February 2023

Feb 23, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Improving security by protecting elevated-privilege accounts at Microsoft

An ever-evolving digital landscape is forcing organizations to adapt and expand to stay ahead of innovative and complex security risks. Increasingly sophisticated and targeted threats, including phishing campaigns and malware attacks, attempt to harvest credentials or exploit hardware vulnerabilities that allow movement to other parts of the network, where they can do more damage or...

Feb 22, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Designing a modern service architecture for the cloud

The digital transformation that many enterprises are undertaking has its benefits and its challenges: while it brings new opportunities that add value to customers and help drive business, it also places demands on legacy infrastructure, making companies struggle to keep pace with the digital world’s ever-increasing speed of business. Consider an enterprise’s line-of-business (LOB) systems,...

Feb 21, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Microsoft Teams increases collaboration in the modern workplace at Microsoft

At Microsoft, we’re increasing the collaborative capability of teams across the company with Microsoft Teams. We’ve initiated a fundamental change in the way our employees interact and communicate, with Microsoft Teams as the hub for communicating, meeting, and calling. We’re using change management processes and education so that our people can adopt and use Teams...

Feb 21, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

Rotating DevOps role improves engineering service quality

As many high-performing agile software engineering teams embrace a DevOps culture, they’re adding the role of Directly Responsible Individual (DRI). The role is also known by various other names, such as Google’s “Sheriff” or Facebook’s slightly different “Designated Response Individual.” Rotating within an agile team, the DRI is responsible for service availability, service health, and...

Feb 15, 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...

Feb 14, 2023   |   Alex Fleck

Shifting to paperless contract lifecycle management to help schools navigate COVID-19

[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.] Paperless contract lifecycle management (CLM) suddenly became more important during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, when schools had...

Feb 13, 2023   |   Inside Track staff

How Microsoft modernized its purchase order system with Azure microservices

[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.] MyOrder, an internal Microsoft legacy application, processes roughly 220,000 purchase orders (POs) every year, which represent $45...