Author: Lukas Velush

Lukas Velush tells the story of how Microsoft uses its own technology on this blog and on the Microsoft Digital Inside Track website (link near the top left of your screen). He's a recovering journalist who needs to not take himself too seriously.

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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...

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Feb 7, 2024

Transforming our internal Microsoft Azure spend forecasting

Budget forecasting is a crucial discipline across any business process. With a large-scale consumable resource like Microsoft Azure, accurate budgeting can lead to savings in the millions. To improve Microsoft Azure spend forecasting for our internal engineering teams in Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE), our FinOps team developed a dashboard that helps us provide our...

Feb 6, 2024

Seven things we learned deploying Microsoft Copilot for Sales at Microsoft

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 We’ve entered the age of AI, and our salespeople are reaping the benefits...

Feb 5, 2024

Get Microsoft’s tips for partnering with your works councils

Microsoft has hundreds of thousands of employees around the world. To support their work, we need to ensure we meet their needs, honor their concerns, and set up the best possible environments for their success. In parts of Europe, our relationships with employees are governed by works councils, and they’re key players in all new...

Feb 5, 2024

Deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 internally at Microsoft

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 We have deployed Copilot for Microsoft 365 to nearly all our employees and...

Feb 1, 2024

Sharing what we learned deploying our secure federal environment

At Microsoft, we serve a diverse range of customers, from individual users and large businesses to sovereign governments with specific regulatory requirements. Our platform products such as Microsoft Azure and our Microsoft 365 productivity suite perform extremely well for these different customer segments. Underneath those broad strokes, we serve very specific, complex customers. One set...

Jan 30, 2024

How we’re recapping our meetings with AI and Microsoft Teams Premium at Microsoft

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 Traditionally, missing a meeting—or even just a part of it—could mean being left...

Jan 30, 2024

Transform your internal search with tips from our expert at Microsoft

Getting the right information at the right time is key to maximizing the productivity of your employees—that’s exactly the goal of the team that administers search internally here at Microsoft. We spoke with Dodd Willingham to learn more about the search admin controls we use to manage our internal search profile and to share our...

Jan 26, 2024

Enabling collaboration at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIqrfnJECa8, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft Viva is playing a pivotal role in enhancing our regional teamwork at Microsoft. In this Inside Track Spotlight video, we dive into how our leaders are using Microsoft...

Jan 26, 2024

How automation is transforming revenue processing at Microsoft

The Microsoft partner and customer network brings in more than $100 billion in revenue each year, most of the company’s earnings. Keeping tabs on the millions of annual transactions is no small task—just ask Shashi Lanka Venkata and Mark Anderson, two company employees who are leading a bid to automate what historically has been a...

Jan 25, 2024

Unlocking employee self-service with Windows 365 Cloud PCs at Microsoft

Windows 365 is driving the next evolution of desktop virtualization by combining the power and security of the Microsoft Cloud with the versatility and simplicity of the PC. Windows 365 Cloud PCs let you securely stream your Windows experience, including your personalized apps, content, and settings, from the Microsoft Cloud. Employees can access their personalized...

Jan 22, 2024

Insights you can use: Microsoft’s internal upgrade to Windows 11

Microsoft’s upgrade to Windows 11 was the smoothest in company history. The Microsoft Digital Employee Experience team was able to upgrade 190,000 employee devices in just five weeks. And we learned a lot! Here are our key learnings to help with your own deployment journey. Why did we succeed? Fewer app compatibility challenges No need...