Microsoft Digital stories
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Transforming how contract creation works at Microsoft with automation
At Microsoft, we do business with an immense number of vendors and suppliers, and many of the services they provide require a statement of work (SOW) contract. Creating, approving, and managing those contracts is an immense task. We developed an…
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Building a secure and efficient self-service application using Azure ACI, Azure Compute Gallery, and the Microsoft Azure SDK
Editor’s note: This is the second in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. At Microsoft, the Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team—our company IT organization—is using the Azure SDK, Azure Container Instances, and…
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Internal search bookmarks boost productivity at Microsoft
Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. Search is part of our everyday life. It’s useful—we all know that—but how can you quantify that impact? That was the challenge faced by Dodd Willingham, principal program manager…
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How we’re deploying our VWAN infrastructure using infrastructure as code and CI/CD
Editor’s note: This is the first in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. We’re building a more agile, resilient, and stable virtual wide-area network (VWAN) to create a better experience for our employees…
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Meet OneExpense, the automated expense reporting backend transforming Microsoft
Filing expenses exist for pretty much everyone. At Microsoft, employees are now empowered by a no and low touch reimbursement process that uses automation and machine learning to perform micro-actions on behalf of the users. With OneExpense, Microsoft’s new automated…
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Transforming Microsoft’s corporate expense tools with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Dynamics 365
When it comes to employee expenses, Microsoft has quite a collection of corporate expense tools in its tool belt. Depending on your role, you might need different tools, all of which accomplish the same basic goal—reporting expenses and getting reimbursed—in…
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Moving our popular employee experiences app to Microsoft Viva Connections
At Microsoft, we work to create positive, productive experiences for our employees with tools that support professional growth, efficiency in daily tasks, and overall well-being. To help us do this, our team in Microsoft Digital built MyHub, an internal employee…
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Using Microsoft Azure AD entitlement management to empower Microsoft employees and protect the company
Microsoft is leveraging identity governance capabilities in Microsoft Azure AD entitlement management (EM) service to give its employees access to the files and resources they need to do their jobs while preventing them from accessing information they shouldn’t see. Until…
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Using Microsoft Viva to boost employee engagement with sustainability efforts in Microsoft France
At Microsoft, sustainability is a top priority. As a company, we aim to be carbon-negative, water positive, and zero waste by 2030. Across the globe, there are around 10,000 employees who spend part of their time helping us work toward…
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Finding and remediating rogue access points on the Microsoft corporate network
Finding rogue access points on Microsoft’s network is an important mission for our IT teams. Networked devices have come to dominate the IT world, and their prevalence has led to more complex and vulnerable gateways. As a result, employees within…
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Boosting our connectivity with our own next-generation optical network
Providing users with fast and reliable connectivity is the backbone of modern work. Microsoft Digital Employee Experience, the organization that powers, protects, and transforms the company, recently deployed a robust next-generation optical network that offers the company more bandwidth on…
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Microsoft smart buildings bolstered by machine learning model, IoT
A new machine learning model and Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and automation enables Microsoft smart buildings to keep company employees as comfortable as possible. Microsoft’s real estate operations team relies on energy smart buildings, structures with interconnected automation and sensors,…