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At Microsoft, we consistently look to cut costs and incorporate best-of-breed internally developed solutions. But we do license third-party software for some applications. Learn how Microsoft IT developed the infrastructure and processes necessary to effectively manage, control, and use third-party software licenses within our organization, throughout all stages of a software license lifecycle.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase Windows Phone App

Cloud experts from Microsoft discuss modernizing applications, cultural changes that lead to digital transformation, migrating on-premises data centers to the cloud, security in the cloud, shadow IT, planning a move to the cloud, application development accountability, software engineering fundamentals, geo-redundancy, and more. They share candid insights and best practices about how we design, manage, and support cloud solutions at Microsoft. These questions — and more — are discussed during this session:[01:48] Now that the cloud is a $20 billion business for Microsoft and Amazon, what are enterprise IT shops most focused on enabling in the cloud? PaaS data integration? SaaS integration?[08:37] How has the migration from on-premises data centers to the cloud influenced the security approach at Microsoft?[22:06] We have a large infrastructure today—how do you approach the analysis of moving it to the cloud?[34:18] How has accountability changed for application development teams?[44:45] How should enterprise

SharePoint experts from Microsoft discuss topics ranging from setting up sites—communication sites, hub sites, and site design templates—to regional performance issues, security issues, multi-geo capabilities, and search. You’ll learn about content and apps for sites, PowerApps, moving to the cloud, and more. They share candid insights and best practices about how we manage SharePoint at Microsoft.These questions — and more — are discussed during this session:[02:28] What have been the challenges and benefits around the release of communication sites?[07:10] Assuming that all of Microsoft date is stored in one data center in the US, do your regional users have performance issues? If they don't, how do you manage that?[10:34] Do we have now the much requested multi-geo capability in our enterprise?[15:45] What are the most exciting things coming to the search experience?[19:47] Depending on whether you're in a 100% cloud environment or a hybrid environment, is the search experience the same or different?[20:57

In the last episode of this six-part Securing our Enterprise series, our Chief Information Security Officer, Bret Arsenault, notes that while there is a lot of change in any type of transformation, if security is done right, it can enable all of the other aspects of the transformational journey and help ease some of the "FFUUEE" (Fear, fair, understanding, urgency, exhausted, entitled) feelings customers and employees may be experiencing.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

In episode five of the Securing our enterprise six-part series, our Chief Information Security Officer, Bret Arsenault explains the steps he and his team are taking for risk management to ensure customer and employee data are protected and the importance of fostering a risk-based culture at Microsoft.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

As the digital transformation continues to accelerate business practices, complex and unstructured data sets are inundating enterprises on a day-to-day basis. In episode four of this six-part series, Bret Arsenault shares how he and his team leverage the data noise using logging and telemetry to get a clear view of what's happening in the enterprise environment and create actionable intelligence for protection.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Identity sits at the very center of the enterprise threat detection ecosystem. Proper identity and access management is critical to protecting an organization, especially in the midst of a digital transformation. This part three of the six-part Securing our Enterprise series where Chief Information Security Officer, Bret Arsenault shares how he and his team are managing identity compromise (leg number two of the security stool).Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Skype for Business experts from Microsoft discuss client version control, problem management and incident resolution, collaboration with Microsoft Teams, tools for monitoring service availability and quality, network infrastructure issues and call quality, spoofed calls, business continuity and disaster recovery—and more. They share candid insights and best practices about how we manage and support Skype for Business at Microsoft.These questions — and more — are discussed during this session:[02:00] How does Microsoft centrally manage phone devices?[03:16] How does Microsoft handle client version control?[04:22] What is the problem management process for Skype for Business at Microsoft?[06:12] Is it possible to get an inventory of all the phones and headsets with models and serial numbers?[08:34] Is it correct to say CCE colocation with Skype for Business on-premises server with Office 365/ Teams will be supported with Skype for Business 2019 and not with Skype for Business 2015?[10:59] How can we get started

Keeping both customer and Microsoft data secure goes beyond information protection. It ensures connected devices producing data are also protected. This is no easy task for a global enterprise like Microsoft, but Arsenault and team do an exceptional job by focusing on every piece of what he calls a three-legged "security stool" – device health being one of the stool legs.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Security experts from Microsoft discuss phishing, malware protection, threat intelligence, and more. They share candid insights and best practices about using Advanced Threat Protection in Azure, Windows 10, and Office 365 to combat sophisticated cyberattacks from advanced adversaries and to protect company data.These questions — and more — are discussed during this session:[01:30] What are the different Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) products that Microsoft offers?[06:10] With regards to phishing threats, what did the Security Operations Center (SOC) use prior to Office 365 ATP and what are the benefits from this?[10:38] Within the SOC, what—if any—SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) tools and third-party threat feeds do you use to complement your intelligence?[20:01] With regards to phishing—there are a lot of tools to help understand and remediate email text, but can I search for emails using URLs?[24:25] For a company with lots of proprietary information, how secure would ATP be if informat

