Like many of you, we are making the transition to a fully cloud-based management environment. To learn more about enabling Azure MFA to support remote work scenario, check out this tutorial.Īt Microsoft, we manage a wide range of devices, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android.
We offer three authentication methods: certificate-backed virtual and physical smart cards, Windows Hello for Business (with PIN or biometric sign-in), and Azure Multi-factor Authentication. When a user connects remotely to our domain using their Microsoft work credentials on a device that we manage, MFA is almost transparent. MFA is required to access any corporate resource at Microsoft. To learn more about our identity and access management practices, check out our IT Showcase covering user identities and secure access. Whether they are an employee, partner, or supplier, every user who needs to access the corporate network receives a primary account synced to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). We have a hybrid environment that helps us both retain and expand existing systems while using a cloud-based control plane to enable people to work productively and securely. With that, let’s get into the top 9 ways our team is enabling remote work. I hope you’ll join and share your own journey there. At the bottom of this post, you’ll find a link to our new Enabling Remote Work Tech Community. Every IT leader needs to define the priorities to enable productivity from anywhere across their organization’s workforce.
Maybe you are working to empower access to resources via a browser. Maybe identity and device management are your top priorities, or you are digging into long-term projects like multi-factor authentication (MFA) or desktop virtualization. What is more, every company is at a different stage of their journey to the cloud. I hope you find them useful, but I also understand that Microsoft has IT resources that many IT leaders may not. Getting there has required that we manage identity and network access for all users help ensure devices used to access the network are secure and healthy and provide users access to the productivity-enabling apps they need.īelow, I’ve identified some of the top ways we are enabling remote work at Microsoft. For the last few years, that’s meant overseeing Microsoft’s journey to the cloud. When people ask me about my job, I tell them my team and I make sure every Microsoft employee has the tools, resources, and solutions to be as productive, creative, and secure as possible-working from any location and on any device. Here, she walks us through the top ways CSEO is enabling remote work. They have spent the past few years transforming end-user productivity across the company and learning so much along the way. Nathalie and her team are part of Microsoft’s Core Services Engineering and Operations (CSEO), our internal IT team that builds and operates the systems that run Microsoft.
My colleague Nathalie D’Hers is the exact-right person to do just that. Many of our customers have asked us to share the details of how we enable remote work for such a large workforce. From Milan to Puget Sound, tens of thousands of Microsoft employees in impacted areas have begun working from home. Last week, as COVID-19 cases continued to spread around the world, millions of people moved to remote work.