At the end of the summer, how common or is it possible to transfer over a in-person Redmond internship to a remote full-time role?

I just can’t see myself relocating to Seattle for a permanent job, my whole family and my partner are located permanently in a different state and I can’t imagine leaving them.

Wondering for when I’m considering taking the internship, IF I get a full time offer at the end of the summer is it possible to negotiate to remote? I am a TPM intern role for reference.

I know this is assuming I get a FT offer but I’d rather take another internship based in my home state or remote if it’s impossible to negotiate remote at Microsoft when the time comes.

This year I paid AUD109 for M365 Personal, next year it's at AUD159. 46% increase.

Guess that makes up my mind to move services.

Hello fellow IT pros,

I'm facing an issue where SharePoint has grown tremendously to over 100 TB and continues to expand at a rapid pace. $$

The growth is becoming difficult to control, and I need to figure out a sustainable strategy for managing these SharePoint sites, especially focusing on data archiving. I'm interested in hearing about what has worked (or hasn't worked) for you all when managing such large SharePoint environments.

Specifically:

1. How do you decide what to archive and what needs to remain accessible?
2. Are there any tools (Microsoft-native or third-party) that you’d recommend for archiving and managing large SharePoint instances?
3. What are the pros and cons of different approaches/tools you’ve used for controlling SharePoint growth?
4. Any best practices on structuring SharePoint content to ensure it doesn’t grow out of hand?

I know this is a complex area with a lot of nuances, and I’d love to hear from people who've dealt with similar situations. Insights, experiences, tool recommendations, or even just some guiding principles would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help!

We are starting our Copilot rollout at my organization and I need to make some presentations for training purposes. Where can I find Microsoft and Copilot media or press kits so I can grab a few high-res png's or svg's?

Hi, It's been 2 weeks since my last interview. I believe all my interviews went very well. A day after the interview, hiring manager viewed my LinkedIn profile. Positive sign? Action Center status is still scheduled.

Does Microsoft usually take this much time for final decision? How long did you have to wait for a final decision?

I’d like some tips and insights regarding my career. I’ve been working in cybersecurity for 2 years and have three years of general IT experience (DevOps and SOC, plus two years of internships in development and product management). Currently, I’m not working with the Microsoft stack; I have in the past. Most of our environment is on-premise, and our development and QA environments are in the GCP cloud.

My plan is to gain 3–4 more years of experience before applying to FAANG positions in my country (Microsoft or Google). By then, I’d have 6–7 years of IT experience, most of it in security. I consider myself good with people skills, as I frequently conduct meetings, presentations, and commercial negotiations (acting as a technical support for management) - skills valued for a CSA. I also have strong programming and general security skills (networks, XDR, SIEM, NDR, EDR, etc.) and experience in cloud/DevOps/DevSecOps.

Here’s my concern: I WANT to work at Microsoft—this is one of my goals, and I’d like to know if not currently working with the Microsoft stack is a significant disadvantage or barrier to reaching this goal. This is both for the prestige of the company and for the quality of life Microsoft offers in my country (excellent compensation, accessible office, etc.). Whether I’ll get an interview or the job depends on many factors, I don’t plan to leave my current company at the moment, but I’d be willing to if necessary to gain practical Azure experience beyond certs and occasional POCs we do.

I tested copilot.microsoft.com as an pp, in Edge and in Firefox and this issue is very annoying to write complex input.

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I've been wondering about this for a while.

Why are Office activation keys so inexpensive (from $1 to $10) to activate products like Office 2021/2024 Professional, while Microsoft's are valued at over $100-200!

I install Office 2021 from the ISO, for example, so there's virtually no chance of catching a virus, and activation by key works perfectly. How is this possible and tolerated by Microsoft?

Is this a scam? A loophole? An opportunity to steal my data? How do they get such cheap keys? Are they “child” keys from a Microsoft tenant? If the sites are selling it, it's very, very well noted, but I guess people don't ask themselves these kinds of questions.

