Empowering partners with AI: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - Skilling Opportunities
We're thrilled to share several new resources and upcoming events to help you harness the full power of Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents. Here’s what’s new: 🚀 Copilot Accelerate Program Update The Copilot Proof of Value engagement kit now includes detailed, scenario-based guidance on building agents and configuring Copilot Analytics. This update helps you deliver an immersive experience that showcases out-of-the-box Copilot capabilities and robust ROI reporting. 👉 Download the Copilot Proof of Value Engagement Kit 📅 Upcoming Partner Skilling Events Innovate with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Build Your Own Agents Workshop When: February 18-20 Discover how Microsoft 365 Copilot enhances creativity, productivity, and skills. Learn about technical requirements, configuring Copilot, and extending its capabilities with plugins. 👉 Register for the Innovate with Microsoft 365 Copilot Event Build and Extend AI-Powered Agents with Copilot Studio Workshop When: March 4-6 Dive into Copilot Studio’s graphical development environment to build AI-powered copilots. Gain hands-on experience in creating solutions that serve both employees and customers. 👉 Register for the Build and Extend AI-Powered Agents Event GitHub & GitHub Copilot Partner Sales Bootcamp When: March 11 This one-day bootcamp is designed to equip you with strategies and best practices for selling GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Copilot, and GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS). 👉 Register for the GitHub & GitHub Copilot Partner Sales Bootcamp 🌟 NEW Digital Event: Level Up Your Skills with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents Sales Bootcamp: February 25 Technical Bootcamp: February 26-27 Enroll in our Level Up CSP bootcamp series to master both the sales and technical aspects of Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents. This training covers everything from selling strategies to hands-on labs in security and agent configuration. 👉 Learn More and Register for the February Level Up CSP Bootcamps 🎥 On-Demand Resource: Reimagine Your Copilot CSP GTM with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Missed the live event? Watch the on-demand session to see how the latest Copilot innovations can empower your customers at every stage of their AI journey. 👉 Download the Partner-Ready Event Deck 👉 Watch the Event Recording On Demand 🔄 Updated Copilot Studio Partner Assets We've refreshed several assets on Partner Hub to reflect the latest Copilot Studio enhancements: NEW: Enabling agents in Copilot Chat blog Updated: Agent-powered Business Processes pitch deck & seller guide Updated: Copilot Studio technical pitch deck, governance/security deck, and extensibility pitch deck 👉 Bookmark the Copilot Studio Page on Partner Hub and check back regularly for updates. NEW! Enabling agents in Copilot Chat blog Updated: Agent-powered Business Processes pitch deck Updated: Agent-powered Business Processes seller guide Updated: Copilot Studio technical pitch deck Updated: Copilot Studio: Governance, Security, Administration, and Management deck Updated: Copilot Studio pitch deck Updated: Copilot extensibility pitch deck Stay tuned for more updates and make sure to register for these events to leverage the latest innovations in Copilot and agent technology!Fabric enablement and certification - Microsoft partner way to go
The purpose of this post is to inform you on the upcoming partner enablement activities and resources to get certified on Microsoft Fabric. If you have any question, don't hesitate to contact me (lwolffhugel@microsoft.com) or anyone from the Microsoft team. Check also the Microsoft Fabric Partner readiness and enablement resources for ready-to-use pitch decks. Microsoft Fabric Workshop - Technical Learn how to implement fabric comprehensive suite through data lake, data integration, data engineering and more. The workshop is composed of recorded instructor-led theory training, live Q&A with experts and hands-on labs. Audience: open to all partners Role: pre-sales & technical roles Level: 200-300 (intermediate-advanced) Format: online When: Feb 5 to 8 (8am-12pm PST), March 4 to 7 (8am to 12pm GMT) Duration: 4 * half days (4* 4 hours) Registration Link to Azure Depth Workshop NEW Fabric Analytics Engineer certification : DP-600 Exam (beta) Learn Together and Exam Cram sessions The 30 Days to Learn It Cloud Skills Challenge Microsoft Fabric Career Hub Microsoft Fabric Hands on Labs Practice Tests (available February 7, 2024) Join our partner community here https://aka.ms/JoinFabricPartnerCommunity to directly engage with Microsoft Fabric engineering team and have access to weekly Fabric Engineering Connection calls to get latest updates on the product as well as knowledge on partner program, offerings, and campaigns we are executing.Register now: Azure AI Cloud Week - New Training | February 12-16, 2024
