SharePoint Showcase: Refreshed SharePoint mobile app
SharePoint Showcase: Refreshed SharePoint mobile app Your sites, files, news, and people, together in the redesigned SharePoint mobile app. Work does not always happen while you are sitting at your desk. You may need to review a presentation before a meeting, find a document someone shared, or catch up on an important team update while moving between tasks. The redesigned SharePoint mobile app now gives you a mobile starting point for finding relevant content, seeing what is new, and returning to the work that matters to you, similar to the SharePoint Discover experience on web. The app brings your sites, files, news, and people together in a connected experience designed for how you work on a phone. Alongside the refreshed design, we’ve updated sign-in, improved content loading and made navigation more dependable. These changes help make everyday tasks feel smoother, whether you’re checking a document before a meeting or catching up on the go.Introducing a credential based on real work—no test required
For the first time, everyday work can become verified proof of your skills For years, people have asked for a simpler way to prove the skills they use in the flow of work, without stepping away to prepare for another test. Today, Microsoft is introducing general availability of a first-of-its-kind credential that recognizes proficiency levels demonstrated through real, everyday product use. Welcome to Pro Badge. Instead of capturing skills on a single test day, this approach keeps pace with your work and the products you use. It gives you a current, verified signal of what you can do, at no cost and without a separate exam or study guide. The first credential available through this approach is Microsoft Pro Badge: GitHub Copilot. It’s for engineers, developers, and anyone using GitHub Copilot to build and solve problems with code. Pro Badge recognizes and measures how you apply GitHub Copilot across everyday coding and development work, giving you proof you can share on your terms. How everyday work becomes proof of skill Pro Badge is built on three connected parts: The proficiency framework provides a consistent way to evaluate how effectively you use a given product. It includes five levels—Beginner, Intermediate, Proficient, Advanced, and Expert—so everyone can understand where their skills stand and how they develop over time. Verified Proficiency systematically uses evidence from everyday product use to calculate and automatically update your proficiency level. Reach Proficient, Advanced, or Expert to qualify for a Microsoft Pro Badge. Microsoft Pro Badge is the credential you receive. The functionality will roll out in phases. At launch today, the experience will support three proficiency levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Proficient. Learners who reach Proficient will qualify for the Microsoft Pro Badge: GitHub Copilot. Advanced and Expert levels—and badges recognizing those levels—are our next priority. Users demonstrating those higher levels of proficiency will earn their Pro Badge first at the Proficient level and will automatically upgrade as Advanced and Expert levels launch. Built on choice, privacy, and trust Microsoft Pro Badge is opt-in and private by design. Only you can authorize the calculation. Your result is private, and you decide whether and where to share it. Your product usage is evaluated against objective criteria—not activity volume alone. Proficiency is determined from patterns in how broadly and deeply you use GitHub Copilot across GitHub.com, your integrated development environment (IDE), the command-line interface (CLI), and mobile. Your raw code, prompts, and intellectual property are never reviewed. Your proficiency stays current as your work, skills, and the product evolve. As evidence from your ongoing work is added and older evidence becomes less relevant, your level may hold, rise, or fall. And because GitHub and Microsoft mint each Pro Badge directly as a result of your work and usage, this is a credential employers and organizations can trust as meaningful. The experience, step by step There is no separate exam or study guide. Here is how the experience works: Sign in. Use your personal GitHub account. Enterprise Managed User accounts are not supported at launch but are a high priority for inclusion. Opt in. Your proficiency is not calculated until you choose to participate. Keep working. Relevant tasks from your everyday product use provide the evidence. See your level. An objective rubric estimates your proficiency from your GitHub Copilot use over time, so results may not appear immediately. Earn your badge. When you reach a qualifying proficiency level, you’ll be notified and your Microsoft Pro Badge will appear on your AI Skills Navigator profile. It is private by default. Share your badge. Claim your verified digital badge on Credly to showcase your achievement and the skills it represents. You choose whether and where to share it. Stay current. Your level updates as your work, skills, and the product evolve. Credentials that work together Pro Badge works alongside Microsoft Certifications. Certifications show that you can solve problems in a role or field. Pro Badge shows how you use a specific product in your everyday work. Together, they give a more complete picture of what you can do. Share your skills on your terms Your achievements matter most when you can use them where you build your career. After you qualify for Pro Badge, you can make your skills visible through Credly and LinkedIn: Claim your badge on Credly. Accept a verified digital badge that describes your achievement and the skills it represents. Once you have claimed your Credly badge, you can share it to your professional network on LinkedIn. Bring your Pro Badge experience to LinkedIn. LinkedIn Connected Apps lets you add a GitHub-verified capability statement to your profile, highlighting your demonstrated GitHub Copilot skills. Throughout the experience, you stay in control. Nothing is shared automatically. Your badge and capability statement appear only where you choose. Make your work count Getting started is simple: Once you opt in, simply keep doing the work you already do, and let your skills speak for themselves. Want to learn more first? Explore the AI Skills Navigator playlist.SharePoint Publish: The next steps for Viva Amplify and centralized corporate communications
