Author: Josh Krenz

Jun 19, 2024

Microsoft strives to deliver the productivity tools and services the world depends on. With this comes the responsibility of ensuring protection, continuity, and resilience from cyberattacks of all sorts—including emerging threats. Highlighted in the third edition of the Microsoft Digital Defense Report, ransomware and extortion are considered nation-level threats due to the sophistication and boldness...

May 30, 2024

[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.] There’s a new way to include video in your projects thanks to the modern Microsoft Stream experience....

May 20, 2024

[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.] Looking to find your benefits, adjust withholdings, or find a specific policy? Microsoft employees can get this...

Apr 22, 2024

Microsoft empowers employees and guests with user experience scenarios, like pathfinding and hotdesking, to make life easier. To quickly facilitate impactful smart building features at scale, Microsoft Digital’s engineers rely on a structured approach that combines templates and pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) to accelerate implementation without compromising quality. With CI/CD for...

Jan 31, 2024

Exciting employee experiences that drive productivity and support hybrid work are possible at Microsoft thanks to a broad network of internet of things (IoT) devices. Whether it be hotdesking, pathfinding, or locating an empty conference room, these experiences benefit productivity, access, system health, and a variety of other services across Microsoft’s smart buildings. But with...

Jan 18, 2024

There’s no doubt—hybrid work is the new norm. To adapt to the new world of hybrid work and achieve its vision of a truly modern employee experience, Microsoft is prioritizing the improvement of employees’ daily commutes. For a while now, Microsoft’s Puget Sound campus has provided workers with a system of shuttles and buses to...

Dec 8, 2023

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 Sentinel, the company hasn’t missed a beat. Our old SIEM capped out at 10 billion...

Dec 5, 2023

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, and governments in their crosshairs for their visibility and potential payout. Human operated ransomware’s targeted...

Oct 5, 2023

Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. Search is part of our everyday life. It’s useful—we all know that—but how can you quantify that impact? That was the challenge faced by Dodd Willingham, principal program manager and internal search administrator in Microsoft Digital. “There’s an obvious value, we can see that...

Sep 22, 2023

Filing expenses exist for pretty much everyone. At Microsoft, employees are now empowered by a no and low touch reimbursement process that uses automation and machine learning to perform micro-actions on behalf of the users. With OneExpense, Microsoft’s new automated expense reporting architecture, the company has transformed the entire expense process while sunsetting its previous...

Aug 21, 2023

[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’s recent deployment of Windows 11 to 190,000 devices across the company is enabling its employees to...

Aug 8, 2023

A new machine learning model and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and automation enables Microsoft smart buildings to keep company employees as comfortable as possible. Microsoft’s real estate operations team relies on energy smart buildings, structures with interconnected automation and sensors, to responsibly maintain a base level of comfort. Microsoft has deployed more than 50,000 sensors...