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AMA: Windows 365 - March 2023

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Join us every month with your questions about Windows 365 features, deployment, customization, and best practices. During these one-hour Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) events, we'll have members of the Microsoft engineering and product teams ready to help and provide answers. Not sure where to start? Watch our Windows in the Cloud web series to catch up on the latest.

Post your questions in the Comments. Our experts will be answering in the live stream and in the chat below.

 

Heather_Poulsen
Updated Dec 27, 2024
  • Can you offer some clarity on licensing - in order to propely license a W365 Enterprise user, we have to add the W365 SKU and also a Windows Enterprise license for the user? The w365 sku does not have that built in?
  • Are multiple Windows 365 "Business" cloud PC's under the same tenant completely isolated - or can they talk to each other? Not sure if its possible for them to network together to share files with each other "locally" within the network? (not reffering to OneDrive, rather SMB). Looking at using Business SKU for a few cloud PC's that need to use Quickbooks together in the same tenant.

    • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
      Heather_Poulsen
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      We don't have any experts on Windows 365 Business here today, but we'll follow up with you on this as soon as possible. Thanks for the question!
  • Is there any way to assign static IP address to a Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PC? Otherwise, is there any scenario that can be setup to be able to accomplish this? We need to be able to have the internet traffic from the Cloud PC's go out of a specific external IP address if possible.
    • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
      Heather_Poulsen
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      Thanks for the question! The panel is answering in the live stream. (For those watching on demand, this answer starts at 12:30.)
  • XenoPanther's avatar
    XenoPanther
    Copper Contributor
    It has been almost a year since Cloud PC integration was announced for Windows 11. I am wondering what the timeframe is for adding said integration in to Windows 11.
  • Welcome to the Windows 365 AMA. Let's get started! Please post your questions here in the Comments. We’ll be here until 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time!

  • bbierman's avatar
    bbierman
    Copper Contributor
    Have there been any further developments with Windows 365 boot? I'm having a hard time finding any information beyond April 2022.
    • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
      Heather_Poulsen
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      Colby talked about this a little bit at 22:50. The team doesn't have any new information to share today but bookmark the Windows 365 roadmap and our What's new in Windows 365 page. We'll share updates there first and we'll have our engineering colleagues join a future AMA to answer your questions on Boot.

    • joilsonjunior's avatar
      joilsonjunior
      Copper Contributor

      For Enterprise, the end user can Restart, Rename, Troubleshoot, and Restore (If user settings is configured) the Cloud PC via Windows 365 App or Web.

      • RobinH's avatar
        RobinH
        Brass Contributor
        Is that, the lack of Reset on Enterprise Cloud PCs, documented anywhere? And also the reason why this is? I can image it ought to be tied to Admin rights, although even there I would have thought that should be optional. (Same goes for Restore, it seems that that also requires Admin rights to be enabled for the function to appear. Again, a documentation of this fact would be useful.)
  • joilsonjunior's avatar
    joilsonjunior
    Copper Contributor
    I want to trigger an e-mail to inform the end user when the Cloud PC is provisioned and ready to use, as well as some instructions in how to Download and use the Windows 365 App.
    • Heather_Poulsen's avatar
      Heather_Poulsen
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      Thanks for the question! The panel answered during the live stream. (For those watching on demand: timecode 18:18.)
      • RobinH's avatar
        RobinH
        Brass Contributor
        Possible to publish/blog details of how the customer mentioned at 18:50 put together their trigger for an email when a Cloud PC changes state to Provisioned? Seen a non-Microsoft blog https://pedholtlab.com/email-users-after-cloud-pc-have-been-provisioned/ mention having a scheduled script in Azure which checks all Provisioned state PCs and sends an email to the Primary User, if an Azure AD attribute has not been set. Once email is sent, attribute is set. But, I'd rather trigger a task to run upon a change of state, rather than be scheduled. It seems that it is possible? For my part, I'm looking at having Intune run a Required app/script on a Cloud PC to email the user. In theory, if the device is managed by Intune, then it's ready for the user to login to it for the first time? But a triggered script would be nicer!
      • joilsonjunior's avatar
        joilsonjunior
        Copper Contributor
        Robin, Thanks for the heads up, however, I can confirm this e-mail notification is not working. I wish we could have something more customizable to inform the user of all details about the clients, how to connect, and links for support. This custom experience would add tons of value!
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