Partner Blog What S New For Microsoft Partners July 2025 Edition

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partner blog what s new for microsoft partners july 2025 edition

General Manager, Worldwide Partner Programs Your voice shapes the future of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program—and we’re listening. In our latest quarterly update, we share key enhancements driven by partner feedback, along with expert insights, new skilling resources, and the latest benefits to help you grow, innovate, and lead in the AI... Don’t miss MCAPS Start for Partners: July 15, 2025 | 8:00 AM–12:30 PM PT Join Judson Althoff, Jared Spataro, Nick Parker, Ralph Haupter, Nicole Dezen, and Julie Sanford for a digital readiness event to kick off the FY26 fiscal year together. Register now to learn about Microsoft strategic priorities, investments, Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program enhancements, and new opportunities to scale your business.

FY26 Cloud Solution Area Partner Playbooks now available Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories. Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories. This page provides the announcements for Microsoft Partner Center for June 2025.

Partner Center released a new API to enable distributors to validate whether a Partner of Record (POR) can be attached to a subscription. To ensure indirect resellers and distributors have sufficient time to prepare, Microsoft will enforce Partner of Record (POR) validation for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) orders beginning Dec. 1, 2025. General Manager, Worldwide Partner Programs Your voice is instrumental in shaping the future of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. In our latest quarterly update, we share key enhancements driven by partner feedback, along with expert insights, new skilling resources, and the latest benefits to help you grow, innovate, and lead in the AI...

A reimagined Microsoft Marketplace: New investments to power growth The reimagined Microsoft Marketplace is now your single destination for AI apps, tools, and agents, bringing together AppSource and Azure Marketplace into one unified experience. With a new AI apps and agents category, simplified publishing, built-in co-sell opportunities, expanded distributor reach, and resale-enabled offers (in preview), partners can connect with millions of customers and scale innovation faster. Marketplace is at the center of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, giving you the resources, collaboration, and routes to market needed to grow in the AI era. Accelerating AI growth and innovation: Your guide to Microsoft Ignite Your voice shapes the future of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program—and we’re listening.

In our latest quarterly update, we share key enhancements driven by partner feedback, along with expert insights, new skilling resources, and the latest benefits to help you grow, innovate, and lead in the AI... Don’t miss MCAPS Start for Partners: July 15, 2025 | 8:00 AM–12:30 PM PT Join Judson Althoff, Jared Spataro, Nick Parker, Ralph Haupter, Nicole Dezen, and Julie Sanford for a digital readiness event to kick off the FY26 fiscal year together. Register now to learn about Microsoft strategic priorities, investments, Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program enhancements, and new opportunities to scale your business. FY26 Cloud Solution Area Partner Playbooks now available Explore how to drive revenue growth and profitability by delivering AI-powered services and solutions—supported by our end-to-end engagement model and aligned to our updated, streamlined solution areas.

Partner playbooks for AI Business Solutions, Cloud & AI Platforms, and Security help you build your practice and tap into investments with solution plays and go-to-market (GTM) strategies. Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories. Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories. Learn about important Partner Center updates.

Microsoft continuously reviews the policies and capabilities of all programs. Check back often to find news about feature releases, policy changes, and more. Want to try using Ask Learn to clarify or guide you through this topic? Hello, Microsoft Global Community and welcome to this week's Microsoft Summary for July 28th – August 1st, 2025, and don’t forget to subscribe to this newsletter. New fiscal year, new partner investments: Drive profitability with updated benefits By Andrew Smith, General Manager, Worldwide Partner Programs at Microsoft Microsoft partners bring the deep expertise and innovation needed to deliver transformative solutions to their customers—and we are committed to helping you stay at the forefront of AI transformation.

That’s why we continue to invest in product innovation, support, and a broad set of partner benefits. At MCAPS Start for Partners, our annual digital sales readiness event, we announced several exciting updates to the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, including an evolution of solution areas, enhancements to benefits and incentives,... We have consolidated our six solution areas into three new commercial solution areas based on customer demand. This streamlined approach will not only make it easier for partners to align their capabilities with the market but will also enable Microsoft to focus FY26 investment in these areas. Here is how the six solution areas have been consolidated: Hello, Microsoft Global Community and welcome to this week's Microsoft Summary for July 14th – July 18th, 2025, and subscribe here: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/microsoft-partner-summary-6884600074043703296/

2025 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Role-based Microsoft Copilot offerings By Ryan Martin – Senior Director Community & Evangelism at Microsoft We’re entering the age of AI agents, a transformative moment reshaping the landscape of business applications and platforms. AI agents aren’t just making incremental improvements, they’re helping to redefine productivity and can fundamentally change how work gets done. Published today, the 2025 release wave 2 for Microsoft Dynamics 365, Microsoft Power Platform, and Copilot offerings introduces new and improved capabilities that help organizations to harness the full potential of this new era. These plans compile new capabilities slated for release between October 2025 and March 2026. Integral to the wave 2 plans, AI assistants and agents not only help humans with day-to-day tasks, but also act as proactive partners to drive better business outcomes.

Our upcoming release brings that vision to life, helping to make AI not just accessible but an essential component in daily operations. Whether it’s enabling sellers to close deals faster, providing service teams real-time trusted knowledge, or empowering finance professionals with AI-driven reconciliation and analysis, these enhancements can be transformative to the way we all work. Be sure to stay updated on the latest features and create your personalized release plan using the release planner.

Partner Blog What S New For Microsoft Partners July 2025 Edition

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