November 2023

November 21, 2023

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Marcus Young

Driving adoption of Microsoft Viva at Microsoft: Lessons learned

In Microsoft Digital (MSD), our job is to accelerate Microsoft’s own digital transformation through world-class employee experiences. We were thrilled when Microsoft Viva was announced in 2021 as a modern platform dedicated to employee growth, wellbeing, and productivity. Microsoft Viva…
November 20, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Transforming the executive boardroom meeting experience at Microsoft with Microsoft Teams Rooms

Executive boardrooms are where big decisions are made and important customer deals are won. When much of the world started working from home and many companies adopted a hybrid work model, we here at Microsoft began rethinking the way we…
November 20, 2023

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Alexa Phillips

Listening to millions of IoT building sensor readings with load testing

As an employee, an easy-seeming task like booking a meeting room can quickly become difficult if you cannot see which rooms are available—that is where taking a transformed approach to load testing can help. Employees booking rooms and dozens of…
November 16, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Sensitivity labeling: A new layer of security for Microsoft Teams Premium meetings

Microsoft Teams is where collaboration and connection happen. The wide array of digital artifacts that come from our employees’ day-to-day meetings—things like recordings, transcripts, and shared documents—need the same level of enterprise protection as the rest of our organization’s proprietary…
November 16, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Moving to next-generation SIEM at Microsoft with Microsoft Sentinel

Our internal security team works diligently 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help protect Microsoft IP, its employees, and its overall business health from security threats. We recently implemented Microsoft Sentinel to replace a preexisting, on-premises solution…
November 15, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Empowerment with good governance: How our citizen developers get the most out of the Microsoft Power Platform

What if every employee, no matter their technical expertise or job description, had the power to use software development to create their own solutions? Imagine the kind of collective creativity that could arise if any of your employees could be…
November 15, 2023

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Jason Kellington

Fueling Microsoft’s knowledge sharing culture with Microsoft Viva Topics

At Microsoft, we’re evolving our culture of learning. Part of that evolution is ensuring that our employees always have access to the information they need. We’re using Microsoft Viva Topics to consolidate and govern the vast breadth of collaborative knowledge…
November 14, 2023

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Lukas Velush

OneDrive for Business feature shifts how employees save files within Microsoft

[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time.] Within Microsoft,…
November 13, 2023

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Carmichael Patton

Sharing how Microsoft protects against ransomware

Anyone can fall victim to ransomware. As cybercriminals shift from wide-net approaches to focus on precision attacks against high-dollar targets, there is extra pressure for companies and governments to evaluate and defend themselves against ransomware attacks. This is why Microsoft…
November 10, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Revolutionizing the rollout: Using product adoption data to streamline deployments

How do you turn data into knowledge? Once you have it, how to you turn that knowledge into action? Adopting a new product across an organization as large as Microsoft is an enormous task, and we’re always expanding our knowledge…
November 9, 2023

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Pete Apple

Mapping Microsoft’s expedition to the cloud with good cartography

When you’re charged with mapping Microsoft’s expedition to the cloud, sometimes it’s best to go back to the basics—like using an old fashioned map to help you find your way. Check out Pete Apple’s expedition to the cloud series The…
November 8, 2023

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Pete Apple

Managing Microsoft Azure solutions on Microsoft’s expedition to the cloud

A very popular cliché used in Silicon Valley, the notion of having to “ship it and fix it and ship it again,” was all too familiar to my team as we focused our efforts on moving, managing, and monitoring solutions…

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