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Apr 17, 2024   |   Inside Track staff

How Microsoft is transforming its own patch management with Azure

[Editor’s note: Azure Update Management is becoming Update Management Center, which is currently available in public preview. Please note that 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...

Nov 3, 2023   |   Pete Apple

Microsoft moves IT infrastructure management to the cloud with Microsoft Azure

We’re transforming our IT infrastructure management internally here at Microsoft. At Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE), we’re embracing our digital transformation and the culture changes that comes with it. With over 98 percent of our IT infrastructure in the cloud, we’re adopting Microsoft Azure monitoring, patching, backup, and security tools to create a customer-focused self-service...

Sep 22, 2023   |   Eric Scheffler

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 to connect and collaborate globally. By implementing a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) approach to building...

Dec 11, 2019   |   Aleenah Ansari

How Microsoft is modernizing its internal network using automation

After Microsoft moved its workload of 60,000 on-premises servers to Microsoft Azure, employees could set up systems and virtual machines (VMs) with a push of a few buttons. Although network hardware servers have changed over time, the way that network engineers work isn’t nearly as modern. “With computers, we have modernized our processes to follow...

May 2, 2019   |   Seth Malcolm

Microsoft internal SAP workload gets a telemetry boost with Azure

For the first time, Microsoft has end-to-end visibility into the millions of business processes that it runs through SAP every day. Microsoft is using a new suite of Microsoft Azure telemetry tools to gain insight into how to better manage expense reports, time away reporting, purchase order creation, and similar business processes that get routed...