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Coming soon: Microsoft Copilot specialization

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JS5
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Mar 11, 2025

The Microsoft Copilot specialization showcases your expertise providing consulting and professional services around Copilot.

Once available in June 2025, the Microsoft Copilot specialization will demonstrate your experience and capabilities with Copilot, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, Copilot Studio, and agents. Partners with this specialization can help their customers: 

  • Explore AI Advisory Services for Microsoft Copilot.  
  • Adopt Copilot. 
  • Deliver data security and deployment. 
  • Enable extensibility with agentic focus.   

With the Microsoft Copilot specialization, you can continue to work toward attaining a Solutions Partner designation for Modern Work and/or a Solutions Partner designation for Business Applications. If your organization has already attained one or both of these designations, please review the criteria for earning a Microsoft Copilot specialization and begin to work toward the requirements. This specialization is planned for release in June 2025. 

The requirements include: 

Performance requirements 

  • 1,000 monthly active user (MAU) growth of Microsoft 365 Copilot in the trailing twelve months (TTM). (Claiming partner of record (CPOR), Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Tier 1 or 2) 
  • Five Copilot net customer growth in TTM (CPOR, CSP Tier 1 or 2) 

Skilling requirements 

  • Four people with MS-102: Microsoft 365 Administrator (Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert) 
  • Two people with APL-4002: Prepare security and compliance to support Microsoft 365 Copilot 
  • Two people with MS-7008: Create and extend custom copilots in Microsoft Copilot Studio 

Customer references 

  • Provide three customer references, which must include at least one example of transforming business processes with agent implementation. 
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  • Jeroendlw's avatar
    Jeroendlw
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    Hello,

    I am pleased to learn about the upcoming Copilot specialization. I am particularly interested in pursuing this opportunity and have reviewed the skilling requirements.

    I have some questions regarding two of the listed requirements: APL-4002 and MS-7008. My searches for these requirements have not yielded any results. Could you please provide further clarification or details on these requirements?

    For context, I understand the MS-102 requirement, as information on its attainment is readily available. I would appreciate similar guidance regarding APL-4002 and MS-7008, including any relevant resources or training materials.

    Thank you for your time and assistance. I look forward to your feedback.

    Sincerely,

    Jeroen