Coming soon: Microsoft Copilot specialization
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.Skilling updates to Analytics, DW Migration, Migrate Enterprise Apps specializations, and more
As always, Microsoft is seeking ways to evolve with the growing needs of our partners. Recent updates to some specialization requirements are just one way we’re working toward that goal. In the coming months, we will be adjusting the certification requirements for the Analytics, Data Warehouse Migration, and Migrate Enterprise Applications specializations, as well as for the Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (MSP) offering. For the Analytics and Data Warehouse Migration specializations requirements, the Azure Data Engineer Associate certification will be replaced with the Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification. Start working toward getting your team skilled with the Fabric Data Engineer Associate certificate to meet the updated requirements when they go live. For the Migrate Enterprise Apps specialization and the Azure Expert MSP offering requirements, the Azure Data Engineer Associate certification is being removed without replacement. To ensure you meet the new program requirements when they go live, please make sure you have enough certified individuals in relevant certifications. The number of required certified individuals across each of the four programs will remain the same.
