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.New Microsoft 365 Certified: AI Services Administrator Associate Certification
As AI moves deeper into mission-critical work, organizations need trusted administrators who can govern access, secure data, monitor services, and keep Microsoft 365 AI experiences running at enterprise scale. Show you’re ready with new Exam AB-650 (beta). AI-powered productivity is no longer just about enabling new capabilities, it’s about operating them with the right controls, safeguards, and visibility. Organizations need administrators who can help make Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Copilot, agents, and connected AI services secure, compliant, reliable, and scalable across the enterprise. The new Microsoft 365 Certified: AI Services Administrator Associate Certification validates the skills to configure, manage, secure, govern, and continuously optimize Microsoft 365 tenants, workloads, and AI services so organizations can adopt AI with confidence and drive effective outcomes at scale. To earn this Microsoft Certification, you’ll need to pass Exam AB-650: Administering Microsoft 365 and AI Services, currently in beta. Is this the right Certification for you? Candidates for this Certification: Configure, manage, secure, and govern Microsoft 365 tenants, workloads, and AI services, including Copilot, agents, and connected AI capabilities. Govern data access, protect information, and support collaboration between users and agents. Operate and continuously optimize Microsoft 365 and AI services at enterprise scale, helping to ensure reliable and effective outcomes in an AI-powered workplace. Candidates should have experience with Microsoft 365 workloads and Microsoft Entra ID, an understanding of Defender XDR capabilities, and familiarity with Microsoft Graph PowerShell. Ready to prove your skills? Take advantage of the discounted beta exam offer. The first 300 people who take Exam AB-650 (beta) on or before August 18, 2026, can get 80% off. To receive the discount, when you register for the exam and are prompted for payment, use code AB-650SkyClub . 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 August 18, 2026. Please note that this discount is not available in Turkey, Pakistan, India, or China. How to prepare Get ready to take Exam AB-650 (beta): Review the Exam AB-650 (beta) page for training resources, exam registration, and other details. The Exam AB-650 study guide explores key topics covered in the exam. Connect with Microsoft Training Services Partners in your area for in-person offerings. Need other preparation ideas? Check out Just How Does One Prepare for Beta Exams? Ready to get started? You can take Certification exams online, from your home or office. Get the details in Online proctored exams: What to expect and how to prepare. Remember, only the first 300 candidates can get 80% off Exam AB-650 (beta) with code AB-650SkyClub on or before August 18, 2026. Beta exam rescoring begins when the exam goes live, with final results released approximately 10 days later. For more details, read Creating high-quality exams: The path from beta to live. Stay tuned for general availability of this Certification in October 2026. Additional information For more Certification updates, read our recent blog post, Microsoft Credentials roundup: June 2026. Follow our credentials news on The Skills Hub Blog as we roll out additional new Certifications in August and September 2026. Join our Microsoft Worldwide Learning SME Group for Credentials on LinkedIn for beta exam alerts and opportunities to help shape future Microsoft learning and assessments. Explore Microsoft Credentials on 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 22, 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 22, 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 22, 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.
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.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, 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 We’re retiring the following Certifications: December 31, 2025 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)). March 31st, 2026 The Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals Certification (Exam MS-900: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals). 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 MB-910, or Exam MB-920, we strongly recommend that you take the exam before December 31, 2025, or March 31 st , 2026 in case of Exam MS-900. 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. 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.Designing and implementing Microsoft Agentic DevOps Blueprint Survey Opportunity
Greetings! Microsoft is considering a credential for Designing and implementing Microsoft Agentic DevOps, and we need your input through our exam blueprinting survey. The blueprint determines how many questions each skill in the exam will be assigned. Please complete the online survey by August 5, 2026. Please also feel free to forward the survey to any colleagues you consider subject matter experts for this certification. You may send this to people external to Microsoft as well. If you have any questions, feel free to contact John Sowles at josowles@microsoft.com or Don Tanedo at dtanedo@microsoft.com. Designing and implementing Microsoft Agentic DevOps blueprint survey link: https://www.starttest.com/starttest2/startsurvey?programid=187&guid=8156D640-BDCC-44B5-919D-E32F170F8ADF Thank you!AI at work: Learn, build, and grow with Microsoft Copilot and agents
