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Mar 1, 2024   |   Lukas Velush

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, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like...

Feb 23, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

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 search interests and use hundreds of content sources. Those content sources can be file shares,...

Feb 20, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

Migrating Microsoft Viva Engage to Native Mode unlocks the benefits of Microsoft 365

Cultural change at Microsoft is accelerating thanks in part to open and transparent conversations that we have internally at the company on Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Microsoft Yammer). It’s where we address tough problems, where we hear from a diverse set of perspectives, and where we get clear articulation of values applied to...

Oct 5, 2023   |   Josh Krenz

Internal search bookmarks boost productivity at Microsoft

Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. Search is part of our everyday life. It’s useful—we all know that—but how can you quantify that impact? That was the challenge faced by Dodd Willingham, principal program manager and internal search administrator in Microsoft Digital. “There’s an obvious value, we can see that...

Aug 14, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Microsoft moves its main employee portal to latest version of SharePoint

Editor’s note: This blog post has been updated to reflect how improvements in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 are enabling Microsoft to share news about COVID-19 and remote working with its employees in ways that were previously not possible. Moving MSW, Microsoft’s internal news and information portal, to the latest version of SharePoint in Microsoft 365...

Aug 9, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Microsoft moves its Human Resources employee portal to SharePoint Online

[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.] Microsoft has migrated its internal Human Resources portal to the cloud, a key step in its ongoing...

Aug 7, 2023   |   Lukas Velush

Brain-friendly employee feedback turning the tide 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.] As much as we might say we’re open to feedback from our peers, human nature can make...

Jul 17, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Microsoft creates self-service sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365

Empowering self-service is important to us at Microsoft. Every employee should be able to create the resources they need without engaging IT to do it for them. To support this level of freedom, we rely on a strong governance strategy to identify and protect valuable content. By ensuring accountability, our employees are able to create...