr 16 (PST, IST)
Cross-solution area Project Ready Workshops
Build and extend AI-powered agents with Copilot Studio
Mar 4-6, 2025
IST, GMT, PDTSecure and govern Microsoft 365 Copilot with Microsoft Purview – Pre-sales
Mar 11, 2025
IST, GMT, PDTBuild governance and security strategy for AI success
Mar 18-20, 2025
IST, GMT, PDT
Partner meetup for Microsoft Azure
Join this community to get invited to a series of weekly webinars designed exclusively for Microsoft Partners. These sessions will provide an opportunity to connect with Microsoft Experts and learn about the latest Azure, Data, and AI Services, features, programs, and technical content.
Feb-June 2025 Weekly Thursdays
PST/PDT
Copilot Sales Champion
This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. Microsoft 365 Copilot Sales Champion is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a “first come, first served” basis while seats are available.
Registration link: Copilot Sales Champion
Access Code: XQLW-TDDJ
LevelUp for Partners
NEW: LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft is an on-demand, self-paced LMS that provides skilling resources for Technical Project Ready with labs and Sales Ready skilling for the Microsoft Cloud Solution Areas and GTM Solution Plays.
Partner organizations have the flexibility to purchase additional seat capacity to meet their immediate skilling needs.
ACTION: For more information on this offer, including how to purchase seats, please refer to the LevelUp Playbook.
For support, please contact LevelUpHelp@technofocus.com
GPS Consumption-Led Skilling initiative
NEW: Solve critical technical skills gaps in your Delivery teams with just-in-time, live private ILT deployment skilling with access to real-world hands-on-lab experiences.
This skilling offering is available for MPL SI partners with a confirmed MSX Opportunity ID anchored GTM Solution Plays.
The initiative covers a wide range of Solution plays available in the Partner Project Ready Workshop Catalog.
ACTION: Please contact CLE_VTEAM@microsoft.com or your PDM, PTS, PSA and Account Executive to submit your training request.
Get “Deal Ready” with upcoming partner sales events
NEW: A series of partner skilling events and webinars designed exclusively for Microsoft Partners. These sessions will provide an opportunity to connect with Microsoft Experts and gain proficiency with proposal building best practices supporting overall deal readiness.
These weekly series will provide quick sessions with interactive Q&A from our SMEs to better fit your schedule. All content and recordings will be available on-demand.
Register for the following upcoming partner series below:
These sessions will run weekly through April with multiple time zones available.
For any questions or support, email AskSkilling.
