Author: Travis Hay
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Wrangling our email with the Prioritize My Inbox feature in Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Digital stories The pace and intensity of work today is faster than ever, and tools like Microsoft Outlook are evolving quickly to help us keep up, including the coming addition of one new Outlook feature—Prioritize My Inbox—that has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with our inboxes thanks to the integration of Microsoft… Read More
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A ‘room in a box:’ Upgrading our small meeting rooms with Express Install for Microsoft Teams Rooms
Microsoft Teams Rooms is a conference room tech solution for today’s AI-powered workplace. It features modernized Microsoft Teams technologies optimized for hybrid work environments, and it has had a positive impact on productivity since being installed in thousands of conference rooms across Microsoft’s campuses. When Teams Rooms was initially deployed in 2019, the focus was… Read More
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Transforming meetings: How we’re using the new Microsoft 365 Copilot-powered Facilitator feature at Microsoft
Our employees are using the new Microsoft 365 Copilot-powered Facilitator feature in Microsoft Teams, and it’s helping them do a lot more in meetings. Currently available to some of our employees as part of a ringed-deployment, Facilitator does the stuff none of us want to do in meetings, including taking and sharing notes in real-time,… Read More
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Mapping our migration from the Windows 10 version of OneNote to the Desktop app
Microsoft OneNote is a tool used every day by millions of people, from school teachers to boardroom executives, to keep their professional lives orderly. In October 2025 some of those lives could become a little more chaotic when Microsoft ends…
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Deploying Microsoft Places at Microsoft with our works councils
Our strong partnership with our works councils has led to the successful deployment of many Microsoft 365 Copilot applications, including one of the latest, Microsoft Places. Places is a workplace scheduling tool that uses AI to make scheduling in-person meetings…
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Taking back time: Evolving how we use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat at Microsoft
When we deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot internally at Microsoft, we thought it would save time for our employees and vendors, and it has, especially with the help of Copilot Chat. With a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription, Copilot Chat becomes more…