Welcome to the Windows 365 Interactive Demo
Windows 365 securely streams your desktop, apps, settings and content from the Microsoft cloud to all of your devices to provide a personalized Windows experience anywhere. Windows 365 extends end-user computing from the client to the cloud for businesses of all sizes, simplifying the experience with a complete service to securely buy, manage, and scale, all in one place.
Windows 365 comes in multiple versions, including Enterprise and Business.
Windows 365 Business is for any business, with no technology prerequisites, that requires fewer than 300 Cloud PCs. Simply use windows365.microsoft.com to purchase, deploy and manage Cloud PCs any time.
Windows 365 Enterprise leverages Microsoft Intune to enable customers to provision and manage Cloud PCs using the same skills they use to deploy physical PCs, fully integrated with Active Directory and built on Azure.
This interactive demo walks you through the Windows 365 Business experience, using Microsoft 365 Admin Center to purchase a Windows 365 Business license and windows365.microsoft.com to assign licensees to and deploy Cloud PCs for employees. You can use the interactive experience by following the prompts to click and fill out highlighted links and form fields. For text input fields, a copy/paste button is provided that will make it easy to place the relevant text on your clipboard to paste into the software simulation.
To get started, choose an exercise at left.
In this module, we’ll demonstrate how to purchase Windows 365 Cloud PC licenses from within Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Here, you’ll navigate to admin.microsoft.com to purchase your Windows 365 Business licenses - just like you normally do for other licenses such as Office 365 or Microsoft 365 Business Premium – in just a few simple steps.
Starting in Microsoft Edge, click in the address bar to type and then type or copy/paste https://admin.microsoft.com and press Enter to navigate to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Authenticate as Contoso’s administrator:
- Username: type or copy/paste admin@contoso.com and press Enter or click Next.
- Password: type or copy/paste password and press Enter or click Sign in.
In the Microsoft 365 admin center, select Marketplace in the left navigation.
One the Marketplace page, select the All products tab.
On the All products tab, under View by Category, select Windows 365.
Under the Windows 365 Business description, click on Details.
On the Windows 365 Business page, click to expand the Select a plan menu.
There are a variety of plans available, enabling you to purchase the license and size of Cloud PC that fits your use case best. We will be selecting the 2vCPU/8GB/128GB plan, which includes Microsoft Teams, Outlook and the Office apps, making it suitable for Information Worker work from home scenarios. For more information on available options, see Windows 365 Business sizing options.
Under Subtotal before applicable taxes, click the Buy button.
Review the details on the Checkout page and then click the Place order button.
You have successfully purchased a license for Windows 365 Business and are now ready to assign that license to a user on windows365.microsoft.com. Select Go to Admin home to continue.
Select Exercise 2 to continue.
Once you’ve purchased one or more Windows 365 Business Edition licenses it’s time to review and (if appropriate) modify your organization settings for Cloud PCs. windows365.mcrosoft.com enables you to easily configure default settings for Cloud PCs, specifying:
- Account type - This setting determines whether users are provisioned as standard users or local administrators.
- Operating system - By default, new Cloud PCs will be provisioned with Windows 11 – this setting allows you to specify whether you prefer Windows 10 or Windows 11.
- Language and region
- Microsoft Intune - For accounts with an Intune license subscription, you can opt to have Cloud PCs automatically enrolled in Intune during initial provisioning.
Organization settings only apply to new Cloud PCs (changes are not retroactively applied to existing Cloud PCs) – so it is beneficial to configure these prior to provisioning Cloud PCs for your org.
In this module, you will see how to access and modify these settings prior to assigning a license to a user and provisioning/managing their Cloud PC.
Beginning in a new tab in Microsoft Edge, click in the address bar and then type or copy/paste https://windows365.microsoft.com and press Enter.
Authenticate as Contoso’s administrator:
- Username: type or copy/paste admin@contoso.com and press Enter or click Next.
- Password: type or copy/paste password and press Enter or click Sign in.
- Select Yes to stay signed in.
Click Update organization settings.
On the Organization settings panel, review the Account type, Operating system and Language and region settings – Contoso will be keeping the default values for those settings.