Explore new Copilot modes, learn the basics of AI FinOps, and understand what’s next for agents. Microsoft is reimagining Copilot, bringing familiar tools together with new capabilities that help people and organizations build, customize, and scale AI across work. For a full overview of what’s new, read the Official Microsoft Blog. To help you make the most of what’s new, start with the new AI at Work playlist in AI Skills Navigator. This playlist brings together practical learning to help you choose and use the Copilot mode that best fits your role and your work. AI Skills Navigator brings Microsoft learning into one place, helping individuals and teams find curated learning by role or goal, create custom learning plans, and track team progress. One Copilot, new ways of working with AI The AI at Work playlist starts by helping you understand how the Copilot app’s three new capabilities support connected ways of working with AI: Home is your new starting point, where Chat and Cowork come together. Chat answers questions, explores ideas, and completes everyday tasks. Cowork collaborates on complex, multi-step work. Code extends solution-building to every knowledge worker. Autopilot is a persistent, proactive, and personal agent that keeps working even when you’re not. The playlist helps you recognize when and how to use each mode to move from an idea or need to an outcome. Learn by doing with the AI at Work playlist The new AI at Work playlist in AI Skills Navigator shows you how to use the new Copilot in three practical areas. Navigate the new Copilot modes. Learn how the Copilot app supports different kinds of work, from answering questions and collaborating on deliverables to building solutions and delegating ongoing tasks. Balance usage, cost, and value. Explore AI financial operations (AI FinOps) concepts for business professionals, administrators, and builders, including responsible consumption and managing usage and cost. For a deeper look, read the FinOps for AI blog. Understand how agents are evolving. Build familiarity with Copilot Studio and agent harnesses. Explore how agents can support increasingly connected, multi-step work. For the full news, read the Copilot Studio blog. Put one skill into practice How do you make the most of the new Copilot in your role? Choose a task you know well. Define the outcome, give Copilot useful context, choose whether to collaborate, build, or delegate, and review the result with judgment. As Copilot evolves, that cycle can help your skills evolve with it. Explore the AI at Work playlist in AI Skills Navigator and choose one new skill to put into practice today.Changes to Microsoft Learn’s public documentation repositories
Microsoft Learn is changing how it manages public documentation repositories. Learn what the changes mean for GitHub contributors and where to continue sharing feedback. If you contribute to Microsoft Learn documentation through GitHub, here’s what you need to know about upcoming changes to our public documentation repositories and what they mean for your contributions. Over the coming months, Microsoft Learn will retire most public repositories associated with product documentation. As a guiding principle, documentation repositories associated with open-source products, projects, or communities are expected to remain open to public contributions. This change applies only to Microsoft Learn documentation repositories. It does not affect product source code repositories or sample code repositories. Our goal is to maintain trusted, high-quality technical content for customers while establishing clearer criteria for when documentation repositories remain open to public contributions. How repository retirement decisions will be made Microsoft Learn will evaluate public documentation repositories based on several factors, including contribution activity, community engagement, business needs, and operational dependencies. When a repository is approved for retirement, it will no longer be publicly accessible or visible. Members of the public will no longer be able to view Microsoft's repository history, pull requests, or issues. Personal forks will still be accessible. What contributors can expect For documentation repositories that remain open to external contributions, the contribution experience will not change. Contributors can continue using existing GitHub workflows to submit corrections, updates, and other improvements. Before retiring a repository, Microsoft Learn will evaluate its open pull requests and GitHub issues through the existing process. Contributors with open contributions will receive repository-specific updates through GitHub comments. Microsoft Learn has begun retiring public documentation repositories with smaller footprints and expects to retire the relevant repositories by the end of December 2026. If you have an open contribution, watch the associated pull request or issue for updates. How to continue sharing feedback Community feedback remains an important part of improving Microsoft Learn documentation. If you want to provide documentation feedback after a repository retires, you can continue sharing questions and feedback through: Microsoft Q&A Feedback options available on Microsoft Learn pages Microsoft community forums These channels provide ways to report documentation concerns, ask questions, and participate in technical community discussions after a public documentation repository has been retired. Our continued commitment to the community We sincerely thank everyone who has contributed to Microsoft Learn documentation. Community members have corrected errors, clarified technical concepts, suggested improvements, and made substantial content updates. These contributions have helped make Microsoft Learn documentation more accurate and useful for customers around the world. Although the availability of some public documentation repositories is changing, our commitment to trusted, high-quality technical content and meaningful community feedback remains unchanged. If you currently contribute through GitHub, continue following your open pull requests and issues for repository-specific notifications. You can also use Microsoft Q&A, feedback options on Microsoft Learn pages, and Microsoft community forums to continue sharing feedback.
