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Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions

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Requirements

See the requirements for the competency options you’re interested in below. Partners will need to meet the competency performance requirements, validate required exams and skills each year, and pay the annual fee within their renewal window to retain their competency status and access to associated benefits.

Competency options

O365 Services option

Silver

Gold

Your company must meet the performance thresholds.

You must increase your customer base by 4 new Office 365 customers within the previous 12 months.*

For these customers, you have to be associated as Office 365 Delegated Administrator or Transacting Partner or Digital Partner of Record.

Learn more about these associations.

*A new customer is defined as a customer that starts a new cloud subscription (paid) for the first time with Microsoft within the previous 12 months. New customers only reflect in the portal, and count towards attaining the competency, starting from 4 weeks from the date that the subscription was paid.

Your company must meet the performance thresholds.

You must increase your customer base by 25 new Office 365 customers within the previous 12 months.*

Your company must have 2 individuals pass the exam requirements.

2 individuals must each pass the following exam:

Exam MS-100: Microsoft 365 Identity and Services

O365 Services option

Silver

You must increase your customer base by 4 new Office 365 customers within the previous 12 months.*

Gold

You must increase your customer base by 25 new Office 365 customers within the previous 12 months.*

2 individuals must each pass the following exam:

Exam MS-100: Microsoft 365 Identity and Services

Benefits

Once you meet all the requirements and pay the fee, you can access these benefits:

Small and Midmarket Cloud Solutions benefits	Silver	Gold
Receive Go-To-Market Services and technical enablement as part of your Microsoft Partner Network membership	✔	✔
Signature Support	✔	✔
Credit towards one of the required eligibility criteria for the Microsoft Managed Reseller Incentive Learn more about incentives	✔	✔
Priority Microsoft Referrals placement		✔

Silver
Receive Go-To-Market Services and technical enablement as part of your Microsoft Partner Network membership	✔
Signature Support	✔
Credit towards one of the required eligibility criteria for the Microsoft Managed Reseller Incentive Learn more about incentives	✔
Priority Microsoft Referrals placement
Gold
Receive Go-To-Market Services and technical enablement as part of your Microsoft Partner Network membership	✔
Signature Support	✔
Credit towards one of the required eligibility criteria for the Microsoft Managed Reseller Incentive Learn more about incentives	✔
Priority Microsoft Referrals placement	✔