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June 5, 2025

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Poly Palaiogeorgou

Ten tips to unlock Microsoft 365 Copilot for your engineers

Savvy engineers are always on the lookout for ways to enhance their productivity and improve their collaboration. The introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot has brought about a significant transformation in the way our engineers work here at Microsoft. Tools like…
April 30, 2025

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Segun Akinyemi

Simplifying nonprofit volunteering at Microsoft with Power Automate

This story reflects updated guidance from Microsoft Digital—it was first published in 2024. Power Automate, part of the suite of tools offered by Microsoft Power Platform, is a low-code, cloud-based automation service powered by AI. In the company’s own words,…
April 27, 2025

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Inside Track staff

Revamping a content management system at Microsoft with the Microsoft Power Platform

This story was first published in 2020. We periodically update our stories, but we can’t verify that they represent the full picture of our current situation at Microsoft. We leave them on the site so you can see what our…
April 17, 2025

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David Hirning

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

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David Hirning

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…
March 20, 2025

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Alex Fleck

How our employees are extending enterprise AI with custom retrieval agents

Employees who are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to transform the way they work now have a new tool to help them even more—the agent. At Microsoft, we’re deploying a spectrum of agents to fulfill different needs, from acting as knowledge…
February 11, 2025

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Alex Fleck

Enabling advanced HR analytics and AI with Microsoft Azure Data Lake

Editor’s note: This content was first published in 2023. Although this particular event or moment in time has passed, we’re republishing it here so you can see what our thinking and experience was like at the time. We’re on a…
February 6, 2025

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Alex Fleck

Unlocking enterprise AI extensibility at Microsoft with Microsoft Copilot Studio

Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility is a revolutionary new framework for advancing enterprise AI. By creating their own agents, individuals and teams can customize Copilot’s behavior with additional instructions, grounding, and actions, all while providing a clear and discoverable entry point…
January 30, 2025

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Jason Kellington

Boosting our Security First Initiative at Microsoft with a transformed approach to wired network security

If you asked Sean Adams, Justin Griffin, Sajith Balan, or Shyam Sunder Gogi to provide a one-word answer that describes their current focus, you’d get the same answer: “Security.” Adams, Griffin, Balan, and Gogi are all part of a team…
January 16, 2025

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Marcus Young

Driving adoption of Microsoft Viva at Microsoft: Lessons learned

[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.] In Microsoft…
December 19, 2024

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Alex Fleck

Unlocking deeper AI value at Microsoft with Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility

Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility is the next frontier of enterprise AI at Microsoft. By managing it effectively, we’re giving our employees the power to revolutionize how they access data and accomplish tasks. But how are we implementing this new framework?…
November 19, 2024

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Alex Fleck

Boosting HR and IT services at Microsoft with our new Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Our employees at Microsoft are already using Microsoft 365 Copilot to find answers, work faster, communicate more effectively, and boost their creativity. Copilot has become a true personal AI assistant. To make this tool even more valuable to our employees…

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