March 2024
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Simplifying external staff management by extending SAP SuccessFactors on SAP Business Technology Platform
Our core system for managing our external workforce was showing its age in an increasingly demanding modern workplace environment—we needed to simplify our external staff management. Here at Microsoft, our large and diverse external, non-FTE workforce plays a vital role…
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Bonding in 3D: How Microsoft employees are finding connection in Microsoft Teams
Several years into the era of flexible work, most of us are used to appearing in a Brady Bunch-style gallery. We select an emoji to ask a question or applaud an achievement and still have to remember “unmute” when it’s…
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Enabling effortless cloud infrastructure management with MyWorkspace and Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Digital (MSD) is the organization that powers, protects, and transforms Microsoft. As part of its mission, MSD builds and manages the cloud network infrastructure that supports Microsoft products and services. MyWorkspace is a browser-based cloud-provisioning tool created by MSD…
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Delivering communications internally at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva Amplify
Keeping your people well informed is something every organization, manager, and executive needs to do, including here at Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization. We need to let our employees know about new product rollouts, important system updates, new policies,…
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Working in a phygital world: Why businesses need to rethink their workspace experiences now
“Phygital” (physical plus digital) is a marketing term that’s often used to describe the blending of digital experiences with physical ones. As employees’ and customers’ ways of interaction proliferate, companies aim to seamlessly integrate them. Nothing has been impacted more…
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Lessons learned at Microsoft: Five steps you can take to reduce your ransomware risk
As a part of our journey to reduce our ransomware risk internally here at Microsoft, we’ve identified five principles that we believe every enterprise should follow to make themselves more secure from these attacks. We call these our Foundational Five…
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Modernizing our cloud networking infrastructure with a DevOps mindset
DevOps has become a fundamental philosophy critical to the success of our cloud networking teams and solutions. In today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, the conventional model of infrastructure management—receiving user requirements, designing solutions, deploying infrastructure, and manually monitoring for health…
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Redesigning how we work at Microsoft with generative AI
Generative AI has emerged as a transformational force in computing, but it’s not always clear how to utilize it when designing new products. At Microsoft, our teams are learning how to incorporate Microsoft Copilot and other new AI technology into…