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shellgio
Jun 27, 2026Iron Contributor
Feedback about MS-102 retirement
TL;DR: I don't think you should retire the MS-102 as it really is a big downgrade losing and expert M-365 administor certification just for it to be replaced by an unrelated and under leveled AI Ser...
simonforget
Jul 01, 2026Copper Contributor
I agree and to say that this disappointing is an understatement. My staff and myself were already booked for the exam when we read the news. The thing is, even on our partner portal, you can see that MS-102 is one of the prerequisites to get the Copilot Specialization and nothing has been updated yet:(https://partner.microsoft.com/en-gb/partnership/specialization/microsoft-copilot#tab-3)