Microsoft Digital technical stories
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Moving our network to the cloud with Microsoft Azure
Our ongoing move to cloud networking here at Microsoft is at the core of our larger connectivity strategy. Very practically, this shift is playing a pivotal role in how we are and will continue to support our more than 221,000…
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Upgrading Microsoft’s core Human Resources system with SAP SuccessFactors
This story was first published in 2022. 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…
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Scaling contract reviews at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure AI Services
At Microsoft, our Finance team is leveraging technology to simplify workstream prioritization and automate qualitative assessments. The Revenue team within our Finance division is composed of accounting professionals with product, industry, and region-specific expertise. These professionals review and document accounting…
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Modernizing our Network Access Control Infrastructure with Azure
“How do I get on the Wi-Fi?” It’s often one of the first questions visitors ask when arriving at a new location, and here at Microsoft, it happens every day. Our guest Wi-Fi network is typically one of the first…
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How Microsoft is delivering smart building experiences with CI/CD for Azure Digital Twins
Microsoft empowers employees and guests with user experience scenarios, like pathfinding and hotdesking, to make life easier. To quickly facilitate impactful smart building features at scale, Microsoft Digital’s engineers rely on a structured approach that combines templates and pipelines for…
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Empowering employee self-service with guardrails: How we’re using sensitivity labels to make Microsoft more secure
At Microsoft, empowering our employees to do their best work means trusting them with self-determination. But to do that safely, we need clear data loss prevention systems in place. We describe it as self-service with guardrails. Giving employees that level…
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Instrumenting ServiceNow with Microsoft Azure Monitor
At Microsoft we have integrated our ServiceNow environment with Microsoft Azure Monitor to create a comprehensive, end-to-end monitoring solution that helps us to ensure performance, reliability, and service excellence across our ServiceNow environment. Combining ServiceNow with Azure Monitor helps us…
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Transforming Microsoft’s enterprise network with next-generation connectivity
Next-generation connectivity is enabling us to transform our internal enterprise network here at Microsoft. Deploying a more agile, secure, and effective network environment across Microsoft is empowering our employees to thrive in our new hybrid world. This article describes how…
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Enabling effortless cloud infrastructure management with MyWorkspace and Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Digital (MSD) is the organization that powers, protects, and transforms Microsoft. As part of its mission, MSD builds and manages the cloud network infrastructure that supports Microsoft products and services. MyWorkspace is a browser-based cloud-provisioning tool created by MSD…
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Looking back at deployment of Windows 11 at Microsoft
[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.] Windows 11,…
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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…
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Examining Microsoft’s SAP transactions with Microsoft Azure Anomaly Detector
As part of our continuing digital transformation journey, our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is constantly looking for ways to improve our business processes and detect issues and anomalies before they become serious problems. Sometimes these failures happen sporadically…