Partner Specializations and SPD Overview

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have at least three (3) certified individuals who have earned at least one of the following certifications.; ; These individuals must collectively cover the following two certification groups:; ; At least one individual must hold either:Azure Data Scientist Associate* OR Machine Learning Operations Engineer AssociateAt least one individual must hold:Azure AI Engineer Associate; * Azure Data Scientist Associate retired on June 1, 2026. Certifications earned before this date remain valid for one year from the certification date.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have five (5) or more individuals pass at least one of the following certifications (each certification listed below must be held by at least two individuals):; ; Fabric Data Engineer AssociateFabric Analytics Engineer Associate* You can have a combination of the same or different individuals to meet the certification requirements.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your company must have at least three individuals pass the following certification.; ; DevOps Engineer Expert

ACR Fail

Your company must meet the performance thresholds.; ; Your company must show an average of $500 of Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR)* from Azure Stack HCI from at least 2 customers from the previous 3 months.; ; Azure Stack HCI ACR is determined through Service Level 2 as Azure Stack HCI.; ; *ACR can be achieved through Digital Partner of Record, Partner Admin Link and Cloud Solution Provider. Government subscriptions (i.e. Fairfax) are not eligible for ACR via PAL association.

ACR Fail

Your company must meet the performance thresholds.​; ​; Your company must show an average of $10,000 of Azure Consumed Revenue (ACR)* from Azure VMware Solutions(AVS) from at least 1 customer from the previous 3 months.​; ; Azure VMware Solutions(AVS) is determined through Service Level 4 - Azure VMware Solution, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Azure VMware Solution by Virtustream, Specialized Compute Azure VMware Solution; ; *ACR can be achieved through Digital Partner of Record, Partner Admin Link and Cloud Solution Provider. Government subscriptions (i.e. Fairfax) are not eligible for ACR via PAL association.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have five (5) or more individuals pass at least one of the following certifications (each certification listed below must be held by at least two individuals):Fabric Data Engineer AssociateFabric Analytics Engineer Associate* You can have a combination of the same or different individuals to meet the certification requirements.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your company must meet the following requirement:Three (3) individuals to pass the following certification:Microsoft Certified: Azure for SAP Workloads SpecialtyORThree (3) individuals to pass the following learning path:Run SAP on the Microsoft Cloud - Training | Microsoft Learn

Competency Fail

Your organization must have an active Business Applications Solutions Partner designation.

ActiveUserGrowth Fail

Your company must achieve three net new large deployments from the Finance & Operations workload within the trailing twelve months.; ; Net New Deployments are calculated as: ; Deployments in the current month minus Deployments in the same month one year ago.A Large Deployment is defined as: ; A customer tenant with Monthly Consumption Value (MCV) of at least 5,000 in the given month.; AND; ; Your company must show positive MCV gross growth (greater than 0%) over the trailing twelve months in the Finance & Operations workload.; ; To qualify, your company must have had a minimum of 25,000 MCV exactly 12 months ago.If your MCV at that time was below 25,000, you will not be eligible for this metric.Learn more about the MCV by relevant workload.; ; *Eligible Association Types: DPOR, CPOR OSU, CSP Tier 1, CSP Tier 2

PowerAppCustomers Fail

Your organization must have at least one Finance Consulting offer published on Microsoft Marketplace with Dynamics 365 Finance as the tagged product offer. ; Learn more about publishing consulting offers.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have individuals earn the following certifications:; ; Five (5) or more individuals from your organization must pass at least one of the following intermediate certifications:Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Finance Functional Consultant AssociateMicrosoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer AssociateTwo (2) or more individuals from your organization must pass the following advanced certification:Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert; *You can have a combination of the same or different individuals meeting the certification requirements.

ActiveUserGrowth Fail

Your organization must have at least five (5) unique customers as new deployments, each with at least one application deployed in that customer’s production environment. The customer’s production application must meet the following criteria within the trailing twelve (12) months (TTM): ; ; A production Power App is an app in a production environment with at least five (5) users.The app must be built on paid eligible SKUs: Power Apps per User OR Power Apps per App (Learn more for Power Apps pricing)Each app must have the Partner user listed as the Owner or Co-owner of the application and have the same user associated to your Partner Center account through Partner Admin Link (PAL).Learn more about lining a partner ID to your Power Apps accounts; AND; ; Your company must achieve growth in Monthly Active Users (MAU) of at least 35% across your customer base in the trailing twelve (12) months (TTM). To be eligible for the growth calculation, your customer base must have at least fifty (50) MAU at the start of the TTM.; ; Growth in MAU is calculated:; Across all PAL associated applications in your customer base.At the application level, only paid subscriptions under the customer’s tenant will qualify.You must have Partner Admin Link (PAL) associated to your Partner Center account to attain this specialization. You must perform this association for all your customer deployments. PAL will be used to calculate all requirements listed in the performance section above.

