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  • Learning from engineering Zero Trust networking at Microsoft

    Our Microsoft Digital (MSD) team is deploying Zero Trust networking internally at Microsoft as part of our Zero Trust initiative, our comprehensive approach to verification and identity management. Powered by Microsoft’s internal security team, our Zero Trust model centers on…

  • Sharing Microsoft’s Zero Trust networking lessons for leaders

    Today we want to share the lessons we’re learning from deploying Zero Trust networking across Microsoft. In many enterprises, network security has traditionally focused on strictly secured and monitored corporate network perimeters. Today, in a mobile-first and cloud-first world, business…

  • Managing user identities and secure access at Microsoft

    [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.] Managing identities…

  • Transforming how Microsoft manages its corporate real estate data

    Microsoft manages hundreds of buildings around the world with various purposes—warehouses, offices, labs, cafes, and so on. Like all companies with large real estate footprints, the company wanted to find better ways of managing each building type. To do that,…

  • Transforming how Microsoft connects with its 58,000 suppliers

    Anyone procuring goods or services for Microsoft needs to do their homework. Not only must you make sure the supplier can provide what you need at a reasonable price, you must also make sure they meet certain standards and security…

  • Employees are at the heart of Microsoft’s internal Windows 11 upgrade

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40B99JJpaUo, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Wangui McKelvey and Nathalie D’Hers speak about Microsoft’s internal Windows 11 upgrade. McKelvey is…

  • Unpacking how Microsoft employees collaborate on Microsoft Teams and Viva Engage

    This question comes in frequently: When do Microsoft employees use Microsoft Teams and when do they use Viva Engage? “The company’s employees use Teams as their primary client for calling, holding meetings, chatting, and collaborating with colleagues,” says Frank Delia,…

  • Transforming change management at Microsoft with Microsoft 365

    When Microsoft 365 became a service, the way IT managers needed to think about change management had to change, and dramatically so. “We were no exceptions,” says David Johnson, principal product manager architect, who leads the team that governs how…

  • Advancing your meetings with the Microsoft Teams Meeting Guide

    At Microsoft, we’re transforming the meeting experience to encourage collaboration and increase productivity. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift to predominantly remote meetings inspired our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team to examine what makes an effective…

  • Citizen developers use Microsoft Power Apps to build an intelligent launch assistant

    Traditional app-development efforts can take months to translate business requirements into a usable application or feature. For the business user, waiting can be the hardest part. You come up with an idea to improve efficiency or productivity at work—not only…

  • Shining a light on how Microsoft manages Shadow IT

    Shadow IT is the set of applications, services, and infrastructure that are developed and managed outside of defined company standards. These line-of-business-built solutions (aka Shadow IT) have always existed at Microsoft and are a common industry problem. Over the years,…

  • Microsoft creates self-service sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365

    Empowering self-service is important to us at Microsoft. Every employee should be able to create the resources they need without engaging IT to do it for them. To support this level of freedom, we rely on a strong governance strategy…