November 2023
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Revamping a content management system at Microsoft with the Microsoft Power Platform
End-to-end content management has become significantly easier for one Microsoft team thanks to the Microsoft Power Platform and our entrepreneurial citizen developers. Our aging content management system needed to be replaced, so we—the Inside Track team in Microsoft Digital (MSD),…
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Driving adoption of Microsoft Viva at Microsoft: Lessons learned
In Microsoft Digital (MSD), our job is to accelerate Microsoft’s own digital transformation through world-class employee experiences. We were thrilled when Microsoft Viva was announced in 2021 as a modern platform dedicated to employee growth, wellbeing, and productivity. Microsoft Viva…
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Transforming the executive boardroom meeting experience at Microsoft with Microsoft Teams Rooms
Executive boardrooms are where big decisions are made and important customer deals are won. When much of the world started working from home and many companies adopted a hybrid work model, we here at Microsoft began rethinking the way we…
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Listening to millions of IoT building sensor readings with load testing
As an employee, an easy-seeming task like booking a meeting room can quickly become difficult if you cannot see which rooms are available—that is where taking a transformed approach to load testing can help. Employees booking rooms and dozens of…
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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,…
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Sensitivity labeling: A new layer of security for Microsoft Teams Premium meetings
Microsoft Teams is where collaboration and connection happen. The wide array of digital artifacts that come from our employees’ day-to-day meetings—things like recordings, transcripts, and shared documents—need the same level of enterprise protection as the rest of our organization’s proprietary…
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Moving to next-generation SIEM at Microsoft with Microsoft Sentinel
Our internal security team works diligently 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help protect Microsoft IP, its employees, and its overall business health from security threats. We recently implemented Microsoft Sentinel to replace a preexisting, on-premises solution…
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Empowerment with good governance: How our citizen developers get the most out of the Microsoft Power Platform
What if every employee, no matter their technical expertise or job description, had the power to use software development to create their own solutions? Imagine the kind of collective creativity that could arise if any of your employees could be…
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Fueling Microsoft’s knowledge sharing culture with Microsoft Viva Topics
At Microsoft, we’re evolving our culture of learning. Part of that evolution is ensuring that our employees always have access to the information they need. We’re using Microsoft Viva Topics to consolidate and govern the vast breadth of collaborative knowledge…
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OneDrive for Business feature shifts how employees save files within 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.] Within Microsoft,…
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Sharing how Microsoft protects against ransomware
Anyone can fall victim to ransomware. As cybercriminals shift from wide-net approaches to focus on precision attacks against high-dollar targets, there is extra pressure for companies and governments to evaluate and defend themselves against ransomware attacks. This is why Microsoft…
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Revolutionizing the rollout: Using product adoption data to streamline deployments
How do you turn data into knowledge? Once you have it, how to you turn that knowledge into action? Adopting a new product across an organization as large as Microsoft is an enormous task, and we’re always expanding our knowledge…