Modern engineering

September 18, 2025

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Alex Fleck

How our employees are extending enterprise AI with custom retrieval agents

Employees who are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to transform the way they work now have a new tool to help them even more—the agent. At Microsoft, we’re deploying a spectrum of agents to fulfill different needs, from acting as knowledge…
September 4, 2025

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Inside Track bot

How our team chose between Dataverse and SQL Server

Microsoft Digital stories Editor’s note: This story was created with the help of artificial intelligence. To learn more about how Inside Track is using the power of generative AI to augment our human staff, see our story, Reimagining content creation with…
June 5, 2025

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Poly Palaiogeorgou

Ten tips to unlock Microsoft 365 Copilot for your engineers

Savvy engineers are always on the lookout for ways to enhance their productivity and improve their collaboration. The introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot has brought about a significant transformation in the way our engineers work here at Microsoft. Tools like…
April 17, 2025

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David Hirning

Implementing strong user authentication with Windows Hello for Business

Deploying Windows Hello for Business internally here at Microsoft has significantly increased our security when our employees and vendors access our corporate resources. This feature offers a streamlined user sign-in experience—it replaces passwords with strong, phishing-resistant authentication by combining an…
April 10, 2025

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David Hirning

Deploying Kanban at Microsoft leads to engineering excellence

At Microsoft we’ve taken a page from the auto industry and have adopted a process called Kanban. Kanban (pronounced “con-bon”) is a Japanese word meaning “signboard” or “billboard.” It was first developed by a Toyota engineer decades ago to improve…
February 11, 2025

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Alex Fleck

Enabling advanced HR analytics and AI with Microsoft Azure Data Lake

Editor’s note: This content was first published in 2023. Although this particular event or moment in time has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time. We’re on a…
January 30, 2025

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Jason Kellington

Boosting our Security First Initiative at Microsoft with a transformed approach to wired network security

If you asked Sean Adams, Justin Griffin, Sajith Balan, or Shyam Sunder Gogi to provide a one-word answer that describes their current focus, you’d get the same answer: “Security.” Adams, Griffin, Balan, and Gogi are all part of a team…
September 5, 2024

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Segun Akinyemi

Simplifying nonprofit volunteering at Microsoft with Power Automate

Power Automate, part of the suite of tools offered by Microsoft Power Platform, is a low-code, cloud-based automation service powered by AI. In the company’s own words, Power Automate enables customers to streamline processes across their organization to save time…
May 17, 2024

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Douglas Gantenbein

Microsoft’s fresh approach to accessibility powered by inclusive design

[Editor’s note: 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 time.] Adopting rigorous…
April 26, 2024

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Stacy Hernandez

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…
April 22, 2024

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Josh Krenz

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…
March 27, 2024

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Lukas Velush

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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