See also the full Partner Skilling Calendar and Partner Skilling Playbook.

Quick links

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:

February 12, 2025 | Asia 1:00 PM IST | EMEA  9:30 AM GMT | Americas 10:00 AM PST
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 PDT

These sessions are scheduled for the 2nd Wednesday of every month.

Register here.

For any questions or support, email AskSkilling.

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 Program

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 program 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.

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Upcoming events: Copilot (sales, pre-sales, and technical skilling)

GitHub Copilot Certification – Generally Available

We are thrilled to announce that the GitHub Copilot certification exam is now generally available! This is an exciting opportunity for individuals looking to validate their skills with GitHub Copilot.

We believe this certification will play a vital role in helping professionals enhance their expertise and drive success in their projects.

For more information, please visit the certification landing page. You can also find the GitHub Copilot study guide, which includes links to the Microsoft Learning paths to help prepare for the exam.

Copilot Sales Champion

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Microsoft 365 Copilot Sales Champion program 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

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Build, extend, or buy? Driving customer conversations with Copilot and Copilot stack

Feb 11-13, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Low Code + Copilot Studio Sales

Feb 11-13, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Accelerating AI Solutions Bootcamp

Feb 25-28, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Azure

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: AI and Security
Accelerate your path to certification and mastering the intricacies of AI, cybersecurity, threat protection, incident response, and more with Security certification week events:

Korea AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

Click here to register

China AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

Click here to register

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Azure and GitHub

Achieving certification demonstrates your commitment to staying ahead of the curve in a fast-paced world. Take the next step in your certification path with technical training in Azure Data and Al services, GitHub Copilot and Advanced Security, Infrastructure Administration, Cloud Application Development and more.

Feb 24-28, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos

This content is derived from Microsoft Official Curriculum and presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Microsoft Fabric Workshop: Modern Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric

Feb 11-13, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Build and modernize AI apps on Azure

Feb 17-20, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Azure Databricks: Migration and integration

Feb 18-21, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Azure OpenAI Workshop

Feb 24-27, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

DevOps with GitHub and GitHub Copilot

Feb 24-27, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Business Applications

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Business Applications

Achieving certification demonstrates your commitment to staying ahead of the curve in a fast-paced world. Accelerate your path to certification and deepen your understanding of intelligent ERP and CRM business applications. During Business Applications Certification Week you’ll also explore low-code tools and explore how to drive innovation and efficiency across customer solutions. Through expert-led training, you’ll be empowered to help your customers adapt and innovate by connecting teams, processes, and data across business functions for increased efficiency, greater agility, and exceptional customer experiences.

Mar 24-28, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Full contact center solution with Power Platform and Dynamics 365

Jan 28 – Feb 20
PST

Click here to register

Low code app modernization for developers

Feb 25-26, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Modern Work

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Innovate with Microsoft 365 Copilot and build your own agents

Feb 18-20, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Security

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Security

Accelerate your path to certification and mastering the intricacies of cybersecurity, threat protection, incident response, and more with Security certification week events:

Japan Security Certification Week (only security)
Feb 17 – 21, 2025

Click here to register

Korea AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

Click here to register

China AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

Click here to register

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Migrating your SIEM Solution to Microsoft Sentinel

Feb 18-20, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Industry specific skilling

Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry

Encourage your partners to join our Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry! These sessions are perfect for ISV or SI partners who are new to AI and looking to enhance their business. The webinars will provide valuable insights into AI’s impact on various industries, showcase practical use case examples, and guide partners in identifying business problems that can be solved with AI.

Click here to register: Retail | Manufacturing | Healthcare | Sustainability | Financial Services

Industry Sales Bootcamp

The goal of the industry sales bootcamp is to address the latency that exists between customer/field and partner enablement by developing a programmatic partner sales bootcamp day. The day consists of a 4-hour, interactive session with interactive session with AM and PM sessions available to suit different time zones.

Click here to register

Retail Sales Bootcamp

Feb 26, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning Event Series

We are excited to announce the continuation and expansion of our virtual Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning event series, specially designed for ISV and SI partners. This is your chance to dive into the transformative world of AI and discover how it can revolutionize your business and benefit your clients.

AI for Sustainability

On demand
Click here to register

AI for Healthcare

On demand
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: SMB Resellers

Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 Sales Champion program is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a “first come, first served” basis while seats are available.

Registration link: Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion
Access Code: MIAB-EIIH

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Have you noticed our hashtags?

We use unique hashtags across our Microsoft Americas Partner communications channels—including blogs, emails, social posts, and Insider Call presentations—so you know what each communication is about and can easily find content that’s relevant and of interest to you.

Watch this short video to learn more.
Take a look at our hashtag taxonomy.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #SalesAndMarketing #DoingBizwMSFT #AccelerateDeals #CrossSolution

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Excellence Workshop

To help accelerate your sales cycle, these one-on-one Microsoft-led training sessions are crafted for your customers that are eager to expand Microsoft 365 Copilot within their organization and scale their AI strategy. You’re invited to attend as well!

