Certifications refresh: AI-focused and fundamentals updates
As the age of AI reshapes the business landscape, organizations are embedding AI into every layer of their operations. Professionals, students, entrepreneurs, and others are learning to not only implement business solutions but also to design and integrate AI-powered apps and experiences, orchestrate autonomous agents, and govern ethical AI systems. To support these skill-building needs for learners in all career stages, Microsoft Learn is refreshing our Certification and training offerings with a focus on AI, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, and agents. We’re also retiring some Fundamentals Certifications. New AI-focused Certifications and training opportunities Our upcoming Certifications provide today’s innovators with opportunities to thrive in an agent-first, AI-powered tomorrow. Watch for more details on these Certifications in the coming months. A new Fundamentals Certification to validate foundational AI skills and equip learners to confidently navigate and manage core Microsoft 365 services—including Copilot and agents—while building their understanding of identity, security, and compliance essentials in Microsoft Entra and Microsoft Purview. An expert Certification to validate AI-first expertise, including advanced skills in generative AI, multi-agent orchestration, and agentic design by using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI services, and Dynamics 365. We’re also introducing a series of beginner-level training courses over the next few months designed to help learners in functional roles understand how Copilot, agents, and AI embedded in business systems like Dynamics 365 can streamline their day-to-day work. These AI-focused courses will be released for sales, service, finance, and supply chain roles. Retirement of select Fundamentals Certifications On December 31, 2025, we’re retiring the following Certifications: The Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals Certification (Exam MS-900: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals). The Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (CRM) Certification (Exam MB-910: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (CRM)). The Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (ERP) Certification (Exam MB-920: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (ERP)). The following questions and answers can help you determine how these retirements could impact your learning journey: Q. What if I’m studying for Exam MS-900, Exam MB-910, or Exam MB-920? A. If you’re currently preparing for Exam MS-900, Exam MB-910, or Exam MB-920, we strongly recommend that you take the exam before December 31, 2025. You won’t be able to take these exams after this date. Q. I’ve already earned one of these Certifications. What happens now? A. If you’ve already earned the Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals, Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (CRM), or Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (ERP) Certification, it will stay on the transcript in your profile on Microsoft Learn. (Note: Fundamentals Certifications don’t expire. Q. How do these Certification retirements affect partners? A. Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (CRM) (Exam MB-910: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (CRM)), and Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (ERP) (Exam MB-920: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundamentals (ERP)) are not included in the requirements for the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program's (MAICPP’s) designations and specializations. Get the chance to win a voucher for 50% off a Certification exam Microsoft Applied Skills + Certifications = a powerful combination. Applied Skills validate your ability to complete real-world tasks using Microsoft technologies. These focused, flexible micro-credentials help you build job-ready skills—and they’re a smart step toward earning a role-based Certification. For a limited time, learners who pass an Applied Skills assessment can enter for a chance to win a voucher for 50% off a Microsoft Certification exam.* *Terms apply Stay future-ready AI is changing the game, and so can you. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements on these new Microsoft Certification offerings to help you do just that. In the meantime, be sure to browse all Microsoft Credentials.New Certification on GitHub administration
We’re looking for people who have experience with GitHub administration to take our new beta exam. Do you have subject matter expertise in supporting GitHub Enterprise for users and key stakeholders, managing user identities and GitHub authentication, and describing how GitHub is deployed, distributed, and licensed? Are you responsible for managing access and permissions, enabling secure software development, helping to ensure compliance, and managing GitHub Actions? If this is your skill set, we have a new Certification for you. The GitHub Administration Certification validates your expertise in these areas and offers you the opportunity to prove your skills. To earn this Certification, pass Exam GH-100: GitHub Administration, currently in beta. Is this the right Certification for you? This Certification could be a great fit if you’re a system administrator, software developer, application administrator, or IT professional with intermediate-level experience in GitHub Enterprise administration. It highlights your expertise in repository management, workflow optimization, and efficient collaboration to support successful projects on GitHub, along with your ability to optimize and manage a healthy GitHub environment. Why earn a GitHub Certification? GitHub Certifications