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
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 now concluded. We’re leaving it up on our site as a record of the different Read More

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September 14, 2023

Moving our popular employee experiences app to Microsoft Viva Connections

At Microsoft, we work to create positive, productive experiences for our employees with tools that support professional growth, efficiency in daily tasks, and overall well-being. To help us do this, our team in Microsoft Digital built MyHub, an internal employee…
August 24, 2023

Boosting leader success at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva Insights

Managing people isn’t about being a boss. It’s about understanding what your team members need to thrive in their roles—and making sure they have it. But how can managers establish the organizational understanding they need to properly support their employees?…
August 21, 2023

Leveraging advances in AI in a healthcare setting

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOy8v_Uv9JM, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Learn how a healthcare firm in India is using our AI technology platform better…
August 15, 2023

Watch our demo: Automating repetitive tasks with Microsoft Dynamics 365

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUbeX0eQGNg&t=2s, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch our demo to see how we’re using Microsoft Dynamics 365 to automate key…
August 14, 2023

Using Microsoft Viva to boost employee engagement with sustainability efforts in Microsoft France

At Microsoft, sustainability is a top priority. As a company, we aim to be carbon-negative, water positive, and zero waste by 2030. Across the globe, there are around 10,000 employees who spend part of their time helping us work toward…
August 9, 2023

Boosting our connectivity with our own next-generation optical network

Providing users with fast and reliable connectivity is the backbone of modern work. Microsoft Digital Employee Experience, the organization that powers, protects, and transforms the company, recently deployed a robust next-generation optical network that offers the company more bandwidth on…
August 3, 2023

Informing the influencers: The Microsoft 365 Experience insights dashboard empowers adoption

A new trend is emerging in IT. Technical professionals are increasingly responsible for supporting adoption activities and helping their organizations ensure they’re maximizing their tech investments and making important technology decisions. As a result of these trends, a new category…
July 12, 2023

Make it easy but secure: Our journey to frictionless device management at Microsoft

With more than 200,000 employees each utilizing a handful of work and personal devices to get work done, the device management landscape at Microsoft is immense, complicated, and fraught with security risk. In short, the point at which our administrator…
July 10, 2023

See how we’re simplifying our sales with AI-powered Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales

If you’re on a sales team, you know that there are all kinds of distracting tasks that eat away at your time and get in the way of what you do best—building relationships with and solving problems for customers. There’s…
June 30, 2023

How Microsoft’s IT legacy is powering its future

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1ScJprOFQ, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch part two of our interview with IT legend Patrice Trousset to learn more…
June 21, 2023

How Microsoft’s pivot to generative AI is being fueled by its rich IT history

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNW_SIdL_xo, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch part one of our interview with IT legend Patrice Trousset to find out…
June 1, 2023

Harnessing first-party patching technology to drive innovation at Microsoft

We live in a world where network security is a foundational concern for large enterprises like ours that are trusted with sensitive customer data. This creates an environment where we all need to ensure that we have high patching compliance…