Nominate your customer through the Partner-led Sales Resource (PLSR) form today.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #Event #GrowSkills #Azure

Introduction to Microsoft Fabric

Are you a data professional? A developer? A business analyst?

Join us online on March 13 as we explore the core components and capabilities of Microsoft Fabric, a powerful platform designed to simplify and accelerate the development of analytics applications. Don’t miss this deep dive into how to build robust analytics applications that can transform raw data into actionable insights.

Learn more and register here.

February 5 Americas Partner Insider Call

Register now for the next Americas Partner Insider Call on Maximizing ROI with Copilot, the next call in a series focused on helping you use Microsoft 365 Copilot to accelerate growth. In this session, we’ll explore proven strategies to drive real-world business value and ROI for customers with Copilot.

See the list of previous sessions, now available to watch on demand.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners #CSP
Relevant to: #SalesAndMarketing #ProgramOfferUpdate #AccelerateDeals #ModernWork

No Better Time: CSP offers

Empower your customers with secure AI through our latest promos for CSP partners. Learn more about the offers:

• Microsoft 365 Business Premium 15% promo (North America only). Through April 1, 2025.
• Microsoft 365 E3 15% promo. Through June 30, 2025.
• Microsoft 365 E5 15% promo. Through June 30, 2025.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot – IURs for select partner benefits packages. From January 22, 2025.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot 15% promo. Through April 1, 2025.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot – monthly billing option for annual term subscriptions. Launched December 1, 2024.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #DoingBizwMSFT #GrowYourBiz #CrossSolution #Azure #Security

Hybrid Cloud Partners podcast—inspiring stories and innovative solutions

In the Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Partners podcast we explore the latest opportunities to enhance your profitability and prepare for the future with AI. Each episode features an inspiring story from industry peers and innovative solutions for scaling your business profitably. Listen to this two-part episode with NeoSystems and watch for more episodes coming soon!

Subscribe today to listen wherever you get your favorite podcasts:
YouTube* | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSS

*With subtitles in French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

For exclusive resources and to become part of the Microsoft DCO community, visit dco.microsoft.com.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #SalesAndMarketing #Event #GrowYourBiz #CrossSolution

Webinar: Unleash Sales Growth and Greater Customer Experiences with Copilot

Register now for this January 30 webinar and empower your sales team with AI capabilities. Learn how Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales can make your team more productive by streamlining your sales process and helping sellers close deals faster. Experts from Wipfli and Microsoft will share valuable insights for using AI to overcome efficiency challenges and answer your questions in a live Q&A.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #GrowYourBiz #BestPractice #Security

Defend against cybersecurity threats

Leverage these campaign assets to help elevate your customers’ security posture and significantly reduce their risk of exposure, and introduce them to Microsoft unified security operations.

This powerful, AI-driven platform seamlessly integrates Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, Security Exposure Management, and Security Copilot, along with Microsoft Threat Intelligence into a singular, cohesive solution.

See also the full Partner Skilling Calendar and Partner Skilling Playbook.

Quick links

LevelUp for Partners

LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft is a self-directed, self-paced interactive learning management system tailored to Microsoft Partners. Partner organizations have flexibility to purchase seat capacity to meet their skilling needs.

LevelUp offers partners high-value sales, pre-sales, and technical courses across all Microsoft Cloud Solution Areas and GTM Solution Plays:

• Sales skilling to enable Microsoft partner sellers to build mindshare & sell more effectively
• Pre-sales skilling to enable Microsoft partner tech sellers to convert mindshare into customer projects
• Project Ready skilling with hands-on-labs to improve delivery team deployment capability

For more information on this offering, including how to purchase seats, please refer to the LevelUp Playbook. For support, please contact LevelUpHelp@technofocus.com.

Regional Skilling Services is now live

The Regional Skilling Service desk is designed to help managed partners close skilling gaps, drive certifications, and support Microsoft priorities. This service offers reactive support, PDM-led partner outreach, key resources, and guidance to enhance partner capabilities in areas like AI, cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, and more.

Email AskSkilling@Microsoft.com to learn more about Microsoft partner skilling offerings, resources, support, and feedback.

Introducing the GPS Consumption Led Skilling Program

We are pleased to announce the Consumption Led Skilling (CLS) program, formerly known as Account Led or Consumption Led Enablement. This initiative equips GSI, GCS, and Enterprise SI partner delivery teams with L300+ project-ready skills through exclusive live virtual instructor-led training and hands-on labs. Designed for partner teams working on won client projects, the program ensures they are technically prepared for successful project outcomes.

Trainings Offered: The program covers a wide range of Solution plays available in the Partner Project Ready Workshop Catalog.

Key Features:

• Availability: Open to GSI, GCS, and Enterprise SI partner delivery teams working on client projects for which the contract between the partner and client is already signed.
• Training delivery: Dedicated private live virtual instructor-led L300+ depth training with hands-on labs.

Qualification: Consumption Led Skilling triage v-team reviews and prioritizes requests based on business justification and Azure Consumption Revenue impact.

How to Request CLS Training: Contact your skilling manager to request CLS training for your delivery team.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to enhance the CLS program to better serve our partners and drive successful project outcomes.