offer professionals, teams, and organizations a globally recognized way to validate GitHub expertise and to stand out in a rapidly shifting digital landscape. These credentials are a signal of deep technical proficiency, real-world readiness, and alignment with in-demand job roles across the tech ecosystem. Whether you're an individual looking to boost your career or an enterprise enabling team growth, GitHub Certifications allow you to verify critical skills across the GitHub platform—from foundational collaboration workflows to advanced DevOps practices. Where can you find GitHub exams and credentials? GitHub Learn and Microsoft Learn are working together to enhance your GitHub learning experience. Our GitHub exams are now available on Pearson VUE via Microsoft Learn, bringing a more unified and accessible experience to learners worldwide. If you already use Microsoft Learn, you can more easily discover and engage with GitHub topics. From exploring Certifications to registering, scheduling, and taking exams, everything is now streamlined through a single ecosystem. Plus, in August 2025, you’ll be able to push your GitHub credentials to your Microsoft Learn profile so you can find all of your credential records in one place. Ready to prove your skills? Take advantage of the discounted beta exam offer. The first 300 people who take Exam GH-100 (beta) on or before July 20, 2025, can get 80% off market price. To receive the discount, when you register for the exam and are prompted for payment, use code GH100Hoyt. This is not a private access code. The seats are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. As noted, you must take the exam on or before July 20, 2025. Please note that this beta exam is not available in Turkey, Pakistan, India, or China. Get ready to take Exam GH-100 (beta): Review the GitHub Administration Certification page for details. The Exam GH-100 study guide alerts you to key topics covered on the exam. Want even more in-depth training? Connect with our training partners, who are also trusted GitHub partners, offering best-in-class exam preparation to help you reach your full potential. Need other preparation ideas? Check out my blog post, Just How Does One Prepare for Beta Exams? Did you know that you can take any role-based exam online? Online delivered exams—taken from your home or office—can be less hassle, less stress, and even less worry than traveling to a test center, especially if you’re adequately prepared for what to expect. To find out more, read my post, Online proctored exams: What to expect and how to prepare. The rescore process starts on the day an exam goes live, and final scores for beta exams are released approximately 10 days after that. For details on the timing of beta exam rescoring and results, check out my post, Creating high-quality exams: The path from beta to live. Ready to get started? Remember, the number of spots is limited to the first 300 candidates taking Exam GH-100 (beta) on or before July 20, 2025. Related announcements Explore GitHub Learn, our new hub, offering the latest GitHub training resources and curated content for developers and organizations.
Our commitment to help build AI skills in higher education
Last week, Microsoft announced a new set of commitments to ensure students and educators are equipped with the most critical skills to thrive in an AI-powered economy. These efforts are about more than access—they’re about impact. By delivering cutting-edge tools, training, and verified credentials, we’re helping faculty across all higher education institutions lead more confidently in the classroom and embrace all the ways that AI can accelerate growth for themselves and their students. Through faculty and educators, we’re preparing students everywhere to participate fully—and lead boldly—in the AI economy. Microsoft Learn for Educators AI Bootcamps at no cost—Limited-time offer To support institutions globally, we’re opening over 2,500 slots in our Microsoft Learn for Educators (MSLE) AI Bootcamps, available at no cost to all higher education faculty members. From September 15, 2025 through September 30, 2025, faculty from all disciplines can attend the Generative AI for Teaching Bootcamp, the Foundational AI Bootcamp, and the Cybersecurity and AI Bootcamp. All sessions are virtual, offered across multiple time zones, and taught in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Brazilian Portuguese. Whether faculty have a technical or non-technical background, these bootcamps provide valuable skills and resources to help them empower students for success in an AI-driven job market. Sign up today for an MSLE AI Bootcamp. Expanding AI skilling through community and technical college partnerships We recognize the unique value of community colleges in the United States. We’re excited to announce our partnerships with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the National Applied AI Consortium (NAAIC) to help build AI skills and support AI adoption. Through these partnerships, we’ll provide training at no cost for community college faculty and staff, ultimately benefiting over 10 million students in the United States. These training sessions will help community college faculty prepare for in-demand AI credentials and certifications, including the Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals certification. Faculty and staff can now sign up for the trainings that launch later this month at the NAAIC. As we look ahead, the opportunity to empower higher education faculty, and through them, millions of students, has never been more urgent or more promising. By working together across institutions, industries, and borders, we can ensure that every faculty member has the tools and confidence to lead in an AI-powered world.
