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March 14, 2024

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Angela Gamba

Working in a phygital world: Why businesses need to rethink their workspace experiences now

“Phygital” (physical plus digital) is a marketing term that’s often used to describe the blending of digital experiences with physical ones. As employees’ and customers’ ways of interaction proliferate, companies aim to seamlessly integrate them. Nothing has been impacted more…
March 12, 2024

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Justin Couture

Lessons learned at Microsoft: Five steps you can take to reduce your ransomware risk

As a part of our journey to reduce our ransomware risk internally here at Microsoft, we’ve identified five principles that we believe every enterprise should follow to make themselves more secure from these attacks. We call these our Foundational Five…
March 7, 2024

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Juan Jimenez

Modernizing our cloud networking infrastructure with a DevOps mindset

DevOps has become a fundamental philosophy critical to the success of our cloud networking teams and solutions. In today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, the conventional model of infrastructure management—receiving user requirements, designing solutions, deploying infrastructure, and manually monitoring for health…
February 29, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Democratizing adoption data with the Microsoft 365 Admin Center Experience insights dashboard

Microsoft 365 usage data has enormous value for a variety of roles. But until recently, only IT admins had the privileged access to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that could unlock that data’s value. New Admin Center roles and the…
February 12, 2024

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Lukas Velush

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…
February 1, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Sharing what we learned deploying our secure federal environment

At Microsoft, we serve a diverse range of customers, from individual users and large businesses to sovereign governments with specific regulatory requirements. Our platform products such as Microsoft Azure and our Microsoft 365 productivity suite perform extremely well for these…
January 26, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Enabling collaboration at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIqrfnJECa8. Microsoft Viva is playing a pivotal role in enhancing our regional teamwork at Microsoft. In this Inside Track Spotlight video, we dive into how our leaders are using Microsoft Viva…
January 23, 2024

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Beth Garrison

Focusing on user-experience network monitoring with AppNeta and Azure Monitor

Cloud-based networking has become a core pillar of Microsoft’s core infrastructure. Here at Microsoft Digital (MSD), Microsoft’s internal IT organization, our unwavering commitment to an exceptional user experience for our employees has led us to transform how we monitor our…
January 17, 2024

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Lukas Velush

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

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Lukas Velush

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

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Lukas Velush

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 5, 2023

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Preet Kaur

Deploying global remote VWAN connectivity with Azure VWAN and Azure VPN

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. Tap here to read the full series. In the modern workplace, Microsoft employees access their work from diverse locations. To…

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