Author: David Hirning

All posts by David Hirning

• April 24, 2025

  Implementing a Zero Trust security model at Microsoft

  At Microsoft, our shift to a Zero Trust security model—which began more than seven years ago—has helped us navigate many challenges. The increasing prevalence of cloud-based services, mobile computing, internet of things (IoT), and bring your own device (BYOD) in…

• April 17, 2025

  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

  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…

• January 30, 2025

  Keeping our network infrastructure healthy at Microsoft with an employee-built AI agent

  Like many global companies, our network engineering environment here at Microsoft is gigantic. It spans 88 countries, more than 700 buildings, 64,000 devices, 7,500 Microsoft Azure Virtual Networks, and nearly 150 lab sites. It’s a system that serves more than…

• January 16, 2025

  Staying ahead of the AI curve with Microsoft 365 Copilot: How a champion does it

  Brian Shaw has been a Microsoft 365 Copilot enthusiast since the company first launched the generative AI solution in February 2023. But with AI tools evolving rapidly, he knew it would be a challenge to keep up with the latest…

• December 12, 2024

  Transform your IT operations with Microsoft 365 Copilot: Insights from a champion

  Yen Anderson remembers the first time she saw Microsoft 365 Copilot, the generative AI tool that the company launched in February 2023. She intuitively knew that the way she went about her job would never be the same. “I realized…