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Sharing Microsoft’s Zero Trust networking lessons for leaders
Today we want to share the lessons we’re learning from deploying Zero Trust networking across Microsoft. In many enterprises, network security has traditionally focused on strictly secured and monitored corporate network perimeters. Today, in a mobile-first and cloud-first world, business…
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Microsoft moves IT infrastructure management to the cloud with Microsoft Azure
We’re transforming our IT infrastructure management internally here at Microsoft. At Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE), we’re embracing our digital transformation and the culture changes that comes with it. With over 98 percent of our IT infrastructure in the cloud,…
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The learnings, pitfalls, and compromises of Microsoft’s expedition to the cloud
Our expedition to the cloud started some time ago, well before moving to the cloud was a twinkle in Microsoft’s eye. Yes, only a handful of us at Microsoft have been around long enough to hold coveted treasures like a…
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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…
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New Microsoft Smart Buildings Showcase Azure Digital Twins
[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.] A smart…
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Managing user identities and secure access at Microsoft
[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.] Managing identities…
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Boosting Microsoft’s migration to the cloud with Microsoft Azure
[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.] When Microsoft…
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Boosting employee connectivity with Microsoft Azure-based VWAN architecture
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in our ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. Whether our employees are in neighboring cities or different continents, they need to communicate and collaborate efficiently with each other.…
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Microsoft workers’ council partnerships boost the company’s product and service rollouts
Ensuring compliance doesn’t have to be a roadblock—just ask the Microsoft workers’ council in Germany. This group of employee representatives has partnered with their employer, Microsoft, to speed up how the company develops and deploys new products and services to…
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Unpacking Microsoft’s internal deployment of the first major update to Windows 11
[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.] Improvements to…
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Building resilient and secure virtual labs with Azure Firewall, Azure Container Apps, and Service Bus
Editor’s note: This is the third in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. At Microsoft, our support, escalation, and customer engineers help Microsoft with solution troubleshooting, implementation assistance, integration walkthroughs, and many other…
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Azure resource inventory helps manage operational efficiency and compliance
One of the benefits of Microsoft Azure is the ease and speed in which cloud resources and infrastructure can be created or changed. Teams across Microsoft can scale up or scale down their cloud resources to meet their workload demands…
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Implementing a Zero Trust security model at Microsoft
At Microsoft, our shift to a Zero Trust security model more than five years ago has helped us navigate many challenges. The increasing prevalence of cloud-based services, mobile computing, internet of things (IoT), and bring your own device (BYOD) in…
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Understanding Microsoft’s digital transformation
Our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team builds and operates the systems that run Microsoft, and as such, we’re leading the company’s internal digital transformation. We’re doing this by rethinking traditional IT and business operations, and by driving innovation and…
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Getting the most out of generative AI at Microsoft with good governance
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…
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Deploying Kanban at Microsoft leads to engineering excellence
Microsoft has taken a page from the auto industry to use a process called Kanban (pronounced “con-bon”), a Japanese word meaning “signboard” or “billboard.” It was developed by a Toyota engineer to improve manufacturing efficiency. Microsoft is using Kanban to…
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Transforming how Microsoft manages its corporate real estate data
Microsoft manages hundreds of buildings around the world with various purposes—warehouses, offices, labs, cafes, and so on. Like all companies with large real estate footprints, the company wanted to find better ways of managing each building type. To do that,…
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Transforming Microsoft buildings with IoT technology and indoor mapping
Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. Sphoorti Patil is using Microsoft Azure indoor mapping and IoT technology that helps Microsoft employees find their way around the company’s campuses—and she hasn’t been in a Microsoft building…
