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In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the demand for flexible and secure remote work solutions has never been greater. Microsoft’s Windows 365 portfolio offers a comprehensive suite of cloud-based desktop services designed to meet the diverse needs of modern businesses. Among these offerings, Windows 365 Frontline stands out as a tailored solution specifically designed for organizations of any size that employ shift workers and part-time employees who need access to a Windows 365 Cloud PC only during their shift.
Windows 365 Frontline extends the power and versatility of the Windows 365 ecosystem to employees who are often at the forefront of business operations. These workers, who may include healthcare professionals, retail associates, and factory workers, require consistent and reliable access to their digital workspaces. With Windows 365 Frontline, employees will receive the same personalized, complete Windows experience offered in other Windows 365 plans. This ensures that all users, regardless of their role or location, can enjoy a seamless, high-performance computing environment that enhances productivity and collaboration.
Windows 365 Frontline offers a robust solution that balances productivity, security, and manageability. The platform’s support for GPU-intensive applications further enhances its utility, enabling frontline workers to run demanding software with ease. This can significantly boost productivity by providing employees with the computational power they need for complex tasks. Additionally, Windows 365 Frontline integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Intune, simplifying the management of virtual desktops and ensuring robust security protocols are maintained.
The security features inherent in Windows 365 Frontline are crucial for protecting sensitive data and maintaining compliance with industry regulations. IT administrators can leverage advanced security measures, such as multifactor authentication and conditional access policies, to safeguard corporate resources. Furthermore, the centralized management capabilities provided by Microsoft Intune allow for streamlined deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud PCs, reducing administrative overhead and ensuring a smooth operational flow.
This interactive demo presents two paths for Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode and Windows 365 Frontline in shared mode. Each demo will walk you through the IT experience when using Microsoft Intune to provision Cloud PCs for frontline workers and then monitor and manage those Cloud PCs. You will also preview the employee experience when using a Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC.
To use the interactive demo, follow along with the instructional content in the right panel – clicking or typing as instructed. Hints will be provided if you make a mistake, and for longer text input there will be a copy/paste button that places the correct text on your clipboard to paste into the simulation.
When you are ready, select a demo option to learn more.
With Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode, each user is assigned their own personal Cloud PC with dedicated resources. Employees have a consistent desktop experience with their own settings, applications, and data preserved across sessions - allowing for personalized configurations, installations of specific applications, and customization of the user interface. Additionally, resources are allocated per user, ensuring consistent performance regardless of other users' activities.
Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode is well suited to employees who require a consistent computing environment, need to run specialized applications, or handle sensitive data - but don’t require 24/7 access. Example scenarios include:
- Shift rotations (e.g., callcenter agents on staggered schedules who each need “their” workspace during their shift)
- Distributed or parttime staff, such as regional sales reps or contingent contractors who log in intermittently but benefit from a tailored setup
- Cross timezone teams, where users in different regions share licenses without losing personalization
- GPU accelerated workloads, where designers, engineers, or data scientists require a GPU enabled Cloud PC for graphics intensive tasks - GPU SKUs are only available in dedicated mode
When provisioning Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode, a single license:
- Entitles you to provision up to three Cloud PCs that can be used non-concurrently, each assigned to a single user.
- Provides one concurrent session for any given user/Cloud PC.
For example, if you purchase 10 Windows 365 Frontline licenses - up to 30 Cloud PCs can be provisioned in dedicated mode. Ten of those Cloud PCs can be active at any given time. The active sessions are managed automatically - when a user signs off from their Cloud PC, the session is released for another user to start using their Cloud PC. A concurrency buffer exists to exceed the maximum a limited number of times per day. For more information, see Concurrency buffer.
Select exercise 1 at left to begin this demo – which will walk you through provisioning and managing Windows Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode.
In this interactive demo, you will learn how to provision and monitor Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode using the Microsoft Intune admin center.
Select exercise 1 to begin.
In this exercise, Contoso will be provisioning Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode for their retail floor managers, who work on a rotation schedule.
Cloud PCs are created and assigned to users based on provisioning policies defined in Microsoft Intune admin center. Provisioning policies allow you to define key parameters including which network will host the Cloud PC, the image to be installed on the Cloud PCs, language settings, and whether it will be joined to the enterprise AD and synced to Microsoft Entra (Hybrid Microsoft Entra join) or joined directly to Microsoft Entra (Microsoft Entra join).
Once a provisioning policy is assigned to a user or group – the Windows 365 service will check for appropriate licensing for those users and then provision and configure Cloud PCs accordingly.
Beginning in the Microsoft Intune admin center, signed in as admin@contoso.com, a global administrator for Contoso, select Devices in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Overview page, select Windows 365 under device onboarding in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Windows 365 page, select the Provisioning policies tab.
On the Provisioning policies tab, select Create policy.
Click in the name field and then type or copy/paste Seattle Retail Frontline Cloud PC and press Enter.
As the license type, select Frontline and leave Frontline type set to Dedicated.
Click anywhere on the screen to scroll down.
We will be using the default join type (Microsoft Entra Join) and network (Microsoft hosted network).
Click to expand the Geography menu and select US West.
Leave Region set to Automatic and select the checkbox to Use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
Verify your settings and then click Next.
Click to expand the Image type menu.
When creating a provisioning policy you have the option of using a custom device image or selecting from the built-in gallery of images. The customer is free to pick whatever solution fits best for their needs.
Contoso will be selecting an image from the built-in gallery – select Gallery image to continue.
By default the image is set to the most recent Windows 365 Enterprise + Microsoft 365 Apps image.
Select Change under Windows 11 Enterprise + Microsoft 365 Apps H2 to review the other images available in the gallery.
Contoso will be using the latest Windows 11 + Microsoft 365 Apps image from the gallery.
Select Windows 11 Enterprise + Microsoft 365 Apps 24H2 and click Select.
Click Next at the bottom of the Create a provisioning policy page.
Windows 365 allows you to specify the default language and region settings for Cloud PCs created with this policy. Contoso will be leaving this set to the default value of English (United States) for this provisioning policy. You can also define a naming template for all cloud PCs provisioned with this policy. This naming template updates the NETBIOS name and doesn't affect the display name of the Cloud PC. When creating the template, follow these rules:
- Names must be between 5 and 15 characters.
