January 2024
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Revolutionizing our ARM template deployment at Microsoft with shift from JSON to BICEP
With a new solution for Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, engineers on our Microsoft Cloud Engineering Services team have successfully reduced engineering hours spent on developing ARM templates by 50 percent. Simultaneously, they have improved security compliance and implemented…
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Optimizing Microsoft’s SAP environment with Microsoft Azure
At Microsoft, we use SAP enterprise resource management software to run our mission-critical business functions like finance and human resources. In an on-premises model, physical computing resources are costly and may go unused. But by moving our SAP systems to…
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Simplifying update automation using Microsoft Azure Update Management
We’re using Microsoft Azure Automation Update Management to facilitate and automate updates for on-premises servers that provide Domain Name Service (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP address management (IPAM) services internally here at Microsoft. Our solution allows us…
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Enabling a modern support experience at Microsoft
To maximize the value of digital transformation in a complex, global organization like Microsoft, a new modern approach to employee support is required. That is why Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, is reimagining how to deliver support experiences to…
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Enhancing VPN performance at Microsoft
Modern workers are increasingly mobile and require the flexibility to get work done outside of the office. Here at Microsoft headquarters in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, every weekday an average of 45,000 to 55,000 Microsoft employees use…
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Simplifying Microsoft’s royalty ecosystem with connected data service
In any given month, Microsoft manages about 1.5 billion royalty transactions related to an estimated nine million products that span more than 3,000 partners, whose relationships are governed by over 5,000 active contracts. That’s a lot of transacting. Through smart…
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Protecting against oversharing Power BI reports with Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Power BI is an essential tool for monitoring performance, identifying trends, and developing stunning data visualizations that many teams across Microsoft use every day. A well-built Power BI report can play a critical role in helping communicate business information…
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Hello Azure: Unpacking how Microsoft moved its SAP workload to the cloud
[Editor’s note: This story on how Microsoft moved its SAP workload to the cloud has been updated with new details and updated terminology. A new SAP on Microsoft Azure video has been added below. This content was written to highlight…
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Moving Microsoft’s global network to the cloud with Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure has been part of the enterprise solution architecture at Microsoft for more than eight years. One thing has remained constant throughout our journey—from early lift-and-shift migrations to recent transformations to cloud-first solutions—the network. “In the early stages, migrating…