IT and business operations
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Becoming a Frontier Firm: A guide for deploying AI agents based on our experience at Microsoft
A how-to guide for governing, implementing, adopting, supporting, and measuring the impact of AI agents from Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization. The agentic future: Our journey to becoming a Frontier Firm at Microsoft A new way of working, a…
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Reclaiming engineering time with AI in Azure DevOps at Microsoft
At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’re reimagining how engineers, product managers, and program managers work. Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) is our company’s end-to-end software development lifecycle (SDLC) solution for planning, coding, testing, and delivery. It combines tools for…
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Skilling up for the future of work at Microsoft with Agent Launchpad
As AI continues to evolve and its applications across business workflows expand, it can be difficult for employees to stay on top of the latest developments. One of the most exciting shifts underway is our move toward AI agents, which…
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Powering the technical veracity of AI at Microsoft with a Center of Excellence
When we launched our AI Center of Excellence (CoE) in 2023, we had a straightforward goal: Help our organization experiment with AI, learn quickly, and do it responsibly. Our teams across Microsoft Digital—the company’s internal IT organization—leaned in. We built…
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Conditioning our unstructured data for AI at Microsoft
Anyone who has ever stumbled across an old SharePoint site or outdated shared folder at work knows firsthand how quickly documentation can fall out of date and become inaccurate. Humans can usually spot the signs of outdated information and exclude…
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Harnessing AI: How a data council is powering our unified data strategy at Microsoft
Information technology is an ever-evolving landscape. Artificial Intelligence is accelerating that evolution, providing employees with unprecedented access to information and insights. Data-driven decision making has never been more critical for businesses to achieve their goals. In light of this priority,…
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Olutunde Makinde: From Lagos to Redmond, a Microsoft IT engineer’s journey
A career in Microsoft Digital, the company’s internal IT organization, puts employees at the center of one of the world’s most complex and forward‑leaning enterprise environments. This is the team that runs Microsoft on Microsoft technology and services—maintaining more than…
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Accelerating transformation: How we’re reshaping Microsoft with continuous improvement and AI
Technology companies are really people companies. In an age of rapidly advancing AI, losing sight of this reality leads to an overemphasis on new tools while neglecting opportunities for the transformational change that AI offers. Moving forward, the winners will…
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Deploying the Employee Self‑Service Agent: Our blueprint for enterprise‑scale success
The case for AI in employee assistance The advent of generative AI tools and agents has been a game changer for the modern workplace at Microsoft. And one of the foremost examples of how we’re reaping the benefits of this…
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Shaping AI management at Microsoft with Agent 365 and Copilot controls
AI is moving fast at Microsoft. Every month, we’re discovering new ways that our employees are using Microsoft 365 Copilot and rapidly emerging agentic tools to work smarter, automate routine tasks, and unlock new patterns of productivity. As our ecosystem…
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Getting started with Windows Hello for Business and Day 1 authentication at Microsoft
At Microsoft, we’re relentlessly focused on modernizing our passwordless protections in ways that strengthen our identity and security for everyone at the company. At an organization the size of ours—with a global workforce, massive cloud footprint, and millions of identities…
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The Frontier Firm: How knowledge workers are forging their own AI tools at Microsoft
Knowledge workers have all been there. Maybe you’re a product manager with a backlog that you can’t ever get to. Perhaps you’re a designer who can never seem to get engineering resources assigned to you. Or maybe you’re a program…