Example France site : https://imgur.com/a/V51awnZ

I have some questions about using an alias to change my email address. If I create a new alias for my email, set it as primary, then delete the old address, will all the accounts using my old email address automatically be updated with the new email address? And, will emails from the websites my email is connected to get sent to my old address or my new one?

My Microsoft account has been locked. I followed the link -

https://aka.ms/compliancelock

and filled out the form to appeal and get it unlocked. This was nearly two weeks ago. I got an acknowledgement with a service request ticket reference. Does anyone know what sort of wait I should expect?

Thanks

Hi all, I am planning on getting the new Surface Laptop 7 in size 13.8 inch, but I can't find full measurements of the actual device anywhere online! I want to know if I can still use my 13-inch laptop travel case/sleeve from my old Surface Laptop, or if it'll be too big for it. I know the laptop is slightly square-ish, and the case has more space width-wise, so I'm hoping it might still fit as I love the case and it was pretty expensive. If not I'll add a new one to the same order as the laptop. I can't find any 14-inch laptop cases, so I guess it would have to be a 15-inch laptop case and it'll just have a lot of room to move around in which I don't know if I like, so if anyone has any case recommendations that aren't from Microsoft themselves I would appreciate it!

tl;dr: what is the length, width, and depth of the 13.8 inch Surface Laptop 7? And where are we buying cases/sleeves for them?

Thanks!

When will this be released? Do they even have one this year? I need to get Christmas gifts lol

What’s ms policy regarding having two full time jobs?

I’m looking to help build up my resume and add things I think my employer would find useful, I heard there was a Microsoft certification program that would teach you how to use excel , word , PowerPoint and a few of the others that most company’s still use .

Is this still something around / is it worth it to add onto a resume still ?

Anyone know how corporate housing is for interns at the Mountain View location?

What it says. Presumably 100% remote should be location-agnostic, but I still see Microsoft linking posts to specific cities.

Specifically, I'd like to know if an American abroad (with the right skills) could be considered for a US remote position, or a hybrid position where they work from the MSFT office in their location (ie. Berlin, Madrid, etc).

My mom uses Microsoft edge pdf reader for reading extended pdfs on her laptop for her PhD with avira installed(the antivirus avira). She likes to use Microsoft edge because she’s just more comfortable with the search and citation functions and its compatibility with Microsoft word. However if avira is interfering with the function of Microsoft edge should it be deleted?is it risky to take that decision if her computer has a virus?

I notice some MS jobs post with a specific location and "100% work from home", while others post with multiple locations and "100% work from home".

If a job posting is based in Redmond on the description, but says "Up to 100% work from home" - do you have to be in Redmond?

Hi everyone,

I recently went through Microsoft's interview process and received very positive feedback from the interviewers. Some even implied that everything was perfect and seemed confident about my fit for the role. However, I later received a "not selected" status.

I had a follow-up call with the recruiter, who explained the rejection wasn’t due to my performance but a lack of a team match. She mentioned they were looking for backend-focused engineers, and the perception was that I had a more frontend-heavy background.

Here’s where I’m confused:

I’ve been working as a vendor on a Microsoft project for the past two years, handling a variety of tasks. While I’ve done some frontend work (e.g., fixing UI accessibility issues), the majority of my work has been backend-focused in C#/.NET.

My interview solutions for coding and OOP design were in C#. My system design interview also leaned heavily toward backend systems.

I only picked up React and JavaScript recently to handle some frontend responsibilities because I wanted to expand my skills and grow in my current role.

I feel like this perception might be a misunderstanding. My core expertise and 4+ years of experience have always been backend-focused. I’m wondering if I emphasized my work on accessibility (a11y) bugs too much during the interviews, making it seem like frontend work was my primary focus.

Now I’m at a crossroads. Should I reach out to the recruiter to clarify that I consider myself more of a backend software engineer and highlight my backend experience again? Or would that come across poorly and hurt future opportunities?

