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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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…
June 1, 2023

Harnessing first-party patching technology to drive innovation at Microsoft

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…
May 25, 2023

Best practices and tips from Microsoft’s own internal adoption of Microsoft Viva

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…
May 23, 2023

Seamless and secure cloud printing with Universal Print

There are few office tasks that are as ubiquitous—or potentially as frustrating—as needing to print a document. Whatever your role and wherever you are, it’s likely that you’ll need to utilize the shared office printer next time you’re on site.…
May 17, 2023

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…
May 16, 2023

Revolutionizing the rollout: Using product adoption data to streamline deployments

How do you turn data into knowledge? Once you have it, how to you turn that knowledge into action? Adopting a new product across an organization as large as Microsoft is an enormous task, and we’re always expanding our knowledge…
May 10, 2023

Deploying Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms, generative AI at new Microsoft Canada headquarters

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlRs_Jdr8_U, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft’s new Canadian headquarters building in Toronto is turning heads for its smart building…
May 3, 2023

The future of Group Member Management: How Microsoft is leading the way with automation

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,…
May 2, 2023

Streamlining virtual software provisioning at scale with MyWorkspace

Every software company has unique virtual provisioning needs. Creating complex virtual infrastructure from scratch and maintaining it for even a short period can be labor-intensive, costly, and risky from a security standpoint. When it needs to happen multiple times per…
April 27, 2023

Looking back at deployment of Windows 11 at Microsoft

We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our thinking and experience was at the time.…
April 12, 2023

Boosting Windows internally at Microsoft with a transformed approach to patching

You’re only as secure as your most vulnerable machine. That leaves enterprises like ours at risk when our employees don’t update to the latest software version on a timely basis. Bad actors are tirelessly pursuing the smallest of vulnerabilities, so…
April 10, 2023

How AI will change the employee experience at Microsoft—and at your organization

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUn670JE8mE, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Generative AI is the next frontier of employee experience. In our latest spotlight video,…