The Microsoft Copilot specialization showcases your expertise providing consulting and professional services around Copilot.
Once available in July 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 July 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.
*General availability date has been updated since the original post was published
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