Partner Skilling topics

Accelerate your sales with Deal Ready Demo Accelerators

JillArmourMicrosoft — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:55:00 GMT

Accelerate customer conversations with Deal Ready Demo Accelerators—prebuilt, reusable solution scenarios you can use to move faster from discovery to close.

Deal Ready Demo Accelerators combine Microsoft reference architectures, guided sales narratives, and cost transparency into a seamless experience that requires no engineering effort or live tenant setup—designed to reduce technical complexity, build customer confidence, and shorten sales cycles.

Use these ready-to-run demos to deliver consistent, architecture-backed demos across solution areas, from AI Business Solutions—including AI business process and AI workforce—to Cloud & AI Platforms and Security. Explore the Deal Ready Demo Accelerators and get started today.

Available on demand for eligible Microsoft partner types. Please refer to the official terms and conditions for usage guidelines.

Take your place in the AI frontier—starting at Microsoft Ignite

JillArmourMicrosoft — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:29:15 GMT

Join Microsoft partners and experts November 17–20 to explore the latest AI innovations, sharpen your skills, and accelerate customer outcomes.

ICYMI | Partner Blog | Your FY27 partner skilling roadmap: What’s new and where to start

JillArmourMicrosoft — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:28:52 GMT

by Justin Slade, Senior Director, Strategy, Microsoft Global Partner Skilling

Welcome to FY27 and the latest Microsoft Partner Skilling updates. As AI continues to reshape how customers evaluate, buy, and adopt technology, skilling is becoming a practical growth lever across partner roles, from sales and presales to solution architecture, delivery, and customer success.

Whether you are building AI solutions, scaling Microsoft 365 Copilot practices, preparing for agent opportunities, or aligning your team to Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program requirements, this month’s updates give you a clearer path to build the capabilities customers expect. The Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub is the central destination to start, offering no-cost partner skilling across Microsoft Cloud solution areas, with live, in-person, virtual, and on-demand learning tracks for multiple roles and technical certifications.

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Scale Microsoft 365 Copilot for SMBs with targeted sales and technical skilling

JillArmourMicrosoft — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:55:46 GMT

Build the skills to land, deploy, and scale Microsoft 365 Copilot solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with the Microsoft 365 Copilot SMB Learning Journeys.

Now available on the Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub, the Microsoft 365 Copilot SMB Learning Journeys are designed for both sales and technical roles. These structured paths offer on-demand skilling to guide teams from foundational knowledge to real-world execution.

Built so your teams can land deals and deploy, configure, and scale Copilot solutions with confidence, there are two paths available:

Sales + Tech Deal Ready: Empower your sales teams to show SMBs the immense benefits of deploying Copilot, resulting in new deals, upsell, and cross-sell.

Project Ready: Tech teams can build the skills to deploy, configure, and scale the solutions that will set SMBs up for success.

Encourage your teams to sign up today to take their Copilot knowledge to the next level.

Accelerate your Frontier journey: Summit sessions now available on demand

JillArmourMicrosoft — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:38:18 GMT

The Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit may be over, but you can keep the momentum going. Revisit the highlights or catch up on sessions you missed.

Each session is designed to build the skills you need to advance your Frontier Engineering journey and earn your Frontier Transformation Engineer badge—a clear signal to customers that you can design and deliver agents across Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and the rest of the Frontier stack.

Here’s how you can keep building your AI capability:

View the summit sessions on demand.

Work toward earning the Frontier Transformation Engineer badge.

Join us at MCAPS Start for Partners on July 22 to stay ahead of what’s next.

Explore curated Microsoft Partner Digital Skilling Journeys

JillArmourMicrosoft — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:54:38 GMT

Skilling is foundational for success in an AI-first market. Keeping up with evolving technologies and capabilities better positions you with the skills you need to succeed in an ever-changing market, making it a base-level requirement for sustained growth.