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Upcoming events: Copilot (sales, pre-sales, and technical skilling)

SMB Sales Bootcamp

The SMB Sales Bootcamp is a multi-day partner sales event that will cover key sales and go to market topics aimed to help grow partner capabilities to successfully sell the Microsoft Cloud to SMB customers. Join this sales bootcamp to learn about the massive opportunity in the small and medium business space (one of the fastest growing businesses within Microsoft), overview of Microsoft SMB FY25 Solution Plays and the hero products, understand the SMB AI and Copilot narratives, and resources to land more SMB deals. This will be brought to life with real use case scenarios and objection handling best practices.
Jan 28-30, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

GitHub Copilot Certification – Generally Available

We are thrilled to announce that the GitHub Copilot certification exam is now generally available! This is an exciting opportunity for individuals looking to validate their skills with GitHub Copilot.

We believe this certification will play a vital role in helping professionals enhance their expertise and drive success in their projects.

For more information, please visit the certification landing page. You can also find the GitHub Copilot study guide, which includes links to the Microsoft Learning paths to help prepare for the exam.

Copilot Sales Champion

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Microsoft 365 Copilot Sales Champion program 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

Copilot Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Power your AI transformation with Copilot and the Copilot Stack Bootcamp

Jan 21-23, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Build and extend your own agents using pro-code capabilities

Jan 28-31, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Azure

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: AI & Security
Accelerate your path to certification and mastering the intricacies of AI, cybersecurity, threat protection, incident response, and more with Security certification week events:

Korea AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

China AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

Registration coming soon

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos

This content is derived from Microsoft Official Curriculum and presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Build and Modernize AI Apps Workshop

Jan 20-23, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Microsoft Fabric Workshop: Admin and Governance

Jan 28-29, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Microsoft Fabric Workshop: Data Warehousing

Jan 28-29, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Business Applications

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Full contact center solution with Power Platform and Dynamics 365

Jan 28 – Feb 20
PST

Click here to register

Enhance business performance planning in Dynamics 365 Finance

On-demand
Available January 29

Registration coming soon

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Upcoming events: Modern Work

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Frontline Worker technical bootcamp

Jan 22-23, 2024
PDT

Jan 29-30, 2024
PDT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Security

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Security & GitHub

Stay ahead of the curve and get ready for certification by gaining cybersecurity expertise with the Security track and advancing your coding skills with the GitHub track.

Jan 27-31, 2025

Click here to register

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Security

Accelerate your path to certification and mastering the intricacies of cybersecurity, threat protection, incident response, and more with Security certification week events:

Japan Security Certification Week (only security)
Feb 17 – 21, 2025

Korea AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

China AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

Registration coming soon

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Implementing Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Identity and Cloud apps Bootcamp

Jan 21-23, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Industry specific skilling

Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry

Encourage your partners to join our Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry! These sessions are perfect for ISV or SI partners who are new to AI and looking to enhance their business. The webinars will provide valuable insights into AI’s impact on various industries, showcase practical use case examples, and guide partners in identifying business problems that can be solved with AI.

Click here to register: Retail | Manufacturing | Healthcare | Sustainability | Financial Services

Industry Sales Bootcamp

The goal of the industry sales bootcamp is to address the latency that exists between customer/field and partner enablement by developing a programmatic partner sales bootcamp day. The day consists of a 4-hour, interactive session with interactive session with AM and PM sessions available to suit different time zones.

Click here to register

Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning Event Series

We are excited to announce the continuation and expansion of our virtual Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning event series, specially designed for ISV and SI partners. This is your chance to dive into the transformative world of AI and discover how it can revolutionize your business and benefit your clients.

AI for Sustainability

On demand
Click here to register

AI for Healthcare

On demand
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: SMB Resellers

Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 Sales Champion program is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a “first come, first served” basis while seats are available.

Registration link: Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion
Access Code: MIAB-EIIH

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In the ever-evolving technology ecosystem, the unprecedented pace of innovation with Microsoft 365 Copilot is reshaping the future of work. Powered by generative AI, Microsoft 365 Copilot is at the heart of this transformation—revolutionizing productivity, collaboration, and customer engagement.

With recent upgrades, including Copilot Pages, advanced app integrations, and AI models, Microsoft 365 Copilot offers partners more tools to create innovative solutions for their customers. The enhancements in the Wave 2 announcement further empower customers by boosting collaboration, productivity, and automation. These upgrades create new opportunities for partners to enhance their offerings, deliver greater customer outcomes, and drive business growth.

In this blog, we’ll highlight recently launched offers and announcements, GTM and skilling resources, and next steps to help you seize this opportunity to deliver innovation and drive business value.

Introducing a new payment option

On December 1, 2024, we introduced a new monthly billing plan for annual subscriptions of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales, and Microsoft 365 Copilot for Services. This new monthly billing option for annual subscriptions will be priced five percent higher than the annual billing (upfront payment) option for annual subscription plans. For additional details, read this Microsoft 365 blog and this Pricing Updates FAQ.

