Employee Experience

Feb 28, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

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 support modern work styles and enable continued digital transformation. We’re also deploying Microsoft Viva internally...

Feb 26, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

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. In fact, maybe the sole reason you’re visiting the office is to print something. Office...

Feb 16, 2024   |   Keith Boyd

Deploying Microsoft Viva Connections internally at Microsoft

Whether it’s from the office or at home, we must be prepared to meet our employees where they are. At Microsoft, this involves using Microsoft Viva Connections to bring our employees together and to encourage them to engage with each other in the flow of work. Microsoft Viva Connections is our gateway to our employee...

Feb 14, 2024   |   Keith Boyd

Powering a generational shift in IT at Microsoft with AI

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 for executives As the IT team at Microsoft, we in Microsoft Digital (MSD) have experienced...

Feb 9, 2024   |   Angela Gamba

Making Microsoft Teams Premium better for customers

Microsoft Teams Premium is an exciting new offer for Microsoft customers with enhanced features and the latest AI-powered technologies. It provides a seamless, one-stop shop experience to improve any kind of Microsoft Teams meeting from personal one-on-one discussions to large-scale events or webinars. The aim of the new Microsoft Teams Premium experience is to make...

Feb 1, 2024   |   Laura Oxford

Teaching Microsoft employees healthy hybrid meeting habits with Minecraft

Hybrid meetings aren’t new. Microsoft is a global company, and even before the COVID-19 pandemic, teammates dialed into conference rooms from all over the world. But when everyone started working remotely in March 2020, all our meetings moved to Microsoft Teams. And the truth is, all the amazing features available in Teams changed how we...

Jan 30, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

How we’re recapping our meetings with AI and Microsoft Teams Premium at Microsoft

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 for executives Traditionally, missing a meeting—or even just a part of it—could mean being left...

Jan 26, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

Enabling collaboration at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIqrfnJECa8, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft Viva is playing a pivotal role in enhancing our regional teamwork at Microsoft. In this Inside Track Spotlight video, we dive into how our leaders are using Microsoft...

Dec 20, 2023   |   Keith Boyd

Reinventing Microsoft’s employee experience for a hybrid world

At Microsoft, we believe our employees are the company’s greatest asset. That’s why, in 2017, we determined that for Microsoft to achieve its mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, we would need to transform the way we do IT. Why change? We realized that to help our...

Dec 15, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

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 we designed Microsoft Viva Engage to do. To capture those benefits, we rolled out Microsoft...

Dec 7, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Empowering employees after the call: Enabling and securing Microsoft Teams meeting data retention at Microsoft

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 for executives Microsoft Teams meetings help our globally distributed and digitally connected employees create meaningful...