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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  • Getting products to customers faster with dropshipping at Microsoft

    The COVID-19 pandemic pushed supply chains into the spotlight and revealed just how shaky they can be. If you panic-bought toilet paper or flour in March 2020, you know that a perfect storm formed as customers frantically bought up every item from store shelves just as factories shut their doors, resulting in widespread product shortages… Read More

  • 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. We recently finished migrating our centralized,… Read More

  • Unlocking the potential of Microsoft 365 Copilot at the role level

    There’s no question: Microsoft 365 Copilot is changing how work gets done here at Microsoft and beyond. An intelligent digital assistant with access to any company data you need that can process and accomplish requests using natural language—that’s a powerful productivity booster. But how do you zero in on the scenarios and use cases that… Read More

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  • Unleashing the citizen developer in all of us with the Microsoft Power Platform

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FJd9RkHM6I, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft is empowering its citizen developers with the Microsoft Power Platform The power of…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Enabling hybrid work internally at Microsoft with ‘digital fabric’ Microsoft Teams

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Eq1oBDf9A&t=2s, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft Teams is enabling seamless collaboration in the hybrid workplace internally at Microsoft. In…

  • Sharing how Microsoft uses Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWv5JHuwms, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” The Microsoft team that helped develop Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms is now deploying the…

  • Turning to Windows Virtual Desktop to save 600 Microsoft internships in India

    Divya Rawat, an intern with Microsoft India, worried that the Microsoft internship she had fought so hard for was going to be cancelled. So did Prakhar Mishra, another intern in Microsoft India’s summer class. “I was quite concerned at first,”…

  • How ‘born in the cloud’ thinking is fueling Microsoft’s transformation

    Microsoft wasn’t born in the cloud, but soon you won’t be able to tell. Now that it has finished “lifting and shifting” its massive internal workload to Microsoft Azure, the company is rethinking everything. “We’re rearchitecting all of our applications…

  • How Microsoft used SQL Azure and Azure Service Fabric to rebuild a key internal app

    When Raja Narayan took over supporting the Payee Management Application that Microsoft Finance uses to onboard new suppliers and partners, the experience was broken. “Our application’s infrastructure was on-premises,” Narayan says. “It was a big, old-school architecture monolith and, although…

  • Retooling how Microsoft sellers sell the company

    Selling Microsoft hasn’t been easy. Just ask the 25,000 people who pitch the complex array of products and services that the company sells to customers across the globe. Those sellers used to wade through more than 30 homegrown applications to…