By: Sarah Mathurin and Kripal Kavi Corporate communicators need more than a place to publish updates. They need a connected workspace to create compelling content, plan campaigns, reach employees across channels, and measure impact. That is the foundation of the new Publish experience in SharePoint. With Publish, communicators don’t have to remember another destination, they get a unified place to create, distribute, and measure communications without leaving the platform where their organizational news already lives. Publish serves as the primary hub for communicators and content creators in SharePoint, bringing pages, news, Amplify content, campaigns, templates, analytics, and publishing workflows into a single modern interface, all powered by AI. Our goal is to help communicators deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time. Site campaigns are one way we’re bringing that vision into the everyday SharePoint publishing workflow. Learn more about Publish Getting started with Publish in SharePoint | Microsoft Support What's new: Site Campaigns Today we’re introducing Site campaigns in SharePoint, a new capability that brings campaign management closer to where SharePoint news is created and published. Site campaigns are built directly into your SharePoint site. You can create a site campaign from the Publish experience in SharePoint or inside an existing or new SharePoint site by navigating to the ‘site settings’ menu. Note: For more information on campaigns in SharePoint, click here: Manage campaigns in SharePoint | Microsoft Support Once a site campaign is created, corporate communicators can: Centralize news content: Create and group related SharePoint news posts into a campaign on your SharePoint site. Distribute across channels: Publish to SharePoint, Outlook, Viva Engage, and Teams in one workflow. Track campaign performance: View aggregated analytics across all channels in one place, providing the same visibility you’d expect from the Amplify app. Build on SharePoint's foundation: Because site campaigns are native to SharePoint, communicators and organizations automatically benefit from SharePoint’s existing governance, permissions, co-authoring, and content management capabilities. Site campaigns are available for all SharePoint and Amplify users. Campaigns: Viva Amplify app vs. Amplify in SharePoint To help your organization navigate this evolution, here is how the capabilities compare across both experiences. Both app campaigns and site campaigns are surfaced in SharePoint Publish for easy access. Amplify publications appear alongside news posts labeled as coming from an Amplify campaign and both campaign types appear together in the campaigns section. Feature Viva Amplify App Campaigns Site Campaigns in SharePoint Structure & Hosting Built on dedicated campaign sites. Groups cross-channel publications together for centralized analytics tracking. Lives within a SharePoint site, grouping related news posts for cross-channel publishing and aggregated analytics Publishing Enables publishing across SharePoint, Viva Engage (up to 5 communities), Teams and Outlook. Enables publishing across SharePoint, Viva Engage (cross-post only), Outlook, Teams* *With Viva license Customization per channel Supports channel-specific content customization, allowing users to tailor content separately for Viva Engage, SharePoint, Outlook, or Teams. Does not support channel-specific content customization across SharePoint, Viva Engage, Teams, and Outlook. Approvals Amplify app approvals work with Teams Approvals and let you publish automatically, on a schedule, or manually after approval Site-level approvals can be applied across SharePoint news posts hosted in a site campaign, with Power Automate supporting customizable workflows. Scheduling Schedule any publication created on a campaign site to go live at a future date and time, without additional site setup Schedule pages and news post to publish at a future date and time, once enabled at the site level. Membership & Permissions Campaign-level roles include Owners, Editors, and Approvers; there is no read-only role. Managed broadly at the site level. Site owners/members inherit full site campaign access, while site visitors or readers can view published news. Strategic Planning Includes a Campaign Brief for defining goals, objectives, and key messages that remain visible while drafting. No standalone Campaign Brief; site campaigns focus on multi-channel distribution and analytics. Creation control IT administrators can manage global creation permissions to control who can create campaigns in the organization. Campaign creation follows SharePoint site permissions; site members and owners can create site campaigns. Analytics Supports cross-channel campaign analytics for Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and Engage. Supports cross-channel campaign analytics for Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and Engage. Note: Amplify app campaigns and SharePoint site campaigns are not interchangeable. SharePoint news posts can only be associated with SharePoint site campaigns; Amplify app publications can only be associated with Amplify app campaigns. Editing per channel is not available in Amplify from SharePoint & site campaigns. What's coming soon: Cross-post to Viva Engage SharePoint helps communicators create rich, engaging stories, announcements or news posts for their organizations. Viva Engage helps those stories travel through the communities and conversations where people connect every day. With cross-posting from SharePoint to Viva Engage, authors can bring these experiences together: one post, one conversation. The new experience lets you distribute a SharePoint news post to a Viva Engage storyline or community. Readers can open the complete news post in full fidelity from Engage, while comments, replies, and reactions made in SharePoint or across Engage surfaces (mobile, web, Outlook, Teams) remain synchronized as one conversation. Learn more here: Cross-post SharePoint News to Viva Engage | Microsoft Support Distributing to Engage: Viva Amplify app