PowerAppCustomers Fail

Your organization must have at least one (1) Power Apps Consulting offer published on Microsoft Marketplace with Power Apps as the tagged product offer. Learn more about publishing consulting offers

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have at least five (5) individuals pass the following certifications.; ; 5 individuals must pass the MSFT Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate; ; AND; ; 2 individuals must pass the MSFT Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate; ; AND; ; 1 individual must pass the MSFT Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert; ; The certifications can be held by the same or different individuals.

ActiveUserGrowth Fail

Your organization must have at least 5 unique Power Automate customers as new deployments, each with at least one flow project (either Cloud or Desktop) deployed in that customer’s production environment. The customer’s production flow must meet the following criteria within the trailing 12 months:; ; The flow must be built on paid eligible SKUs: Power Automate per user plan or Power Automate Premium. See additional plan detail here: Pricing | Microsoft Power Automate; ; Each flow must be associated to the partner network ID for your organization. Follow the guidance provided here: Link a partner ID to your Power Platform and Dynamics Customer Insights accounts with your Azure credentials | Microsoft Docs; ; AND; ; Your organization must achieve growth in deployments of at least 35% across the entire customer base in the trailing 12 months. To be eligible for the growth calculation your customer base must have at least 5 deployments at the start of the TTM. ; *Eligible Association Types: PAL

PowerAppCustomers Fail

Your organization must have at least one Power Automate consulting offer published on Microsoft Marketplace with Power Automate as the tagged product offer.; ; Learn more about publishing consulting offers.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have individuals earn the following certifications:; ; Five (5) individuals must earn the MSFT Certified: Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate; ; AND; ; Two (2) individuals must earn the MSFT Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate OR Microsoft Certified: Power Automate RPA Developer Associate; ; AND; ; Three (3) individuals must achieve the MSFT Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert ; ; Your organization must have a total of at least 5 individuals with the certifications listed above. The certifications can be held by the same or different individuals.;

ActiveUserGrowth Fail

Your organization must have at least five (5) unique Power BI customers as new deployments, each with at least one Enterprise Power BI project deployed in that customer’s production environment and meet the following criteria within the trailing 12 months (TTM):; An Enterprise Power BI project is defined as a project deployed in a customer production environment with at least one dataset and at least 100 monthly active users (MAU) in the prior 28 days The project must be built on paid eligible SKUs: Power BI Pro, Power BI Premium per User or capacity, or Microsoft 365 E5.Learn more about Power BI pricing.Each project must have the partner user listed as the owner or co-owner of the project and have the same user be associated to your Partner Center account through Partner Admin Link (PAL).Learn more about linking a Partner ID to your Power BI accounts.AND; ; Your organization must achieve growth in Power BI MAU of at least 25% across your customer base in the TTM. To be eligible for the growth calculation, your customer base must have at least 1,000 MAU at the start of the TTM. Growth in MAU is calculated:; Across all PAL-associated projects in your customer base over the past 12 months.MAU is counted at the production tenant level and summed up across only the paid licenses under the tenant.MAU is calculated at the end of every month. At the project level, only paid subscriptions under the customer’s tenant will qualify. ; *Eligible Association Types: PAL

PowerAppCustomers Fail

Your organization must have at least one (1) Power BI consulting offer published on Microsoft Marketplace with Power BI as the tagged product offer.; ; Learn more about publishing consulting offers.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have individuals earn the following certifications:; ; Five (5) individuals must earn the Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate; ; AND; ; Two (2) individuals must earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate; ; AND; ; One (1) individual must earn the Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate; ; The certifications can be held by the same or different individuals.;

Competency Fail

Your organization must have active Business Applications Solutions Partner designation.

ActiveUserGrowth Fail

Your company must achieve three net new large deployments from the Common Data Service workload within the trailing twelve months.; ; Net New Deployments are calculated as: ; Deployments in the current month minus Deployments in the same month one year ago.A Large Deployment is defined as: ; A customer tenant with Monthly Consumption Value (MCV) of at least 5,000 in the given month.; AND; ; Your company must show positive MCV gross growth (greater than 0%) over the trailing twelve months in the Common Data Service workload.; ; To qualify, your company must have had a minimum of 25,000 MCV exactly 12 months ago.If your MCV at that time was below 25,000, you will not be eligible for this metric.; Learn more about the MCV by relevant workload.; ; *Eligible Association Types: DPOR, CPOR OSU, CSP Tier 1, CSP Tier 2

PowerAppCustomers Fail

Your organization must have at least one Sales Or Marketing Consulting offer published on Microsoft Marketplace with Dynamics 365 Sales Or Marketing as the tagged product offer. ; Learn more about publishing consulting offers.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have individuals earn the following certifications:; ; Five (5) or more individuals must earn the following intermediate certification:Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Customer Experience Analyst Associate; AND ; ; Two (2) or more individuals from your organization must pass the following advanced certification:Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert You can have a combination of the same or different individuals meeting the certification requirements.