Promotional offers

To help you get customers AI-ready, the following offers are available to accelerate the customer’s adoption of AI while helping them stay secure and compliant.

Getting Started Microsoft 365 Copilot offer
Now through December 31, 2024, customers buying between 10–300 seats on a new Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscription will get a 15 percent discount. This discount will be applied to the partner net pricing, allowing you the flexibility to decide how to use these savings with your customers. Leverage the functional offers development guide to further enhance this promotion by bundling with your professional services. We also recommend that you take advantage of our monthly Microsoft 365 Copilot QuickStart training.

Do More with Microsoft 365 E3 promo
Security remains a top priority for customers. The introduction of AI amplifies this concern, underscoring the importance of safeguarding data. Now through June 30, 2025, CSP partners will receive a 15 percent discount off the net partner price for new-to-Microsoft 365 E3 customers. Microsoft 365 E3 provides essential foundations to enable AI, including Microsoft 365 apps and security capabilities that simplify IT management and support customers on their Zero Trust journey. For customers seeking next-level threat protection and data security, Microsoft 365 E5 provides additional capabilities such as XDR to defend across the infrastructure and ensure data security throughout the data lifecycle.

Microsoft 365 E5 customer offer
Beginning January 1, 2025, partners can receive a 15 percent discount off the net price of Microsoft 365 E5 annual commitment subscriptions for eligible customers. This promotion will be available worldwide for new-to-offer customers, for subscriptions between 1–2,400 licenses.

The offer will be available through June 30, 2025. Look for more information in the Global Promo Readiness Guide beginning January 1.

Go-to-market resources

Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI assistant for work. And its value now goes beyond individual productivity boosts—supporting top organizational goals like revenue growth, cost reduction, higher revenue per employee, faster employee onboarding, better workforce retention, and increased operational efficiency.

To help customers identify and realize these business outcomes faster, we’ve introduced a new functional GTM approach that better demonstrates business value and provides a strong justification for business leaders to want to expand their investments.

Here are the key resources you don’t want to miss:

Start with this video to understand the new functional GTM approach, then use these resources with customers: the Microsoft 365 Copilot pitch deck, the Microsoft Copilot Scenario Library, and the Business Case Builder.

Leverage these GTM resources to highlight the value of Microsoft 365 Copilot products and solutions with your customers:

• • Copilot Value Discovery: Full kit | POE template
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot campaign in a box
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot demos and explainer playlist
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption guidance

Additional resources are available at Modern Work for Partners – Microsoft 365 Copilot CSP and  Modern Work for Partners – Microsoft 365 Copilot practice development.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Excellence Workshop

Leverage this workshop to accelerate your Copilot sales journey. The Copilot Excellence Workshop provides one-on-one Microsoft-led training to support the partner sales cycle with end customers targeting an increase in Copilot seats or net new Copilot seats. Learn more about the program and nominate your customer through Partner-led Sales Resource (PLSR).

Skilling for success—build your AI practice

It’s never too late to build your Microsoft Copilot practice and capture new opportunities. Enhance and expand your skills for building and selling AI-enabled, customer-centric solutions across different modalities. Visit the Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub to register for upcoming live events and to access on-demand content across Azure, Business Applications, Modern Work, and Security, as well as Sales and Pre-sales Partner Skilling. You can find even more AI learning opportunities by visiting this Microsoft partner skilling blog.

You can also attend Level Up CSP: Modern Work & Business Applications trainings (formerly CSP Masters) that are built to help partners accelerate sales and technical capabilities.

Microsoft CSP Briefings

Unlock the potential of your small to medium-sized business practice with these Microsoft CSP Briefings (formerly called SMB Briefings), designed to optimize our shared sell-through-your-partner innovative solutions.

Use these Microsoft-developed demand-generation events to drive customer interest in new-to-Microsoft-Cloud CSP customer acquisition. Aligned with Microsoft CSP solution plays, these partner-led briefings are designed to help you demonstrate value, build customer intent, and accelerate opportunities for Modern Work and Security.

Partner benefits offerings update

On January 22, 2025, to further empower you to stay at the forefront of this technology innovation, we’re incorporating more than 20 highly sought-after product licenses into our partner benefits packages. This update features the addition of transformative products like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and Microsoft GitHub.

Next steps

• • Highlight Microsoft Copilot Wave 2 with your customers. We’ve made approximately 700 product updates based on feedback from our customers—this is a great opportunity to re-engage! Review the Microsoft 365 Copilot FAQ for Partners.
  • Lead with business value across various functions. To drive growth required to meet FY25 aspiration, we need to talk to various “rooms of the house” as well as IT using functional content, videos, and demos. Build a customer offer.
  • Maximize usage of offers and adoption resources. Accelerate sales and usage by maximizing all offers available, including demos, discounts, and Microsoft-funded Cloud Services Agreement (CSA) support.
  • Get up to speed on the latest resources. Review the Microsoft 365 Copilot brand guidance and the Modern Work for Partners resources page.
  • Join the Copilot Partner Community, designed specifically for partners interested in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Join the conversation

Want to explore this and other topics you care about with Microsoft and other US partners? Head over to the Microsoft Americas Partner Community on LinkedIn.

