Microsoft Digital technical stories
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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…
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Generating great results: Administering search at Microsoft
Microsoft has more than 300,000 employees working around the globe, and collectively, our employees use or access many petabytes of content as they move through their workday. Within our employee base, there are many different personas who have widely varying…
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Revolutionizing SAP and ADP connectivity with Microsoft Azure VWAN and VPN
Connecting line-of-business solutions into the Microsoft Azure networking environment is a critical part of enabling an efficient hybrid network environment and an important step in transforming enterprise networking using Azure. We’ve recently helped SAP, one of our key business partners,…
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Migrating Microsoft Viva Engage to Native Mode unlocks the benefits of Microsoft 365
Cultural change at Microsoft is accelerating thanks in part to open and transparent conversations that we have internally at the company on Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Microsoft Yammer). It’s where we address tough problems, where we hear from…
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Boosting internal audits at Microsoft with audit digitization, machine learning
Imagine sifting through hundreds of photos of cupcakes to find two images of the same cupcake taken in the same place at the same time, within minutes. That’s one of the ways that Microsoft’s Audit, Risk, and Compliance (ARC) team…
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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…
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Get Microsoft’s tips for partnering with your works councils
Microsoft has hundreds of thousands of employees around the world. To support their work, we need to ensure we meet their needs, honor their concerns, and set up the best possible environments for their success. In parts of Europe, our…
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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…
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New approach to IoT device integration enables employee experience at Microsoft
Exciting employee experiences that drive productivity and support hybrid work are possible at Microsoft thanks to a broad network of internet of things (IoT) devices. Whether it be hotdesking, pathfinding, or locating an empty conference room, these experiences benefit productivity,…
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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…
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Shifting to paperless contract lifecycle management to help schools navigate COVID-19
[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.] Paperless contract…
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Listening to millions of IoT building sensor readings with load testing
As an employee, an easy-seeming task like booking a meeting room can quickly become difficult if you cannot see which rooms are available—that is where taking a transformed approach to load testing can help. Employees booking rooms and dozens of…