Starting on August 24, 2026, Microsoft is simplifying eligibility requirements for the Sales, Service, Finance, and Supply Chain specializations. Eligible deployments will be measured using monthly a...

What’s changing On July 31, 2026, three existing specializations consolidated into a single, updated Analytics specialization: The Business Intelligence specialization retired and will no longe...

Security specializations signal verified, high-caliber capability to customers and Microsoft field teams—and that signal holds up better when the bar is credible. To support that standard, starting...

Differentiate your expertise, build customer trust, and demonstrate readiness to deliver secure AI outcomes as customers move from experimentation to enterprise-wide AI adoption with the Agentic Secu...

One of two Frontier-focused offerings in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, the Frontier Partner specialization validates partners who can design, build, deploy, govern, and secure AI agents acr...

The Adoption and Change Management specialization retired on June 25, 2026. Rather than maintain a standalone specialization, adoption and change management capabilities are now measured within AI ...

Internal agentic adoption is being added to the Agentic DevOps with Microsoft Azure and GitHub specialization audit checklist to ensure that partners have internally adopted the technology. Certifica...