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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  • How we’re recapping our meetings with AI and Microsoft Teams Premium at Microsoft

    Traditionally, missing a meeting—or even just a part of it—could mean being left behind while the rest of the team pressed forward. Referring to prior meetings was tedious, requiring employees to sift through hours of recorded dialogue to find specific reference points. Microsoft Teams aims to change that with its AI-powered Intelligent Recap feature in… Read More

  • Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot in four chapters

    What this guide contains Intro: Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot Chapter 1: Getting governance right Chapter 2: Implementation with intention Chapter 3: Driving adoption to capture value Chapter 4: Building a foundation for support Appendix: Downloadable assets to support your deployment Download a copy of this deployment and adoption guide here. Deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot at… Read More

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

    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 Microsoft 365 Copilot. We’ve learned, among other things, that the better your prompt,… Read More

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  • Deploying Microsoft Teams across Microsoft hinged on good governance

    [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.] When Microsoft…

  • How Microsoft’s IT legacy is powering its future

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz1ScJprOFQ, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch part two of our interview with IT legend Patrice Trousset to learn more…

  • How Microsoft’s pivot to generative AI is being fueled by its rich IT history

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNW_SIdL_xo, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Watch part one of our interview with IT legend Patrice Trousset to find out…

  • Deploying Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms, generative AI at new Microsoft Canada headquarters

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlRs_Jdr8_U, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft’s new Canadian headquarters building in Toronto is turning heads for its smart building…

  • Boosting Windows internally at Microsoft with a transformed approach to patching

    You’re only as secure as your most vulnerable machine. That leaves enterprises like ours at risk when our employees don’t update to the latest software version on a timely basis. Bad actors are tirelessly pursuing the smallest of vulnerabilities, so…

  • How AI will change the employee experience at Microsoft—and at your organization

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUn670JE8mE, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Generative AI is the next frontier of employee experience. In our latest spotlight video,…

  • Enabling hybrid work internally at Microsoft with ‘digital fabric’ Microsoft Teams

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Eq1oBDf9A&t=2s, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” Microsoft Teams is enabling seamless collaboration in the hybrid workplace internally at Microsoft. In…

  • Sharing how Microsoft uses Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms

    For a transcript, please view the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWv5JHuwms, select the “More actions” button (three dots icon) below the video, and then select “Show transcript.” The Microsoft team that helped develop Signature Microsoft Teams Rooms is now deploying the…

  • Turning to Windows Virtual Desktop to save 600 Microsoft internships in India

    Divya Rawat, an intern with Microsoft India, worried that the Microsoft internship she had fought so hard for was going to be cancelled. So did Prakhar Mishra, another intern in Microsoft India’s summer class. “I was quite concerned at first,”…

  • How ‘born in the cloud’ thinking is fueling Microsoft’s transformation

    Microsoft wasn’t born in the cloud, but soon you won’t be able to tell. Now that it has finished “lifting and shifting” its massive internal workload to Microsoft Azure, the company is rethinking everything. “We’re rearchitecting all of our applications…

  • How Microsoft used SQL Azure and Azure Service Fabric to rebuild a key internal app

    When Raja Narayan took over supporting the Payee Management Application that Microsoft Finance uses to onboard new suppliers and partners, the experience was broken. “Our application’s infrastructure was on-premises,” Narayan says. “It was a big, old-school architecture monolith and, although…

  • Retooling how Microsoft sellers sell the company

    Selling Microsoft hasn’t been easy. Just ask the 25,000 people who pitch the complex array of products and services that the company sells to customers across the globe. Those sellers used to wade through more than 30 homegrown applications to…