Now in public preview, the new Windows 365 monitoring and reporting platform.
This new reporting tooling consolidates multiple important data sets related to your #Windows365 environment.
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#Windows365 continues its global expansion. Today we announce that #Frontline shared mode is now available from three additional #Azure regions: Brazil South, Italy North and West Europe.
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#Windows365 Frontline in shared mode is now available in even more new Azure regions.
Today we have added New Zealand North, Mexico Central, Poland Central and Sweden Central.
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#Windows365 Multi-region selection is now available in the US Government Community Cloud. This brings the same enhanced resiliency and residency capabilities to GCC. All the details are here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
#Windows365 is now available in the US Government Cloud Texas region.
This provides Government Community Cloud customers another location to deploy #CloudPCs for their end users:
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#Windows365 is showing up where end users need it.
Windows 365 #Frontline Shared mode is now live in Norway East, France Central, and Spain Central. We’re continuing to push Cloud PCs closer to users, lower latency and data residency where it matters
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#Microsoft is simplifying the #CloudPC story.
Dev Box stopped onboarding net‑new customers. Existing users are fine.
Future developer innovation moves to #Windows365 — with GPU options, predictable pricing, and no extra licence cost:
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#Windows365 expands globally again.
Today we announce that #Frontline is now supported in the Germany West Central and Switzerland North regions. Get your CloudPCs closer to your users and within set geographical boundaries. All the details are here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
Are you using or going to use #Windows Server 2025 #RemoteDesktopServices? Thinking about your user numbers, capacity and scaling? Check out our latest whitepaper providing this guidance:
Windows Server 2025 Capacity Planning Whitepaper
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Announcing two new hardware devices from #Asus and #Dell for connecting to #Windows365. Learn more about both of these in our latest blog
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Every Monday in March is #Microsoft #TechnicalTakeoff2026. Learn how we build resiliency into #AVD & #Windows365 & add-ons to improve your workload resiliency. Mon 2nd of March at 11:30 PST: "Resiliency with Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop"
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Are you using #Windows365 with Azure Network Connections (ANC)? After March 31st 2026, any new #Azure vNets you use with an ANC will no longer have outbound internet access enabled by default. Therefore read this article from Kathryn Jakubek to know more: techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/...
Are you using #AzureVirtualDesktop and likely to create a new #AzureVirtualNetwork after March 31st 2026? If yes then you need to be aware they will not support outbound internet access by default.
Kathryn Jakubek tells what you what need to know here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/...
#Windows365 is now available in #NewZealand.
Today we announce support for Windows365 form the #Azure New Zealand North region.
This is another example of meeting our customers where they are as we continue to expland the service.
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You can now configure #RDP Shortpath via both Group Policy and #Intune policies for #AzureVirtualDesktop and #Windows365
Make your life easier with centralised management of these important connectivity settings.
All the details are here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/Windows...
#Windows365 is now fully available in the #Brazil South #Azure region:
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Last week we announced the preview of Regional host pools in #AVD
Today we are adding support for the Azure portal.
For customers in the preview when deploying host pools to Central US or East US 2 you will see a new Deployment Scope drop-down box:
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Azure Virtual Desktop now supports regional host pools—boosting resilience & data sovereignty by storing metadata in your chosen Azure region. Public preview live in East US 2 & Central US. Get ready for global rollout! Details: aka.ms/avdregional #AzureVirtualDesktop #AVD
Significant resiliency and data sovereignty enhancements landing for #Windows365 Microsoft Hosted Network. As Windows 365 and Azure expand globally, these improvements rethink how region selection and availability should operate, as part of the service: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
#Windows365 #Reserve is GA
Reserve is a new offering that supports a user’s productivity when their physical device is unavailable or short-term access is needed by providing them with quick & secure access to work resources via a temporary Cloud PC. blogs.windows.com/windowsexper...
Here is great overview from Scott Manchester of many of the new #Windows365 updates and new features we have announced at #MicrosoftIgnite:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHXAEFJ2cFQ
#Windows365 Link enhancements. Now available in 13 countries and expanding to Belgium, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Singapore and Spain in the first quarter of 2026.
With multiple product updates coming in the first quarter of 2026
Further information: aka.ms/Windows365Li...
#Windows365 User experience sync
Windows 365 User experience sync preserves user settings and app configurations across Windows 365 Frontline in shared mode sessions, delivering a consistent experience even on nonpersistent VMs
Further details: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
#Windows365 Cloud Apps is now generally available.
Cloud Apps allow administrators to publish just specific apps delivered from the cloud instead of a full Cloud PC.
Further details: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
#Windows365 for Agents is now in preview.
Windows 365 for Agents provides a powerful, platform for agent makers to design, test, and deploy computer using agents (CUAs) to operate securely and efficiently on Cloud PCs anywhere they’re deployed.
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Keyboard Input Protection for #Windows365 and #AzureVirtualDesktop is now in preview.
Further protect your Windows365 Cloud PCs and you Azure Virtual Desktop session host VMs using new Windows Cloud I/O Protection capabilities.
Read the details here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
#AzureVirtualDesktop now supports non-persistent session hosts in public preview. This is great if need stateless workloads where the VMs revert back to a base image after use.
Here are all of the details to get started now: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurevi...
Bring your own Copilot to work.
#Microsoft has enabled multiple account access for Microsoft 365 #Copilot.
This enables employees to use their own Copilot from personal #Microsoft365 plans still controlled by IT. Further details are available here:
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External Identities is now in public preview for #AzureVirtualDesktop and #Windows365. This allows you to invite external identities into your Entra Tenant and then present them resources.
All the details are available here:
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You can now make use of #Copilot in #Intune to better manage #Windows365.
Now generally available, this brings AI insights into your management experience in Intune for your #CloudPC estate.
Full details are available here:
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