Microsoft Azure

November 8, 2023

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Pete Apple

Managing Microsoft Azure solutions on Microsoft’s expedition to the cloud

A very popular cliché used in Silicon Valley, the notion of having to “ship it and fix it and ship it again,” was all too familiar to my team as we focused our efforts on moving, managing, and monitoring solutions…
November 8, 2023

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Pete Apple

Automating Microsoft Azure incident and change management on Microsoft’s move to the cloud

Microsoft’s move to the cloud at Microsoft has certainly been an adventure. New technology has enabled us to transform many of our IT processes, and in some cases make them entirely disappear. It’s also compelled us to reevaluate our operational…
November 2, 2023

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Pete Apple

The learnings, pitfalls, and compromises of Microsoft’s expedition to the cloud

Our expedition to the cloud started some time ago, well before moving to the cloud was a twinkle in Microsoft’s eye. Yes, only a handful of us at Microsoft have been around long enough to hold coveted treasures like a…
November 1, 2023

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Lukas Velush

Streamlining virtual software provisioning at scale with MyWorkspace

Every software company has unique virtual provisioning needs. Creating complex virtual infrastructure from scratch and maintaining it for even a short period can be labor-intensive, costly, and risky from a security standpoint. When it needs to happen multiple times per…
October 17, 2023

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Inside Track staff

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,…
October 16, 2023

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Aleenah Ansari

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…
October 16, 2023

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Alex Fleck

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…
October 11, 2023

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Inside Track staff

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…
September 22, 2023

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Josh Krenz

Meet OneExpense, the automated expense reporting backend transforming Microsoft

Filing expenses exist for pretty much everyone. At Microsoft, employees are now empowered by a no and low touch reimbursement process that uses automation and machine learning to perform micro-actions on behalf of the users. With OneExpense, Microsoft’s new automated…
September 19, 2023

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Cody Bay

Transforming Microsoft’s corporate expense tools with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Dynamics 365

When it comes to employee expenses, Microsoft has quite a collection of corporate expense tools in its tool belt. Depending on your role, you might need different tools, all of which accomplish the same basic goal—reporting expenses and getting reimbursed—in…
August 29, 2023

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Cody Bay

Automating expense reporting at Microsoft boosts employee experience

Automating expense reporting is saving the day at Microsoft. Like everywhere else, filing expenses has long been a chore most employees at Microsoft sought to avoid. And the numbers back that up. Instead of spending their time developing new technologies,…
August 22, 2023

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Becky West

Accelerating Microsoft’s global real estate transformation with Microsoft Digital

It’s been a privilege to help drive Microsoft’s real estate transformation. As an IT leader at Microsoft, I appreciate the powerful transformation acceleration that comes from partnering closely with the internal business partner that you support. I work in Microsoft…

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