Upcoming event: Trust and Security in the AI world

Join us on April 24 for this one-hour virtual event exploring the critical role of trust and security in the age of AI. Microsoft leaders will discuss our commitment to ensuring trustworthiness in Microsoft AI technologies and practices. Let’s start building a secure and trusted AI future together!

See the event details and register today.

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

April 9: Americas Partner Insider Call
April 17: Americas Partner Insider Call—Biz Apps Edition

Register here for the next Americas Partner Insider Call, a continuation of our series focused on helping you use Microsoft 365 Copilot to accelerate growth. Featured topics include: Digital Journey Initiative on LevelUp, Going to Market with Microsoft Copilot Chat + Agents, How to Sell Pay-as-You-Go Agents, Preparing for Microsoft 365 Copilot in CSP, and Annual/Monthly Price Adjustments in CSP.

To explore other topics, see the list of previous sessions available to watch on demand.

Register here for the next Americas Partner Insider Call—Biz Apps Edition. We’ll discuss the benefits of migration to customers, followed by a roundtable discussion on best practices and Q&A.

See the full list of upcoming sessions.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to:  #AllRoles #News #GrowYourBiz #Azure

PowerBI SKU to Fabric SKU—a low-hanging fruit

The transition from Power BI Premium per capacity SKUs (P-SKUs) to Microsoft Fabric capacity SKUs (F-SKUs) offers significant benefits, including access to Azure-only features, smaller starting SKUs, and flexible purchase options like pay-as-you-go or reservation commitments. This migration is essential as P-SKUs will be deprecated, with renewals ending on January 31, 2025. Customers are encouraged to proactively transition to F-SKUs to take advantage of these benefits and ensure a seamless migration.

Engage with your customers to educate them about the transition from P-SKUs to F-SKUs. Learn more. Partner guidance.

New sales agents for Microsoft 365

Microsoft recently announced two new sales agents accessible in Microsoft 365 Copilot to help teams close more deals, faster: Sales Agent turns contacts into qualified leads and Sales Chat helps accelerate the sales cycle.

Learn more in this blog.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to:  #AllRoles #DoingBizwMSFT #LearnSolutionAreas #Azure #Security

LevelUp training for Azure and Security

Take your journey as a Microsoft partner to the next level with the self-paced flexible LevelUp learning programs.

To see the extensive offering of Azure and Security courses, including Threat Protection courses, select View all courses and filter under Solution Area in the course catalog.

Partner Audience: #CSP
Relevant to:  #DoingBizwMSFT #GrowYourBiz #Azure #ModernWork #Security

No Better Time video series: Accelerate Secure AI in CSP

As you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of technology, we’re excited to share the latest updates and opportunities that can help you accelerate your business and stay ahead of the curve. Hear from our Go-to-Market team on how to get started in this series of three short videos.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #SalesAndMktg #DoingBizwMSFT #GoToMarket #CrossSolution

Digital Marketing Content OnDemand

Digital Marketing Content OnDemand provides fresh go-to-market content for multichannel marketing campaigns at no extra cost to Microsoft partners. Unlock expertise that can help drive customer engagement and elevate your business.

Learn more and get started today!

Transforming business and work—the era of AI

AI is no longer a futuristic concept; it’s reshaping businesses today. According to a recent MIT Sloan Management Review, 87% of organizations believe AI will give them a competitive edge.¹ AI offers numerous transformation opportunities, such as enriching employee experiences, reinventing customer engagement, reshaping business processes, and driving innovation.

Our AI solutions, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, are designed to enhance productivity and improve the quality of work. These tools are not just about automation, they’re about empowering individuals and teams to achieve more.

As you navigate the ever-evolving landscape of technology, we’re excited to share the latest updates and opportunities that will help you accelerate your business and stay ahead of the curve.

In FY25 H2 we have a unique opportunity to empower our Americas customers with secure AI, enabling organizations to leverage the innovations in Microsoft 365 Copilot while keeping their data and network resources secure and compliant with Microsoft. There’s no better time to get started leveraging the transformative power of AI and the unprecedented and compelling portfolio of customer offers.

