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Meetings and Meeting Rooms for Microsoft Teams specialization

Program Overview and Requirements

Program Overview

Partners who demonstrate deep knowledge, extensive experience, and proven success delivering Meetings and Meeting Rooms services and solutions for Microsoft Teams may seek the Meetings and Meeting Rooms for Microsoft Teams specialization.

The way we work has rapidly evolved. With more employees working remotely and on the go, meeting needs have changed. For many organizations, Microsoft Teams is the tool that facilitates a level of collaboration and engagement on par with face-to-face meetings. In April 2020, we saw more than 200 million Microsoft Teams meeting participants in a single day – generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes. In fact, “Microsoft has seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in just two months.”1

Microsoft Teams delivers a unique, end-to-end meeting experience that brings back the human element of face-to-face interaction while helping people stay focused before, during, and after the meeting.

Creating a Meetings and Meeting Rooms practice for Microsoft Teams provides partners with a unique opportunity to drive customer business value and simplified meeting technologies that can increase customer lifetime value and develop new revenue streams for partners.

The Meetings and Meeting Rooms for Microsoft Teams specialization allows partners with an active Solutions Partner for Modern Work designation to further differentiate their organizations, demonstrate their capabilities to deploy and manage meeting services and solutions for Microsoft Teams, and build stronger connections with customers.

Partners who meet the comprehensive requirements to earn an specialization receive a customer-facing label that they can display on their business profile in Microsoft AppSource, are prioritized in customer searches to drive new business, and can generate a certified letter from Microsoft that verifies the specialization that they have earned.

1 "2 years of digital transformation in 2 months" blog by Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/04/30/2-years-digital-transformation-2-months/

Learn more about the Meetings and Meeting Rooms partner opportunity

How do I apply?

Only administrators of an organization’s Microsoft partner account can submit an application for the Meetings and Meeting Rooms for Microsoft Teams specialization on behalf of the organization. If you have the appropriate role and access, you can apply by signing into Partner Center and navigating to your Partner Center dashboard > Membership > Specializations.

What are the requirements?

Eligible partners must meet the highest standards for service delivery and support. All requirements will be verified by Microsoft and/or a third-party vendor, either automatically or by manual review, and are subject to change.

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Your organization must have an active Solutions Partner for Modern Work designation.

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Achieve a minimum of 5,000 monthly active usage (MAU) of Microsoft Teams Meetings in a trailing twelve-month period (CPOR data).

Your company should achieve MAU through Claiming Partner of Record (CPOR).

Additional CPOR and Microsoft resources can be found here.

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Your organization must have at least four individuals that have passed the Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate and the Teams Meetings and Meeting Rooms Technical Assessment.

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Provide three customer references that demonstrate your ability to deploy and manage meeting services and solutions for Microsoft Teams. Review our guidelines for customer references before submitting.

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Your specialization and associated benefits will remain in place for one year but require that you keep your Solutions Partner for Modern Work designation. If you do not maintain your designation, you will lose your specialization status. On your renewal date, you will need to meet the current program requirements, which may evolve over time.