In the Securing our enterprise series, Arsenault will share a very curious but practical analogy on how he and his team are balancing information protection, device health, identity management, and data telemetry with risk management during these exciting times.This six-part series will deep dive into every aspect of enterprise security here at Microsoft and begins with how Arsenault and his team keep both customer and Microsoft data protected. "We can't always control where the data goes," pointed out Arsenault, "so protection must travel with the data."Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Technology has a high rate of innovation, a short product shelf life, and razor-thin profit margins, which means companies have to be very careful about where to invest in digital transformation – especially when it comes to supply chain management. Darren Coil, a supply chain business technologies expert at Microsoft, said the company's manufacturing centers generate more than a terabyte of data each day, yet only a fraction of that was being analyzed. It took hours or even days to answer a question or generate reports, as data lived in a variety of spreadsheets and databases all over the world, few of which were connected by the cloud. In this episode, Coil explains how he and a small team of colleagues set out to change all of that, working on a fast-paced project to transform operations using data analytics, Microsoft Power BI, and the connective power of cloud computing.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft

In planning to move the company's operations to the cloud, Microsoft quickly realized security in a virtual environment is significantly different than in an on-premise datacenter. In this episode, Microsoft cloud security expert Rob Polly outlines the challenges Microsoft faced during the transition, and how the company addressed additional concerns related to privacy and geopolitical and data sovereignty. He also explains how security must evolve as applications and services migrate to cloud computing solutions such as Microsoft Azure, and shares Dev Ops best practices Microsoft has adopted for cloud security.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Principal IT Architect Robert Venable and his team oversee MS Sales, the beating heart of financial tracking and billing at Microsoft. When the app was built 20 years ago, Microsoft released new versions of software for purchase only every few years. Now, Microsoft releases products faster, and handles billions of microtransactions from selling software as a service (SaaS)—billing pennies here and there for a Skype call, a few minutes of Microsoft Azure server time, or an Xbox avatar's new shoes. Robert and his team realized the outdated app faced imminent collapse and got to work imagining the new, scalable, cloud-based solution.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Is your staff handling your corporate data with care? Window Information Protection helps Microsoft know when employees are sending corporate data to non-corporate locations—and it helps people protect sensitive content and corporate assets. Learn how Windows Information Protection works to provide data security in our highly mobile and collaborative business culture, and prepare to deploy, configure, and manage it for data loss prevention in your environment.These questions — and more — are discussed during this session:[01:30] Windows Information Protection overview[07:02] Windows Information Protection policy design and deployment[14:42] Post-deployment support and auditing[23:29] Windows Information Protection at Microsoft[29:29] More informationAccess additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

When you have decades' worth of data to move to the cloud, where do you start? What's the most efficient way to transition to cloud technology, and what's the right order of operations? When on the verge of moving nearly all Microsoft operations to the cloud, our pros had these questions—and more. Now that we're more than 90 percent in the cloud, Senior Service Engineer Mel Lowe offers answers for those facing the same massive undertaking.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Microsoft Ignite attendees each received a t-shirt with the words, "The best way to predict the future is to create IT." Clever play on words aside, what exactly does that mean? The IT Showcase team wrapped the week at Ignite by wandering the expo floor to discuss this phrase with IT pros and leaders.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Cloud computing is a total paradigm shift that happens only once in a generation. A decade ago, IT experts around the world were contemplating how to harness this promising yet unexplored frontier. Not long after, experts at Microsoft were excitedly plotting the move of Microsoft operations from on-premises to the cloud. To kick off the Expedition Cloud series, Brad Wright, one of the leaders driving this change, recounts the good, the bad, and the ugly of moving to the cloud. He also explains how the experience profoundly challenged him and his team, and changed everything they knew to be true about IT.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

The IT Showcase team wanders the expo floor at Microsoft Ignite to figure out why, exactly, there's so much excitement in the air. It's electric and ... [spoiler alert]... it's cats. No, seriously. And, of course, much, much more.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App

Watch as IT pros and leaders reveal their super powers, one by one, on the bustling expo floor at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando.Access additional technical content, discover new and exciting career opportunities in IT, and much more:Microsoft IT ShowcaseMicrosoft IT CareersLinkedInGet the IT Showcase App