Oct 24, 2023   |   Nirag Tibdewal

Building resilient and secure virtual labs with Azure Firewall, Azure Container Apps, and Service Bus

Editor’s note: This is the third in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft.  At Microsoft, our support, escalation, and customer engineers help Microsoft with solution troubleshooting, implementation assistance, integration walkthroughs, and many other complex support needs. Our Microsoft Digital (MSD) team created a virtual lab tool named MyWorkspace...

Oct 12, 2023   |   Anish Paranjpe

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 the Azure Compute Gallery to create a platform for deploying our virtual labs into secure,...

Jan 7, 2020   |   Rob Boone

How retooling invoice processing is fueling transformation inside Microsoft

Until recently, processing incoming invoices at Microsoft was a patchwork, largely manual process, owing to the 20-year-old architecture and business processes on which the invoicing system was built. The existing Microsoft Invoice platform allowed only manual invoice submission. External suppliers and internal users in Microsoft’s Accounts Payable (AP) Operations team could either email a scanned...