Microsoft Digital stories
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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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Best practices and tips from Microsoft’s own internal adoption of Microsoft Viva
At Microsoft, we’ve learned a thing or two in the two years since we launched Microsoft Viva, the first employee experience platform built for the hybrid era. And now we are excited to share some of our best practices and…
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Rethinking supplier content at Microsoft with Microsoft Power Automate
Connecting and communicating with a global network of suppliers, vendors, and business partners is no small task. Microsoft is tackling this challenge internally with Microsoft Power Automate, a cloud-based app that creates automated workflows. The result? Content that previously took…
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The future of Group Member Management: How Microsoft is leading the way with automation
Just as it is for everyone, maintaining accurate groups for email and apps such as Microsoft Viva and Microsoft Teams is challenging for us internally at Microsoft. Adding and removing employees from groups has been mostly a hand-cramping manual task,…
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From prototype to production: Deploying Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms at Microsoft
Here at Microsoft, we wanted to improve the experience our employees have in meetings, whether they’re at home, at a coffee shop, or in a meeting room in one of our offices. “It’s been quite the journey over the last…
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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…