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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January 17, 2024

Revolutionizing our ARM template deployment at Microsoft with shift from JSON to BICEP

With a new solution for Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, engineers on our Microsoft Cloud Engineering Services team have successfully reduced engineering hours spent on developing ARM templates by 50 percent. Simultaneously, they have improved security compliance and implemented…
January 8, 2024

Protecting against oversharing Power BI reports with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Power BI is an essential tool for monitoring performance, identifying trends, and developing stunning data visualizations that many teams across Microsoft use every day. A well-built Power BI report can play a critical role in helping communicate business information…
January 5, 2024

Moving Microsoft’s global network to the cloud with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure has been part of the enterprise solution architecture at Microsoft for more than eight years. One thing has remained constant throughout our journey—from early lift-and-shift migrations to recent transformations to cloud-first solutions—the network. “In the early stages, migrating…
December 12, 2023

Best practices and tips from Microsoft’s own internal adoption of Microsoft Viva

At Microsoft, we’ve learned a thing or two in the two years since we launched Microsoft Viva, the first employee experience platform built for the hybrid era. And now we are excited to share some of our best practices and…
December 7, 2023

The future of Group Member Management: How Microsoft is leading the way with automation

Just as it is for everyone, maintaining accurate groups for email and apps such as Microsoft Viva and Microsoft Teams is challenging for us internally at Microsoft. Adding and removing employees from groups has been mostly a hand-cramping manual task,…
December 7, 2023

From prototype to production: Deploying Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms at Microsoft

Here at Microsoft, we wanted to improve the experience our employees have in meetings, whether they’re at home, at a coffee shop, or in a meeting room in one of our offices. “It’s been quite the journey over the last…
November 20, 2023

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…
November 16, 2023

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…
November 15, 2023

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…
November 10, 2023

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…
November 1, 2023

Streamlining virtual software provisioning at scale with MyWorkspace

Every software company has unique virtual provisioning needs. Creating complex virtual infrastructure from scratch and maintaining it for even a short period can be labor-intensive, costly, and risky from a security standpoint. When it needs to happen multiple times per…
October 25, 2023

Unpacking Microsoft’s internal deployment of the first major update to Windows 11

[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.] Improvements to…