Competency Fail

Your organization must have an active Business Applications Solutions Partner designation.

ActiveUserGrowth Fail

Your company must achieve three net new large deployments from the Common Data Service workload within the trailing twelve months.; ; Net New Deployments are calculated as: ; Deployments in the current month minus Deployments in the same month one year ago.A Large Deployment is defined as: ; A customer tenant with Monthly Consumption Value (MCV) of at least 5,000 in the given month.; AND; ; Your company must show positive MCV gross growth (greater than 0%) over the trailing twelve months in the Common Data Service workload.; ; To qualify, your company must have had a minimum of 25,000 MCV exactly 12 months ago.If your MCV at that time was below 25,000, you will not be eligible for this metric.; Learn more about the MCV by relevant workload.; ; *Eligible Association Types: DPOR, CPOR OSU, CSP Tier 1, CSP Tier 2

PowerAppCustomers Fail

Your organization must have at least one Customer Service or Field Service Consulting offer published on Microsoft Marketplace with Dynamics 365 Customer Service or Field Service as the tagged product offer. ; Learn more about publishing consulting offers.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have individuals earn the following certifications:; ; Five (5) or more individuals from your organization must pass at least one of the following intermediate certifications:Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Customer Service Functional Consultant AssociateMicrosoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Field Service Functional Consultant AssociateTwo (2) or more individuals from your organization must pass the advance certification:Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert*You can have a combination of the same or different individuals meeting the certification requirements.

Competency Fail

Your company must have active Solutions Partner designation in Business Applications

PartnerMAUGrowth Fail

Your company must have at least fifteen (15) new Business Central deployments with 5 or more monthly active users in the trailing twelve months (TTM).; ; AND; ; Your company must have the deployments with a monthly active user growth of at least 15 percent in the trailing twelve months (TTM). Your company must have a baseline of at least 50 monthly active users across their entire customer base 12 months ago.; ; Monthly active users are counted at the production tenant level and summed up across only the paid subscriptions under the tenant.Partners are associated to tenants at the subscription level through Cloud Solution Provider (CSP). Subscriptions are mapped to the Dynamics 365 Business Central product.All partners associated to any paid subscription under a tenant will get credit for all the monthly active users summed up across all paid subscriptions under that tenant.

PowerAppCustomers Fail

Your company must have at least one Dynamics 365 Business Central focused Consulting offer published on Microsoft Marketplace. Learn More

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your company must have at least five (5) individuals pass the following certifications.; ; Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Associate

Competency Fail

Your organization must have an active Business Applications Solutions Partner designation.

ActiveUserGrowth Fail

Your company must achieve three net new large deployments from the Finance & Operations workload within the trailing twelve months.; ; Net New Deployments are calculated as:; Deployments in the current month minus Deployments in the same month one year ago.A Large Deployment is defined as:; A customer tenant with Monthly Consumption Value (MCV) of at least 5,000 in the given month.; AND; ; Your company must show positive MCV gross growth (greater than 0%) over the trailing twelve months in the Finance & Operations workload.; ; To qualify, your organization must have had a minimum of 25,000 MCV exactly 12 months ago.If your MCV at that time was below 25,000, you will not be eligible for this metric.Learn more about the MCV by relevant workload.; ; *Eligible Association Types: DPOR, CPOR OSU, CSP Tier 1, CSP Tier 2

PowerAppCustomers Fail

Your organization must have at least one Supply Chain Consulting offer published on Microsoft Marketplace with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management as the tagged product offer. ; Learn more about publishing consulting offers.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your organization must have individuals earn the following certifications:; ; Five (5) or more individuals from your organization must pass at least one of the following intermediate certifications:Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant AssociateMicrosoft Certified: Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Developer AssociateTwo (2) or more individuals from your organization must pass at least one of the following advanced certifications:Microsoft Certified: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect ExpertMicrosoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Functional Consultant Expert*You can have a combination of the same or different individuals meeting the certification requirements.

