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Delivering communications internally at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva Amplify
Keeping your people well informed is something every organization, manager, and executive needs to do, including here at Microsoft Digital (MSD), the company’s IT organization. We need to let our employees know about new product rollouts, important system updates, new…
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Transforming modern engineering at Microsoft
Our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is implementing a modern engineering vision that creates a culture, tools, and practices focused on developing high-quality, secure, and feature-rich services to enable digital transformation across the company. Our Modern Engineering initiative has…
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Looking back at deployment of Windows 11 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.] Windows 11,…
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Working in a phygital world: Why businesses need to rethink their workspace experiences now
“Phygital” (physical plus digital) is a marketing term that’s often used to describe the blending of digital experiences with physical ones. As employees’ and customers’ ways of interaction proliferate, companies aim to seamlessly integrate them. Nothing has been impacted more…
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Transforming how Microsoft uses Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute
Our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team manages one of the largest Microsoft Azure enterprise environments. Migrating our virtual machine resources into Microsoft Azure necessitated significant connectivity between our on-premises networks and Azure. We have many Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute circuits…
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Lessons learned at Microsoft: Five steps you can take to reduce your ransomware risk
As a part of our journey to reduce our ransomware risk internally here at Microsoft, we’ve identified five principles that we believe every enterprise should follow to make themselves more secure from these attacks. We call these our Foundational Five…
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Examining Microsoft’s SAP transactions with Microsoft Azure Anomaly Detector
As part of our continuing digital transformation journey, our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is constantly looking for ways to improve our business processes and detect issues and anomalies before they become serious problems. Sometimes these failures happen sporadically…
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Redefining the digitally assisted workday at Microsoft
At Microsoft, we’re creating a seamless, effortless workday experience for our employees, enabling them to manage their workday, find information, and get things done quickly and easily. We’re transforming our search and task-completion experience into a unified, informed, and automated…
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Modernizing our cloud networking infrastructure with a DevOps mindset
DevOps has become a fundamental philosophy critical to the success of our cloud networking teams and solutions. In today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, the conventional model of infrastructure management—receiving user requirements, designing solutions, deploying infrastructure, and manually monitoring for health…
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Microsoft extends Azure management to the private cloud with Azure Arc
When Microsoft began adopting cloud server technology internally in 2014, it operated some 60,000 on-premises servers and 2,000 line-of-business applications. These assets, normally managed by the team or individual that purchased or built them, were vital to company operations. Now…
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Enhancing Microsoft’s security posture with Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager
Imagine an enterprise company with dozens or hundreds of firewalls, each with its own set of policies for keeping corporate networks secure. That was the situation here at Microsoft until our IT teams started using Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager. This…
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Rolling out Microsoft Edge browser across Microsoft
[Editor’s note: This content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Below is an article regarding the migration from Microsoft Edge Legacy (based on EdgeHTML) to Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium). Although that moment has passed,…
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Democratizing adoption data with the Microsoft 365 Admin Center Experience insights dashboard
Microsoft 365 usage data has enormous value for a variety of roles. But until recently, only IT admins had the privileged access to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that could unlock that data’s value. New Admin Center roles and the…
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A foundation for modern collaboration: Microsoft 365 bolsters teamwork
At Microsoft, we’re using Microsoft 365 to empower our employees to achieve more by driving better teamwork and collaboration in our teams. We’re using core Microsoft 365 services such as SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and Viva Engage to…
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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.…
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Generating great results: Administering search at Microsoft
Microsoft has more than 300,000 employees working around the globe, and collectively, our employees use or access many petabytes of content as they move through their workday. Within our employee base, there are many different personas who have widely varying…
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Revolutionizing SAP and ADP connectivity with Microsoft Azure VWAN and VPN
Connecting line-of-business solutions into the Microsoft Azure networking environment is a critical part of enabling an efficient hybrid network environment and an important step in transforming enterprise networking using Azure. We’ve recently helped SAP, one of our key business partners,…
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Transforming Microsoft’s enterprise IT infrastructure with AI
AI is changing everything at Microsoft, including our approach to core IT. We in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, are using the advent of generative AI to reexamine and transform our entire IT infrastructure. “We’ve crossed an important threshold…
