Author: Lukas Velush

Jun 28, 2024

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

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

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...

Jan 17, 2024

With a new solution for Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, engineers on our Microsoft Cloud Engineering Services team have successfully reduced engineering hours spent on developing ARM templates by 50 percent. Simultaneously, they have improved security compliance and implemented an infrastructure as code (IaC) solution that enables continuous integration/continuous improvement (CI/CD). For years before...

Jan 8, 2024

Microsoft Power BI is an essential tool for monitoring performance, identifying trends, and developing stunning data visualizations that many teams across Microsoft use every day. A well-built Power BI report can play a critical role in helping communicate business information efficiently and effectively. But with great Power BI reports comes great responsibility, which includes keeping...

Jan 8, 2024

[Editor’s note: This story on how Microsoft moved its SAP workload to the cloud has been updated with new details and updated terminology. A new SAP on Microsoft Azure video has been added below. This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing it...

Jan 5, 2024

Microsoft Azure has been part of the enterprise solution architecture at Microsoft for more than eight years. One thing has remained constant throughout our journey—from early lift-and-shift migrations to recent transformations to cloud-first solutions—the network. “In the early stages, migrating on-premises resources into Azure was our priority, and low-bandwidth dedicated links provided connectivity between on-premises...

Dec 15, 2023

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 we designed Microsoft Viva Engage to do. To capture those benefits, we rolled out Microsoft...

Dec 15, 2023

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 management. That’s the trouble with shadow IT—a term for any technical infrastructure that conventional IT...

Dec 14, 2023

We live in a world where network security is a foundational concern for large enterprises like ours that are trusted with sensitive customer data. This creates an environment where we all need to ensure that we have high patching compliance across our massive array of devices. This complexity requires that we continuously improve our patching...

Dec 13, 2023

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 hybrid workplace. “We’ve made significant strides to create chip-to-cloud Zero Trust out of the box,”...

Dec 12, 2023

At Microsoft, we’ve learned a thing or two in the two years since we launched Microsoft Viva, the first employee experience platform built for the hybrid era. And now we are excited to share some of our best practices and tips for ensuring your own roll out is effective and you gain traction with your...

Dec 8, 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 CEO Satya Nadella and his leadership team wanted to bring Microsoft together after asking company employees...

Dec 7, 2023

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 Microsoft Teams meetings help our globally distributed and digitally connected employees create meaningful...

Dec 7, 2023

Just as it is for everyone, maintaining accurate groups for email and apps such as Microsoft Viva and Microsoft Teams is challenging for us internally at Microsoft. Adding and removing employees from groups has been mostly a hand-cramping manual task, and this is especially true for large organizations like ours, where group membership management is...