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Microsoft Partner employee guide to linking your certification profile in Partner Center and accessing skilling resources, demo tenants, certification events. and other Microsoft Partner resources.

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Associating your certification profile with your organization

First complete at least one certification or other valid credential on Microsoft Learn. Then sign into the Partner Center page for Learn profile linking with your organization account (yes, it is very slow to load, it isn’t a problem on your side), select the Microsoft Learn tab under the overview section and select Link Microsoft Learn Profile. Use the same account you sign in with on your Microsoft Learn profile. Your certifications appear in Partner Center within 10 days, and newly earned ones can also take up to 10 days.

Since September 28, 2026 you can also link your Skilling Hub account, which brings in credentials from other Microsoft skilling platforms such as LevelUp. It is in addition to your Microsoft Learn profile: Microsoft Learn credentials don’t come through Skilling Hub, so keep both linked.

You can link or unlink a profile up to three times per year, you must wait 30 days after linking before you can link again, and linking to a new company automatically unlinks you from the previous one.

New Microsoft Partner designations

You can find all the related information in the linked documentation.

The biggest change from the now ending competencies is that requirements require fewer certifications from single individuals and in benefits the Visual Studio Enterprise subscription will no longer have the monthly credits (Azure credits are provided as bulk credits at the organization level instead, since the new Visual Studio Enterprise IDE offering of February 13, 2026).

You need 70/100 points to achieve a Microsoft Partner designation. The areas are divided into different performance tiers and skilling. Below are the skilling requirements and how many total points can you gain from certifications.

Designation requirements by solution area

Total skilling points: 40/70 (Intermediate certifications only; Advanced certifications don’t apply to this area).

Data & AI Pathway RequirementsOfficial Partner Center documentation for Performance, Skilling, and Customer Success requirements.

Individual maximum: 4 points

  • Required certifications: 0 points (the Enterprise gate doesn’t award points)
  • Scored certification: 4 points

Required (mandatory, no points, before scored certifications count):

Scored (up to 4 points per person, max 40 points from 10 people):

Microsoft Techcommunity for Partners

These are the communication channels, where you can see 99% of any news or changes happening to everything. I recommend subscribing to the topics that interest you to stay up to date on all the cool stuff happening.

Microsoft Digital Experiences (CDX/MDX)

If you work for a Microsoft Partner, you are eligible to access MDX (if the Partner Organisation set it up). In CDX, you can setup M365 demo tenants, usually filled with content already. These tenants are renewable + you can have multiple active at the same time. There are all sorts of demos and showcases of Microsoft products. Great for any kind of testing or exam preparation.

1 Free M365 Tenant

Part of MDX allows you to create 1x 90 day non-renewable M365 tenant. There are multiple types like E5, Business Premium or various specialised tenants. Before creating another one, you need to delete the existing one.

MDX Experiences

Second part of MDX are Experiences. These have multiple variations, either they are live demonstrations where you use beforementioned tenant to explore/demostrate features live or simulated demonstrations. In simulated demonstrations you get access to a simulated tenant, where you can click around and explore it but it is premade and not a real environment so any updates and changes are not reflected unless it is specifically updated.

Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub

The new all in one resource for all Microsoft Partner related events and resources.

Microsoft Partner LevelUp

Microsoft’s new technical skilling platform for Microsoft Partners.

Microsoft Titan Skilling Academy

Microsoft’s new skilling platform for Microsoft Partners. There are 3 areas you can upskill in:

Sales Ready

Customer-facing selling skills for specific solution areas, each with a set number of tasks and an estimated time to complete.

JourneyDescriptionTasksHours
Threat Protectionposition and support Microsoft threat protection solutions through customer-focused security discussions.10~4
Transform AI with Business Centralposition and deliver AI-powered Business Central solutions.12~22
Azure: Migrate and Modernizeposition and drive Azure migration and modernization opportunities.10~8
M365 Copilot and Agentsstrategic selling and customer influence for Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent solutions.13~6
Secure AI & Agents with Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 E7position Secure AI solutions and handle common customer objections.7~3

Tech Deal Ready

Deal-support technical skills for specific solution areas, each with a set number of tasks and an estimated time to complete.

JourneyDescriptionTasksHours
Agentic AI Solutions on Microsoft Foundrybuild and deploy AI agents using Azure AI Foundry.14~13
Agentic AI Solutions with Copilot Studiodesign and build AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio.13~13
Microsoft 365 Copilot & Agentsautomate collaboration and workflows across Microsoft 365 with Copilot and agents.15~11
Data Securitystrengthen data security and compliance expertise for customer conversations.9~10
Threat Protectiondetect, investigate, and respond to security threats, and drive cyber-resilience conversations.12~14

Project Ready

Hands-on technical learning journeys, each with a set number of tasks and an estimated time to complete.

JourneyDescriptionTasksHours
Frontier Transformation Engineerbuild agentic AI apps using Microsoft’s full stack and integrate agentic AI into existing processes and apps.22~99
Microsoft Sentinel - Unified SecOpsunified SecOps concepts, threat detection, investigation and response, SIEM/SOAR and security automation.6~49
Data Securitysecuring data and AI workloads, governance and compliance controls, data protection configuration.6~57
Identity Securityidentity and access management, Zero Trust principles, privileged access management.5~41

Microsoft Cloud Champions Program

Another Microsoft Partner resource. This one is region specific and collects everything happening in your region.

Microsoft Partner Certification Weeks

Certification Weeks are five-day, instructor-led live events run with regional training providers (Fast Lane for the Americas and EMEA, VEL for Japan, IKSS for Korea, and Dcclouds for China), built for developers, data engineers, security practitioners, and business applications specialists preparing for role-based Microsoft certifications. They offer:

  • Instructor-led training across multiple certification tracks (Security, Cloud + AI, and AI Business Solutions) run in parallel, in roughly two-hour session blocks per day over the first four days.
  • Instructor-led hands-on labs, delivered in partnership with Skillable, plus live Q&A with Microsoft experts.
  • A fifth day set aside for self-study exam prep.
  • A free Microsoft exam voucher for participants who score 80% or higher on their single practice-test attempt (one voucher per event, not per course), subject to Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (MAICPP) domain eligibility and available voucher stock. Microsoft employees and vendor (v-dash) accounts are not eligible.

Sources

Link your Microsoft Learn profile and Skilling Hub account to Partner Center | Microsoft Learn
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