Author: Lukas Velush

Lukas Velush tells the story of how Microsoft uses its own technology on this blog and on the Microsoft Digital Inside Track website (link near the top left of your screen). He’s a recovering journalist who needs to not take himself too seriously.

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November 21, 2025

Deploying Microsoft Agent 365: How we’re extending our infrastructure to manage agents at Microsoft

The number and sophistication of agents that our employees are building here at Microsoft is growing rapidly. To help us and all enterprises respond to this new opportunity, the company just announced Microsoft Agent 365 at Microsoft Ignite. This product serves as the control plane for AI agents—a new evolution of the existing systems that… Read More
May 27, 2025

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

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2023.   Microsoft Teams meetings help our globally distributed and digitally connected employees create meaningful hybrid work experiences. When those meetings are recorded and transcribed or their data becomes available to AI-powered digital assistants, their impact increases. Although these features have proven to be… Read More
May 19, 2025

Five tips for prompting AI: How we’re communicating better at Microsoft with Microsoft 365 Copilot

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2024. It’s all in the prompt. The AI revolution is here, and we’re finding that the best way to take advantage of it is to learn how to prompt it. Here in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’ve had early access to… Read More

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November 21, 2025

Deploying Microsoft Agent 365: How we’re extending our infrastructure to manage agents at Microsoft

The number and sophistication of agents that our employees are building here at Microsoft is growing rapidly. To help us and all enterprises respond to this new opportunity, the company just announced Microsoft Agent 365 at Microsoft Ignite. This product…
November 13, 2025

Powering agentic AI adoption at Microsoft: Our ‘Customer Zero’ story

At Microsoft, we are enabling our employees, teams, and organizations to build AI agents to help them complete important tasks—from individual employees in the personal productivity tenant all the way to enterprise-wide agents that are available to everyone. Engage with…
May 30, 2025

Transforming employee engagement at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva Engage

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2023. 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…
May 27, 2025

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

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2023.   Microsoft Teams meetings help our globally distributed and digitally connected employees create meaningful hybrid work experiences. When those meetings are recorded and transcribed or their data becomes…
May 20, 2025

The AI Revolution: How Microsoft Digital (IT) is responding with an AI Center of Excellence

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2023. The AI revolution is here, so what are you going to do about it? This question is for IT leaders, IT practitioners, and others out there who…
May 19, 2025

Five tips for prompting AI: How we’re communicating better at Microsoft with Microsoft 365 Copilot

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2024. It’s all in the prompt. The AI revolution is here, and we’re finding that the best way to take advantage of it is to learn how to…
April 30, 2025

Redesigning how we work at Microsoft with generative AI

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2024. Generative AI has emerged as a transformational force in computing, but it’s not always clear how to utilize it when designing new products. At Microsoft, our teams…
April 26, 2025

Hardware-backed Windows 11 empowers Microsoft with secure-by-default baseline

This story was first published in 2023. We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our…
April 24, 2025

Sharing our Customer Zero story at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference

Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. This story was published to preview a specific event, which has…
April 22, 2025

Getting products to customers faster with dropshipping at Microsoft

Editor’s note: This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2024 The COVID-19 pandemic pushed supply chains into the spotlight and revealed just how shaky they can be. If you panic-bought toilet paper or flour in…
April 16, 2025

Buzzing on Microsoft Teams Rooms technology internally at Microsoft

There’s been a lot of buzz around The Hive, our laboratory for building and testing new meeting room technology with Microsoft Teams Rooms. Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to…
April 16, 2025

Embracing emerging technology at Microsoft with new AI certifications

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2023. As the company’s IT organization, we at Microsoft Digital realized that advanced AI was going to create opportunities for our employees to increase their reach and impact.…