Microsoft Azure
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Enhancing space management internally at Microsoft with Wi-Fi data
Space management and employee engagement are two critical aspects of any modern workplace, including internally here at Microsoft. Figuring out how to get both right leads to important questions: How can organizations understand the best use of their building spaces,…
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Creating a manageable Microsoft Azure subscription model
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Moving our network to the cloud with Microsoft Azure
Our ongoing move to cloud networking here at Microsoft is at the core of our larger connectivity strategy. Very practically, this shift is playing a pivotal role in how we are and will continue to support our more than 221,000…
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Upgrading Microsoft’s core Human Resources system with SAP SuccessFactors
This story was first published in 2022. We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our…
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Scaling contract reviews at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure AI Services
At Microsoft, our Finance team is leveraging technology to simplify workstream prioritization and automate qualitative assessments. The Revenue team within our Finance division is composed of accounting professionals with product, industry, and region-specific expertise. These professionals review and document accounting…
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Modernizing our Network Access Control Infrastructure with Azure
“How do I get on the Wi-Fi?” It’s often one of the first questions visitors ask when arriving at a new location, and here at Microsoft, it happens every day. Our guest Wi-Fi network is typically one of the first…
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Turning to Microsoft Azure to put software engineers in high school classrooms
Software engineers at Microsoft and other companies love that they get to teach their craft in high schools across the United States and in parts of Canada. The grassroots program—which is now more than 10 years old—has been so successful…
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How Microsoft is delivering smart building experiences with CI/CD for Azure Digital Twins
Microsoft empowers employees and guests with user experience scenarios, like pathfinding and hotdesking, to make life easier. To quickly facilitate impactful smart building features at scale, Microsoft Digital’s engineers rely on a structured approach that combines templates and pipelines for…
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Streamlining engineering at Microsoft with Azure DevOps
Microsoft runs on Microsoft technology. We are the proving ground for our products and when we say that software is enterprise-ready this means that we have already built it for and run it at scale in our own enterprise. We…
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Enabling effortless cloud infrastructure management with MyWorkspace and Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Digital (MSD) is the organization that powers, protects, and transforms Microsoft. As part of its mission, MSD builds and manages the cloud network infrastructure that supports Microsoft products and services. MyWorkspace is a browser-based cloud-provisioning tool created by MSD…
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Examining Microsoft’s SAP transactions with Microsoft Azure Anomaly Detector
As part of our continuing digital transformation journey, our Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team is constantly looking for ways to improve our business processes and detect issues and anomalies before they become serious problems. Sometimes these failures happen sporadically…
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Modernizing our cloud networking infrastructure with a DevOps mindset
DevOps has become a fundamental philosophy critical to the success of our cloud networking teams and solutions. In today’s rapidly changing technology landscape, the conventional model of infrastructure management—receiving user requirements, designing solutions, deploying infrastructure, and manually monitoring for health…