Has anyone else had a similar experience where a rejection was based on a misunderstanding of their skills or background? If so, how did you handle it?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

So we had a quiz about microsoft applications but this one is a bit confusing. “Which of these is a feature of Microsoft Word 365? A. AutoTranslate B. AutoSave C. AutoCorrect D. AutoFormat”

Aren’t AutoCorrect and AutoSave the correct answer?

My guess is that the next big leap in tech is going to be us using the mobile phones as our "laptops". You plug in the mobile phone to a docking station at work that is a screen which will become your "laptop". You will have your "laptop" with you everywhere. You only need to carry your phone and a light screen.

Samsung already has this called DeX.

This is now coming rapidly now that the mobile chipsets are fast enough for this.

Look up snapdragon elite. Look up Apples M processors which will probably soon be integrated in mobile phones.

I guess we should see this within 2-4 years.

Apple will solve it with IPhone + some hybrid iOS (or Mac OS?) .

Google/Samsung with Android OS.

But what about Microsoft? What Will their plan be?

Fairly often, when using my debit card to pay for my utility bill, I usually get a $0 charge attempt from Microsoft*Store, 425-6816830, WA and immediately have to report my card as being compromised. There are usually several attempts made in succession.

In trying to utilize a credit card I don't typically use, I saw the same thing occurring. So the question I have is whether or not Microsoft possibly works as some sort of billing verification for other services (shopify, local gov't)? If that's the case, then it saves a lot of hassle with constantly reporting cards as compromised.

As a note, I've run multiple full system AV scans, MBAM scans, and nothing ever comes up. Previously ran Kaspersky, now Bitdefender in its place.

Background, I’m married in my upper 20’s, and my dad sent me an invite for his family group so that I could get a terabyte of storage for my phone pictures. I don’t exactly have anything to hide, but I value a bit of privacy. What all is he able to actually see on my iPhone if I accept? Thinking I might just find another way to store photos.

I am thinking of getting a Surface Pro, mostly to do work tasks. Can anyone tell what the gaming experience is like?

I mainly play strategy games that are aging (EU IV, Total War Empire, Pike and Shot Campaigns, Field of Glory II), and I want to know if any of these work alright. I don't need anything fancy in the graphics department. I have a gaming computer that I plan to continue using as my main gaming device, so I don't need to be able to play everything, but a few options for portable games would be nice.

I recently edited a document and sent it to my boss for review, hoping to confirm their satisfaction with the changes I made. However, my boss replied with a message stating that the version they received did not reflect any edits and appeared to be an earlier version of the document. I double-checked on my end, and the document I sent them indeed included all the edits I had made.

This raises a few questions for me: Is my boss mistaken, or is it possible that the document somehow reverted to a previous version? We've been exchanging multiple iterations of this document over the past few days, and each time, we've slightly modified the filename (for example, v5, v6, v7, etc.). My boss stated they are looking at the latest version of the document that I sent (v8).

I'm just trying to set things up in outlook, and..

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what the fuck? im not gonna transfer all my online accounts onto a new email just cause im using a gmail account...

So, my company got copilot licenses not that long ago and some upper management in my unit tasked us to do a fun game to do in an in-person meeting, we already did one in which we asked people to make a summary of a document and then creating a story as if it was written by X author and then add a sentiment, then at some point we scored on the prompts by asking copilot whether the prompt was “complete” (including goal, context, expectation and source). Do you have any ideas where people can test their “copilot” skills in around 20 min?

if you start at a low-cost living location remotely and decide to move to a different city within same state that have a higher rent, do they change your base pay? how does the process look like?

Hi everyone,

I hope you're doing well. I recently cleared the L60 SWE interviews at Microsoft Ireland and am currently placed in the talent pool, awaiting a team match.

If any Microsoft managers are hiring or if you know someone who might be, I would greatly appreciate any leads or suggestions.

Any guidance, referrals, or pointers would mean a lot. Thank you so much for your time and help!

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