CSP offers to empower your customers

Several promotions are available that are designed to help your customers accelerate the adoption of AI, along with other Microsoft solutions, to drive growth and efficiency. These new CSP offers include:

Nearing expiration

• Upsell to Business Premium. Available until April 1, 2025, this promo offers a 15% discount to new Business Premium customers, up to 300 seats. Note that this promo is available in North America only. See the Getting Started Offer Guide.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot. Available until April 1, 2025, this promo offers a 15% discount to customers with more than 10 seats, up to a maximum of 300 seats. See the Copilot Promo FAQ.

New

• Microsoft 365 E5 Security Business Premium add-on. Business Premium customers are now able to purchase Microsoft 365 E5 Security as an add-on for enhanced security with: Microsoft Entra ID Plan 2, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Learn more. See the plans.

Active

• Upsell to Microsoft 365 E3. Available through June 30, 2025, this promo offers a 15% discount to new Microsoft 365 E3 customers, up to 2,400 seats. See the E3 Promo FAQ.
• Upsell to Microsoft 365 E5. Available through June 30, 2025, this promo offers a 15% discount to new Microsoft 365 E5 customers, up to 2,400 seats. See the E5 Promo FAQ.
• Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance mini bundle. Available through January 2026, this new promo offers a 50% PUPM* discount for every seat of Microsoft 365 Copilot purchased. This promo can be applied retroactively to customers who have already purchased Microsoft 365 Copilot but don’t have E5 Compliance. See the E5 Compliance Promo FAQ.

*Per User Per Month

Building an agentic world with Copilot and AI

Our vision for the future includes building a world where personal, organizational, business process, and cross-organizational agents work seamlessly together. Microsoft 365 Copilot, along with Copilot Studio, is at the forefront of this transformation, offering tools that cater to various roles, including HR, finance, marketing, legal, software development, security, customer service, sales, and data analysis.

Seize this opportunity by leveraging Copilot Chat to deliver tailored AI solutions that enhance customer engagement and generate new revenue streams. The focus on agentic AI allows partners to develop and manage agents that automate business processes, providing scalable monetization opportunities through a pay-as-you-go model.

By addressing data security and compliance challenges, you can build trust and safeguard customer data, positioning yourself as a leader in the AI transformation journey.

This approach not only drives growth but also ensures that you can offer innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of your customers.

Additional resources

• Global Promo Readiness Guide
• CSP Security page
• Cybersecurity for small and medium business | Microsoft Security
• Partner Sales Bootcamp for Secure Productivity

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.

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

Click here to Register

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 PDT

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

Register here.

For any questions or support, email AskSkilling.

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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) 

Sales & pre-sales skilling

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)

Azure Project Ready

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) 

Business Applications Project Ready

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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.

Modern Work Project Ready

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)

Security Project Ready

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.

GitHub Copilot Certification

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)

Industry skilling

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Cross-solution area Project Ready Workshops

Build and extend AI-powered agents with Copilot Studio

Mar 4-6, 2025
IST, GMT, PDT

Click here to register

Secure and govern Microsoft 365 Copilot with Microsoft Purview – Pre-sales

Mar 11, 2025
IST, GMT, PDT

Click here to register

Build governance and security strategy for AI success

Mar 18-20, 2025
IST, GMT, PDT

Click here to register

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

Click here to register

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

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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:

• Accelerating AI Solutions Partner Series
• Partner Meetup for Microsoft Azure

These sessions will run weekly through April with multiple time zones available.

For any questions or support, email AskSkilling.

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Resources

LevelUp for Partners

Modular training

AskSkilling

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Partner Sales Bootcamp for Secure Productivity

Organizations are looking to boost productivity with AI, but face challenges protecting their data while managing multiple productivity tools and complex hybrid environments.

Microsoft 365 E3 helps customers jumpstart their generative AI transformations with AI-powered productivity. Best-in-class productivity apps provide a solid base for the best AI experience with Microsoft 365 Copilot. The recommended zero-trust security foundations help protect identities, devices, applications, and data.

This four-hour virtual bootcamp on March 25 will help you prepare to successfully pitch Microsoft 365 E3 and unlock new business growth potential. Learn more and register today.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to:  #AllRoles #News #GrowYourBiz #ModernWork #CrossSolution

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Organizations of all sizes are looking to scale their AI transformation and realize the enterprise-wide ROI that comes with broad adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat adds pay-as-you-go agents to our existing free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers. Moving forward, every organization will have a mix of Copilot Chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot—our best-in-class offering—to drive AI transformation at scale.