Partner Training Gallery: Bookmark this page to find up-to-date technical and sales enablement events, resources, and playbooks.

See the full view of the Microsoft Partner Skilling Calendar.

Quick links

LevelUp for Partners

LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft is a self-directed, self-paced interactive learning management system tailored to Microsoft Partners. Partner organizations have flexibility to purchase seat capacity to meet their skilling needs.

LevelUp offers partners high-value sales, pre-sales, and technical courses across all Microsoft Cloud Solution Areas and GTM Solution Plays:

• Sales skilling to enable Microsoft partner sellers to build mindshare & sell more effectively
• Pre-sales skilling to enable Microsoft partner tech sellers to convert mindshare into customer projects
• Project Ready skilling with hands-on-labs to improve delivery team deployment capability

For more information on this offering, including how to purchase seats, please refer to the LevelUp Playbook.

Regional Skilling Services is now live

The Regional Skilling Service desk is designed to help managed partners close skilling gaps, drive certifications, and support Microsoft priorities. This service offers reactive support, PDM-led partner outreach, key resources, and guidance to enhance partner capabilities in areas like AI, cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, and more.

Email AskSkilling@Microsoft.com to learn more about Microsoft partner skilling offerings, resources, support, and feedback.

Introducing the GPS Consumption Led Skilling Program

We are pleased to announce our Consumption Led Skilling (CLS) program, previously known as Account Led or Consumption Led Enablement. This initiative helps GSI, GCS, and Enterprise SI partner delivery teams achieve L300+ project-ready skills for client projects. The goal is to ensure partner teams are technically equipped through systematic skilling signals for successful project outcomes.

Program Highlights: The Consumption Led Skilling program provides exclusive live virtual instructor-led level 300+ training with hands-on labs for partner delivery teams working on won client projects.

Trainings Offered: The program covers a wide range of Solution plays available in the Partner Project Ready Workshop Catalogue and can include customized topics based on business needs.

Key Features:

• Availability: Open to GSI, GCS, and Enterprise SI partner delivery teams working on client projects for which the contract between the partner and client is already signed.
• Training delivery: Dedicated private live virtual instructor-led L300+ depth training with hands-on labs.

Qualification: Consumption Led Skilling triage v-team reviews and prioritizes requests based on business justification and Azure Consumption Revenue impact.

How to Request CLS Training: Contact your skilling manager to request Consumption Led Skilling training for your delivery team.

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to enhance the CLS program to better serve our partners and drive successful project outcomes.

Register now for the latest skilling offerings

SFI Partner Series

Join Microsoft SMEs for a virtual series on the Secure Future Initiative (SFI); a multiyear commitment to evolve the way we design, build, test, and operate our products and services, to achieve the highest possible standards for security.

Building on our October 24 event, on-demand here, this series will continue to explore SFI’s six pillars. Each session will focus on security and governance best practices tailored specifically for different partners and industries, providing insights, recommendations, and novel strategies.

Business Applications partners

Dec 11, 2024
Click here to register

Modern Work partners

Dec 12, 2024
Click here to register

Copilot Certification – Generally Available

We are thrilled to announce that the GitHub Copilot certification exam became generally available on October 24th! This is an exciting opportunity for individuals looking to validate their skills with GitHub Copilot.

We believe this certification will play a vital role in helping professionals enhance their expertise and drive success in their projects.

For more information, please visit the certification landing page. You can also find the GitHub Copilot study guide, which includes links to the Microsoft Learning paths to help prepare for the exam.

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Upcoming events: Copilot (sales, pre-sales, and technical skilling)

Copilot Sales Champion

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 Sales Champion program 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

Copilot Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Microsoft 365 & Copilot Sales Bootcamp

Dec 10-12, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Build Governance and Security for Successful AI Bootcamp

Dec 10-12, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Sales Go To Market Bootcamp

Dec 10-13, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Azure

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: AI & Security
Accelerate your path to certification and mastering the intricacies of AI, cybersecurity, threat protection, incident response, and more with Security certification week events:

Korea AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

China AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

Registration coming soon

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos

This content is derived from Microsoft Official Curriculum and presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Migrate to Innovate

Dec 10-12, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Azure OpenAI

Dec 10-13, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Business Applications

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

SAP Integration with Power Platform Workshop

Dec 10-11, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Modern Work

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Frontline Worker technical bootcamp

Jan 22-23, 2024
PDT

Jan 29-30, 2024
PDT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Security

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Security

Accelerate your path to certification and mastering the intricacies of cybersecurity, threat protection, incident response, and more with Security certification week events:

Japan Security Certification Week (only security)
Feb 17 – 21, 2025

Korea AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

China AI & Security Certification Week
Feb 24 – 28, 2025

Registration coming soon

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Implementing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Workshop

Dec 10-12, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Identity & Access Management with Microsoft Entra Workshop

Dec 16-19, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Industry specific skilling

Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry

Encourage your partners to join our Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry! These sessions are perfect for ISV or SI partners who are new to AI and looking to enhance their business. The webinars will provide valuable insights into AI’s impact on various industries, showcase practical use case examples, and guide partners in identifying business problems that can be solved with AI.

