December 2023
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Shifting to paperless contract lifecycle management to help schools navigate COVID-19
[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.] Paperless contract…
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Best practices and tips from Microsoft’s own internal adoption of Microsoft Viva
At Microsoft, we’ve learned a thing or two in the two years since we launched Microsoft Viva, the first employee experience platform built for the hybrid era. And now we are excited to share some of our best practices and…
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Rethinking supplier content at Microsoft with Microsoft Power Automate
Connecting and communicating with a global network of suppliers, vendors, and business partners is no small task. Microsoft is tackling this challenge internally with Microsoft Power Automate, a cloud-based app that creates automated workflows. The result? Content that previously took…
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Microsoft CISO Bret Arsenault provides practical advice to secure your hybrid workspace
In episodes of the Security Unlocked podcast, Microsoft CISO Bret Arsenault discusses the biggest challenges in securing your hybrid workspace with industry peers from Microsoft, LinkedIn, Vodafone, and more. The episodes cover how security leaders are adjusting to the new…
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Boosting Microsoft’s response to cybersecurity attacks with Microsoft Sentinel
Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. Sometimes you outgrow the capabilities of a well-loved tool—that’s exactly what happened to Microsoft and its on-premises Security Information Event Management (SIEM) system. Thanks to a timely assist from Microsoft…
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Microsoft’s senior leaders bring employees together during COVID-19
[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.] Microsoft CEO…
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The future of Group Member Management: How Microsoft is leading the way with automation
Just as it is for everyone, maintaining accurate groups for email and apps such as Microsoft Viva and Microsoft Teams is challenging for us internally at Microsoft. Adding and removing employees from groups has been mostly a hand-cramping manual task,…
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From prototype to production: Deploying Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms at Microsoft
Here at Microsoft, we wanted to improve the experience our employees have in meetings, whether they’re at home, at a coffee shop, or in a meeting room in one of our offices. “It’s been quite the journey over the last…
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Microsoft’s cloud-centric architecture transformation
Here at Microsoft, we’re building our systems in the cloud to be agile, resilient, cost effective, and scalable—this allows us to be proactive and innovative as we transform our IT and business operations. Microsoft Azure resides at the core of our architecture, and…
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Deploying global remote VWAN connectivity with Azure VWAN and Azure VPN
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. Tap here to read the full series. In the modern workplace, Microsoft employees access their work from diverse locations. To…
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Why Microsoft uses a playbook to guard against ransomware
When Microsoft’s Digital Security and Resilience (DSR) division set out to defend the company against human-operated ransomware, it faced several formidable challenges. In this form of ransomware, highly organized and sophisticated attacks by cybercriminals put major businesses, healthcare organizations, universities,…
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Modernizing campus logistics and operations at Microsoft
Business Situation Microsoft is in the productivity business, with a mission “to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” What matters to Microsoft is not just helping to envision the workplace of the future, but…