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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April 9, 2026

Harnessing AI: How a data council is powering our unified data strategy at Microsoft

Information technology is an ever-evolving landscape. Artificial Intelligence is accelerating that evolution, providing employees with unprecedented access to information and insights. Data-driven decision making has never been more critical for businesses to achieve their goals. In light of this priority, we have established a Microsoft Digital Data Council to help accelerate our companywide AI-powered transformation. Read More
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
June 28, 2024

Enhancing employee listening at Microsoft with Viva Glint

At Microsoft, giving our employees every opportunity to thrive is critical. Now, we have a new but familiar tool to help us do that—our very own Microsoft Viva Glint. We’re using Viva Glint—which replaces LinkedIn Glint—to check in with our more than 190,000 employees, and to respond to their feedback accordingly. We recently finished migrating Read More

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May 23, 2023

Seamless and secure cloud printing with Universal Print

There are few office tasks that are as ubiquitous—or potentially as frustrating—as needing to print a document. Whatever your role and wherever you are, it’s likely that you’ll need to utilize the shared office printer next time you’re on site.…
May 17, 2023

Transforming our internal Microsoft Azure spend forecasting

Budget forecasting is a crucial discipline across any business process. With a large-scale consumable resource like Microsoft Azure, accurate budgeting can lead to savings in the millions. To improve Microsoft Azure spend forecasting for our internal engineering teams in Microsoft…
May 16, 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…
May 10, 2023

Deploying Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms, generative AI at new Microsoft Canada headquarters

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlRs_Jdr8_U, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft’s new Canadian headquarters building in Toronto is turning heads for its smart building…
May 3, 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,…
May 2, 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…
April 27, 2023

Looking back at deployment of Windows 11 at Microsoft

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 thinking and experience was at the time.…
April 12, 2023

Boosting Windows internally at Microsoft with a transformed approach to patching

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 thinking and experience was at the time.…
April 10, 2023

How AI will change the employee experience at Microsoft—and at your organization

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUn670JE8mE. Generative AI is the next frontier of the employee experience. We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at…
April 6, 2023

Enabling hybrid work internally at Microsoft with ‘digital fabric’ Microsoft Teams

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Eq1oBDf9A&t. Microsoft Teams is enabling seamless collaboration in the flexible workplace internally at Microsoft. We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our…
April 5, 2023

Sharing how Microsoft uses Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWv5JHuwms. The Microsoft team that helped develop Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms is now deploying the meeting room platform across the company. We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that…
April 5, 2023

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

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 thinking and experience was at the time.…