- Names can contain letters, numbers, and hyphens.
- Names can't include blank spaces or underscores.
- Optional. Use the %USERNAME:X% macro to add the first X letters of the username.
- Required. Use the %RAND:Y% macro to add a random string of characters, where Y equals the number of characters to add. Y must be 5 or more. Names must contain a randomized string.
Select the checkbox next to Apply device name template and then click in the Enter a name template field to type, and type or copy/paste CPC-SEA-%RAND:5% and press Enter.
Contoso will be taking advantage of Windows Autopatch to manage their Frontline Cloud PC software updates.
Leave Select a service set to Windows Autopatch and select Next.
You will not be configuring any scope tags for this policy – select Next.
Select Add groups on the assignments tab.
On the Select groups to include panel, select the search field to type, then type or copy/paste Seattle and press Enter.
Select the Seattle Retail Team group and click Select.
After selecting a group, you will need to select the size of Cloud PC to provision for those users.
Click Select one under Cloud PC size.
On the Select Cloud PC size panel, click to expand the available sizes menu. All Frontline Cloud PC licenses which you have purchased will appear here.
Select Cloud PC Frontline 2vCPU/8GB/128GB and click Select.
Click the Next button at the bottom of the Assignments tab to continue.
Verify the configuration on the Review + Create tab, then click the Create button.
Once the new policy has been successfully added, select the All Cloud PCs tab.
Cloud PCs are now being provisioned for the members of the Seattle Retail Team (for the purpose of this demo – Bianca Pisani is a member of the Seattle Retail Team group). In a short time, those Cloud PCs will be fully provisioned and ready to use.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue to a point where provisioning has completed.
The Cloud PCs for the Seattle Retial Team group have been provisioned!
Click anywhere on the screen to continue with the interactive demo.
Congratulations on completing exercise 1.
Select exercise 2 to continue.
Cloud PC performance and utilization reports in the Microsoft Intune admin center provide visibility into key performance metrics affecting the employee experience, as well as information on Cloud PC utilization which allows you to ensure that you have the right number of licenses for your organization – and that those licenses are being used efficiently.
In this exercise, you will be focusing specifically on Frontline Cloud PC utilization at Contoso. The Connected Frontline Cloud PCs report is tailored to organizations using Windows 365 Frontline. It provides a detailed overview of the connectivity status and usage patterns of Frontline Cloud PCs to help you ensure that your organization has purchased and assigned the optimal number of licenses for peak usage.
In the Microsoft Intune admin center, select Reports in the left navigation.
On the Reports page – select Cloud PC overview in the left navigation.
On the Reports | Cloud PC overview page, you can access reports detailing connection quality issues, Cloud PC utilization, Connected Frontline Cloud PCs, AI-based Cloud PC recommendations, and Cloud PC business continuity and disaster recovery status.
Select Connected Frontline Cloud PCs (preview) to view the detailed report.
This concurrent connection history report enables you to efficiently manage Frontline licenses for your organization by providing an at-a-glance view of concurrent usage overlaid with the current license limit. The maximum number of active Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC sessions in your organization is equal to the number of Windows 365 Frontline licenses that you purchased. When a user signs off from their Cloud PC, the session is released for another user to start using their Cloud PC.
With Intelligent pre-start for Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode (currently in public preview) Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode can predict when a user connects and pre-start their Cloud PC before they sign in every day. This prediction improves start up times for such users' Cloud PCs. For instance, if a user connects to their Cloud PC every day at 9 AM, the system will recognize that after a few days. When it does, the system will start up that user's Cloud PC around 30 minutes before 9 AM each day and keep it powered on for two hours waiting for the user to connect.
Pre-started Cloud PCs don’t consume the license for session connection until the user connection is complete. If the user doesn’t connect within two hours, the Cloud PC automatically shuts down.
You can see from the report where utilization is close to or currently exceeding the available licenses for a given size/assignment.
Select Cloud PC Frontline 2vCPU/8GB/128GB to view more detail for that Cloud PC size.
You can see from this report that utilization of the Frontline 2vCPU/8GB/128GB Cloud PCs is still generally below the number of available licenses. Hover over the data point on the graph for 08/04 to see the exact data for that day. This is to be expected as you are just beginning the rollout – you will be able to return to this report as additional employees are onboarded to ensure optimal license utilization.
Click anywhere on the screen to scroll down and review the detailed data for recent days.
Note the concurrent connectivity data for these Cloud PCs – including the one day (8/4) where concurrency reached the limit. Click anywhere on the screen to scroll back up to the graph.
You have now completed this exercise.
Click anywhere on the screen to proceed to review the employee experience when connecting to a Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC in dedicated mode with Windows App.
Congratulations on completing exercise 2.
Select exercise 3 to continue.
In this exercise, you will preview the experience of a Contoso employee (Bianca Pisani) accessing their Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC in dedicated mode.
Supported by all Windows 11 devices (as well as Windows, macOS, iOS and iPadOS, Android, and web browsers), Windows App provides a direct path to your Cloud PC from the taskbar or start menu. Windows App enables employees to enjoy the full Windows 11 experience while moving between your local and Cloud PCs. With the app, you can use your Cloud PC as a window or full screen.
Windows App delivers high-performing and reliable experiences for Microsoft Teams and your other Microsoft 365 apps as well as other features to enhance your remote experience, such as:
- Multiple monitor support.
- Custom display resolutions.
- Dynamic display resolutions and scaling.
- Device redirection, such as webcams, audio, storage devices, and printers.
- Regular and automatic app updates mean you’re always using the most up-to-date version of Windows 365.
Starting in the Windows App on Bianca’s Windows 11 PC, select Sign in.
Sign in using passwordless authentication:
- Username: select Bianca’s account (biancap@contoso.com) to continue.
- Click anywhere on the screen to simulate approving the sign in request using the Authenticator app on Bianca’s phone.
Bianca has not yet added any devices to their Favorites. Select Go to devices to view all of Bianca’s devices.
Bianca currently has one Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC, as you can see from the indicators on the device tile. Select the ‘…’ (three dots) management menu for Bianca’s Frontline Cloud PC to review the available capabilities.
