Announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot Search General Availability: A new era of search with Copilot
July 24, 2025ICYMI | Stand out in the marketplace with a Microsoft Copilot specialization
July 24, 2025The Microsoft Copilot specialization demonstrates your experience and capabilities with Copilot, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, Copilot Studio, and agents. Partners with this specialization can help their customers:
- Explore AI Advisory Services for Microsoft Copilot.
- Adopt Copilot.
- Deliver data security and deployment.
- Enable extensibility with agentic focus.
To earn this specialization, you must first attain one of three Solutions Partner designations: Business Applications, Modern Work, and/or Security. If your organization has already attained one or more of these designations, please review the Microsoft Copilot specialization criteria—which include performance metrics, skilling requirements, and customer references—and begin to work toward meeting them. You can check whether you currently meet the requirements by viewing your Partner Center dashboard.
The requirements include:
Performance requirements
- 1,000 monthly active users (MAU) growth of Copilot in the trailing 12 months (TTM) (Claiming partner of record (CPOR), Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Tier 1, CSP Tier 2)
AND
- 5 net customer growth for Copilot in TTM (CPOR, CSP Tier 1, CSP Tier 2)
Skilling requirements
- 5 people with MS-102: Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert
AND
- 5 people with, cumulatively:
SC-401: Implement information protection in Microsoft 365
OR
APL-4002: Prepare security and compliance to support Copilot
AND
- 5 people with APL-7008: Create custom agents with Microsoft Copilot Studio
Customer references
- Provide three customer references, which must include at least one example of transforming business processes with agent implementation.