Author: Stephanie Parry
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Transforming our approach to sensitivity labels at Microsoft with Microsoft Entra
Security groups serve as the backbone of our approach to access control across the Microsoft corporate tenant. These groups determine who has access to different resources across our network, including Azure subscriptions, Power BI reports, SharePoint sites, and more. For years, our security groups operated without consistent, policy‑based guardrails. As a result, we couldn’t uniformly Read More
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Reinventing hybrid cloud integration at Microsoft—from months to one day
For years, network engineering teams at Microsoft have faced a paradox: They can spin up a full Microsoft Azure cloud environment in a matter of hours but connecting that environment to on-premises labs and private networks can take up to nine months. Now, a team in Microsoft Digital—the company’s IT organization—is working to shrink that Read More
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Building from the inside: Anahit Hovhannisyan’s impact on IT at Microsoft
Anahit Hovhannisyan has spent more than a decade at Microsoft headquarters doing work that few people see, but nearly everyone depends on here in Microsoft Digital, the company’s internal IT organization. As a group program manager in Microsoft Digital, she…
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The Frontier Firm: How knowledge workers are forging their own AI tools at Microsoft
Knowledge workers have all been there. Maybe you’re a product manager with a backlog that you can’t ever get to. Perhaps you’re a designer who can never seem to get engineering resources assigned to you. Or maybe you’re a program…