Author: Lukas Velush

Lukas Velush tells the story of how Microsoft uses its own technology on this blog and on the Microsoft Digital Inside Track website (link near the top left of your screen). He’s a recovering journalist who needs to not take himself too seriously.

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  • Sharing our Customer Zero story at the Microsoft 365 Community Conference

    Engage with our experts! Customers or Microsoft account team representatives from Fortune 500 companies are welcome to request a virtual engagement on this topic with experts from our Microsoft Digital team. Our team here in Microsoft Digital led the first and largest deployment of Microsoft 365 Copilot to date, and now you can hear directly what that… Read More

  • Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI at Microsoft with our works councils

    This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in May 2024. Thanks to our strong relationships with our works councils, we’re receiving valuable feedback that we’re using to improve our products while also deploying them faster and more fully to our employees. How are we doing this? By addressing compliance requirements raised… Read More

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    Getting our internal IT communications right with Microsoft Viva Amplify

    At Microsoft, our developers, HR professionals, marketers, sellers, and many other employees are the company’s Customer Zero. As such, they use our products and services first and more fully than most other customers. Their feedback is sent to our product groups, who use it to make our products better for customers. “One of the best… Read More

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  • Democratizing adoption data with the Microsoft 365 Admin Center Experience insights dashboard

    Microsoft 365 usage data has enormous value for a variety of roles. But until recently, only IT admins had the privileged access to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center that could unlock that data’s value. New Admin Center roles and the…

  • Seamless and secure cloud printing with Universal Print

    There are few office tasks that are as ubiquitous—or potentially as frustrating—as needing to print a document. Whatever your role and wherever you are, it’s likely that you’ll need to utilize the shared office printer next time you’re on site.…

  • Transforming our internal Microsoft Azure spend forecasting

    Budget forecasting is a crucial discipline across any business process. With a large-scale consumable resource like Microsoft Azure, accurate budgeting can lead to savings in the millions. To improve Microsoft Azure spend forecasting for our internal engineering teams in Microsoft…

  • Get Microsoft’s tips for partnering with your works councils

    Microsoft has hundreds of thousands of employees around the world. To support their work, we need to ensure we meet their needs, honor their concerns, and set up the best possible environments for their success. In parts of Europe, our…

  • Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot internally at Microsoft

    We have deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot to nearly all our employees and vendors at Microsoft. As Customer Zero, we are the first enterprise to do so at scale. As of this week, nearly everyone at the company has it. We’re…

  • Sharing what we learned deploying our secure federal environment

    At Microsoft, we serve a diverse range of customers, from individual users and large businesses to sovereign governments with specific regulatory requirements. Our platform products such as Microsoft Azure and our Microsoft 365 productivity suite perform extremely well for these…

  • Transform your internal search with tips from our expert at Microsoft

    Getting the right information at the right time is key to maximizing the productivity of your employees—that’s exactly the goal of the team that administers search internally here at Microsoft. We spoke with Dodd Willingham to learn more about the…

  • Enabling collaboration at Microsoft with Microsoft Viva

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIqrfnJECa8, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft Viva is playing a pivotal role in enhancing our regional teamwork at Microsoft.…

  • How automation is transforming revenue processing at Microsoft

    The Microsoft partner and customer network brings in more than $100 billion in revenue each year, most of the company’s earnings. Keeping tabs on the millions of annual transactions is no small task—just ask Shashi Lanka Venkata and Mark Anderson,…

  • Revolutionizing our ARM template deployment at Microsoft with shift from JSON to BICEP

    With a new solution for Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, engineers on our Microsoft Cloud Engineering Services team have successfully reduced engineering hours spent on developing ARM templates by 50 percent. Simultaneously, they have improved security compliance and implemented…

  • Protecting against oversharing Power BI reports with Microsoft Sentinel

    Microsoft Power BI is an essential tool for monitoring performance, identifying trends, and developing stunning data visualizations that many teams across Microsoft use every day. A well-built Power BI report can play a critical role in helping communicate business information…

  • Moving Microsoft’s global network to the cloud with Microsoft Azure

    Microsoft Azure has been part of the enterprise solution architecture at Microsoft for more than eight years. One thing has remained constant throughout our journey—from early lift-and-shift migrations to recent transformations to cloud-first solutions—the network. “In the early stages, migrating…