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  • Implementing Microsoft Azure cost optimization internally at Microsoft

    Our Microsoft Digital team is aggressively pursuing Microsoft Azure cost optimization as part of our continuing effort to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our enterprise Azure environment here at Microsoft and for our customers. Adopting data-driven cost-optimization techniques, investing…

  • Microsoft Teams increases collaboration in the modern workplace at Microsoft

    At Microsoft, we’re increasing the collaborative capability of teams across the company with Microsoft Teams. We’ve initiated a fundamental change in the way our employees interact and communicate, with Microsoft Teams as the hub for communicating, meeting, and calling. We’re…

  • How Microsoft modernized its purchase order system with Azure microservices

    [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.] MyOrder, an…

  • DevOps is sending engineering practices up in smoke

    When it comes to modernizing how software engineers write their code, sometimes you just have to light things on fire. Just ask James Gagnon. He’ll tell you that good engineering teams at Microsoft and in Microsoft Digital are driving towards…

  • Instrumenting ServiceNow with Microsoft Azure Monitor

    At Microsoft we have integrated our ServiceNow environment with Microsoft Azure Monitor to create a comprehensive, end-to-end monitoring solution that helps us to ensure performance, reliability, and service excellence across our ServiceNow environment. Combining ServiceNow with Azure Monitor helps us…

  • Transforming Microsoft’s enterprise network with next-generation connectivity

    Next-generation connectivity is enabling us to transform our internal enterprise network here at Microsoft. Deploying a more agile, secure, and effective network environment across Microsoft is empowering our employees to thrive in our new hybrid world. This article describes how…

  • Transforming how Microsoft uses Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute

    Our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team manages one of the largest Microsoft Azure enterprise environments. Migrating our virtual machine resources into Microsoft Azure necessitated significant connectivity between our on-premises networks and Azure. We have many Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute circuits…

  • Examining Microsoft’s SAP transactions with Microsoft Azure Anomaly Detector

    As part of our continuing digital transformation journey, our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is constantly looking for ways to improve our business processes and detect issues and anomalies before they become serious problems. Sometimes these failures happen sporadically…

  • Redefining the digitally assisted workday at Microsoft

    At Microsoft, we’re creating a seamless, effortless workday experience for our employees, enabling them to manage their workday, find information, and get things done quickly and easily. We’re transforming our search and task-completion experience into a unified, informed, and automated…

  • Generating great results: Administering search at Microsoft

    Microsoft has more than 300,000 employees working around the globe, and collectively, our employees use or access many petabytes of content as they move through their workday. Within our employee base, there are many different personas who have widely varying…

  • Migrating Microsoft Viva Engage to Native Mode unlocks the benefits of Microsoft 365

    Cultural change at Microsoft is accelerating thanks in part to open and transparent conversations that we have internally at the company on Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Microsoft Yammer). It’s where we address tough problems, where we hear from…

  • Building inclusive, accessible experiences is a catalyst for digital transformation

    Building inclusive, accessible experiences is a catalyst for digital transformation, because without accessible tools, people can’t do their best work. And if people can’t do their best work, the company, its culture, and its customers are directly impacted. Building experiences…