Supercharge your workflow with real-time information from the Microsoft Learn MCP Server
Stay focused and on track by connecting your AI agents directly to trusted Microsoft documentation. With the shift toward more AI-powered workplaces, developers and IT teams are spending less time searching the web and more time relying on AI tools and agents for help. But AI is only as good as the knowledge it can access—and even the most advanced AI models are working with information that has knowledge cutoffs, meaning their resources can be months out of date. Outdated or incomplete information can lead to errors, inefficiencies, and compliance issues. That’s where a new standard is emerging: Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers. They connect AI agents directly to trusted, real-time data sources, so answers are accurate, relevant, and up to date. With the Microsoft Learn MCP Server, your AI agents can tap directly into official Microsoft product knowledge, right inside your development environment or workflow. No browser hopping. No guesswork. Just faster, more accurate results with AI guidance that helps you streamline your workflow and grow your skills while solving real-world problems. What is the Microsoft Learn MCP Server? Think of the Microsoft Learn MCP Server as your direct line to official Microsoft documentation—delivered to your AI Agent, in real time, in context, without leaving the tools you already use. Whether you’re coding in Visual Studio Code, prompting GitHub Copilot, or building a custom AI assistant, the Learn MCP Server brings relevant guidance to your fingertips. There’s no need to create custom connectors or install extra components. The service uses lightweight, streamable HTTP, so it works seamlessly with almost any MCP-compatible tool. The Learn MCP Server provides multiple ways for AI agents to surface the right information: Focused excerpts: The server can search Microsoft content and return up to 10 chunks of high-quality information—each with a title, URL, and self-contained passage. Full technical documentation: When broader context is needed, the Learn MCP Server can fetch complete pages, giving agents richer, more contextual information than a chunk alone could provide. Together, these built-in tools are designed to quickly provide you with the information you need by giving AI agents the flexibility to retrieve information in the format that best fits the task at hand—whether that’s targeted excerpts or a complete page of documentation. Microsoft Learn MCP Server If you’re a developer, that means you’ll have real-time access to definitive Microsoft resources, delivered at the right level of detail to help you solve complex problems, write high-quality code, streamline workflows, and build smarter AI agents. If you’re a technology leader, you’ll be able to equip your teams with smarter tools that provide timely, reliable resources, opening up new ways to learn and work more efficiently and effectively. Unlock smarter agentic experiences with the Microsoft Learn MCP Server Here are a few ways you can start putting Learn MCP to work: Create help desk agents that resolve tickets in minutes. Picture a support agent tackling a tricky issue. Instead of digging through pages of search results, their AI assistant pulls exact, up-to-date documentation from Microsoft Learn right into the workflow. The result? Faster resolution times, reduced escalations, and higher customer satisfaction. Develop onboarding agents that feel like personal coaching. New hires often spend weeks finding their footing, but with AI-guided Microsoft Learn resources tailored to each role, they can quickly ramp up on the tools they'll use every day—like Microsoft 365, Azure, or Dynamics 365—and build skills and confidence faster. Build more secure apps with confidence. By connecting GitHub Copilot agent mode to the Microsoft Learn MCP Server, your AI assistant can access the latest secure development practices and requirements, helping you identify vulnerabilities in open-source packages, validate configurations, and flag risky dependencies before they reach production. We’re continuing to expand what’s possible with the Learn MCP Server, so your AI agents can do even more, with even greater accuracy. In the coming weeks, a new capability will enable agents to access precise, ready-to-use code samples that improve the reliability and quality of AI-generated development work. These enhancements will make it even easier for you to build intelligent, context-aware AI agents, backed by the most current Microsoft product knowledge to help teams maximize productivity, stay secure, and deliver more value. Try it for yourself MCP servers are rapidly gaining traction as the standard for connecting AI agents to high-value, trustworthy data sources—a critical capability as organizations race to adopt AI responsibly. Microsoft Learn is already helping developers and technology leaders put this standard into practice, both by helping learners gain the skills needed to build AI agents and by enhancing the way those agents deliver knowledge to people in the flow of work. By embedding official Microsoft product knowledge directly into your workflows, you can make better decisions, accelerate development cycles, streamline operations, and avoid the pitfalls of outdated information. It’s all part of Microsoft Learn’s commitment to helping people use AI more effectively and with confidence. Explore the Learn MCP Server: Follow the step by step documentation to get started. Watch the demo video to see the Learn MCP Server in action. Visit the GitHub repository for installation guidance and troubleshooting. Walk through setting up the Learn MCP Server in Visual Studio Code with Microsoft MVP Luke Murray.Announcing the Microsoft AI Skills Fest: Save the date!
