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Jun 28, 2024
Enhancing employee listening at Microsoft with Viva Glint
At Microsoft, giving our employees every opportunity to thrive is critical. Now, we have a new but familiar tool to help us do that—our very own Microsoft Viva Glint. We’re using Viva Glint—which replaces LinkedIn Glint—to check in with our 190,000 employees, and to respond to their feedback accordingly. “Employee Signals is our flagship channel...
Jun 27, 2024
Driving Copilot for Microsoft 365 adoption with an assist from Microsoft Viva
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives Effective adoption doesn’t happen by accident. It takes a coordinated effort that includes...
Jun 14, 2024
Unlocking the potential of Copilot for Microsoft 365 at the role level
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives There’s no question: Copilot for Microsoft 365 is changing how work gets done...
All posts by Lukas Velush
Jun 28, 2024
Boosting employee device procurement at Microsoft with better forecasting
Device forecasting at Microsoft has allowed the company to plan for new hires, replace out-of-warranty devices for existing employees, and respond to major events, like the release of Windows 11. As a result, we’ve been able to strategically acquire equipment in a more efficient way. It all started with a shift to remote work. “New...
Jun 12, 2024
Crafting a new hybrid meeting room experience at Microsoft with Microsoft Teams
New hybrid meeting experiences are coming to Microsoft’s employees and guests, a Microsoft Teams Rooms-powered transformation that will save space at the table for everyone, no matter where they join from. Thanks to new meeting room layouts, improved technology, and better integration with Microsoft Teams, remote participants will feel more included in meetings that will...
Jun 5, 2024
Moving our network to the cloud with Microsoft Azure
Our ongoing move to cloud networking here at Microsoft is at the core of our larger connectivity strategy. Very practically, this shift is playing a pivotal role in how we are and will continue to support our more than 221,000 employees across 180 countries and regions, many of whom are working remotely. Our need to...
Jun 4, 2024
Getting hybrid right: How we’re transforming large meetings at Microsoft
It’s a new era, and even meeting rooms must reinvent themselves. “In 2024, meeting rooms are reinterviewing for their jobs,” says Matthew Marzynski, a principal product manager for Microsoft Digital, our IT organization here at Microsoft. And just like any job candidate, a meeting room must now demonstrate its adaptability, technological proficiency, and ability to...
May 23, 2024
Deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 with the help of—you guessed it—Copilot
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives Now that we’ve deployed Copilot for Microsoft 365 internally here at Microsoft, it’s...
May 22, 2024
Upgrading Microsoft’s core Human Resources system with SAP SuccessFactors
Microsoft’s core Human Resources system was aging and needed to be replaced. Thanks to its limitations, when a company employee transferred to a new job in a different country or region, it could seem like they were starting over. “When employees moved country to country within the company, behind the scenes our HR operations teams...
May 21, 2024
Deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 and AI at Microsoft with our works councils
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives Thanks to our strong relationships with our works councils, we’re receiving valuable feedback...
May 13, 2024
Shifting left to get accessibility right at Microsoft
At Microsoft, we’ve learned the best way to get accessibility right is to shift left. “We need to think about accessibility before we start any of our work, before we write any line of code, at every step of our development lifecycle,” says Patrice Pelland, partner software engineering director for Microsoft Digital (MSD), the company’s...
May 6, 2024
How Microsoft is rethinking the hybrid meeting room experience with Microsoft Teams
New Microsoft Teams-powered hybrid meeting room technology is helping us design new experiences for our employees and vendors here at Microsoft and helping customers understand how to achieve these experiences for themselves. “We want to create an environment that is halfway between the physical and virtual,” says Matt Hempey, a principal program manager with Microsoft...
Apr 23, 2024
Deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 in four chapters
A how-to guide from our Microsoft Digital team the first IT organization to fully deploy our new AI productivity assistant What this guide contains Intro: Deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 Chapter 1: Getting governance right Chapter 2: Implementation with intention Chapter 3: Driving adoption to capture value Chapter 4: Building a foundation for support Appendix:...
Apr 8, 2024
Driving our Microsoft Viva Goals usage with Microsoft Viva Engage
Employees worldwide are embracing flexible work, seeking work-life balance, and pursuing purpose and fulfillment in careers. Employers want to support their team and maximize efficiency as much as possible—particularly around key objectives. Here at Microsoft, we’re using objectives and key results (OKRs) in Microsoft Viva Goals to align our team priorities with our overarching business...
Apr 5, 2024
How Microsoft moved its large meetings online with live events in Microsoft 365
[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.] When it became clear that Microsoft was going to ask its employees to work remotely, Kimberly Nafziger...