The Windows 365 App supports a number of management actions for Cloud PCs.
- Favorite – Add this Cloud PC to the Favorites view in the Windows App.
- Rename - Changes the name of the Cloud PC shown to the user in the Windows App and on windows365.microsoft.com.
- Pin to – pin this Cloud PC to the Windows Taskbar for quick access.
- View details – Provides basic information about the Cloud PC, user and license assigned.
- Add to Task view – Add this Cloud PC to Windows Task view for quick context switching between the local desktop and Cloud PC.
- Settings – Configure display and view settings.
When you are ready, click anywhere on the screen to collapse the menu and continue.
Select Connect to connect to Bianca’s Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC.
Upon connecting, Bianca will see a dialog reminding them to disconnect from their Cloud PC when finished and save any work in progress. This will help ensure efficient sharing of Cloud PCs by Contoso employees and prevent loss of work.
After reviewing the message – select Don’t show this again and then click Connect.
When users connect to their Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC in dedicated mode through the Windows App, the experience feels seamless and familiar—like launching their own personal PC from any device. They always land in the same, fully personalized environment with their apps, data, and settings intact, ensuring consistency across sessions. The Windows App makes it easy to switch between local and Cloud PC resources, giving users a unified, productive workspace wherever they work.
You have now completed this exercise. Click anywhere on the screen to continue with the interactive demo.
You have completed this part of the interactive demo.
You can select any exercise to review or select the Home button in the toolbar to return to the beginning of the interactive demo.
In an era where remote work and cloud computing have become integral to business operations, ensuring the resilience and availability of virtual desktop environments is more critical than ever. Windows 365 Frontline offers both built-in and optional business continuity and disaster recovery functionality for organizations. Point-in-time restore capability is supported for all Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode without an additional license. For organizations that need some or all of their devices protected beyond the standard point-in-time restore capability, Cross-region Disaster Recovery is available as a licensed add-on that offers a robust, cost-effective way to safeguard your Cloud PCs against regional outages and ensure uninterrupted access for end users.
Point-in-time restore for Windows 365 lets an administrator restore a Cloud PC to the exact state it was at an earlier point in time. You can create new or edit settings to automatically create restore points at regular intervals for groups of Cloud PCs. You can also create on-demand restore points for specific times. Admins can also give users permission to restore their own Cloud PCs.
Windows 365 Cross-region Disaster Recovery creates geographically distant temporary copies of Cloud PCs that can be accessed in the selected backup region during a disaster recovery event. When activated, it moves users to a new Cloud PC in a temporary region until the recovery is complete.
Key benefits of implementing optional business continuity and disaster recovery for Windows 365 Cloud PCs include:
- Enhanced Business Continuity: Minimize downtime by enabling failover capabilities across different Azure regions during regional disruptions.
- Data Resiliency: Protect critical workloads by replicating Cloud PC environments across multiple geographic locations.
- Regulation and Compliance: Allows the designation of a backup Cloud PC to be in a recovery region that is a sufficient distance from the primary Cloud PC location, while adhering to data residency / compliance requirements.
- Optimized End-User Experience: Ensure seamless access and productivity for end users, even in the face of regional outages.
Select either Point-in-time restore for Windows 365 or Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery to launch the interactive demo for that capability.
Windows 365 empowers organizations with a secure, scalable Cloud PC environment designed to enhance productivity and resilience. Among its powerful features is point-in-time restore, which provides the ability to quickly recover systems to a previous state, minimizing downtime and protecting against data loss. This capability ensures business continuity by offering a straightforward and reliable way to reverse unintended changes or recover from disruptive incidents.
This interactive demo will guide you through configuring and executing point-in-time restore through the Microsoft Intune admin center. With Windows 365, recovering from setbacks becomes a streamlined process, ensuring your organization remains agile and resilient in the face of change.
When you are ready to begin – select exercise 1.
Point-in-time restore can be configured as a new or existing user setting in Microsoft Intune. All users in groups assigned to the user setting will have permission to use the point-in-time restore feature. Additionally, you can configure point-in-time restore to let your enterprise users start a restore on their Cloud PC.
This exercise will begin in the Microsoft Intune admin center, logged in as admin@contoso.com.
In the left navigation of the Microsoft Intune admin center, select Devices.
On the Devices | Overview page, select Windows 365 in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Windows 365 page, select the User settings tab.
On the User settings tab, select Create.
On the Add user setting page, select the Name field to type, then type or copy/paste Frontline dedicated - point in time restore and press Enter.
Contoso does not want employees to have local admin access to their Frontline dedicated mode Cloud PCs, but they do want them to be able to reset them if the need arises. Select Enable users to reset their Cloud PCs.
Next you will choose an interval for how often restore points will be created. You can choose to set short-term restore points every 4, 6, 12, 16, or 24 hours. Each Cloud PC in the assigned group(s) has 10 short-term restore points saved at the intervals that you define in the user setting. For example, if you choose 4 hour intervals, each assigned Cloud PC has 10 restore points spread out every four hours over the last 40 hours. As a consequence, a shorter frequency results in a shorter overall history of restore points. Contoso has chosen 4 hours as the appropriate setting for their requirements.
Click to expand the Frequency of restore-point service menu and select 4 hours.
Review your settings and then select Next.
On the Assignments tab, select Add groups.
On the Select groups to include panel, select the Search field to type, then type or copy/paste Seattle and press Enter.
Select the Seattle Retail Team group and click Select.
Verify that Seattle Retail Team is now listed under Groups and select Next.
Review the settings and select Create.
You have successfully created and assigned a new user setting. Users in the group assigned to this user setting will now be able to use the point-in-time restore feature as specified.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue with the interactive demo and review how the administrator can initiate point-in-time recovery in Microsoft Intune.
Congratulations on completing exercise 1.
Select exercise 2 to continue.
You can use the Microsoft Intune admin center to restore a Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC in dedicated mode to a previous state.
Starting in the Microsoft Intune admin center, logged in as admin@contoso.com, select Devices in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Overview page, select Windows 365.
On the Devices | Windows 365 page, select the All Cloud PCs tab.