Supercharge your certification journey with Azure Cloud Week for Partners Are you ready to accelerate your path to Azure certifications? Then Azure Cloud Week for Partners is just for you. This immersive week-long virtual event is your ticket to mastering the intricacies of Azure AI, data science, infrastructure, and virtual desktop solutions. Each day you will learn from subject matter experts, expand your technical capabilities, and build the skills needed for your role. You’ll also be helping your employer meet the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program skilling requirements. Why you should attend Azure Cloud Week for Partners Focused learning: Dive into the most important aspects of the certification exam curriculum Productive learning: Two hours of daily training led by seasoned instructors Streamlined format: Tailored to prepare you for certification Stay ahead: Keep up with constantly evolving technical roles and requirements Flexibility: Learning that fits your schedule and working hours Language support: Sessions in English, with live captions in 12 languages Global access: Multi-time-zone playout ensures you can attend from anywhere Available Tracks DP-203: Azure Data Engineer AI–102: Azure AI Engineer DP–100: Azure Data Scientist Register nowMicrosoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge
Complete a challenge for a chance to win a VIP event pass for the next Microsoft Ignite or Microsoft Build! We’re running a sweepstakes for 5 lucky winners to receive a full event pass for the next Microsoft Ignite or Microsoft Build that includes bonus experiences, exclusive access, meet and greets with Microsoft personalities and the opportunity to be showcased by Microsoft Learn. All participants will receive a Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge badge upon completion of their first challenge. Champion your advantage To celebrate the launch of Microsoft Applied Skills, this Cloud Skills Challenge will feature a selection of challenges designed to help you prepare - and pass - your assessment and earn your new credential. Get the credentials you need to demonstrate proficiency in a specific skillset so you can make a bigger impact on your projects, your organization—and your career. Challenge details The challenge ends on January 15, 2024, at 4:00 PM UTC (16:00). Make sure you have completed your challenge before time runs out. View the list of eligible challenges here. Get started!Join our Modern Work Cloud Week | November 6-10, 2023
Join us and accelerate your path to certification with Modern Work Cloud Week for Partners. These week-long virtual events will teach you about Microsoft 365 and Endpoint administration, Microsoft Teams management, and collaborative communication solutions. It also supports partner organizations in meeting the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program skilling requirements. Each day you will learn from subject matter experts, expand your technical capabilities, and build the skills needed for your role. Available Tracks: MS-102: Microsoft 365 Administrator MD-102: Endpoint Administrator MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams MS-721: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Register now!Join our Business Application Cloud Week | October 23 - 27, 2023
Accelerate your path to certification with Business Applications Cloud Week for Partners. These week-long virtual events will teach you about Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications and Power Platform, that will enable you, as a functional consultant, developer or solution architect, to drive faster innovation and efficiencies across customers from diverse industries and business functions like sales, marketing, service, supply chain and finance, leveraging low-code tools to automate processes, build apps, websites and virtual agents. It also supports partner organizations in meeting the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program skilling requirements. Each day you will learn from subject matter experts, expand your technical capabilities, and build the skills needed for your role. Available tracks: MB-210: Dynamics 365 Sales Functional Consultant MB-800: Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant PL-200: Power Platform Functional Consultant PL-400: Power Platform Developer PL-500: Power Automate RPA Developer PL-600: Power Platform Solution Architect Register now!Register now: Fortify your Data Security with Microsoft Purview Workshop
Join us and understand how Microsoft Purview delivers comprehensive data security by integrating information protection, data loss prevention and insider risk management. You will learn how Microsoft Purview Information Protection helps you discover, identify, classify, and protect sensitive data that is business critical, then manage and protect it across your environment. With Data Loss Prevention, you can automatically protect sensitive information from risky and unauthorized access across apps, services, endpoints, and on-premises files. Insider Risk management features in Microsoft Purview can help you detect, investigate, and take action on critical risks in your organization, including data theft, data leaks, and security policy violations. As a Microsoft Partner, you can use this knowledge to help your customers understand and mitigate their data risks. Register now!Register now: Business Application Depth Events | FY24 October
