November 2023

Nov 22, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Revamping a content management system at Microsoft with the Microsoft Power Platform

End-to-end content management has become significantly easier for one Microsoft team thanks to the Microsoft Power Platform and our entrepreneurial citizen developers. Our aging content management system needed to be replaced, so we—the Inside Track team in Microsoft Digital (MSD), the company’s IT organization—turned to the company’s citizen developer platform for help. What did we...

Nov 21, 2023   |   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 was developed based on research showing: Employees want to feel strongly connected to their company...

Nov 20, 2023   |   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 other similar activities in Microsoft buildings generate significant Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data. All...

Nov 17, 2023   |   Pete Apple

Microsoft uses a scream test to silence its unused servers

Do you have unused servers on your hand? Don’t be alarmed if I scream about it—it’ll be for a good reason (and not just because it’s almost Halloween)! Check out Pete Apple’s expedition to the cloud series The learnings, pitfalls, and compromises of Microsoft’s expedition to the cloud Managing Microsoft Azure solutions on Microsoft’s expedition...

Nov 16, 2023   |   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 material. Self-service sensitivity labels give Microsoft Digital (MSD), the organization that supports, protects, and empowers...

Nov 16, 2023   |   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 for security information and event management (SIEM). With Microsoft Sentinel, we can ingest and appropriately...

Nov 15, 2023   |   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 citizen developers. That’s exactly the promise of citizen development through low-code/no-code solutions augmented by AI....

Nov 15, 2023   |   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 sources across Microsoft, giving our employees access to the knowledge and expertise from their peers...

Nov 13, 2023   |   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 is driving new priorities to protect our company, our people, and our customers. We launched our...