UPDATED April 21, 2025
Find upcoming skilling opportunities you won’t want to miss.
See also Partner Skilling Resources and the Partner Skilling Calendar.
NEW: Access the new Sales Skilling Flyer.
Skilling Spotlight
Proactive resiliency: Reduce risk for reliable workloads
The “Azure Essentials: Proactive Resiliency” workshop is designed to equip Partners and Workload Owners with the knowledge and tools to enhance the reliability of their workloads for cloud and AI investments. This workshop introduces proactive resiliency, emphasizing the importance of preparing for inevitable outages to keep critical workloads reliable. Participants will learn about the value proposition of conducting proactive resiliency engagements, engagement details, and next steps.
April 22-24, 2025
IST, BST, PDT
Microsoft AI Agents Day for Partners
Learn the importance of Agentic AI and the Microsoft story to bring this to life across the core platforms of Copilot, Copilot Studio and AI Foundry. AI Agents Days for partners is a comprehensive virtual training event designed to empower Microsoft partner teams with a cross-solutions narrative on the importance of Agentic AI to their business transformations and jobs to be done.
April 22-25, 2025
IST, BST, PDT
Spotlight
Cosell Operations Service for Skilling (AskSkilling)
The Co-sell Operations Service for Skilling is a new service where partners can submit skilling related questions to our agents. The agents will respond within 24 hours.
This service helps partners understand the skilling offers available to them in their area and ensures they have the resources they need to build skilling capacity and capability.
You’re invited to join the upcoming Office Hours to learn more about this new skilling service. During these sessions our team will review the Partner Skilling Playbook, review the H2 skilling events calendar and answer any skilling questions you may have.
Please find below the schedule for sessions based on your time zone:
May 14, 2025: Asia 1:00 PM IST | EMEA 9:30 AM BST | Americas 10:00 AM PDTThese sessions are scheduled for the 2nd Wednesday of every month.
Register here.
For any questions or support, email AskSkilling.
Certification Weeks
A five-day event to prepare you for Microsoft advanced role-based certifications and help your organization meet the skilling criteria needed to attain a Solutions Partner designation.
Cert. Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Modern Work & GitHub
Apr 28-May 2 (IST, BST, PDT)Cert. Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Security
Apr 28-May 2 (IST, BST, PDT)
Sales & pre-sales skilling
Enhance your sales and pre-sales capabilities with expert-led training to boost your skills, communicate value, and accelerate the customer journey.
Microsoft Power Hour for Sellers
Apr 29 (IST) April 30 (PDT, BST) May 6, 13, 20, 27 (PDT)
GitHub Partner Bootcamp
May 6-7 (IST, BST, PDT)
Azure Project Ready
Enhance your Azure skills to effectively architect, deploy, and implement cloud and AI solutions, ensuring you are project-ready and can drive customer success.
Azure OpenAI
Apr 29 – May 2 (IST, BST, PDT) Proactive resiliency: Reduce risk for reliable workloads
Apr 22-24 (IST, BST, PDT) Build and extend your own agents using pro-code capabilities
May 13 – 15 (IST, BST, PDT) Secure and govern Microsoft 365 Copilot with Microsoft Purview
May 13 (IST, BST, PDT)Microsoft Fabric Workshop (2 tracks)
May 6-8 (IST, BST, PDT) Build and Modernize AI Apps
May 13 -16 (IST, BST, PDT) Azure Databricks: Migration & integration
May 13-15 (IST, BST, PDT) Secure Migration
May 6- 8 (IST, BST, PDT)
Business Applications Project Ready
Enhance your expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform to streamline deployments, helping you become the go-to expert for client projects.
Secure and Govern Power Platform at enterprise scale
Apr 29-May 1 (PDT, IST, BST)SAP integration with Power Platform
May 13-14 (IST, BST, PDT)
Modern Work Project Ready
Accelerate your path to Modern Work certification to master Microsoft 365 tools and productivity solutions, empowering your team and boosting efficiency.
