Inside Track
Network and infrastructure
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How Work IQ is supercharging our AI usage at Microsoft
At Microsoft, we’re constantly thinking about the future of work—how the power of AI and agents is transforming the way knowledge workers do their jobs,…
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25 Years of SharePoint at Microsoft: Our lessons learned as Customer Zero
For more than two decades, SharePoint has been a foundational part of how work happens at Microsoft. This pivotal application supports everything we do, including…
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Unfolding our AI-in-IT story: What to expect at the 2026 Microsoft 365 Community Conference
This article is about an event that is now completed. We leave the post up on our site as a record of the conference and…
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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…
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Microsoft CISO advice: Read our four tips for securing your network
Geoff Belknap, CVP and operating CISO for Core and Enterprise, shares four key practices your business can use to be prepared for managing network security…
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Microsoft CISO advice: Explore our four tips for securing your customer support ecosystem
Microsoft business operations teams know all too well that cyberattackers seek to exploit customer support pathways. Tools that can unlock customer accounts or aid in…
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Powering the new age of AI-led engineering in IT at Microsoft
When generative AI burst into the mainstream, it landed in our IT engineering organization like a shockwave. There was excitement, curiosity, skepticism, and no shortage…
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Protecting anonymity at scale: How we built cloud-first hidden membership groups at Microsoft
Some Microsoft employee groups can’t afford to be visible. For years, we supported email‑based communities internally here at Microsoft whose very existence depends on anonymity.…
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Protecting AI conversations at Microsoft with Model Context Protocol security and governance
When we gave our Microsoft 365 Copilot agents a simple way to connect to tools and data with Model Context Protocol (MCP), the work spoke…
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Moving from a ‘Scream Test’ to holistic lifecycle management: How we manage our Azure services at Microsoft
Nearly a decade ago, as we began our journey from relying on on-premises physical computing infrastructure to being a cloud-first organization, our engineers came up…
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Hardening our digital defenses with Microsoft Baseline Security Mode
Security isn’t just a feature—it’s a foundation. As threats grow more varied, widespread, and sophisticated, enterprises need to rethink how they protect their environments. That’s…
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Vuln.AI: Our AI-powered leap into vulnerability management at Microsoft
In today’s hyperconnected enterprise landscape, vulnerability management is no longer a back-office function—it’s a frontline defense. With thousands of devices from a multitude of vendors,…