Microsoft Digital technical stories
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Learning from engineering Zero Trust networking at Microsoft
Our Microsoft Digital (MSD) team is deploying Zero Trust networking internally at Microsoft as part of our Zero Trust initiative, our comprehensive approach to verification and identity management. Powered by Microsoft’s internal security team, our Zero Trust model centers on…
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Sharing Microsoft’s Zero Trust networking lessons for leaders
Today we want to share the lessons we’re learning from deploying Zero Trust networking across Microsoft. In many enterprises, network security has traditionally focused on strictly secured and monitored corporate network perimeters. Today, in a mobile-first and cloud-first world, business…
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Transforming data governance at Microsoft with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric
Data is an invaluable asset for all businesses. Over recent years, the exponential growth of data collection and ingestion has forced most organizations to rethink their strategies for managing data. Increasing compliance requirements and ever-changing technology prevent anyone from simply…
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Boosting leader success at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva Insights
Managing people isn’t about being a boss. It’s about understanding what your team members need to thrive in their roles—and making sure they have it. But how can managers establish the organizational understanding they need to properly support their employees?…
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Informing the influencers: The Microsoft 365 Experience insights dashboard empowers adoption
A new trend is emerging in IT. Technical professionals are increasingly responsible for supporting adoption activities and helping their organizations ensure they’re maximizing their tech investments and making important technology decisions. As a result of these trends, a new category…
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Shining a light on how Microsoft manages Shadow IT
Shadow IT is the set of applications, services, and infrastructure that are developed and managed outside of defined company standards. These line-of-business-built solutions (aka Shadow IT) have always existed at Microsoft and are a common industry problem. Over the years,…
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Microsoft creates self-service sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365
Empowering self-service is important to us at Microsoft. Every employee should be able to create the resources they need without engaging IT to do it for them. To support this level of freedom, we rely on a strong governance strategy…
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Providing modern data transfer and storage service at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure
Companies all over the world have launched their cloud adoption journey. While some are just starting, others are further along the path and are now researching the best options for moving their largest, most complex workflows to the cloud. It…
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Deploying Microsoft Viva Connections internally at Microsoft
Whether it’s from the office or at home, we must be prepared to meet our employees where they are. At Microsoft, this involves using Microsoft Viva Connections to bring our employees together and to encourage them to engage with each…
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Using shielded virtual machines to help protect high-value assets
Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) protects our high-value corporate assets—beyond just the network. We use shielded virtual machines (shielded VMs) and Host Guardian Services (HGS) in Windows Server 2019 to isolate our data. This ensures that control and administration of…
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Verifying identity in a Zero Trust model internally at Microsoft
This story was first published in 2021. 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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Responding to site outages at Microsoft with machine learning and AI
Responding to site outages at Microsoft used to be very challenging. Large organizations have a lot of moving parts, and when internal sites experience outages and connectivity problems, those moving parts can grind to a halt. Getting things up and…