Security Project Ready
Accelerate your path to Security certification to master cybersecurity and threat protection, ensuring you can effectively safeguard modern IT environments.
Threat Protection and Incident Response with Microsoft Sentinel
Apr 22-23 (IST, BST, PDT)CSP Practice build on Threat Protection & Data Security with ME5
May 6-7 (IST, BST, PDT)
GitHub
Validate your skills with GitHub Copilot to enhance your expertise and drive success across projects.
Access the GitHub Copilot study guide, to help prepare for the exam.
Industry events
Enhance Your Industry Expertise: Leverage sales and AI training to foster innovative solutions, accelerate business growth, and deliver tailored strategies for complex challenges.
Partner meetup for Microsoft Azure
Join this community to get invited to a series of weekly webinars designed exclusively for Microsoft Partners. These sessions will provide an opportunity to connect with Microsoft Experts and learn about the latest Azure, Data, and AI Services, features, programs, and technical content.
Feb-June 2025 Weekly Thursdays
PST/PDT
Copilot Sales Champion
This new offering is built to advance sales knowledge and product evangelism across each Microsoft Copilot solution within our partner community. Microsoft 365 Copilot Sales Champion is an on-demand and interactive learning path available on a “first come, first served” basis while seats are available.
Registration link: Copilot Sales Champion
Access Code: XQLW-TDDJ
LevelUp for Partners
NEW: LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft is an on-demand, self-paced LMS that provides skilling resources for Technical Project Ready with labs and Sales Ready skilling for the Microsoft Cloud Solution Areas and GTM Solution Plays.
Partner organizations have the flexibility to purchase additional seat capacity to meet their immediate skilling needs.
ACTION: For more information on this offer, including how to purchase seats, please refer to the LevelUp Playbook.
For support, please contact [email protected]
GPS Consumption-Led Skilling initiative
NEW: Solve critical technical skills gaps in your Delivery teams with just-in-time, live private ILT deployment skilling with access to real-world hands-on-lab experiences.
This skilling offering is available for MPL SI partners with a confirmed MSX Opportunity ID anchored GTM Solution Plays.
The initiative covers a wide range of Solution plays available in the Partner Project Ready Workshop Catalog.
ACTION: Please contact [email protected] or your PDM, PTS, PSA and Account Executive to submit your training request.
Get “Deal Ready” with upcoming partner sales events
NEW: A series of partner skilling events and webinars designed exclusively for Microsoft Partners. These sessions will provide an opportunity to connect with Microsoft Experts and gain proficiency with proposal building best practices supporting overall deal readiness.
These weekly series will provide quick sessions with interactive Q&A from our SMEs to better fit your schedule. All content and recordings will be available on-demand.
Register for the following upcoming partner series below:
These sessions will run weekly through April with multiple time zones available.
For any questions or support, email AskSkilling.
Back to basics
NEW: How strong are your security foundations? Looking to get started or just brush up? Join us for a five-part series designed to help Microsoft security and infrastructure partners get back to the basics – through the lens of the Secure Future Initiative (SFI). Each session breaks down key components of cloud infrastructure, from core services to advanced security, compliance, and cost optimization. This series is your blueprint for building secure and scalable solutions your customers can count on.
Cloud – Back to basics Ep. #1
Tuesday, April 29
12:00-1:00 PM ET
Click here to registerNetworking, Compute, and Storage – Back to basics Ep. #2
Tuesday, May 6
12:00-1:00 PM ET
Click here to registerDatabases and Migrating to Azure – Back to basics Ep. #3
Tuesday, May 13
12:00-1:00 PM ET
Click here to registerAdvanced Security and Identity in the Cloud – Back to basics Ep. #4
Tuesday, May 20
12:00-1:00 PM ET
Click here to registerOptimizing Costs and Performance – Back to basics Ep. #5
Tuesday, May 27
12:00-1:00 PM ET
Click here to register