vs. Amplify in SharePoint Feature Viva Amplify App Amplify in SharePoint Destinations Share to multiple (5) Engage destinations. Each Engage post has its own separate conversation. Share to only one Engage destination. The SharePoint news post and the Engage post share one conversation. Editing Authors can edit the post directly in Engage. Authors edit the SharePoint news post, and changes sync to Engage automatically. Posts can't be edited in Engage. Media attachments Shown at the end of the Engage thread. Not shown at the end of the Engage thread. Readers can select 'view news post' to see all content, including media. Analytics Thread created is classified as 'Article' type Thread created is classified as 'SharePoint News' type What does it mean for Viva Amplify customers? The Viva Amplify app will continue to be available, allowing organizations to maintain their existing workflows without interruption. There are no changes to our licensing model. At the same time, we’re bringing Amplify capabilities directly into SharePoint Publish, making it easier for creators to access distribution and analytics within their existing SharePoint workflows. We’ve already integrated Amplify distribution and analytics features into native SharePoint experiences, and over time, we’ll continue bringing more Amplify capabilities into this unified experience. This update is not a replacement for the Viva Amplify app. Rather, it gives customers more choice in how they access Amplify capabilities while establishing SharePoint as the direction for future corporate communications investments. We encourage customers to become familiar with and use Amplify in SharePoint whenever possible. Together with AI-powered experiences such as Copilot in SharePoint, this evolution gives corporate communicators a more integrated way to create and manage campaigns, streamline workflows, distribute content, and understand performance across Microsoft 365. Appendix Learn more Introducing SharePoint News and Viva Engage cross-posting SharePoint Showcase Copilot in SharePoin
What’s new in AI Skills Navigator: October 2026
Discover new ways to find relevant learning, stay engaged, prepare for credentials, and build skills in the flow of work with AI Skills Navigator. The way we build skills is changing quickly. Learners want guidance that reflects their roles and goals, fits into busy schedules, and helps them move from learning to practice to validated skills. Team leaders and learning professionals need experiences that connect employees with the right next step without adding complexity. We’re continuing to improve AI Skills Navigator to support those needs. The latest updates make learning more interactive, help you discover relevant content, connect credential preparation, and make progress easier to follow, whether you’re learning independently or helping others build skills. Stay engaged with skilling sessions Sometimes learning takes more than watching a video. You may want to ask a question, test your understanding, or work through a concept before moving on. Skilling sessions combine expert-created video content with AI-powered coaching and knowledge checks, helping you learn something new in a short amount of time and gradually build your knowledge. During a skilling session, an AI-powered coach can answer questions grounded in the material, while chapters and quick knowledge checks help you navigate and reinforce what you’ve learned. Recent updates add voice dictation and identify sessions that use an AI-generated presenter or voice. The catalog spans business and technical topics, from prompting, marketing, and customer service to agent development, DevOps, data, cloud migration, and security. A skilling session with video learning and AI-powered coaching Learn from people you trust AI Skills Navigator now offers expanded ways to explore learning from Microsoft experts and industry leaders. Expert Voices brings their perspectives into the experience, helping you understand not only what to learn, but why it matters. You can also explore technical content around goals such as AI-assisted coding and building or orchestrating agents, making it easier to start with what you want to accomplish and find learning that can help you get there. Follow a path with skilling playlists When there’s a lot to learn, figuring out where to start—and what to tackle next—can be part of the challenge. Skilling playlists are structured paths that help you build skills around a goal or need. You can use AI to create one tailored to your goals, build a custom playlist when you already have specific content in mind, and now start with a featured playlist curated by Microsoft experts. Find a path that fits what you want to learn by exploring Featured playlists, where you can search, sort, filter, and preview paths by role, product, topic, or level. See how skilling is progressing across your organization After you create and assign a skilling playlist, Your playlists gives you a snapshot of learner progress for that individual path. For a broader view, Reporting brings together insights across the organization. Team leaders can see learner onboarding and engagement, playlist adoption and progress, popular learning content, and the skills employees are developing through that learning. Together, these views make it easier to understand how learners are engaging with skilling and where additional support may be useful. We’ll take a closer look at playlists, reporting, and organizational skilling with AI Skills Navigator in upcoming feature posts. Organizational reporting with insights into playlist activity and progress Prepare for credentials with a clearer path Credentials give you a way to validate what you know and can do. Microsoft Certifications and Microsoft Applied Skills can help you demonstrate your proficiency as you build expertise or prepare for what’s next. AI Skills Navigator brings more of that credential journey together. You can now see earned Certifications and Applied Skills in your profile, making it easier to keep track of your achievements in one place. If you’re preparing for a certification, featured playlists, practice assessments, and additional resources bring recommended steps into a more guided experience. For