Earn the badge built for Frontier AI leaders
The next wave of AI transformation needs more than ambition. Customers need partners with the skills and proven capabilities to deliver real outcomes. The Frontier Transformation Engineer badge recognizes partners building the capabilities to design, implement, and deliver Microsoft Frontier AI solutions. Earn the badge to demonstrate validated skills, strengthen customer confidence, and differentiate your practice in a rapidly evolving AI market. With the Frontier Transformation Engineer journey, your team can: Validate Frontier AI engineering capabilities. Strengthen credibility in customer conversations. Build readiness for AI transformation engagements. Bring greater credibility to customer conversations. Differentiate your practice with demonstrated expertise. Qualify for a flagship Frontier Partner specialization recognition. The journey combines certifications, hands-on training, and project readiness to help your team build the capabilities needed to lead Frontier AI transformation. Don’t just prepare for the future of AI. Build the expertise to deliver it. Earn the Frontier Transformation Engineer badgePartner Blog | The new Copilot is here: The opportunity for Microsoft partners
AI at Work is entering a new phase as customers look beyond individual productivity gains to AI that can take on complex work, build solutions, and automate business processes. The next evolution of Frontier Transformation is about matching the right mode of intelligence to the task at hand. Today, Microsoft is advancing that vision with the new Copilot, an evolution of the Copilot app that connects the tools people rely on with the next generation of capabilities they'll need to build, customize, and scale AI across work. The Copilot app now includes three new capabilities: Home, where Chat and Copilot Cowork come together with the full power of Office; Code, powered by the same underlying technology as GitHub Copilot, extending solution-building to more knowledge workers; and Autopilot, a persistent, proactive, and personal agent that keeps working even when you're not. Together, these new capabilities expand what customers can do with Copilot and the platform partners can build on. We are also introducing platform innovations including Microsoft IQ, Microsoft Copilot Managed Runtime, and an evolving commercial model with usage-based billing and FinOps for AI. For Microsoft partners, the opportunity extends well beyond the product experience. Today's announcements advance Copilot across three connected dimensions: how people use AI, how customers adopt it commercially, and how partners build, extend, secure, govern, and manage it. That creates opportunities across AI advisory, security and governance, agent development and deployment, FinOps for AI, adoption and change management, software development, and ongoing managed services. Learn more about today’s product announcement from Jared Spataro, Chief Marketing Officer, AI at Work. (live 9/25) What is new and why it matters for partners One Copilot experience brings AI-powered work together The new Copilot gives people access to the right capability for the work they want to accomplish: Home is the new starting point, bringing Chat—for questions, lookups, and drafts—together with Cowork, where work is delegated and returned as a completed result. Within the Home tab, Office in Copilot brings the full power of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into the app, creating and updating real, editable files that stay live for the whole team. Code turns natural-language ideas into apps, dashboards, automations, and workflows, with Copilot Managed Runtime providing the governed hosting infrastructure to run and share them inside Microsoft 365. Autopilot, previously called Scout, is a cloud-hosted digital teammate with its own identity, memory, and workspace that takes on work and keeps it moving within the permissions and boundaries the organization sets. Together, these capabilities let people match the right tool to the job, while staying in the flow of work. For partners, this creates opportunities to move customers beyond assistive productivity into business process transformation, grounded in the organization’s own data, and governed by the permissions and controls IT already sets. Continue reading hereMicrosoft Ignite: Build the skills customers are searching for
You don’t want to miss out: the right learning experience can turn new technology into practical action. Don’t miss your chance to turn new technology into practical action. As small and medium-sized business (SMB), mid-market, and enterprise customers alike move from AI experimentation to adoption at scale, they’re looking for partners who can effectively embed agents, intelligence, and trust across their businesses. Register for Microsoft Ignite, the weeklong event taking place November 17–20—where you can build expertise that informs customer conversations and solution development. Sessions fill up quickly, so build an agenda today that’s tailored to your goals and leave with practical knowledge you can use to win customers, shape solutions, and grow your business. Register today!Welcome to the new Partner Skilling Discussion board!
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!Build a more effective co-sell motion with the new Co-sell Execution Engine skilling series
Turn co-sell into a more consistent growth engine for your business with a new series of skilling videos. The new five-part Co-sell Execution Engine video series, now available on the Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub, gives you practical guidance from Microsoft co-sell leaders and experienced partners. Across five on-demand sessions, Microsoft co-sell leaders and experienced partners share proven frameworks, data-driven strategies, and real-world insights so you can: Strengthen collaboration with Microsoft sellers. Improve deal velocity. Increase win rates. Scale co-sell across your business. Choose the sessions most relevant to your business needs or complete the full series to learn how successful partners turn co-sell from a one-time activity into a scalable growth engine. View the series today.We are excited to announce a new AI-led experience for MyGoals!
Get a personalized MyGoals learning plan instantly. Building the right skills starts with the right learning plan for you—and now, you can tailor your learning journey with the new AI-powered Skilling Hub experience. Just choose your role, the topics that matter most to your business, and your preferred learning formats—then instantly get a tailored learning plan aligned to your goals. As your priorities evolve, you can revisit and refine your learning plan anytime. Plus, stay tuned for upcoming AI-powered guides to strengthen your Microsoft partnership, expand co-sell opportunities, and accelerate your Microsoft Marketplace journey. For new users, register and start building a new learning path today. For returning users, use your previous login credentials for MyGoals on LevelUp. Note: LevelUp MyGoals is a subset of Skilling Hub learning and soon be completely integrated into Skilling Hub. Get startedPartner Blog | Partner Center Technical Corner: August 2026 edition
Welcome to the August edition of Partner Center Technical Corner. This month’s updates are designed to empower you to identify growth opportunities, manage customer and subscription scenarios with more predictability, strengthen customer confidence through specialized capabilities, and gain greater visibility across Partner Center. Several of these updates put AI directly into the workflows your teams use every day. From sales recommendations to designation progress guidance, Partner Center is making it easier to move from insight to action. For a look at what is coming next, review the Partner Center Technical Roadmap and resources at the end of this post. Turn insights into growth AI-powered growth recommendations Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners now have AI-powered sales recommendations and business insights designed to identify potential growth opportunities, prioritize customer engagement, increase adoption, and grow revenue across your customer portfolio. The first wave of recommendations focuses on upsell, seat expansion, Copilot monetization through free-to-paid conversions, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat activation, Enterprise Agreement (EA) to CSP migrations, and targeted promotions. Recommendations are available through the Partner Center agent and the Customer Overview page, and each includes business context so you can evaluate the next best action. Browse promotion details directly in Partner Center You can now browse and download active promotions inside the Pricing workspace. The Benefits page includes a sortable table with product, SKU, discount, term, billing cycle, and eligibility details. Selecting a row opens a full details panel, making it faster to identify upsell and renewal opportunities and confirm whether a promotion applies before placing an order. Continue reading here Be sure to follow our CSP discussion board to connect with subject matter experts and other CSP partners!Accelerate your sales with Deal Ready Demo Accelerators
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.