Select Allan Deyoung’s Cloud PC (CPC-SEA-6OXCW).
The Cloud PC management page within the Microsoft Intune admin center provides IT administrators with a centralized interface to oversee and manage all deployed Cloud PCs. This page offers a comprehensive view of each Cloud PC’s status, configuration, health, and activity. From here, administrators can initiate actions such as power off/on, restarting, troubleshooting, and, crucially, restoring Cloud PCs to previous states.
Select Restore to proceed with initiating point-in-time restore for Allan’s Cloud PC.
Select the second most recent restore point (8/1/2025, 8:12:29 AM) and then click Select.
Note: because Contoso has configured a 4 hour frequency for point-in-time restore, there will be 10 short-term restore points available for Allan’s Cloud PC. In addition to the configurable short-term restore points, there are also four long-term restore points that aren't configurable. These long-term restore points are saved every seven days.
Review the text of the Restore this Cloud PC to the selected point dialog and click Restore.
Recall that all changes made to the Cloud PC between the saved restore point and when the restore is started will be lost. This lost information includes all data, documents, installed applications, configurations, downloads, and other changes stored locally on the Cloud PC. External data stored in cloud services, like OneDrive, won't be lost.
You have successfully initiated point-in-time restore for Allan’s Cloud PC. The Cloud PC will now show as restoring in Microsoft Intune (for administrators), as well as the Windows App (for Allan) until it’s complete.
Click anywhere on the screen to proceed to the point where restoration has been completed.
You have successfully completed this exercise. Click anywhere on the screen to continue with the interactive demo.
Congratulations on completing the interactive demo.
Select any exercise to review or select the Home button on the toolbar to return to the beginning of the interactive demo.
Windows 365 Cross-region Disaster Recovery is currently available in public preview as a licensed add-on for Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode. Windows 365 Cross-region Disaster Recovery improves resilience by creating/storing snapshots of Cloud PCs in customer-defined, geographically distant locations. When Cross-region Disaster Recovery is activated, users will be pointed to a temporary Cloud PC. During an outage, the user will have access to their temporary Cloud PC with all installed applications and settings based on the latest restore point. However, it’s important to note that no work is saved. Any work done should be saved to another option in the Microsoft Cloud, such as Microsoft OneDrive or Microsoft SharePoint. After the temporary Cloud PC is deactivated, no applications, data, or other information will be preserved from the temporary Cloud PC, and the user will be returned to their primary Cloud PC as it was prior to the disaster recovery event.
This interactive demo will guide you through the steps to configure, validate, and test optional business continuity and disaster recovery for Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode using Windows 365 Cross-region Disaster Recovery.
When you are ready, select an exercise to continue.
In order to leverage Windows 365 Cross-Region Disaster Recovery for Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode, you must purchase and assign the Windows 365 Cross-Region Disaster Recovery Add-on license to the relevant employees.
In this exercise, Contoso has already purchased the requisite number of add-on licenses and will be assigning them to the Seattle Retail Team (the group for which we provisioned Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode in previous exercises).
Beginning in the Microsoft 365 admin center, signed in as admin@contoso.com, select Billing > Licenses in the left navigation.
On the Licenses page, select Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery Add-On.
Using the Microsoft 365 admin center, you have the option to assign licenses directly to users or to groups. To simplify management Contoso has chosen to assign the Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery Add-On licenses to the Seattle Retail Team group – select the Groups tab.
Select + Assign licenses.
On the Assign licenses to groups panel, select the Enter a group name field to type, then type or copy/paste Seattle Retail Team and press Enter.
Choose the Seattle Retail Team group and then select Assign.
Click the X to close the panel once it indicates that you have assigned licenses to the Seattle Retail Team.
License assignment is now in progress.
All licenses have been successfully assigned to the Seattle Retail Team – you have now completed this exercise and are ready to proceed to configuring Windows 365 Cross-region Disaster Recovery for your employees.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue the interactive demo.
Congratulations on completing exercise 1.
Select exercise 2 to continue.
Now that Contoso has purchased and assigned the appropriate add-on licenses for Cross-Region Disaster Recovery, you are ready to enable the feature for your employees with Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode. With the appropriate licenses assigned, configuration of Windows 365 Cross-region Disaster Recovery is intuitive and can be completed in a small number of steps using the Microsoft Intune admin center.
Starting in the Microsoft Intune admin center, logged in as admin@contoso.com, select Devices in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Overview page, under Device onboarding in the navigation, select Windows 365.
On the Devices | Windows 365 page, select the User settings tab.
On the User settings tab, select +Create.
On the Add user setting page, select the Name field to type, then type or copy/paste Frontline dedicated - Cross-region disaster recovery and press Enter.
Select the check box to Enable users to reset their Cloud PCs.
Set the values under Point-in-time restore service per Contoso’s requirements. These values also apply to cross region disaster recovery. Leave Allow user to initiate restore service disabled (IT manages this process for Contoso).
Click to expand the Frequency of restore point service dropdown menu and select 4 hours.
Click to expand Optional Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Settings.
Next to Enable Additional DR For This User Setting – click to expand the dropdown menu and select Cross Region Disaster Recovery.
Note that for any particular user setting, you can specify Disaster Recovery Plus, Cross-Region Disaster Recovery, or choose to stick with the built-in point-in-time restore service. By specifying different user settings and assigning to distinct devices/groups, you can create the optimal configuration for your organization’s needs.
Contoso’s Cloud PCs run on Microsoft’s hosted network, so leave the Network type as is. With Windows 365 Cross-Region Disaster Recovery and Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus, full copies of your Cloud PCs disks are kept in the backup location, including all data stored on the Cloud PC disk.
When configuring a backup location, it is important to consider things like data sovereignty and geographic distance between the user and the Cloud PC backup location. In this case, you are configuring Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery for Contoso’s Western US region and want to ensure sufficient distance between locations to provide resilience without introducing too much latency (greater distance between your backup Cloud PC and your user’s connect location increases network latency and impacts performance).
Click to expand the Geography menu and select US Central.
Leave the region set to Automatic (default) and select Next.
On the Assignments page, you can add the groups to which you want this user setting applied. All Cloud PCs associated with a user share the same cross region disaster recovery settings.
Select Add groups.
On the Select groups to include panel, select the Search field to type, then type or copy/paste Seattle and press Enter.
Choose the Seattle Retail Team group (note: Adele Vance and Bianca Pisoni are members of this group) and then click Select.
Verify Seattle Retail Team is now listed under Groups and select Next.
Review your settings and then select Create.
You have now successfully configured Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery for members of the Seattle Retail Team group. To see the current state of Cloud PC and health, licensing, and disaster recovery readiness, you can check the Cloud PC optional business continuity and disaster recovery status report in Microsoft Intune.
Click anywhere on the screen to learn how to access that report.
Congratulations on completing exercise 2.
Select exercise 3 to continue.
The ‘Cloud PC optional business continuity and disaster recovery status’ report shows you pertinent information about the health and readiness of your Cloud PCs. In this exercise we will first assess health, licensing and disaster recovery readiness of Contoso’s Cloud PCs – then proceed to activate Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery.
Starting on the home page of the Microsoft Intune admin center, select Reports in the left navigation.
On the Reports page, select Cloud PC Overview in the left navigation.
On the Reports | Cloud PC Overview page, select Cloud PC optional business continuity and disaster recovery status.
The Cloud PC optional business continuity and disaster recovery status report will show you pertinent information for the Cloud PCs in your organization, including:
- Configuration alert - indicating whether the Cloud PC is in a healthy or unhealthy state.
- License type – indicates whether this Cloud PC is licensed for Disaster Recovery Plus (DR Plus), Cross Region Disaster Recovery (Cross region), or the built-in point-in-time restore service (None).
- Disaster recovery status: Active outage, Activation expiring, or Not active
- Current restore point: indicates the date/time corresponding to the backup copy stored in the recovery location.
- Backup CPC status: if the user is licensed for DR Plus, this field indicates if the allocated backup Cloud PC is ready for failover in the event of an outage. If the user is licensed for Cross-region Disaster Recovery (Cross region), this field will not be populated unless an active outage is underway and recovery has been initiated.
The Cloud PCs are appropriately licensed and enabled for Windows 365 Cross-Region Disaster Recovery, and the backup copies are active – you are now ready to test Cross Region Disaster Recovery. Select Devices in the left navigation to continue.
Using bulk actions in Microsoft Intune, you can activate/deactivate cross-region disaster recovery (or disaster recovery plus) for individual devices or devices for all users in a group.
Activating Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery will move users to a backup Cloud PC in a temporary region (previously configured to be US Central for Contoso’s US West Cloud PC users). Users will not be able to access their Cloud PCs until the move is complete.
During the outage, the user will have access to their temporary Cloud PC with all installed applications and settings based on the latest restore point. However, it is important to know that no work will be saved. Any work done should be saved to another option in the Microsoft Cloud, such as Microsoft OneDrive or Microsoft SharePoint. After the temporary Cloud PC is deactivated, no applications, data, or other information will be preserved from the temporary Cloud PC, and the user will be returned to their primary Cloud PC as it was prior to the disaster recovery event.
On the Devices | Overview page, select All devices in the left navigation.
On the Devices | All devices page, select Bulk device actions.
On the basics tab, click to expand the OS menu and then select Windows.
Click to expand the Device type menu and select Cloud PCs.
Expand the Device action menu and select Optional disaster recovery.
Expand the Optional disaster recovery menu and select Activate cross region disaster recovery.
Note that you use this same model to activate or deactivate either Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus and Windows 365 Cross-region Disaster Recovery using this approach.
Verify your configuration and select Next.
On the devices tab, you will select the devices to which this action applies.
Click to expand the Selection type menu and then choose Apply this action to devices registered to its group members.
Under No group selected, click Select a group.
On the Select groups to include panel, select the Search field to type, then type or copy/paste Seattle and press Enter.
Choose the Seattle Retail Team group and then click Select.
Confirm that you now see 3 Cloud PCs (assigned to cameronw, biancap and adelev respectively) – then select Next.
Select Create to initiate the bulk action.
Once this action is executed, Contoso’s ‘Seattle Retail Team’ users will be temporarily moved to their backup Cloud PCs in US Central. When you deactivate Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery (using the same bulk action approach) or the activation expires, users will be transitioned back to their primary Cloud PC in US West.
Select CPC-SEA-77CMY from the list of Cloud PCs to view more information about that Cloud PC.
You can see on the CPC-SEA-77CMY page that Cross Region Disaster Recovery has in fact been activated and failover is currently pending.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue with the interactive demo and review how to use Cloud PC reports in Microsoft Intune to validate the state/health of an active failover.
Congratulations on completing exercise 3.
Select exercise 4 to continue.
In the previous exercise, you activated Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery for members of the ‘Seattle Retail Team’ group: Adele Vance, Bianca Pisoni, and Cameron White. In this exercise, you will briefly review how to verify the current state of their Cloud PCs using the Cloud PC optional business continuity and disaster recovery report.
Starting on the home page of the Microsoft Intune admin center, select Reports in the left navigation.
On the Reports page, select Cloud PC Overview in the left navigation.
On the Reports | Cloud PC Overview page, select Cloud PC optional business continuity and disaster recovery status.
You can see on the report that all 3 Frontline Cloud PCs are in the ‘active outage’ state and users are operating from backup Cloud PCs
You have now successfully configured, validated, and tested (by activating through bulk actions) Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery for Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode.
Click anywhere on the screen to complete this exercise.
Congratulations on completing the interactive demo of Windows 365 Cross Region Disaster Recovery for Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode.
Select any exercise to review or select the Home button on the toolbar to return to the beginning of the interactive demo.
Windows 365 Frontline in shared mode is well suited for organizations with shift-based workers, temporary staff, or roles who need brief access to complete ad-hoc tasks quickly and securely from a Windows desktop environment. Windows 365 Frontline licenses entitle organizations to leverage Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode in one of two ways:
With Windows 365 Frontline in shared mode, multiple users can access a pool of shared Cloud PCs or a single Cloud PC. Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode can be used (non-concurrently) by any number of users and will “reset” after user log-off, creating a secure, non-personalized experience where no data is preserved.
Windows 365 Cloud Apps (currently in public preview) allows administrators to give users secure access to individual apps hosted on a Cloud PC, without requiring a dedicated Cloud PC for every user.
Select a demo option at left to begin – each demo will walk through the provisioning experience in the Microsoft Intune admin center and then preview the employee experience when accessing a Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC/Windows 365 Cloud Apps using Windows App.
Windows 365 Frontline in shared mode is designed specifically for workers who:
- Require access to a Cloud PC to perform specialized tasks for a short time during their work day.
- Do not require data persistence across sessions.
The maximum number of active Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC sessions in your organization is equal to the number of Windows 365 Frontline licenses that you set up for a specific group. For example, if you assign 10 Windows 365 Frontline shared licenses, 10 Cloud PCs can be provisioned for the group. Only a single user can connect to a shared Cloud PC at a given time. When a user signs out from the Cloud PC, all user data is deleted and the Cloud PC is released for another user to start using. Concurrency buffer doesn't exist for a Frontline Cloud PC in shared mode.
In this demo, you will provision and update Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode for the retail floor workers at Contoso’s Seattle retail locations. You will also preview the employee experience when using Windows App to access their Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC(s) in shared mode.
Select exercise 1 to begin.
Contoso wants to provision Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode for employees on the floor of their Seattle retail location. Cloud PCs are created and assigned to users based on provisioning policies defined in Microsoft Intune admin center. Provisioning policies allow you to define key parameters including which network will host the Cloud PC, the image to be installed on the Cloud PCs, language settings, and whether it will be joined to the enterprise AD and synced to Microsoft Entra (Hybrid Microsoft Entra join) or joined directly to Microsoft Entra (Microsoft Entra join). Once a provisioning policy is assigned to a group – the Windows 365 service will check for appropriate licensing and then provision and configure Cloud PCs accordingly.
Beginning in the Microsoft Intune admin center, signed in as admin@contoso.com, a global administrator for Contoso, select Devices in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Overview page, select Windows 365 under device onboarding in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Windows 365 page, select the Provisioning policies tab.
On the Provisioning policies tab, select Create policy.
Click in the name field and then type or copy/paste Seattle Store Retail Stations and press Enter.
As the license type, select Frontline.
For the Frontline type – select Shared.
Click anywhere on the screen to scroll down and view the remaining general settings.
We will be using the default join type (Microsoft Entra Join) and the default network (Microsoft hosted network).
Click to expand the Geography menu and then select US West.
Leave Region set to West US 3 and select the checkbox to Use Microsoft Entra single sign-onthen click Next.
When creating a provisioning policy you have the option of using a custom device image or selecting from the built-in gallery of images. The customer is free to pick whatever solution fits best for their needs.
Select Change under Windows 11 Enterprise + Microsoft 365 Apps 24H2 to review the images available in the gallery.
Contoso will initially be using the Windows 11 + Microsoft 365 Apps 23H2 image from the gallery while they complete testing their line of business apps for compatibility with the 24H2 image.
Select Windows 11 + Microsoft 365 Apps 23H2 and then click Select at the bottom of the Select an image pane.
Verify the image is set to Windows 11 + Microsoft 365 Apps 23H2 and then select Next.
Windows 365 allows you to specify the default language and region settings for Cloud PCs created with this policy. Contoso will be leaving this set to the default value of English (United States) for this provisioning policy. You can also define a naming template for all Cloud PCs provisioned with this policy.
Note: unlike a standard Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PC, Frontline Shared Cloud PCs do not allow for a username in the macro, as shared Cloud PCs are not associated with any specific user.
Select the checkbox next to Apply device name template and then click in the Enter a name template field to type, and type or copy/paste FLWCPC-%RAND:8% and press Enter.
Verify the name template is correct and then select Next.
You will not be configuring any scope tags for this policy – select Next.
Select Add groups on the assignments tab.
On the ‘Select groups to include’ panel, click on the search field to type, then type or copy/paste Seattle Retail Floor Team and press Enter.
Choose the Seattle Retail Floor Team group and then click Select.
Note that you can only assign one group when creating a provisioning policy for Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode.
After selecting a group, you will need to select the size of Cloud PC to provision for that group.
Click Select one under Cloud PC size.
On the ‘Select Cloud PC size’ panel, click to expand the Available Cloud PCs menu and then choose Cloud PC Frontline 2vCPU/4GB/128GB.
Next you will specify the number of Cloud PCs that you want to reserve for this group:
- Under Assignment, select the Assignment name field to type and then type or copy/paste floor kiosks and press Enter.
- Now select the Number of Cloud PCs field to type and type or copy/paste 1 and press Enter.
Verify the assignment and then click Select.
Click the Next button at the bottom of the Assignments tab to continue.
Verify the configuration on the Review + Create tab, then click the Create button.
Once the new policy is successfully added, select the All Cloud PCs tab.
Frontline Shared Cloud PCs are now being provisioned for the members of the Seattle Retail Floor Team group. In a short time, those Cloud PCs will be fully provisioned and ready to use.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue to a point where provisioning has completed.
The Cloud PCs for the Seattle Retail Floor Team group have been provisioned.
Select the first Cloud PC in the list (FLWCPC-MZ65LY2K) to navigate to the detailed view for that Cloud PC.
The Cloud PC blade in the Microsoft Intune admin center provides detailed context for the Cloud PC, as well as quick access to administrative actions.
You have successfully completed this exercise. Click anywhere on the screen to continue with the interactive demo.
Congratulations on completing exercise 1.
Select exercise 2 to continue.
Sometime after initial provisioning you may need to change the provisioning policy – for example updating the number of Cloud PCs assigned to a group or likely, updating the image. The reprovision feature in Windows 365 helps ensure that, in the event of an update, you can protect business continuity by reserving a specified number of nodes in the pool as the update is applied. In this exercise, you will be updating the image for the Cloud PCs provisioned in exercise 1.
Beginning in the Microsoft Intune admin center, signed in as admin@contoso.com, a global administrator for Contoso, select Devices in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Overview page, select Windows 365 under device onboarding in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Windows 365 page, select the Provisioning policies tab.
On the Provisioning policies page, select Seattle Store Retail Stations.
Contoso has completed their testing and validation of the Windows 11 + Microsoft 365 Apps 24H2 image and wants to update this pool of Cloud PCs to that image.
Select Edit next to image.
Under Windows 11 + Microsoft 365 Apps 23H2, select Change.
On the ‘Select an image’ panel choose Windows 11 Enterprise + Microsoft 365 Apps 24H2 and then click Select.
Verify the new image is selected and then click Next.
Click Update to update the provisioning policy.
Now that the provisioning policy has been successfully updated – you can apply the changes to the Cloud PCs by selecting Reprovision. You have the option to initiate reprovisioning immediately or schedule it for a later time. Contoso wants to initiate the process outside of business hours to minimize disruption for the retail team.
Select Reprovision and then select Schedule Reprovision.
Review the text on the Schedule Reprovision panel and then set the Schedule reprovision toggle switch to On.
To ensure that employees retain access to key resources during the reprovisioning process, you can specify a percentage of the Cloud PCs that must remain available. For example, if there are 5 Cloud PCs in this pool you can specify 20% to ensure one Cloud PC remains active during reprovisioning. Contoso wants to schedule the update to occur at 11PM PST, well after stores close.
Click to expand the Time zone menu and then select UTC-8 Pacific Time.
Click to expand the Time menu and then select 23:00.
Verify the settings and select Apply.
Your reprovisioning settings have now been successfully saved and the Seattle Retail Floor Cloud PCs are slated to be updated at 11PM.
Click anywhere on the screen to progress to the next day after reprovisioning has completed.
Reprovisioning has now been completed and the Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs image has been updated to Windows 11 Enterprise + Microsoft 365 Apps. Employees can begin their day with no interruption/downtime.
You have completed this exercise – click anywhere on the screen to continue and review the employee experience.
Congratulations on completing exercise 2.
Select exercise 3 to continue.
In this exercise, you will preview the experience of a Contoso frontline employee accessing a Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PC in shared mode using Windows App. Supported by all Windows 11 devices (as well as Windows, macOS, iOS and iPadOS, Android, and web browsers), Windows App provides a direct path to your Cloud PC from the taskbar or start menu. Windows App enables employees to enjoy the full Windows 11 experience while moving between your local and Cloud PCs. With the app, you can use your Cloud PC as a window or full screen.
Starting in the Windows App on a Contoso retail floor PC running Windows 11, select Sign in.
Sign in using Bianca Pisani’s credentials:
- Username: select Bianca’s account (biancap@contoso.com) to continue.
- Password: select the field to type and then type or copy/paste password and press Enter or click Sign in.
Bianca currently has access to two Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs, as you can see from the indicators on the device tiles. Bianca is a store manager, and has been given access to both a Frontline Cloud PC in dedicated mode for administrative work and a Frontline Cloud PC in shared mode for point-of-sale and other activities on the floor during the work day.
Select the ‘…’ (three dots) management menu for Bianca’s Windows 365 Frontline Shared Cloud PC (floor kiosks) to review the available capabilities.
Windows 365 App supports a number of management actions for Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode:
- Favorite – Add this Cloud PC to the Favorites view in the Windows App.
- Reset - Reset does the following:
- Reinstalls Windows.
- Removes your personal files (OneDrive data remains).
- Removes any changes you made to settings.
- Removes your apps.
- View details – Provides basic information about the Cloud PC, user and license assigned.
- Settings
Click anywhere on the screen to collapse the settings menu.
Select Connect to connect to Bianca’s Frontline Shared Cloud PC.
Select the Password field to type, then type or copy/paste password as Bianca’s password and press Enter or click Sign in.
When Bianca first connects to this Cloud PC, they will see the ‘Allow remote desktop connection’ dialog. Review the text and select Yes.
Bianca’s Frontline Shared Cloud PC is now open in full screen mode. Their Microsoft 365 applications have already been installed and are ready to use and configuration policies are automatically assigned via Microsoft Intune.
Click anywhere on the screen to complete this exercise.
Congratulations on completing exercise 3.
You can select any exercise to review or select Home to return to the beginning of the interactive demo.
Windows 365 Cloud Apps (now in public preview) allows administrators to give employees secure access to individual apps hosted on a Frontline Cloud PC in shared mode, without requiring a dedicated Cloud PC for every user. Windows 365 Cloud Apps give IT teams more flexibility to efficiently support a range of user needs and scenarios while maintaining centralized control, including:
- Streamlining app delivery for frontline, seasonal, or remote workers.
- Providing information workers with the line-of-business apps they require.
- Simplifying management with Windows 365 and Microsoft Intune integration.
- Accelerate migration from on-premises VDI to the cloud.
In this demo you will provision and publish Windows 365 Cloud Apps for the Seattle Retail Floor team, then preview the employee experience when using Windows App to access and launch a Windows 365 Cloud App.
Select exercise 1 to begin.
Windows 365 Cloud Apps run on Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode. As such, the process for provisioning Cloud Apps begins with the deployment of Frontline Shared Cloud PCs in the Microsoft Intune Admin Center.
Beginning in the Microsoft Intune admin center, signed in as admin@contoso.com, a global administrator for Contoso, select Devices in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Overview page, select Windows 365 under device onboarding in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Windows 365 page, select the Provisioning policies tab.
On the Provisioning policies tab, select Create policy.
Click in the Name field and then type or copy/paste Seattle Retail Cloud Apps and press Enter.
Next to Experience – select Access only apps which run on a Cloud PC (preview).
Opting to provision these Cloud PCs to run Cloud Apps will automatically default the license type to Frontline and Frontline type to Shared.
Click anywhere on the screen to scroll down and view the additional general settings.
We will be using the default join type (Microsoft Entra Join) and default network (Microsoft hosted network).
Click to expand the Geography menu and then select US West.
Leave Region set to West US 3 and select the checkbox to Use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
Verify your settings and select Next.
When creating a provisioning policy you have the option of using a custom device image or selecting from the built-in gallery of images. The customer is free to pick whatever solution fits best for their needs. In this case, you will use the default gallery image - Windows 11 Enterprise + Microsoft 365 Apps 24H2.
