October 2023
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Boosting employee connectivity with Microsoft Azure-based VWAN architecture
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in our ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. Whether our employees are in neighboring cities or different continents, they need to communicate and collaborate efficiently with each other.…
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Microsoft workers’ council partnerships boost the company’s product and service rollouts
Ensuring compliance doesn’t have to be a roadblock—just ask the Microsoft workers’ council in Germany. This group of employee representatives has partnered with their employer, Microsoft, to speed up how the company develops and deploys new products and services to…
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Unpacking Microsoft’s internal deployment of the first major update to Windows 11
[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.] Improvements to…
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Building resilient and secure virtual labs with Azure Firewall, Azure Container Apps, and Service Bus
Editor’s note: This is the third in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. At Microsoft, our support, escalation, and customer engineers help Microsoft with solution troubleshooting, implementation assistance, integration walkthroughs, and many other…
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Transforming how Microsoft manages its corporate real estate data
Microsoft manages hundreds of buildings around the world with various purposes—warehouses, offices, labs, cafes, and so on. Like all companies with large real estate footprints, the company wanted to find better ways of managing each building type. To do that,…
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Transforming Microsoft buildings with IoT technology and indoor mapping
Sphoorti Patil is using Microsoft Azure indoor mapping and IoT technology that helps Microsoft employees find their way around the company’s campuses—and she hasn’t been in a Microsoft building yet. She’s not alone in this experience—Microsoft has hired a number…
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Transforming how contract creation works at Microsoft with automation
At Microsoft, we do business with an immense number of vendors and suppliers, and many of the services they provide require a statement of work (SOW) contract. Creating, approving, and managing those contracts is an immense task. We developed an…
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How modernization is helping Microsoft along its internal device management journey
For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eteAvm72Ro, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Modernization is helping Microsoft move forward on its internal device management journey. If you’re…
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Building a secure and efficient self-service application using Azure ACI, Azure Compute Gallery, and the Microsoft Azure SDK
Editor’s note: This is the second in an ongoing series on moving our network to the cloud internally at Microsoft. At Microsoft, the Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) team—our company IT organization—is using the Azure SDK, Azure Container Instances, and…
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Transforming how Microsoft connects with its 58,000 suppliers
Anyone procuring goods or services for Microsoft needs to do their homework. Not only must you make sure the supplier can provide what you need at a reasonable price, you must also make sure they meet certain standards and security…
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Internal search bookmarks boost productivity at Microsoft
Editor’s note: We’ve republished this blog with a new companion video. Search is part of our everyday life. It’s useful—we all know that—but how can you quantify that impact? That was the challenge faced by Dodd Willingham, principal program manager…