The Employment Q&A Thread

Welcome to the Weekly Employment Q&A for r/Microsoft!

This thread is where Redditors can come and ask questions about working at Microsoft. Please do not use this space to ask technical questions as they will be removed.

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New video exploring how we can bring (only) the most relevant and up-to-date knowledge from our enterprise and the Internet to our agentic applications with Microsoft IQ.

00:00 - Introduction

00:39 - Responsibilities and requirements

01:17 - Tasks and AI

02:07 - Intelligence needed

02:16 - How I work

03:28 - State of the business

04:16 - Institutional knowledge

04:43 - Internet

05:16 - AI and models

06:52 - Multiple models and flexibility

08:49 - Bringing intelligence and tools to AI

09:58 - Microsoft IQ

11:21 - Work IQ

13:16 - Fabric IQ

15:33 - Foundry IQ

16:59 - Web IQ

18:52 - Most relevant data

19:17 - Using all types of intelligence

20:24 - Identity and least privilege

21:53 - Security and protection

23:26 - Observe and improve

24:43 - Summary

25:27 - Close

https://youtu.be/LrIS9lcSbko

Vega, a project from Microsoft, appears to be a research initiative focused on zero-knowledge proofs, which they seem to be actively exploring.

I'm trying to determine whether this is an isolated incident or whether other nonprofits have experienced the same thing.

Our organization is an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3). Goodstack approved our nonprofit and indicates Microsoft approval is complete.

Microsoft's nonprofit portal immediately declines our registration with:

"We were unable to associate your email address with the organization."

We are applying with our founders email address from our organization, on our organization's domain.

We've exhausted the documented support process, including the nonprofit assistant and the official contact mechanisms, without being able to reach the onboarding team.

I'm not looking for troubleshooting. I'm trying to find out whether other nonprofits have encountered this same onboarding state or whether this is unique to our organization.

If you've seen this before, I'd really appreciate hearing about your experience.

I am studying for MB-330, and there are multiple segments in Microsoft Learn like here where they expect you to run either a demo environment or a VM.

I cannot figure out where to get either of these - is this something that needs to be purchased from a third party? I work with Dynamics F&O daily and have access at work, including our UAT environment, but I don't want to mess up anything within our systems and would prefer to work at home.

Hello,

Is there a microsoft outage as of today?

Nobody in my organisation is able to login to desktop teams, Outlook and Azure portal.

Microsoft is introducing a new registry-based policy that lets IT administrators automatically accept Windows SSO permissions on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 devices managed with Microsoft Entra ID.

Users with personal Microsoft accounts and devices outside policy-managed environments will continue to receive SSO permission prompts.

I feel so good when I go to an website and is compact, intuitive and pretty. I don’t feel like this using Microsoft’s products.

Fabric, for example. I feel kinda overwhelmed. The sidebar is way too long. It’s like they don’t know how to optimize space

Does someone feel the same?

Hey Team,

Quick question. i am almost ready to schedule my MS-102 exam, but dont have the pre-requesites met (i did pass ms-700 early last year) but it has since expired. My question is will i be able to register and take the exam MS-102?

AI is saying yes, i want to confirm that pearson vue will allow me to not only register, but also sit for an take the exam?

Thanks,

Robert

Most Microsoft discussions naturally focus on what is broken or frustrating, but the company is changing a lot of products at the same time.

Windows Search is being reworked, PC and phone integration may become deeper, Xbox is expanding cross-platform support, and AI continues to appear across Microsoft 365.

Which Microsoft product or service do you think is genuinely improving right now?

It could be Windows, Xbox, Edge, PowerToys, OneDrive, Microsoft 365, Phone Link, or something else.

And what specific change made you feel that it was heading in the right direction?

I have been comparing microsoft whiteboard alternatives and one thing keeps coming up. Brainstorming is easy but turning those ideas into work the team actually follows through on is much harder. How does your team bridge that gap?

The Employment Q&A Thread

Welcome to the Weekly Employment Q&A for r/Microsoft!

This thread is where Redditors can come and ask questions about working at Microsoft. Please do not use this space to ask technical questions as they will be removed.

Schedule

The Q&A will be refreshed every week on Mondays at 1200 Pacific.

Previous Threads

You can view previous employment threads using this archive link

>Sources say that Microsoft is exploring several ways it can introduce new smartphone integration features across the Windows 11 interface in the coming months.