Azure Management

September 4, 2024

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Inside Track staff

Monitoring Microsoft’s SAP Workload with Microsoft Azure

At Microsoft, our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is using Microsoft Azure telemetry tools to get key insights on our business processes that flow through our SAP instance, one of the largest in the world. Our new platform provides our…
August 17, 2024

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Pete Apple

Microsoft uses a scream test to silence its unused servers

Do you have unused servers on your hand? Don’t be alarmed if I scream about it—it’ll be for a good reason (and not just because it’s almost Halloween)! Check out Pete Apple’s expedition to the cloud series The learnings, pitfalls,…
April 17, 2024

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Inside Track staff

How Microsoft is transforming its own patch management with Azure

[Editor’s note: Azure Update Management is becoming Update Management Center, which is currently available in public preview. Please note that this content was written to highlight a particular event or moment in time. Although that moment has passed, we’re republishing…
March 18, 2024

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Inside Track staff

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…
January 26, 2024

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Lukas Velush

How automation is transforming revenue processing at Microsoft

The Microsoft partner and customer network brings in more than $100 billion in revenue each year, most of the company’s earnings. Keeping tabs on the millions of annual transactions is no small task—just ask Shashi Lanka Venkata and Mark Anderson,…
January 23, 2024

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Jason Kellington

Doing more with less internally at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure

How do we at Microsoft get the best value from our Microsoft Azure environment? We’ve been refining and optimizing the way we use the cloud for years, and as such, our answer isn’t just about how much we’ve been able…
November 1, 2023

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Lukas Velush

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…
October 27, 2023

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Lukas Velush

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…
July 18, 2023

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Mark Skorupa

Microsoft’s digital security team answers your Top 10 questions on Zero Trust

Our internal digital security team at Microsoft spends a fair amount of time talking to enterprise customers who face similar challenges when it comes to managing and securing a globally complex enterprise using a Zero Trust security model. While every…
February 27, 2020

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Lukas Velush

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…
December 11, 2019

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Aleenah Ansari

How Microsoft is modernizing its internal network using automation

After Microsoft moved its workload of 60,000 on-premises servers to Microsoft Azure, employees could set up systems and virtual machines (VMs) with a push of a few buttons. Although network hardware servers have changed over time, the way that network…
October 16, 2019

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Lukas Velush

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…

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