Click here to register: Retail | Manufacturing | Healthcare | Sustainability | Financial Services

Industry Sales Bootcamp

The goal of the industry sales bootcamp is to address the latency that exists between customer/field and partner enablement by developing a programmatic partner sales bootcamp day. The day consists of a 4-hour, interactive session with interactive session with AM and PM sessions available to suit different time zones.

Click here to register

Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning Event Series

We are excited to announce the continuation and expansion of our virtual Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning event series, specially designed for ISV and SI partners. This is your chance to dive into the transformative world of AI and discover how it can revolutionize your business and benefit your clients.

AI for Sustainability

On demand
Click here to register

AI for Healthcare

On demand
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: SMB Resellers

Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 Sales Champion program is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a “first come, first served” basis while seats are available.

Registration link: Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion
Access Code: MIAB-EIIH

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December 4 Americas Partner Insider Call

There’s still time to register for the next Americas Partner Insider Call. We’ll explore how Microsoft embraces Responsible AI principles and practices when developing AI solutions, including how our legal department uses Copilot to achieve more. Next, we’ll help get you ready for H2 renewals and the one-year anniversary of Microsoft 365 Copilot on CSP with a discussion on the latest licensing changes, new promotions, product updates, and tools for successful pilots.

This event will be added to the list of previous sessions available to watch on demand.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #SalesAndMarketing #DoingBizwMSFT #GrowYourBiz #CrossSolution

Microsoft Americas CMO Partner Roundtable

You’re invited to join us for the first Microsoft Americas CMO Partner Roundtable of FY25! The focus of this exclusive, small-group conversation will be the pivotal role of AI and Microsoft Copilot in revolutionizing marketing strategies. Crafted to foster a rich and varied dialogue between Microsoft marketing executives and key marketing leaders from our partner community, don’t miss this opportunity to help shape our go-to-market strategy.

Seven curated roundtables will run simultaneously on January 16 at 10–11 AM PT. Learn more and reserve your seat today at the virtual roundtable that is most relevant to your business.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #News #LearnSolutionAreas #ModernWork

Microsoft named a Leader in the Magic Quadrant™ for UCaaS

Microsoft is a dominant player in the Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) space, offering robust and innovative solutions and a forward-thinking strategy for the future of UCaaS, including the integration of advanced technologies like AI.

Read why Gartner® has named Microsoft a Leader in this Magic Quadrant.*

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #DoingBizwMSFT #UnderstandBenefits #CrossSolution

Last chance to spend your FY25 H1 Co-op funds

As the holiday season approaches, we wanted to remind our partners that the last day to spend your FY25 H1 Co-op funds is December 31. Your H1 funds will not roll over into H2.

See the FY25 Partner Incentives Co-op Guidebook, Co-op Funds Resources, and our blog to learn more.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #DoingBizwMSFT #GrowYourBiz #Azure #Retail

Resources to get you started: Retail industry

Data is the thread that connects consumers and experiences in the retail industry. Companies that embrace innovation and data-driven strategies can drive key business outcomes.

Leverage the Power Business Decisions with Cloud Scale Analytics campaign assets to drive demand for Retail Analytics MVPs (Pilot/POC), migrations, and deployments. This solution play is designed to help retail companies unify their data estate for analytics, build fit-for-purpose AI models, responsibly democratize analytics, and scale transformative applications so retail businesses can unlock insights and gain value faster.​

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #Event #GrowSkills #CrossSolution

Copilot Partner Prompt-a-Thon

The Copilot Partner Prompt-a-Thon is an online series of actionable, hands-on sessions designed to help Microsoft partners make the most of Copilot.

Learn more and register now for the December 19 session on Vacation Mode: Simplified with Copilot.

*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, Pankil Sheth, Megan Fernandez, 7 October 2024

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner and Magic Quadrant is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Our partners and customers are constantly innovating to keep pace with rapid market shifts and technological advancements. As part of this accelerated journey, they often face challenges such as sprawling systems, siloed teams, and technical debt. To address these issues, a unified platform is essential.

With Microsoft’s investment in Azure Arc, we believe Azure is the solution. Azure Arc crosses the boundaries of hybrid, multicloud, edge, and IoT, offering the next level of modularity, integration, and simplicity through the adaptive cloud approach.

The adaptive cloud approach

The adaptive cloud approach unifies siloed teams, distributed sites, and sprawling systems into a single operations, security, application, and data model. This enables organizations to leverage cloud-native and AI technologies across hybrid, multicloud, edge, and IoT environments. By shifting from a reactive posture to proactive evolution, businesses can anticipate and act upon changes in market trends, customer needs, and technological advancements ahead of time, optimizing resource usage and mitigating risks before they manifest.

The momentum we have with Azure Arc is building, with hundreds of partners and thousands of customers in the Americas leveraging it as a profitable path from SPLA. For example, Microsoft partner Rackspace has successfully implemented the adaptive cloud approach, resulting in significant savings of $40 million in total cost of ownership. Read more about the Rackspace success story.

