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.

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• 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.