AMA: Windows 365 - August 2025

Thanks for your participation in today’s AMA! Below are the list of topics/questions the panelist covered, with associated timestamps:

Welcome & Announcements

• Go to aka.ms/DaaSMQ2025Blog for the latest Microsoft blog on Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for DaaS (Desktop as a Service). 
• To stay up to date on recent changes and announcements, go to aka.ms/W365WhatsNew and aka.ms/WindowsApp/WhatsNew

Question – For folks who haven’t heard of Windows 365 Reserve, can you give a top-level summary of what that is? – answered at 7:32.

Question – How does this (Windows 365 Reserve) relate to snapshotting features that we have in Windows 365, or does it?  – answered at 12:22.

Question – When talking to customers, how early do discussions about business continuity or continued access come into the conversation? – answered at 17:04.

Question – With regards to business continuity, can you share more about the disaster recovery licenses?  – answered at 20:02.

• For more information on these options, go to:
  • aka.ms/PointInTimeRestore
  • aka.ms/W365/CrossRegionRecovery
  • aka.ms/W365/RecoveryPlus

Question – I'm confused. Is Windows 365 Reserve a different SKU from Enterprise or Frontline, or an add-on? – answered at 28:40.

Question – Do we have any dates for when Windows 365 Cloud Apps will become available? – answered at 34:00.

• To join our Customer Connection Program, go to aka.ms/JoinCommunity
• For more info on Windows 365 Cloud Apps, go to aka.ms/ResilienceInTheCloud

Question – How do you think of Windows 365 Reserve vs. Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC in shared mode? How do the 10-days of temporary Cloud PC access per year get tracked? – answered at 37:34.

Question – Will W365 Reserve work on the new W365 new Link devices? – answered at 43:16.

Question – What is one must-have Intune policy to always deploy to Windows 365 Cloud PCs? I'm trying to build out a solid baseline for policy deployment. – answered at 46:20.

Question – How do all these recovery options take compliance into account? Can you walk through any special considerations or reports we should keep in mind? – answered at 49:52.

Question – For the cross-region disaster recovery and disaster recovery+ options-- do those recovery actions happen automatically or does the admin get notified and they must manually trigger?  – answered at 53:13.

Question – If you have to have a spare PC to use Windows 365 Reserve, why not just configure that device normally? – answered at 55:34.

Tips and Tricks – at 58:38.

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Hi, do we have any dates for when Windows 365 CloudApps will become available?

Welcome to today's Windows 365 AMA! Our panel today would love to hear your questions on Windows 365 Reserve, recovery scenarios for Windows in the cloud, ways to improve organizational resilience, and anything else that is top of mind for you. Post your questions here!