Hone your technical skills with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform training. Led by Microsoft experts, these multi-day in-depth sessions focus on providing advanced knowledge of Business Applications solutions. View on-demand content and attend upcoming live events to become proficient at assessing customer needs and implementing Microsoft Business Applications solutions from start to finish. Register now to view available on-demand content and to enroll as new events become available. Reimagine Process Automation with AI and Power Automate Workshop | October 10-12, 2023 Take a deep dive on Power Automate Desktop that broadens the excisting capabilities in Power Automate. Learn how you can quickly and easliy automate with the new intuitive Power Automate Desktop. We will cover the technical architecture, solutions, unattended UI flows with an extensive set of hands-on activities throughout the course. Customer Success Series | October 18, 2023 A customer-centric culture: allow customers to better deploy, adopt, and get real business value from their investment. It allows to grow partner and Microsoft cloud business through continuous cross-sell and upsell to extend the customer lifecycle and increase lifetime value. Join us and learn about the approach, methodology, insights, and best practices to support your customers' challenges and grow your cloud business. Optimize Dynamics 365 Implementations with Process-focused Solutions Boot Camp | October 25, 2023 Join us to learn from the Dynamics 365 FastTrack team about new resources available to you to help optimize your implementations. This inculdes new samples, guidance, and documentations all available in the new Dynamics 365 Guidance hub on Microsoft Learn. This includes guidance on how to leverage the catalog to help accurately estimate and scope projects, create Azure DevOps projects that are process-focused, and leverage the documentation and downloadable resources to help run solution modelling in your project all centered around business processes. Innovate with AI and Power Platform Low Code Tools Workshop | October 30 - November 2, 2023 Citizen and professional developers alike can learn and apply Microsoft Power Platform technologies - Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages - to modernize an organization's line-of-business (LOB) applications. This course is a must for anyone interested in increasing time to market, ROI, and reducing overall development costs.Register now: Security Cloud Week | October 9-13, 2023
Cyber-attacks are a daily threat to businesses around the world, and the demand for skilled professionals is growing. Security Cloud Week for Partners is designed for technical professionals to discover how Microsoft’s Security, Compliance and Identity solutions can meet these threats. Accelerate your path to certification with Security Cloud Week for Partners covering track options across cybersecurity, security operation analysis, information protection, and identity and access administration solutions. It also supports partner organizations in meeting the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program skilling requirements. Choose your preferred track and learn from subject matter experts, expand your technical capabilities, and build the skills needed for your role. Benefits of attending Security Cloud Week for Partners Security Cloud Week for Partners focuses on the most important aspects of the certification exam curriculum, allowing you to include working, billable hours in your day. Other benefits include: Two hours of daily training led by seasoned instructors Streamlined format that prepares you for certification Keep pace with technical roles and requirements Flexible learning to fit your schedule and working hours Available in English, with live captions in 11 languages Multi-time-zome playout Labs will be available to a limited number of Microsoft partner participants. Invitations to the labs will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis.Discover the Partner Skilling Playbook
A go-to enablement guide for Microsoft partners AI and Cloud capabilities are enabling new opportunities and helping organizations of all sizes achieve their goals. In today's rapidly evolving landscape, embracing and harnessing this potential is a must if businesses want to thrive. Discover a range of enablement opportunities to help you stay up-to-date on technical knowledge and deepen your understanding of how technology can help your organization evolve and transform. Download the Playbook below and benefit from enablement opportunities!