Performance_Rule_1 Fail

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Entitlement Fail

Your company must meet the following performance thresholds:Your company must achieve a minimum growth of 1,000 Teams Phone enabled users in a trailing twelve-month period.Enabled Users: Users with a Teams Phone license and a telephone number assigned to them (using either a 1st Party Calling Plan or 3rd Party Calling Plan) so that they are able to make and receive PSTN calls. Partners should use the TeamsPhoneEnabledUsers workload (previously referred to as TeamsPhoneSystem) to claim and track their contribution.Your company should achieve MAU through Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR)

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your company must have at least four (4) individuals who have earned the following certification:Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator AssociateANDYour company must also have at least four (4) individuals who have earned at least one of the following certifications/assessments:Microsoft 365 Certified: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer AssociateTeams Calling Technical Assessment** The retirement date for this assessment is June 15, 2026. Any completion on or before that date is valid through June 15, 2027.

Entitlement Fail

Your company must meet the following performance thresholds:; ; Your company must achieve a minimum of 1,000 Microsoft Teams Apps Monthly Active Usage growth in trailing 12-month period (CPOR data).; ; Teams Apps Monthly Active Usage is apps/solutions that are developed by partners using pro dev tools, Power Platform, or MS-provided templates, integrated through embedding, extension, or a Graph API calls (Teams Apps) (Coming soon Teams Apps with/or Teams App ID); ; Monthly Active Usage (MAU): Monthly Active Usage is calculated on a rolling 28-day basis and represents the unique number of users taking an intentional action on a specific service.; ; Your company should achieve MAU through Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR)

Entitlement Fail

Your company must meet the following performance thresholds:Your company must achieve a minimum of 5,000 Monthly Active Usage (MAU) growth of Microsoft Teams Meetings in a trailing twelve-month period.Monthly Active Usage (MAU): Monthly Active Usage is calculated on a rolling 28-day basis and represents the unique number of users taking an intentional action on a specific service.Your company should achieve MAU through Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR)

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your company must have at least four (4) individuals who have earned the following certification:Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator AssociateANDYour company must also have at least four (4) individuals who have earned at least one of the following certifications/assessments:Microsoft 365 Certified: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer AssociateTeams Meetings and Meeting Rooms Technical Assessment** The retirement date for this assessment is June 15, 2026. Any completion on or before that date is valid through June 15, 2027.

Entitlement Fail

Your company must meet the following performance thresholds:; ; Your company must achieve a minimum of 5,000 Monthly Active Usage (MAU) growth of Microsoft Intune in a trailing twelve-month period.; ; Monthly Active Usage (MAU): Monthly Active Usage is calculated on a rolling 28-day basis and represents the unique number of users taking an intentional action on a specific service.; ; Your company should achieve MAU through Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR)

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your company must have at least four individuals who have passed both the Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate and the Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert(previously known as Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert); ; AND; ; Your company must have at least two individuals that have passed the certification Microsoft Certified: Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty ; You can have a combination of the same individuals or different individuals meet the exam requirements

Performance_Rule_1 Fail

Performance_Rule_1

Knowledge Fail

Knowledge

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your company must have at least six individuals that have passed the AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies exam.​; ; AND; ; Your company must also have at least four individuals that have passed the SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst exam.​; ; You can have a combination of the same individuals or different individuals meet both the exam requirements.

Entitlement Fail

Your company must meet the following performance thresholds:Your company must achieve a minimum of 2,000 Monthly Active Usage (MAU) growth of Entra ID Premium (P1 and/or P2) in a trailing twelve-month period.Monthly Active Usage (MAU): Monthly Active Usage is calculated on a rolling 28-day basis and represents the unique number of users taking an intentional action on a specific service.Your company should achieve MAU through Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR)

Entitlement Fail

Your company must achieve a minimum of 2,500 Monthly Active Usage growth of Microsoft Purview Information Protection in a trailing twelve-month period.; ; Monthly Active Usage (MAU): Monthly active usage is calculated on a rolling 28-day basis and represents the unique number of users taking an intentional action on a specific service.; ; Your company should achieve MAU through Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR); ; *Microsoft Purview Information Protection was previously known as Microsoft Information Protection (MIP).

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your company must have six or more individuals who have passed any of the following:; ; Microsoft Certified: Information Protection and Compliance Administrator Associate OR Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator AssociateAND; ; Your company must have four or more individuals who have passed any of the following applied skills:; ; Applied Skill: Prepare security and compliance to support Copilot for Microsoft 365Applied Skill: Implement information protection and data loss prevention by using Microsoft PurviewApplied Skill: Implement retention, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance in Microsoft Purview; *Information Protection & Compliance Administrator Associate certificate is retired on May 31st, 2025. If completed before retirement, it will remain valid for one year.; ; *You can have the same or different individuals completing the above requirements.

CertifiedIndividual Fail

Your company must have at least six individuals who have passed the Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate.