Modern management or Windows 11? It’s more about "and" than "or"

We recently announced GPU support now in preview. Refer to our docs for more details. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/enterprise/gpu-cloud-pc

1. I don't know of anything specific here but that is something that is in the realm of Defender so outside my knowledge of what we are working on. 2. Air-gapped and disconnected environments are not currently part of the cloud-centric and native path. I'm not truly sure they could or even should be though. I fully understand that this adds a management burden and am happy to hear what folks think about this and want as well.

We have a session on Wednesday 11am where developers can use M365 Test Base to simulate and test all their apps on various builds of Windows for guidance in this space https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-events/windows-11-migration-and-app-validation-made-easy-with-test-base/ev-p/3971670

We ran in that too. Even w/ large ISVs. And on top if it isn't reported to Microsoft the Windows Feature Update Device Readiness Report does not show the devices w/ a higher risk.

Adding a question here: Do you offer a Windows365 SKU with a GPU for customers with CAD or graphic design needs?

Whatever works for you really. Using GP Analytics (which is built into Intune) is a good choice for initial analysis and possible migration, however, in general, we recommend that you take a step back and define your actual policy requirements as what you have captured in your current set of group policies is not necessarily a reflection of your requirements but is instead the culmination of a bunch of different opinions on configuration that have piled up over the last 10-20 years. Stepping back to your requirements and rationalizing your current policies so that you can implement only what you truly need is what we recommend orgs do as this embraces the entire point of moving to cloud-native which is simplification of management. Cloud-native management should be approach with what the mindset of what you should do and manage and not what you can do or manage. This will lead to the best path for success in both the short term as well as the long term.

There's more or less an open-ended, infinite list of configurations, settings, knobs, and switches to configure Windows and we'll never be able to capture them all in the UI. There are certainly those that arguably should be in the UI, but we'll never be able to fulfill everyone's "must be in the UI" list. Using OMA-URI is slightly more complex but is perfectly valid and you shouldn't avoid using them just because they are slightly more complex.

Hi Craig. Ultimately, the choice is yours as an organization based on your requirements and how each of the solutions and combination of solutions meets your requirements. However, keep in mind, that Microsoft's engineering focus and investment is and has been on cloud-based solutions for many, many years. That means that while we still support many/most of our on prem-solutions, they are more or less stagnant as far as what they offer and where there are going. We strongly believe that cloud-native is the best choice for most organizations and will continue to iterate on this path to improve it and ensure it can meet the widest range of business challenges.