Why now—upcoming SPLA price increase

Microsoft has released price changes for the Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program. As part of the announcement, licensing prices are changing for the following products, effective January 1, 2025.

Get started—explore modernization paths from SPLA with the adaptive cloud

We’re here to help you maximize the value of your investment and continue to be the bridge to secure AI innovation for your customers.

We encourage you to reach out to the Microsoft Datacenter Optimization (DCO) team to explore how the adaptive cloud can benefit your organization. The DCO team is ready to assist you in navigating this transition from SPLA and exploring paths as a Cloud Solution Provider or Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA). Here is a summary of the paths you can consider:

We appreciate your continued partnership and look forward to helping you achieve new heights with the adaptive cloud.

Additional resources

• Tune in to the Hybrid Cloud Partners podcast.
• Learn more about how to innovate on an adaptive cloud.
• Visit Arc Jumpstart to try Azure Arc.
• Read the blog Advancing hybrid cloud to adaptive cloud with Azure.

Join the conversation

Want to explore this and other topics you care about with Microsoft and other US partners? Head over to the Microsoft Americas Partner Community on LinkedIn.

Find upcoming skilling opportunities you won’t want to miss.

Partner Training Gallery: Bookmark this page to find up-to-date technical and sales enablement events, resources, and playbooks.

See the full view of the Microsoft Partner Skilling Calendar.

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Regional Skilling Services is now live

The Regional Skilling Service desk is designed to help managed partners close skilling gaps, drive certifications, and support Microsoft priorities. This service offers reactive support, PDM-led partner outreach, key resources, and guidance to enhance partner capabilities in areas like AI, cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, and more.

Email AskSkilling@Microsoft.com to learn more about Microsoft partner skilling offerings, resources, support, and feedback.

Register now for the latest skilling offerings

Microsoft AI Partner Training Day
Join us in person to hear about the latest trends and technology in the era of Al, with guidance from Microsoft executives and industry leaders.

Hear about lessons learned from real-world Al deployments, discuss sales best practices followed by Microsoft teams, get hands-on experience with Microsoft’s Al platform, and learn about go-to-market tools to build and expand your Al practice.

Toronto
Dec 2, 2024
Register now

Sydney
Dec 10, 2024
Register now

SFI Partner Series

Join Microsoft SMEs for a virtual series on the Secure Future Initiative (SFI); a multiyear commitment to evolve the way we design, build, test, and operate our products and services, to achieve the highest possible standards for security.

Building on our October 24 event, on-demand here, this series will continue to explore SFI’s six pillars. Each session will focus on security and governance best practices tailored specifically for different partners and industries, providing insights, recommendations, and novel strategies.

Digital Apps and Innovation partners

Dec 3, 2024
Click here to register

Infrastructure partners

Dec 5, 2024
Click here to register

Data & AI partners

Dec 10, 2024
Click here to register

Business Applications partners

Dec 11, 2024
Click here to register

Modern Work partners

Dec 12, 2024
Click here to register

Copilot Certification – Generally Available

We are thrilled to announce that the GitHub Copilot certification exam became generally available on October 24th! This is an exciting opportunity for individuals looking to validate their skills with GitHub Copilot.

We believe this certification will play a vital role in helping professionals enhance their expertise and drive success in their projects.

For more information, please visit the certification landing page. You can also find the GitHub Copilot study guide, which includes links to the Microsoft Learning paths to help prepare for the exam.

Microsoft LevelUp for Partners

On-demand content covering sales, pre-sales, and technical skilling with labs.

Request access to LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft

Request access by emailing Ask GPS Enablement. In the subject line, include “LevelUp Access Request” in the body of your email, and indicate your name, work email address, and organization name.

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Upcoming events: Copilot (sales, pre-sales, and technical skilling)

Copilot for Microsoft 365, Copilot for Security, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Copilot for Service Workshop

Copilot Sales Champion

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 Sales Champion program 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

Copilot Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Build and extend AI-powered Copilots with Copilot Studio Workshop

Dec 3-5, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Microsoft 365 & Copilot Sales Bootcamp

Dec 10-12, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Build Governance and Security for Successful AI Bootcamp

Dec 10-12, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Sales Go To Market Bootcamp

Dec 10-13, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Azure

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

Certification Weeks for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Azure & GitHub

Achieving certification demonstrates your commitment to staying ahead of the curve in a fast-paced world. Accelerate your path to certification and mastering the intricacies of DevOps with GitHub, Azure AI, data science, infrastructure, and virtual desktop solutions with Azure & GitHub Certification Week.

Dec 2-6, 2024
IST, BST, PDT

Click here to register

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft Official Curriculum and presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Register now

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Build and Modernize AI Apps

Dec 2-5, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Microsoft Fabric Workshop

Dec 3-5, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Migrate to Innovate

Dec 10-12, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Azure OpenAI

Dec 10-13, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Business Applications

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

SAP Integration with Power Platform Workshop

Dec 10-11, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Modern Work

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment & User Enablement Bootcamp

Dec 3-5, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Frontline Worker technical bootcamp

Dec 3-4, 2024
PDT
Click here to register

Converged Communications Sales bootcamp

Dec 2-4, 2024
PDT
Click here to register

Cloud Endpoints Partner Technical bootcamp

Dec 9-11, 2024
PDT
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Security

Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

Microsoft Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program is a five-day event that helps prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications. This is one of the best ways to help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.

