Build expertise, earn recognition, and drive transformation with Microsoft skilling
At Microsoft, we know that every innovation journey starts with the right skills. Our goal is to make your skilling experience streamlined and effective, so you spend less time searching for resources and more time innovating. We have designed the Partner Skilling Hub as a central portal where you can build new capabilities, accelerate organizational growth, and learn how to set your solutions apart and create meaningful customer outcomes. With advanced search and filters by category, solution area, and skill level, you can quickly find live events, self-paced courses, and training opportunities tailored to your needs. Below are just some of the skilling resources available to you through this new portal so you can spend less time searching and more time innovating. Continue reading hereVirtual Event | Becoming Frontier: Pitch and land the AI transformation story
Join us for a hands-on training designed to sharpen your AI transformation pitch. Over three days, you will dive into Microsoft’s latest executive, platform, business services, and security conversations, learn how to bring the Copilot and agentic story to life, and practice landing it with impact. With expert-led sessions, practical pitch decks, and live Q&A, you will leave with the confidence to guide customers through their AI journey and earn a shareable digital badge along the way. Americas | Tuesday, October 14, 9:00 AM - Thursday, October 16, 12:00 PM PDT Asia | Wednesday, October 15, 9:00 AM - Friday, October 17, 12:00 PM IST EMEA | Wednesday, October 15, 9:00 AM - Friday, October 17, 12:00 PM BST Register today!Join the Movement at Azure Dev Summit!
Azure Dev Summit is a chance for you to join a community of developers, architects, and tech leaders building with Azure, .NET, and Microsoft AI. This isn’t just another conference. It is a Microsoft-sponsored celebration of innovation, learning, and connection — and we’re bringing some of the most inspiring voices in tech to the stage. Find out more about the speakers at Azure Dev Summit and make sure to register! https://azuredevsummit.com/Partner Blog | Build in-demand capabilities with Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy
Continuous learning is essential for organizations using cloud and AI technologies to maintain a competitive edge. To help Microsoft partners stay at the forefront of their industries, we are pleased to share the latest updates to our partner skilling initiatives. These changes are part of an ongoing effort to simplify and enhance the skilling process, ensuring that partners like you continue to deliver the innovative solutions customers need. Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy went worldwide June 1 As announced in March, Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy is a new, centralized skilling portal designed to help sales professionals in partner organizations boost their skills and position themselves as industry leaders. We built Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy as a unified hub that delivers a learning framework for partner skilling—simplifying the experience and providing clear, structured guidance across sales, pre-sales, and customer deployment cycles to help you close deals and drive revenue. Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy launched globally on June 1, 2025, with a learning journey for Security called "Microsoft Sales Titan: Threat Protection." Designed to promote Microsoft Threat Protection SKUs, this offering provides sales teams with on-demand training sessions focused on understanding and articulating the value of Microsoft 365 E5 Security licenses. With Sales Titan: Threat Protection, members of your sales team can improve their ability to close deals and earn Microsoft accredited badges—which demonstrate their learnings to both clients and Microsoft. You can also gain access to supporting resources that help drive confident, informed customer conversations. This self-serve learning journey is now available to partners globally. Sales Titan, the first module in the Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy, will eventually integrate into our new skilling platform, launching this July. This unified environment consolidates each of our skilling platforms into a single, easy-to-access location. Continue reading hereGPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry: The future of AI apps and agents starts here
OpenAI’s GPT-5 is available today in Azure AI Foundry. GPT-5 adds advanced capabilities to support agentic workflows, complex code synthesis, and safer, more flexible integrations. Ideal for: Unified reasoning + chat for end-to-end problem solving Agentic task mastery with multi-step tool use and auditable decisions, Frontier coding with minimal prompting Developer controls for depth, speed, verbosity Free-form function calling (no rigid JSON schemas) Safer completions for sensitive prompts Learn more here!Partner Blog | Driving business impact through skilling
Partners, this is your moment. AI is reshaping how we work at breakneck speed, and those who skill up will lead this transformation. As Nicole Dezen emphasized in her MCAPS Start for Partners 2025 recap, success in this era is rooted in clarity, consistency, and capability—and you. Skilling isn’t just a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program priority—it’s your competitive edge, empowering you to close readiness gaps and deliver customer outcomes in an AI-first world. This month, we’re spotlighting what’s new in partner skilling, how AI-powered enablement is driving measurable impact, and what steps you can take next to stay ahead. Partner Skilling Hub: What’s new and how to drive impact Whether you're onboarding new hires, deepening technical expertise, or preparing for the next wave of AI opportunity, the new Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub is your comprehensive resource for activating technical readiness and aligning learning with business outcomes. Since its launch, the Skilling Hub has evolved rapidly to meet the needs of partners on their readiness journeys. The latest updates include: Simplified navigation for faster discovery of content by solution area. AI-curated learning collections focused on Copilot, Security, and Industry Cloud priorities. New role-based pathways tailored for business decision-makers and pre-sales professionals, not just technical sellers. If you haven’t explored the Skilling Hub recently, now is the time to discover new features, enhanced filters, and guided journeys that connect training directly to pipeline outcomes. It’s more than a platform—it’s your partner for growth. Continue reading herePartner Blog | Limitless learning, one location: The Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub is here