As part of our effort to support partners with skilling, we offer Microsoft Partner Digital Skilling Journeys (PDJs), curated presales, sales, and tech skilling experiences designed to enhance your knowledge aligned with partner strategic wins. First-time users may need to register—use your work email credentials to sign up. Curated journeys include:

Microsoft Security Copilot

Drive Business Transformation with Microsoft Copilot 365

Innovate with Azure AI Platform

Drive Windows in the Cloud with Windows 365 Cloud Endpoints

Modern Security Operations

Data Security for AI

Migrate to Azure

Drive Business Collaboration and Teamwork with Microsoft Teams

Accelerate Data Analytics Journey with Microsoft Fabric

Cloud Security

These journeys are tailored to your interests, needs, and role within your organization. Select the link relevant to the journey you're interested in, register today on the Skilling Hub using your organizational email credentials, answer a few questions, and you'll receive tech and sales-ready skilling experiences customized to your interests and goals.

And to continue supporting you as you grow your revenue, we're hosting our annual MCAPS Start for Partners event on July 22. We encourage you to register today so you can get insights from Microsoft leaders on where we’re investing, our shared priorities, and how to activate AI-led opportunities to drive growth this year.

Build AI skills at Microsoft AI Skills Fest

JillArmourMicrosoft — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:59:19 GMT

Register now for Microsoft AI Skills Fest, a no-cost digital skilling event taking place June 8–12. Designed so partners can stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape, attendees can build in-demand AI skills, gain practical insights, and discover ways to deliver innovative solutions, deepen customer relationships, and stay competitive in a fast-changing market. 
 
Get ready to lead Frontier Transformation 

If you’re a solution engineer or architect building AI agents across the Frontier stack—including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, Fabric, and Agent 365—you can validate your expertise with the Frontier Transformation Engineer badge.  

Want to fast-track your badge completion? Join us at the Frontier Transformation Engineer Summit on June 9 for a live, expert-led skilling experience where you’ll explore how to use Microsoft Agent Factory at scale, build your expertise, demonstrate organizational readiness, and lead Frontier Transformation for your customers.

New Learning Journeys now live

JillArmourMicrosoft — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:51:58 GMT

Explore new CSP SMB and Microsoft Agent 365 + ME7 Learning Journeys designed to help sales, technical, and delivery teams move faster from skilling to real-world execution. 

Microsoft 365 Copilot + BSKUs (SMB) Sales + Tech Deal Ready Build the skills to land and expand Copilot opportunities.

Microsoft 365 Copilot + BSKUs (SMB) Project Ready Build the skills to deploy, configure, and scale solutions with confidence.

Microsoft Agent 365 & ME7 Partner Skilling Sales Ready Learn to position and sell AI agents with Microsoft 365, from opportunity to close.

Microsoft Agent 365 & ME7 Partner Skilling Project Ready Learn to implement, secure, and manage AI agents with Microsoft 365 in real-world scenarios.

Explore all Learning Journeys here: GCPS Catalog | Partner Skilling Catalog

ICYMI: Build the skills to strengthen customer conversations with Microskilling

JillArmourMicrosoft — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:18:32 GMT

Microskilling supports partners throughout their skilling journey as an autonomous learning modality, offering a holistic, curated experience through short, high-impact videos and podcasts.

ICYMI | Explore curated Microsoft Partner Skilling Journeys

JillArmourMicrosoft — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:54:45 GMT

Check out our new Skilling blog on Partner news and be sure to click "follow" in the top right corner so you don't miss out on future announcements!

Explore curated Microsoft Partner Skilling Journeys

Subscribe to the monthly Microsoft Partner Skilling newsletter

JillArmourMicrosoft — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:53:44 GMT

Stay ahead with our Partner Skilling newsletter. Get exclusive updates on global and regional events, along with expert resources to support your team's growth.

Welcome to the new Partner Skilling Discussion board!

JillArmourMicrosoft — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:53:15 GMT

The Microsoft Skilling Community is your hub to stay informed on skilling opportunities, ask questions, and connect with peers across the Microsoft partner ecosystem. Follow the board for updates, get clarity on certifications and role‑based skilling paths, and use shared guidance to accelerate your readiness.

We’d love to meet you — say hello and let us know in the comments where you’re joining from!