*Updated as of March 28, 2025 The best way to learn something new is by taking it one step at a time. We know all this talk of AI can be overwhelming, so how about we take it one skill at a time? At Microsoft, our mission has always been to create technology that empowers others to innovate and solve real-world problems. And it’s no different with AI—we want to help you learn to use this powerful technology to make your life easier, especially as it becomes an integral part of our daily lives. Sometimes, starting is the hardest part, so we want to make that part simple for you. This is why we’re excited to announce the Microsoft AI Skills Fest, a global event this April and May, designed to bring learners across the globe together to build their AI skills, from beginner explorers to the technologically gifted. Together, we can learn a new AI skill and maybe even set a groundbreaking record at the same time! Everyone everywhere is invited The AI Skills Fest is designed with you in mind, offering a wide variety of AI training for everyone, regardless of background or expertise. Join us to build your AI skills and unlock new opportunities for productivity, innovation, and growth. Tech professionals. Learn how to quickly build AI-powered solutions using Microsoft's AI apps and services. Gain skills and experience working with agents, AI security, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, and more. Business professionals. Find out how much easier your work life can be when you use Microsoft Copilot to simplify tasks and let your creativity loose! Students. Explore technical skills to bring your ideas to life, with AI learning experiences for all skill levels and interests. Business leaders. Empower your teams with AI skills for future success through curated upskilling opportunities. Let’s earn a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title together on April 8, 2025! The Microsoft AI Skills Fest will begin with a spectacular Kickoff Celebration on April 8, 2025. Starting in Australia at 9 AM Australian Eastern Standard Time and wrapping up in the United States at 4 PM Pacific Daylight Time, this 24-hour, globe-spanning event will feature a variety of AI learning activities designed to engage and inspire learners of all experience levels. Together, we’ll have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attempt a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for most users to take an online multi-level artificial intelligence lesson in 24 hours. Don’t miss this unique chance to learn, compete, and celebrate your achievements—and to be part of these unprecedented and record-setting global festivities. Check out the learning experiences we've prepared for this day. Mark your calendar and register now. Deepen your skills over 50 days of AI learning The celebration doesn't stop there! Following the kickoff, the AI Skills Fest will continue for 50 days— through May 28, 2025—offering a wide array of learning opportunities. Whether you're a tech professional, business leader, business professional, student, or AI enthusiast, there will be engaging and challenging training for you. Participate in hackathons, live in-person and virtual training, self-paced tutorials, on-demand training, community events, Microsoft Learn Challenges, and more. Mark your calendar for 50 days of AI discovery and learning. The countdown to make history together Save the date, attempt a world record, and get ready to unlock the future with 50 days of AI discovery and learning. Read all the details and register now. Now let’s get learning!You did it! We’re GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title holders
By Jeana Jorgensen, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Learning You did it! Thanks to you, our incredible community of learners, we’ve successfully earned the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the most users to take an online multi-level artificial intelligence lesson in 24 hours, with a total of 126,151 participants. As a team, we earned this title during the global kickoff celebration for the Microsoft AI Skills Fest on April 8, 2025, with learners of all levels, ages, and geographies. Thank you for letting us learn and grow with you. This collective achievement is a testament to the power of community, commitment to learning, and spirit of innovation that drives us all. The record is a tribute to every person who is investing their time and energy to learn a new AI skill or help others build their AI expertise. Thank you for joining us We’re so honored that you joined us for this global learning adventure. It’s truly inspiring to witness the impact of such dedication. Check out the highlights of the ceremony where Michael Empric, Guinness World Records Adjudicator, officially revealed the record. Highlights of the ceremony where the record attempt results were revealed. Showcase your achievement! Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Microsoft AI Skills Fest kickoff celebration on April 8, 2025. With your confirmed participation, you’ll receive an email, starting on May 1, 2025, with information on how to download the badge that verifies your participation in this exciting event. For any issues with your badge, review the AI Skills Fest Frequently Asked Questions. And remember to share your new record-setter status with your friends, colleagues, and network on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and X. Continue to build your AI skills This achievement is just the beginning. The AI Skills Fest continues through May 28, 2025, and offers even more opportunities for you to add to your AI expertise. You can still join the AI Skills Fest Challenge—10 expertly curated topics, like simplifying everyday tasks, crafting effective prompts, creating AI-powered applications, developing AI chat apps, and using AI to secure your data. Regardless of your role, experience level, or specific AI interest, there’s something for everyone. For more details on the many learning experiences still available to you in the ongoing AI Skills Fest, read Continue deepening your AI skills. Thank you again to all the learners, trainers, and partners who made earning this GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title possible. We’re excited to keep learning with you—one skill at a time. Keep up your momentum, explore the festival map, and make the most of the AI Skills Fest opportunities.