While in preview, Cloud Apps only discover application executables in the device image’s start menu that aren't installed by Appx or MSIX packages.
Select View to review the apps available on the chosen gallery image.
The ‘Apps available on image’ panel displays the eligible applications discovered in the image’s start menu. To deploy custom/line-of-business apps as Cloud Apps during public preview, you will need to create and upload a custom image with the desired apps installed in the start menu.
In future releases you'll be able to discover and publish apps installed by Intune that are included in the Autopilot Device Preparation Policy associated with the Cloud App provisioning policy as well as discover/publish Appx and MSIX apps.
Click anywhere on the screen to scroll down and view the remaining apps.
After deployment of the Frontline Shared Cloud PCs associated with this provisioning policy, these applications will be accessible in the Microsoft Intune admin center in the ‘ready to publish’ state. You will need to take further steps to publish/assign specific applications – which we will review in the next exercise.
Click the X to close the panel and then select Next.
Windows 365 allows you to specify the default language and region settings for Cloud PCs created with this policy. Contoso will be leaving this set to the default value of English (United States) for this provisioning policy. You can also define a naming template for all Cloud PCs provisioned with this policy.
Note: unlike a standard Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PC, Frontline Shared Cloud PCs do not allow for a username in the macro, as shared Cloud PCs are not associated with any specific user.
Select the checkbox next to Apply device name template and then click in the Enter a name template field to type, and type or copy/paste CPCAPP-%RAND:8% and press Enter.
Verify the name template is correct and then select Next.
You will not be configuring any scope tags for this policy – select Next.
Select Add groups on the assignments tab.
On the ‘Select groups to include’ panel, click on the Search field to type, then type or copy/paste Seattle Retail Floor Team and press Enter.
Choose the Seattle Retail Floor Team group and then click Select.
Note that you can only assign one group when creating a provisioning policy for Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode.
After selecting a group, you will need to select the size of Cloud PC to provision for that group.
Click Select one under Cloud PC size.
On the ‘Select Cloud PC size’ panel, click to expand the Available Cloud PCs menu and then choose Cloud PC Frontline 2vCPU/8GB/128GB.
Next you will specify the number of Cloud PCs that you want to reserve for this group:
- Under Assignment, select the Assignment name field to type and then type or copy/paste Seattle Cloud Apps and press Enter.
- Now select the Number of Cloud PCs field to type and type or copy/paste 1 and press Enter.
Verify the assignment and then click Select.
Click the Next button at the bottom of the Assignments tab to continue.
Verify the configuration, then click the Create button.
Once the new policy is successfully added, select the All Cloud PCs tab.
Frontline Shared Cloud PCs are now being provisioned for the members of the Seattle Retail Floor Team group. In a short time, those Cloud PCs will be fully provisioned and ready to use.
Select the All Cloud Apps tab to view the associated Cloud Apps that are being provisioned.
All of the Cloud Apps are currently in the preparing state while the Frontline Shared Cloud PCs are being provisioned.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue to a point in time when provisioning has completed.
The Cloud Apps are now in the ‘Ready to publish’ state. Contoso wants to publish Microsoft Edge, Word and Outlook (classic). Select Microsoft Edge, then click anywhere on the screen to scroll down to view the remaining apps.
Click to select Word, then select Outlook (classic) and click Publish.
Review the text of the dialog informing you that publishing an app makes it available in Windows App to all users assigned to the provisioning policy and then select Publish.
You will see the apps progress from ‘Publishing’ to ‘Published.’
Microsoft Edge, Outlook (classic) and Word will now be available to members of the Seattle Retail Floor Team group within the Windows App.
Click anywhere on the screen to complete this exercise and continue to review the employee experience in Windows App.
Congratulations on completing exercise 1.
Select exercise 2 to continue.
Employees access published Windows 365 Cloud Apps through Windows App, the gateway to securely connect to Windows on any device across Windows 365, Azure Virtual Desktop, Remote PC, Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft Dev Box, and more. In the previous exercise – you published Microsoft Edge, Outlook and Word. In this exercise you will preview the user experience accessing Cloud Apps using Windows App from a PC on their Seattle retail floor.
Starting in the Windows App on a Contoso retail floor PC running Windows 11, select Sign in.
Sign in using Bianca Pisani’s credentials:
- Username: select Bianca’s account (biancap@contoso.com) to continue.
- Password: select the Passwordfield to type and then type or copy/paste password and press Enter or click Sign in.
Bianca currently has access to two Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs, as you can see from the indicators on the device tiles. Bianca is a store manager, and has been given access to both a Frontline Cloud PC in dedicated mode for administrative work and a Frontline Cloud PC in shared mode for point-of-sale and other activities on the floor during the work day.
In the previous exercise, you assigned the provisioning policy associated with your Cloud Apps to the Seattle Retail Floor Team. Bianca is a member of that team and will also have access to the Cloud Apps you just published.
Select Apps in the left navigation of Windows App.
Bianca has access to Microsoft Edge, Outlook (classic) and Word from within Windows App.
From here they can launch any of their Cloud Apps. When a user launches any of the published Cloud Apps they have access to, they are connected to one of the provisioned Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode, streaming only the relevant app(s) to their local device—without loading the full desktop environment.
Note that published apps can also open other apps that are on the Cloud PC. For example, Microsoft Outlook as a Cloud App can launch Microsoft Edge via embedded links in emails, even if Microsoft Edge isn't published as a Cloud App.
Select the Microsoft Word tile to launch Word as a Cloud App.
As the app is streaming from a Frontline Shared Cloud PC, employees may need to authenticate when launching the app (depending on the context and your organization’s configuration).
Select the Password field to type, then type or copy/paste
This is Bianca’s first time connecting to this Cloud PC - they will see the ‘Allow remote desktop connection’ dialog. Review the text and select Yes.
Word is now streaming to Bianca’s local machine as a Windows 365 Cloud App. When connecting from Windows App on Windows, cloud-delivered apps look just like local apps, seamlessly integrating with users' local desktops.
Click anywhere on the screen to complete this exercise.
Congratulations on completing exercise 2.
You can select any exercise to review or select Home to return to the beginning of the interactive demo.