Microsoft 365

April 3, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Empowering employee self-service with guardrails: How we’re using sensitivity labels to make Microsoft more secure

At Microsoft, empowering our employees to do their best work means trusting them with self-determination. But to do that safely, we need clear data loss prevention systems in place. We describe it as self-service with guardrails. Giving employees that level…
March 5, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Redesigning how we work at Microsoft with generative AI

Generative AI has emerged as a transformational force in computing, but it’s not always clear how to utilize it when designing new products. At Microsoft, our teams are learning how to incorporate Microsoft Copilot and other new AI technology into…
February 29, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Democratizing adoption data with the Microsoft 365 Admin Center Experience insights dashboard

Microsoft 365 usage data has enormous value for a variety of roles. But until recently, only IT admins had the privileged access to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that could unlock that data’s value. New Admin Center roles and the…
February 20, 2024

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Inside Track staff

Migrating Microsoft Viva Engage to Native Mode unlocks the benefits of Microsoft 365

Cultural change at Microsoft is accelerating thanks in part to open and transparent conversations that we have internally at the company on Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Microsoft Yammer). It’s where we address tough problems, where we hear from…
February 12, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Five tips for prompting AI: How we’re communicating better at Microsoft with Microsoft 365 Copilot

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2024. It’s all in the prompt. The AI revolution is here, and we’re finding that the best way to take advantage of it is to learn how to…
February 5, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Get Microsoft’s tips for partnering with your works councils

Microsoft has hundreds of thousands of employees around the world. To support their work, we need to ensure we meet their needs, honor their concerns, and set up the best possible environments for their success. In parts of Europe, our…
January 30, 2024

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Lukas Velush

Transform your internal search with tips from our expert at Microsoft

Getting the right information at the right time is key to maximizing the productivity of your employees—that’s exactly the goal of the team that administers search internally here at Microsoft. We spoke with Dodd Willingham to learn more about the…
December 12, 2023

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Lukas Velush

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…
December 7, 2023

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Lukas Velush

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,…
November 16, 2023

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Lukas Velush

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…
August 3, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Informing the influencers: The Microsoft 365 Experience insights dashboard empowers adoption

A new trend is emerging in IT. Technical professionals are increasingly responsible for supporting adoption activities and helping their organizations ensure they’re maximizing their tech investments and making important technology decisions. As a result of these trends, a new category…
July 17, 2023

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Inside Track staff

Microsoft creates self-service sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365

Empowering self-service is important to us at Microsoft. Every employee should be able to create the resources they need without engaging IT to do it for them. To support this level of freedom, we rely on a strong governance strategy…

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