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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May 27, 2025

Empowering employees after the call: Enabling and securing Microsoft Teams meeting data retention at Microsoft

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2023.   Microsoft Teams meetings help our globally distributed and digitally connected employees create meaningful hybrid work experiences. When those meetings are recorded and transcribed or their data becomes available to AI-powered digital assistants, their impact increases. Although these features have proven to be… Read More
May 19, 2025

Five tips for prompting AI: How we’re communicating better at Microsoft with Microsoft 365 Copilot

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2024. It’s all in the prompt. The AI revolution is here, and we’re finding that the best way to take advantage of it is to learn how to prompt it. Here in Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’ve had early access to… Read More
April 24, 2025

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. This story was published to preview a specific event, which has now concluded. We’re leaving it up on our site as a record of the different… Read More

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December 12, 2023

Best practices and tips from Microsoft’s own internal adoption of Microsoft Viva

At Microsoft, we’ve learned a thing or two in the two years since we launched Microsoft Viva, the first employee experience platform built for the hybrid era. And now we are excited to share some of our best practices and…
December 7, 2023

The future of Group Member Management: How Microsoft is leading the way with automation

Just as it is for everyone, maintaining accurate groups for email and apps such as Microsoft Viva and Microsoft Teams is challenging for us internally at Microsoft. Adding and removing employees from groups has been mostly a hand-cramping manual task,…
December 7, 2023

From prototype to production: Deploying Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms at Microsoft

Here at Microsoft, we wanted to improve the experience our employees have in meetings, whether they’re at home, at a coffee shop, or in a meeting room in one of our offices. “It’s been quite the journey over the last…
November 16, 2023

Sensitivity labeling: A new layer of security for Microsoft Teams Premium meetings

Microsoft Teams is where collaboration and connection happen. The wide array of digital artifacts that come from our employees’ day-to-day meetings—things like recordings, transcripts, and shared documents—need the same level of enterprise protection as the rest of our organization’s proprietary…
November 15, 2023

Empowerment with good governance: How our citizen developers get the most out of the Microsoft Power Platform

What if every employee, no matter their technical expertise or job description, had the power to use software development to create their own solutions? Imagine the kind of collective creativity that could arise if any of your employees could be…
November 10, 2023

Revolutionizing the rollout: Using product adoption data to streamline deployments

How do you turn data into knowledge? Once you have it, how to you turn that knowledge into action? Adopting a new product across an organization as large as Microsoft is an enormous task, and we’re always expanding our knowledge…
November 1, 2023

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 25, 2023

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…
October 13, 2023

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…
September 26, 2023

Culture, the cloud, and security: learning from Microsoft’s digital transformation

For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifym9DmqatA, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” A lot has changed in Microsoft Digital Employee Experience—our internal IT organization—since CEO Satya…
September 19, 2023

Transforming data governance at Microsoft with Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric

Data is an invaluable asset for all businesses. Over recent years, the exponential growth of data collection and ingestion has forced most organizations to rethink their strategies for managing data. Increasing compliance requirements and ever-changing technology prevent anyone from simply…
September 14, 2023

Moving our popular employee experiences app to Microsoft Viva Connections

At Microsoft, we work to create positive, productive experiences for our employees with tools that support professional growth, efficiency in daily tasks, and overall well-being. To help us do this, our team in Microsoft Digital Employee Experience (MDEE) built MyHub,…