On-demand certification prep content

Modular Training Videos
This content is derived from Microsoft’s official curriculum and is presented in a modular format for each certification course.

Click here to register

Partner Project Ready Workshops (Level 300+ Technical)

Technical skilling designed to build implementation and deployment capability.

Implementing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Workshop

Dec 10-12, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

Identity & Access Management with Microsoft Entra Workshop

Dec 16-19, 2024
PDT, IST, GMT
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Industry specific skilling

Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry

Encourage your partners to join our Microsoft AI Envisioning Webinars for Industry! These sessions are perfect for ISV or SI partners who are new to AI and looking to enhance their business. The webinars will provide valuable insights into AI’s impact on various industries, showcase practical use case examples, and guide partners in identifying business problems that can be solved with AI.

Click here to register: Retail | Manufacturing | Healthcare | Sustainability | Financial Services

Industry Sales Bootcamp

The goal of the industry sales bootcamp is to address the latency that exists between customer/field and partner enablement by developing a programmatic partner sales bootcamp day. The day consists of a 4-hour, interactive session with interactive session with AM and PM sessions available to suit different time zones.

Click here to register

Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning Event Series

We are excited to announce the continuation and expansion of our virtual Industry AI Business and Capability Envisioning event series, specially designed for ISV and SI partners. This is your chance to dive into the transformative world of AI and discover how it can revolutionize your business and benefit your clients.

AI for Sustainability

On demand
Click here to register

AI for Healthcare

On demand
Click here to register

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Upcoming events: SMB Resellers

Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion

This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. The Copilot for Microsoft 365 Sales Champion program is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a “first come, first served” basis while seats are available.

Registration link: Azure Infrastructure SMB Sales Champion
Access Code: MIAB-EIIH

High Volume Acceleration Series

Ready to scale and grow your Dynamics 365 practice? Take the next step and join the high-volume acceleration sessions provided by Microsoft and presented in partnership with Neural Impact. During these FREE, live experts facilitated sessions you will learn the best practices Dynamics 365 partners around the world are using to accelerate their Dynamics 365 practice and SMB & SMC customer adds. Sessions provide marketing, sales and delivery acceleration tips and strategies.

Oct 22-Dec 10, 2024
PST, CEST

Click here to register

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Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2

The next wave of Copilot innovation is here, bringing together web + work + Pages as a new design system for knowledge work. Read this blog to learn about the exciting new announcements that deliver unmatched value to our customers across Modern Work and Business Applications.

And join us on September 25 for a Special Edition Americas Partner Insider Call on Modern Work and Copilot. Our industry insiders will share the latest product announcements, CSP and getting-started offers, and guidance on how to drive Copilot customer success. Register today.

Partner Audience: #CSP
Relevant to: #ProgramOfferUpdate #UnderstandBenefits #ModernWork

Copilot for Microsoft 365 promo

Microsoft recently announced a special promotional offer focused on Copilot for Microsoft 365, available to CSP partners globally.

Microsoft is providing a 15% discount off the Partner Net Price for 10 to 300 seat purchases of Copilot for Microsoft 365, for customers that already have a qualifying subscription during the promotional period.

North America

LATAM

This promotion is valid for eligible customer transactions now through December 31, 2024, on annual subscriptions. Learn more.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #Event #GrowSkills #CrossSolution

October 2 Americas Partner Insider Call

Register now to learn about partner training and certification resources designed to help you build the skills you need today—and the expertise to achieve more tomorrow. Then, go on an expert-led deep dive into Copilot licensing for partners.

See the list of previous sessions, now available to watch on demand.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #SuccessStory #GrowYourBiz #LearnSolutionAreas #Azure #CrossSolution

No Slides Attached podcast—Season 2 kicks off September 25

After an incredible first season of No Slides Attached: AI stories with Microsoft Partners, we’re back with Season 2! Look for Episode 1 tomorrow, when we’ll begin to dive even deeper into the world of AI and industry innovation.

In No Slides Attached, we explore the latest technologies with expert guidance from Microsoft leaders and partners. Season 1 focused on how our Copilots are already transforming businesses—now, we’re building on that momentum, to bring an industry lens.

Real Stories, Real Success. Tune in and subscribe today, wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #DoingBizwMSFT #GrowYourBiz #CrossSolution #Azure #Security

Hybrid Cloud Partners podcast—inspiring stories and innovative solutions

In the Microsoft Hybrid Cloud Partners podcast we explore the latest opportunities to enhance your profitability and prepare for the future with AI. Each episode features an inspiring story from industry peers and innovative solutions for scaling your business profitably. Listen to the latest episode and check for more coming soon!

Subscribe today to listen wherever you get your favorite podcasts:
YouTube* | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSS

*With subtitles in French, Spanish, and Portuguese.