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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April 9, 2026

Harnessing AI: How a data council is powering our unified data strategy at Microsoft

Information technology is an ever-evolving landscape. Artificial Intelligence is accelerating that evolution, providing employees with unprecedented access to information and insights. Data-driven decision making has never been more critical for businesses to achieve their goals. In light of this priority, we have established a Microsoft Digital Data Council to help accelerate our companywide AI-powered transformation. Read More
November 21, 2025

Deploying Microsoft Agent 365: How we’re extending our infrastructure to manage agents at Microsoft

The number and sophistication of agents that our employees are building here at Microsoft is growing rapidly. To help us and all enterprises respond to this new opportunity, the company just announced Microsoft Agent 365 at Microsoft Ignite. This product serves as the control plane for AI agents—a new evolution of the existing systems that Read More
April 24, 2025

Sharing our Customer Zero story at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. This story was published to preview a specific event, which has now concluded. We’re leaving it up on our site as a record of the different Read More

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August 14, 2023

Using Microsoft Viva to boost employee engagement with sustainability efforts in Microsoft France

At Microsoft, sustainability is a top priority. As a company, we aim to be carbon-negative, water positive, and zero waste by 2030. Across the globe, there are around 10,000 employees who spend part of their time helping us work toward…
August 9, 2023

Boosting our connectivity with our own next-generation optical network

Providing users with fast and reliable connectivity is the backbone of modern work. Microsoft Digital Employee Experience, the organization that powers, protects, and transforms the company, recently deployed a robust next-generation optical network that offers the company more bandwidth on…
August 3, 2023

Informing the influencers: The Microsoft 365 Experience insights dashboard empowers adoption

A new trend is emerging in IT. Technical professionals are increasingly responsible for supporting adoption activities and helping their organizations ensure they’re maximizing their tech investments and making important technology decisions. As a result of these trends, a new category…
July 20, 2023

Streamlining engineering at Microsoft with Azure DevOps

Microsoft runs on Microsoft technology. We are the proving ground for our products and when we say that software is enterprise-ready this means that we have already built it for and run it at scale in our own enterprise. We…
July 12, 2023

Make it easy but secure: Our journey to frictionless device management at Microsoft

With more than 200,000 employees each utilizing a handful of work and personal devices to get work done, the device management landscape at Microsoft is immense, complicated, and fraught with security risk. In short, the point at which our administrator…
July 10, 2023

See how we’re simplifying our sales with AI-powered Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales

If you’re on a sales team, you know that there are all kinds of distracting tasks that eat away at your time and get in the way of what you do best—building relationships with and solving problems for customers. There’s…
June 30, 2023

How Microsoft’s IT legacy is powering its future

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1ScJprOFQ, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch part two of our interview with IT legend Patrice Trousset to learn more…
June 29, 2023

Hardware-backed Windows 11 empowers Microsoft with secure-by-default baseline

Windows 11 makes secure-by-default viable thanks to a combination of modern hardware and software. This ready out-of-the-box protection enables us to create a new baseline internally across Microsoft, one that level sets our enterprise to be more secure for a…
June 21, 2023

How Microsoft’s pivot to generative AI is being fueled by its rich IT history

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNW_SIdL_xo, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch part one of our interview with IT legend Patrice Trousset to find out…
June 12, 2023

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…
June 7, 2023

Doing more with less: Optimizing shadow IT through Microsoft Azure best practices

You don’t know what you don’t know. In the world of IT, illuminating those hidden areas helps stave off nasty surprises. When elements of IT infrastructure are shrouded in mystery, it can lead to security vulnerabilities, non-compliance, and poor budget…
June 2, 2023

Transforming employee engagement at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva Engage

Keeping people connected in a hybrid work world is no easy task. But with the right technology, you can help employees in newly reimagined work environments feel energized and engaged, even when coworkers can’t be physically present. That’s exactly what…