This month, we kicked off our new fiscal year. On July 15, Microsoft hosted MCAPS Start for Partners, during which we unveiled our strategic priorities, key investments, enhancements to the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, and new opportunities to scale your business. One of these opportunities, our new Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub, is available now in preview. The Skilling Hub is a unified platform that brings together all GPS partner skilling resources—Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy, LevelUp, GPS Skilling Hub, SureStep, AI Partner Training Days, and regional events—into one seamless experience. First announced in our June blog post, this streamlined platform is your new home base for training, certification prep, and continuous growth. One of the most exciting opportunities in the Skilling Hub is Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy. This centralized, global learning portal is designed to help partner sales professionals boost their skills and close more deals through structured, role-based training. Launched on June 1, 2025, its first module, “Sales Titan: Threat Protection,” focuses on Microsoft 365 E5 Security and offers on-demand training, certifications, and resources to support confident customer conversations. Built for you, shaped by your feedback The Skilling Hub isn’t just a new portal—it’s a partner-driven experience. As a partner-centered organization, we listened carefully to your feedback and shaped the platform around the capabilities and features that matter most to you. You gave us valuable insights about what would be most useful, including: A single access point for role-based learning. Easy-to-follow guidance that supports specialization and certification acquisition. A simplified interface for purposeful learning journeys. We plan to deliver all this and more. Continue reading herePartner Blog | Skilling for impact: A new era of learning for Microsoft Partners
As we begin a new fiscal year, the energy across the Microsoft partner ecosystem is palpable. With MCAPS Start for Partners just a week away on July 15, we’re entering a season of strategic alignment, innovation, and investment. This digital-first experience will deliver essential readiness content, celebrate our global community, and preview what’s ahead across co-sell, marketplace, incentives—and skilling. Learn more and register. Skilling as a strategic growth lever In today’s AI-powered economy, skilling is no longer a support function—it’s a growth engine. The ability to rapidly build expertise, adapt to new technologies, and deliver customer value is what sets high-performing partners apart. That’s why Microsoft is doubling down on skilling as a core investment area for FY26. We’re simplifying and streamlining how you access learning, build capabilities, and drive results. In the coming months, we’ll be launching a unified skilling platform—a single destination that brings together the full spectrum of Microsoft partner skilling into one seamless, purpose-built experience. Skilling across the partner journey Our skilling strategy is designed to meet partners where they are and elevate them across every stage of the customer lifecycle. We are enabling partners to become Certification Ready with foundational solution area knowledge that supports designation and specialization growth through Microsoft Learn, certifications, and Applied Skills. Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub Continue reading herePartner Blog | What's new for Microsoft partners: April 2025 edition
We value partner feedback and celebrate the range of perspectives within our community as we continue to enhance the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. Our second blog of 2025 provides expert insights, updated learning resources, and recent benefits from the last four months to support your development. Announcements Microsoft at 50: the journey and future of the partner ecosystem As we celebrate Microsoft’s 50th anniversary in April, our annual State of the Partner Ecosystem blog was a great opportunity to reflect on the incredible journey we’ve shared with our partners, employees, and customers. Celebrate with us! Watch this video from Judson Althoff, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Microsoft. Join the Microsoft AI Skills Fest for 50 days of learning and discovery starting April 8! Gain skills that will empower you and your team to build innovative AI solutions with Microsoft’s apps and services. Download the Microsoft 50th Anniversary Social Toolkit. See the full list of partner quotes on the Microsoft 50th Anniversary celebration site. Upcoming API changes for Microsoft partners: what you need to know Security and compliance are vital to maintaining trust and enhancing business efficiency. Our recent blog outlines several significant updates to application programming interfaces (APIs) that Microsoft partners will need to implement over the coming months to ensure compliance and avoid disruptions in business operations. These changes include updates to billing frequency scheduling, Partner of Record (POR) assignment, CSP billing reconciliation APIs, Partner Center pricelist upgrades, and the deprecation of Azure AD graph tokens. Additionally, the blog emphasizes the importance of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and upcoming changes to Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) attestation methods. Continue reading hereMeet market demand with Microsoft skilling opportunities
As AI continues to transform industries, businesses that prioritize skilling are positioning themselves to seize market opportunities and become leaders. That’s why Microsoft is committed to empowering our partners with the knowledge and resources they need to lead. We’re excited to announce the upcoming launches of Microsoft Sales Titan, a powerful new offering built for sales professionals—currently in private preview for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners—and Microsoft AI Agents Day, a virtual event built to help you sharpen your agentic AI skills. Learn how these new offerings can grow your business—and explore other purpose-built skilling opportunities below. Close deals, sharpen AI skills, and earn badges Sales Titan—available to all partners in summer 2025—is a centralized skilling portal designed to enhance proficiency in Microsoft Threat Protection SKUs, help sales professionals position themselves as industry leaders, and build knowledge to drive meaningful customer conversations. Learn more about Sales Titan today. Microsoft AI Agents Day is a virtual training event focused on how to use Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry to build agents and drive customer success. This offering is designed for all roles—from executives to architects to those who are new to Microsoft AI solutions—and participants who attend the live session will earn a digital badge. Register today to get started. Explore more skilling opportunities No matter where you are in your AI journey, Microsoft provides the tools and opportunities you need to thrive in 2025 and beyond. We offer bootcamps, workshops, and self-guided learning opportunities, such as: Certification Weeks: Designed to accelerate AI and cloud certification paths, we offer Certification Weeks for the following solution areas: Azure Business Applications Modern Work Security. Sales and Pre-sales Skilling Bootcamps: These sales bootcamps help you plan, build, and assess strategies for closing sales. Register today to get started. Partner Project Ready Workshops: Deepen your ability to assess customer needs and seamlessly implement Azure solutions in these multi-day events, available for the following solution areas: Azure Business Applications Modern Work Security. Technical workshops and AI Training Days: Sharpen your skills with hands-on sessions focusing on modern AI, security, and data analytics. Register today to get started. AI Envisioning Series: Kickstart your generative AI development plan, accelerate your time to market, and explore how AI is reshaping industries in these workshops. Register today to get started. To learn more about skilling opportunities, explore our Skilling Hub.
