Microsoft Azure

October 16, 2023

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Aleenah Ansari

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…
October 16, 2023

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Alex Fleck

Transforming how contract creation works at Microsoft with automation

At Microsoft, we do business with an immense number of vendors and suppliers, and many of the services they provide require a statement of work (SOW) contract. Creating, approving, and managing those contracts is an immense task. We developed an…
October 11, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Transforming how Microsoft connects with its 58,000 suppliers

Anyone procuring goods or services for Microsoft needs to do their homework. Not only must you make sure the supplier can provide what you need at a reasonable price, you must also make sure they meet certain standards and security…
September 22, 2023

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Josh Krenz

Meet OneExpense, the automated expense reporting backend transforming Microsoft

Filing expenses exist for pretty much everyone. At Microsoft, employees are now empowered by a no and low touch reimbursement process that uses automation and machine learning to perform micro-actions on behalf of the users. With OneExpense, Microsoft’s new automated…
September 19, 2023

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Cody Bay

Transforming Microsoft’s corporate expense tools with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Dynamics 365

When it comes to employee expenses, Microsoft has quite a collection of corporate expense tools in its tool belt. Depending on your role, you might need different tools, all of which accomplish the same basic goal—reporting expenses and getting reimbursed—in…
August 29, 2023

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Cody Bay

Automating expense reporting at Microsoft boosts employee experience

Automating expense reporting is saving the day at Microsoft. Like everywhere else, filing expenses has long been a chore most employees at Microsoft sought to avoid. And the numbers back that up. Instead of spending their time developing new technologies,…
August 22, 2023

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Becky West

Accelerating Microsoft’s global real estate transformation with Microsoft Digital

It’s been a privilege to help drive Microsoft’s real estate transformation. As an IT leader at Microsoft, I appreciate the powerful transformation acceleration that comes from partnering closely with the internal business partner that you support. I work in Microsoft…
August 18, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Onboarding new Microsoft employees with Microsoft Teams while working remotely

Allison Koch’s first day at Microsoft was a long time coming. So was Eran Samocha’s. Koch, a self-described Microsoft fan, has been selling or advocating for the company’s products “for more years than I care to admit.” In her role,…
June 27, 2023

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Cody Bay

Powering Microsoft smart buildings with Microsoft Azure Digital Twins

Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. If Microsoft smart buildings had brains, what would they do with them? Maybe they would perfectly heat and cool themselves, sending energy to the right places at the right…
June 22, 2023

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Josh Krenz

Detecting anomalies at Microsoft with unsupervised machine learning in 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.] Can unsupervised…
June 20, 2023

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Cody Bay

Jamming to a new tune: Transforming Microsoft’s printing infrastructure with Universal Print

[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.] Most people…
June 13, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Using shielded virtual machines to help protect high-value assets

Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) protects our high-value corporate assets—beyond just the network. We use shielded virtual machines (shielded VMs) and Host Guardian Services (HGS) in Windows Server 2019 to isolate our data. This ensures that control and administration of…

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