Quick Overview of Windows 365

Nathan Blasac
Nathan Blasac - Notes from the Field
2 min readJul 21, 2021

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Here’s a link to the page

Windows 365 Cloud PC | Microsoft

Let’s use the interactive demo to get an idea of how it works.

My impression is that this is pretty much WVD but with added flexibility. Much easier to deploy now.

Assign Licenses

You can now create the connection to your on prem network directly from endpoint manager

Connection Config to On Prem Network

Pre-Requisite Check with the Watchdog Service

Watchdog Service

New Windows 365 Device Page/Blade

You can pretty much now provision everything from endpoint manager.

Here is where you create a provisioning policy. You get image selection here. You can use an Azure Gallery Image or something you’ve built in Image Builder, or MDT/SCCM I imagine.

The next screen is where you can assign it to a group.

Everyone in this group needs a cloud PC license assigned. If they do, they can access a Cloud PC.

They would then be able to access it via a web browser or the Remote Desktop (MSDRC) client.

Windows365 User Home Screen
MSRDC Experience
Windows365 Desktop

I look forward to deploying this once it’s available publicly!

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Consultant working mainly on System Center, Azure/EMS, Systems Management and Windows Deployment.