Microsoft Digital stories
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Reshaping the Azure developer experience using Azure ExpressRoute
We’re using Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute to facilitate high-bandwidth, dedicated connectivity between Microsoft Azure for Operators and the developers who create and implement Azure for Operators features internally here at Microsoft. Our Infrastructure and Engineering Services (IES) team in Microsoft Digital,…
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Unlocking employee self-service with Windows 365 Cloud PCs at Microsoft
Windows 365 is driving the next evolution of desktop virtualization by combining the power and security of the Microsoft Cloud with the versatility and simplicity of the PC. Windows 365 Cloud PCs let you securely stream your Windows experience, including…
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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…
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Simplifying update automation using Microsoft Azure Update Management
We’re using Microsoft Azure Automation Update Management to facilitate and automate updates for on-premises servers that provide Domain Name Service (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP address management (IPAM) services internally here at Microsoft. Our solution allows us…
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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…
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Shifting left to get accessibility right at Microsoft
At Microsoft, we’ve learned the best way to get accessibility right is to shift left. “We need to think about accessibility before we start any of our work, before we write any line of code, at every step of our…
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Empowering employees after the call: Enabling and securing Microsoft Teams meeting data retention at Microsoft
Microsoft Teams meetings help our globally distributed and digitally connected employees create meaningful hybrid work experiences. When those meetings are recorded and transcribed or their data becomes available to AI-powered digital assistants, their impact increases. Although these features have proven…
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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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Modernizing campus logistics and operations at Microsoft
Business Situation Microsoft is in the productivity business, with a mission “to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” What matters to Microsoft is not just helping to envision the workplace of the future, but…
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Transforming the executive boardroom meeting experience at Microsoft with Microsoft Teams Rooms
Executive boardrooms are where big decisions are made and important customer deals are won. When much of the world started working from home and many companies adopted a hybrid work model, we here at Microsoft began rethinking the way we…
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Sensitivity labeling: A new layer of security for Microsoft Teams Premium meetings
Microsoft Teams is where collaboration and connection happen. The wide array of digital artifacts that come from our employees’ day-to-day meetings—things like recordings, transcripts, and shared documents—need the same level of enterprise protection as the rest of our organization’s proprietary…
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Empowerment with good governance: How our citizen developers get the most out of the Microsoft Power Platform
What if every employee, no matter their technical expertise or job description, had the power to use software development to create their own solutions? Imagine the kind of collective creativity that could arise if any of your employees could be…