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- Heather_Poulsen
Community Manager
Welcome to our first Windows 365 AMA of 2024! Post your questions here for our panel!
- Hey! New to Cloud PC and just finished a global deployment of over 1800 machines. Have a ton of questions but will only ask a couple. :) 1) As part of our offboarding process we hold machines for 30 days. Is there a way to remove access to the Cloud PC without placing the device in grace mode? 2) Is there a way to see if the user connected through the Windows App or the web portal in intune/azure? Feature Suggestion: We are also seeing calls to the desk when the Cloud PCs reboot for a Windows update and don't come back up immediately. For example, the feature update takes ~20 minutes to finish before the user is able to reconnect. There is no notice or way for the user to know what is going on so instead of being patient, they assume something is broken. Having a notice in the Windows app or web portal tell them that the machine is updating instead of a generic "connection failed" message would be great!
Thanks for participating in today's episode of AMA: Windows in the Cloud! For reference, the panel covered this topic at around 35:35.
- Can you please make the Microsoft Remote Help an included app in the Intune Microsoft Store? Currently, it is not available so I need to create a custom Win32 App to push to Windows devices including W365 CPC's. Also, any news on a native thick client(Windows App) for Linux bare metal devices to connect to W365?
Thanks for participating in today's episode of AMA: Windows in the Cloud! For reference, the panel covered this topic at around 22:40.
- Can you give a quick summary of why one would choose Windows 365 as opposed to AVD?
Thanks for participating in today's episode of AMA: Windows in the Cloud! For reference, the panel covered this topic at around 30:00.
- Can we touch base on when Windows 365 switch will be generally available?
Thanks for participating in today's episode of AMA: Windows in the Cloud! For reference, the panel covered this topic at around 40:15.
- Are there any requirements for Entra Single Sign On to be enabled for Windows 365? I've noticed ANC's are successful but they all read "With Information".
Thanks for participating in today's episode of AMA: Windows in the Cloud! For reference, the panel covered this topic at around 49:30.
- I am testing the new win365 Boot guided scenario for both shared and dedicated features. In this scenario when I enrol my device for the first time should i see the customisation images straight away for the first Win login page ? For dedicated I would expect to see my user's image and for shared scenario the background image and Tenant logo etc in my experience they are not shown from first boot and enrolment. I am running a virtual windows 11 device for testing btw.
Thanks for participating in today's episode of AMA: Windows in the Cloud! For reference, the panel covered this topic at around 54:10.
For Windows 365 Boot, is there a roadmap to support connecting to an browser authentication Wireless connection?
- Any plans for Financial backed SLA for AVD?
That concludes our Ask Microsoft Anything: Windows in the Cloud for today. We’ll be back next month! RSVP and save the date now - AMA: Windows in the Cloud - February 22. 2024.
In addition to the questions posted on this page, we also answer questions posted in reply to the event on LinkedIn and X (Twitter) -- as well as open questions in the Windows 365 community. Here are the questions we answered today:
From Tech community -- What's the best way to access a W365 Cloud PC from a mac? - answered at 13:10
From Tech community -- With the lates update of the Windows 365 App, now Windows App. How can I manage this app from an enterprise level and disable the preview option? - answered at 14:40
Question -- When will the Windows app on Windows GA? - answered at 17:10
From X-- Will the windows app replace the remote desktop app or will they exist in parallel? - answered at 22:05
From Tech community -- Is there any reason not to have a mix of multiple 365 Boot guided setups? - answered at 24:40
From Tech community -- How to view all configurations of previous 365 boot guided wizard? - answered at 27:45
From Tech community -- Any keyboard shortcut keys to switch between local desktop and cloud pc in task view? - answered at 30:10
From X-- How does the Windows APP work with SSO? - answered at 41:40
Question -- Is the ADFS based single sign on something that will be included in the Windows app? - answered at 43:45
Question -- If a machine is configured for W365 Boot, and the computer does get the configuration but isn't working as expected, how can we grab local laws? - answered at 44:40
Question -- Are the two features that are in preview fully supported? Was it the ones that were released on January 11th or just the ones released in GA 23H2? - answered at 46:15
Question -- Is there some sort of setting for users to jump out of the W365 Boot experience and just go back to the full Windows 11 regular log on experience? - answered at 47:30
From X-- When should I choose a GPU offering? - answered at 52:15