Learn more in this blog and check out these partner resources:

• Microsoft 365 Copilot partner page

• Microsoft 365 Copilot Partner Opportunities deck

• Microsoft 365 Copilot FAQ for Partners

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to:  #AllRoles #WinFormula #LearnSolutionAreas #Security

Security Solution Assessment

How much do you know about your cybersecurity posture?

Our data-driven self-assessment will provide answers and actionable insights into your actual Cloud Security position.

Learn more and leverage this Self-Service Security Assessment for your customer today.

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

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:
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: 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 and extend AI-powered agents with Copilot Studio

Mar 4-6, 2025
PST, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Secure and govern Microsoft 365 Copilot with Microsoft Purview – Pre-sales

Mar 11, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Build governance and security strategy for AI success

Mar 18-20, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

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Upcoming events: Sales and pre-sales skilling

Accelerating AI Solutions Partner Series

Mar 25-27, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

GitHub Partner Bootcamp

Mar 25-26, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Partner Sales Bootcamp for Secure Productivity

Mar 25, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents Sales Bootcamp

Feb 25-27, 2025
PST, 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.

Partner meetup for Microsoft Azure

Feb-June 2025
Weekly Thursdays
PST/PDT

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

Microsoft Fabric Workshop: Real Time Intelligence and Data Insights with AI

Mar 11-12, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Azure OpenAI Workshop

Mar 24-27, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

GitHub partner bootcamp

Mar 25-27, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Azure Databricks: Migration and integration

Mar 25-27, 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.

Low code app modernization for developers

Feb 25-26, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Transform frontline operations with AI in Dynamics 365 Field Service

Mar 17-19, 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:

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.

Defender for Endpoint, Identity & OT – Better Together Bootcamp

Mar 3-4, 2025
PDT, IST, GMT

Click here to register

Implement Microsoft Security Copilot

Mar 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

Sustainability Sales Bootcamp

Mar 5, 2025
PST, IST

Click here to register

Retail Sales Bootcamp

April 16, 2025
PDT, IST

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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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.

Partner profitability with Microsoft AI

In today’s competitive market, achieving sustainable profitability is crucial for partners. The blog IDC study on partner profitability with Microsoft AI from Nicole Dezen, Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions, delves into key strategies and tools that can help you maximize your earnings and drive business growth.

Bookmark the blog as your go-to resource for unlocking new revenue streams and achieving long-term success.

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

New Microsoft 365 Business Premium Promo

Help your customers get AI-ready with 15 percent off first-time purchases of Microsoft 365 Business Premium. This promo is available in the United States and Canada from January 6 to April 1, 2025. See offer details.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #Event #GrowYourBiz #BizApps

January 28 webinar: Move from Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 Business Central

Support and updates for Dynamics GP will officially end on December 31, 2029. In this exclusive webinar, we’ll show you how customers can move forward to the cloud and start reaping the benefits of Dynamics 365 Business Central. Register now.

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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Americas Partner Insider Call series

Join our FY25 H2 series of Americas Partner Insider Calls for expert insights and guidance on how to leverage Microsoft 365 Copilot to grow your business.

To view the January 8 session on Navigating the Copilot Adoption Journey, see the list of previous sessions available to watch on demand.

For more details on the series and to register for upcoming sessions, bookmark this blog.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners
Relevant to: #AllRoles #News #DoingBizwMicrosoft #Taxonomy

Communications channels for Americas Partners

Check out this short video highlighting the communications channels available to help you stay up to date on the latest information and opportunities for partners.

Partner Audience: #AllPartners #ISV
Relevant to: #AllRoles #SalesAndMarketing #Event #GeneratePipeline #BizApps

Biz Apps Partner Digital Summit

Co-created between Microsoft and Dynamics Communities, this free digital summit consists of five modules designed to help SI and ISV partners accelerate their business and pipeline. Each module features Microsoft leadership discussing partner initiatives and programs, along with partners sharing best practices and real-world examples. Register once and choose from any of the following modules:

January 23 – Module 1: Partner Solutions Designations
January 30 – Module 2: Creating Funded Engagements
February 6 – Module 3: The Co-Sell Opportunity
February 13 – Module 4: AI, Copilot & ISV Success Programs
February 20 – Module 5: ISV Best Practices for Scale

Learn more and register here.