example, the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals page brings preparation resources together so you can follow a structured path, check your readiness, and identify what to revisit before the exam. As you work toward a credential, the learning along the way counts too. Your learning streak tracks consecutive weeks when you complete at least one module, video, or skilling session. Visit the For you page to see your current streak and personal best, then see how far you can take it. Bring skilling into the flow of work with Learning Agent For people and organizations using Microsoft Copilot, there’s a new way to bring skilling into the flow of work. Learning Agent in Microsoft Copilot is a personalized upskilling experience that uses role information, work context, skills signals, and organizational learning sources to help you find a relevant next step. With AI Skills Navigator now part of the experience, Learning Agent can also recommend modules, learning paths, curated videos, skilling sessions, and Microsoft Credentials. Supported content can open alongside your Copilot conversation, with progress carried into AI Skills Navigator so you can continue later. Start with a question in Copilot, get guidance in the moment, and keep building skills over time. Read the full story: AI Skills Navigator is now available in Microsoft Copilot. Make AI Skills Navigator yours Together, these updates give you more relevant ways to find learning, stay engaged, prepare for credentials, and keep building momentum. Your AI Skills Navigator profile helps shape that experience around you. Add or update details such as your role, goals, and interests so AI Skills Navigator can connect you with learning that’s more relevant to the skills you want to build. For organizations, these updates create stronger ways to guide skilling across roles and goals, with insights to understand how learners are engaging and progressing along the way. Explore AI Skills Navigator to find the next step that fits you or your team. Byline: Vaishali Kartik is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, leading the team that develops AI Skills Navigator learning, practice, and credential capabilities. Tanmay Dileep Bhagwat is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, leading the team that develops AI-powered and organizational capabilities for AI Skills Navigator.New Microsoft Certified: Supply Chain Management AI Consultant Associate
Explore the new Microsoft Certified: Supply Chain Management AI Consultant Associate certification and prove your skills with Exam AB-330, now in beta. AI is helping organizations improve supply chain operations and uncover new opportunities to create business value. The organizations pulling ahead are the ones putting AI-powered planning, sourcing, and fulfillment to work inside Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, and they need consultants who can make it real. Ready to prove you can do exactly that? We're introducing the Microsoft Certified: Supply Chain Management AI Consultant Associate certification to validate your ability to implement AI-powered, end-to-end supply chain operations. Earn it by passing Exam AB-330: Implementing AI-Powered Supply Chain Operations with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, now in beta. Is this the right certification for you? This certification is designed for supply chain consultants and functional professionals with hands-on expertise implementing and managing end-to-end supply chain processes in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and its AI-enabled capabilities. If you translate customer requirements into practical configurations that align to the business process catalog for Dynamics 365 apps and services, this certification is for you. This certification demonstrates your ability to: Analyze business requirements across multiple supply chain areas. Map requirements to system capabilities and design reliable, scalable solutions. Identify and manage dependencies between processes. Apply industry-recommended practices to implementations. You should have hands-on experience implementing and managing end-to-end supply chain processes in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and AI-enabled capabilities, and you deliver solutions by partnering with solution architects, developers, consultants, business users, project managers, and other stakeholders. Ready to prove your skills? The first 300 candidates can save 80% The first 300 people who take Exam AB-330 (beta) on or before November 15, 2026, can get 80% off. Enter ScoreAB330 when prompted for payment during registration. This is not a private access code. Seats are first come, first served, and you must take the exam by November 15, 2026. The discount is not available in Turkey, Pakistan, India, or China. How to prepare Get ready for Exam AB-330 (beta): Review the Exam AB-330 (beta) exam page and Exam AB-330 study guide for details and topics covered. Start learning now on Microsoft Learn. Once generally available, the certification and exam will be available through Microsoft Credentials on AI Skills Navigator. Connect with Microsoft Training Services Partners in your area for in-person offerings. Read Just How Does One Prepare for Beta Exams? for more preparation ideas. Ready to get started? Remember, discounted spots are limited to the first 300 candidates taking Exam AB-330 (beta) on or before November 15, 2026. Beta exam rescoring begins when the exam goes live, with final results released approximately 10 days later. Read Creating high-quality exams: The path from beta to live for details. Stay tuned for general availability in January 2027. Additional information With this release, Exam MB-330: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant and Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Associate will retire on February 1, 2027. Take certification exams from home or the office. Read Online proctored exams: What to expect and how to prepare. For more certification updates, read Microsoft Credentials roundup: June 2026. Help shape future Microsoft Credentials. Join the Microsoft Worldwide Learning SME Group for Credentials on LinkedIn for beta exam alerts and opportunities to contribute to future learning and assessments.
