Author: Lukas Velush

Jun 14, 2024

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives There’s no question: Copilot for Microsoft 365 is changing how work gets done...

Jun 5, 2024

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 employees across 180 countries and regions, many of whom are working remotely. Our need to...

Jun 4, 2024

It’s a new era, and even meeting rooms must reinvent themselves. “In 2024, meeting rooms are reinterviewing for their jobs,” says Matthew Marzynski, a principal product manager for Microsoft Digital, our IT organization here at Microsoft. And just like any job candidate, a meeting room must now demonstrate its adaptability, technological proficiency, and ability to...

Jun 12, 2024

New hybrid meeting experiences are coming to Microsoft’s employees and guests, a Microsoft Teams Rooms-powered transformation that will save space at the table for everyone, no matter where they join from. Thanks to new meeting room layouts, improved technology, and better integration with Microsoft Teams, remote participants will feel more included in meetings that will...

May 23, 2024

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives Now that we’ve deployed Copilot for Microsoft 365 internally here at Microsoft, it’s...

May 22, 2024

Microsoft’s core Human Resources system was aging and needed to be replaced. Thanks to its limitations, when a company employee transferred to a new job in a different country or region, it could seem like they were starting over. “When employees moved country to country within the company, behind the scenes our HR operations teams...

May 21, 2024

Copilot for Microsoft 365 Deployment and Adoption Guide Read our step-by-step guide on deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your company. It’s based on our experience deploying it here at Microsoft: Full version eBook version Version for executives eBook version for executives Thanks to our strong relationships with our works councils, we’re receiving valuable feedback...

May 13, 2024

At Microsoft, we’ve learned the best way to get accessibility right is to shift left. “We need to think about accessibility before we start any of our work, before we write any line of code, at every step of our development lifecycle,” says Patrice Pelland, partner software engineering director for Microsoft Digital (MSD), the company’s...

May 6, 2024

New Microsoft Teams-powered hybrid meeting room technology is helping us design new experiences for our employees and vendors here at Microsoft and helping customers understand how to achieve these experiences for themselves. “We want to create an environment that is halfway between the physical and virtual,” says Matt Hempey, a principal program manager with Microsoft...

Apr 23, 2024

A how-to guide from our Microsoft Digital team the first IT organization to fully deploy our new AI productivity assistant What this guide contains Intro: Deploying Copilot for Microsoft 365 Chapter 1: Getting governance right Chapter 2: Implementation with intention Chapter 3: Driving adoption to capture value Chapter 4: Building a foundation for support Appendix:...

Apr 8, 2024

Employees worldwide are embracing flexible work, seeking work-life balance, and pursuing purpose and fulfillment in careers. Employers want to support their team and maximize efficiency as much as possible—particularly around key objectives. Here at Microsoft, we’re using objectives and key results (OKRs) in Microsoft Viva Goals to align our team priorities with our overarching business...

Apr 5, 2024

[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.] When it became clear that Microsoft was going to ask its employees to work remotely, Kimberly Nafziger...

Apr 3, 2024

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 of freedom relies on a robust governance strategy across our data estate that features employee-facing...

Mar 27, 2024

Our core system for managing our external workforce was showing its age in an increasingly demanding modern workplace environment—we needed to simplify our external staff management. Here at Microsoft, our large and diverse external, non-FTE workforce plays a vital role in our success. For us, external staff includes contractors, consultants, freelancers, and business guests who...

Mar 27, 2024

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 are in the business of building the future of technology. And more often than not,...