Solutions Partner for Modern Work

Appropriate roles: Global admin, MPN Partner Admin

A Solutions Partner for Modern work has demonstrated a broad capability to help customers boost their productivity and make the shift to hybrid work using Microsoft 365.

To earn this designation, your partner capability score must meet the qualification requirements for this area. You need a minimum of 70 points out of a possible 100 to attain a solutions partner designation.

This score is measured in three categories—partner performance, skilling, and customer success—and is informed by data that is already recorded in Partner Center.

You must attain at least one point in each of the following individual metrics in addition to your total points being higher than the qualifying threshold mentioned previously.

• Performance category
• Skilling – Intermediate certifications
• Skilling – Advanced certifications
• Customer success – Usage growth
• Customer success – Deployments

You can track your progress towards attaining the Solutions Partner for Modern work designation in Partner Center.

Two attainment paths: Enterprise, and Small & Medium business

There are two distinct attainment paths to get the Solutions Partner for Modern Work designation: Enterprise, and Small and Medium business (SMB). Each path has its own requirements,

Microsoft recognizes that some partners target SMB customers and some target Enterprise customers. To provide you with the flexibility and the advantage of the path that works best for your organization, we evaluate you on both paths and choose the highest scores towards qualifying for the designation.

Skilling category

The skilling category measures your organization's skills and capabilities by using the number of persons who have an eligible certification.

• Each person with an eligible certification earns your organization points towards the skilling designation, but they can't earn more points by completing more certifications.
• There are two attainment paths: Small & medium business and Enterprise
• There are two certification metrics:
  • Advanced, for which one certification is eligible: Enterprise Administrator Expert
  • Intermediate
• To fulfill the requirement to have more than zero points in every metric, your organization must have at least one qualifying person with an intermediate certification, and the same person or a different person with an advanced certification.

Certified persons required to earn the maximum of 25 points in the Skilling category:

Intermediate certifications metric

To score points for the Intermediate certifications metric, members of your organization can apply any of the following certifications.

Each certified member is counted only once, regardless of the number of certifications they complete.

Eligible Microsoft 365 certifications- Intermediate

Microsoft 365 Fundamentals

• Course MB-30Course MS-900T01--A: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals

Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Application Developer Associate

• Course MS-600T00--A: Building Applications and Solutions with Microsoft 365 Core Services

Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate

• Course MS-700T00--A: Managing Microsoft Teams

Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate

• Course MS-203T00--A: Microsoft 365 Messaging

Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

• Course SC-300T00--A: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator

Microsoft 365 Certified: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Associate

• Course MS-721T00---A: Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer

Microsoft 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate

• Course MD-102T00---A: Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator

Eligible Microsoft 365 certifications- Advanced

Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert

• Course MD-102T00---A: Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator (PREREQUISITE OPTION 1)

OR

• Course MS-203T00--A: Microsoft 365 Messaging (PREREQUISITE OPTION 2)

OR

• Course MS-700T00--A: Managing Microsoft Teams (PREREQUISITE OPTION 3)

OR

• Course SC-300T00--A: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator (PREREQUISITE OPTION 4)

OR

• Course SC-400T00--A: Administering Information Protection and Compliance in Microsoft 365 (PREREQUISITE OPTION 5)

THEN

• Course MS-102T00--A: Microsoft 365 Administrator

Important consideration(s):

• Each certified individual will be counted once for this metric, even if the certified individual completes multiple certifications.
• Intermediate certifications can be earned by the same individual, or different individuals, than the Advanced certifications.
• Some of these certifications may have prerequisites listed on the certification website (select the individual certification link). Those prerequisites will need to be completed for an individual to complete certification.