Under Microsoft Intune, select Enroll new Cloud PCs in Microsoft Intune.
Click Save at the bottom on the organization settings panel.
Once your changes are saved, click the X to close the organization settings panel.
You are now ready to provision Cloud PCs by assigning licenses to users. Click anywhere on the screen to continue to the next exercise.
Select Exercise 3 to continue.
Assigning a license to a user in windows365.microsoft.com acts to immediately provision a Cloud PC to that user, with no additional IT admin actions required. In this module, we’ll walk you through the steps and show you just how simple it is! If you’re ready, let’s get started.
In windows365.microsoft.com, you will see a list of active users in your organization. We will start by assigning a license to Adele Vance. Select Adele Vance in the list of users.
On the person card for Adele Vance, select the Licenses and apps tab.
Under Licenses, select the checkbox next to Windows 365 Business 2 vCPU 8GB 128GB.
After selecting the Windows 365 Business license, click on Save changes.
After your changes have been successfully saved, select the Devices tab on Adele’s person card.
You can see that Adele’s Cloud PC is already being provisioned. In a short time, it will be available to use (and manage). Click anywhere on the screen to proceed to a point in time after Adele’s Cloud PC has been set up.
In accordance with the organization settings you set earlier, Adele’s Cloud PC was automatically enrolled in Intune during the provisioning process. As such, you have access to the Cloud PC and a number of administrative actions from within windows365.microsoft.com. These actions include:
- Restart - Restarts the Cloud PC.
- Reset - Reset does the following:
- Reinstalls Windows.
- Removes all personal files (OneDrive data remains).
- Removes any changes you made to settings.
- Removes any apps installed by the user.
- Restore - Point-in-time restore lets an administrator restore a Cloud PC to the exact state it was at an earlier point in time.
- Rename - Changes the name of the Cloud PC shown to the user on windows365.microsoft.com.
Click the more menu (the … icon) to see additional actions:
The Change account type option allows admin to specify whether the user should be a standard user or local administrator on the Cloud PC. In this case, we’ll leave Adele as a standard user.
Before moving on, also note that in addition to Cloud PC management, windows365.microsoft.com gives you quick access to other key actions like reset password – making it easier to support your Cloud PC users with a single admin experience.
You have now successfully provisioned a Cloud PC and previewed the management capabilities available to you in windows365.microsoft.com. Click anywhere to continue with the interactive guide.
Congratulations on completing the interactive demo for Windows 365 Business.
You can click on the Home button on the toolbar to return to the initial menu.
Windows 365 securely streams your desktop, apps, settings and content from the Microsoft cloud to all of your devices to provide a personalized Windows experience anywhere. Windows 365 extends end-user computing from the client to the cloud for business of all sizes, simplifying the experience with a complete service to securely buy, manage, and scale, all in one place.
Windows 365 comes in several versions, including Enterprise and Business.
Windows 365 Enterprise leverages Microsoft Intune to enable customers to provision and manage Cloud PCs using the same skills they use to deploy physical PCs, fully integrated with Active Directory and built on Azure.
Windows 365 Business is for any business, with no technology prerequisites, that requires fewer than 300 Cloud PCs. Simply use windows365.microsoft.com to purchase, deploy and manage Cloud PCs any time.
This interactive demo walks you through the Windows 365 Enterprise experience, utilizing Microsoft Intune to deploy, configure and manage Cloud PCs - and then reviewing the employee experience when using their Cloud PCs. You can use the interactive experience by following the prompts to click and fill out highlighted links and form fields.
To get started, choose an exercise at left.
In this module, we’ll demonstrate how to purchase Windows 365 Enterprise licenses from within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Here, you’ll navigate to admin.microsoft.com to purchase your Windows 365 Enterprise licenses - just like you normally do for other licenses such as Office 365 or Microsoft 365 – in just a few simple steps.
Starting in Microsoft Edge, click in the address bar to type and then type or copy/paste https://admin.microsoft.com and press Enter to navigate to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Authenticate as Contoso’s administrator:
- Username: type or copy/paste admin@contoso.com and press Enter or click Next.
- Password: type or copy/paste password and press Enter or click Sign in.
In the Microsoft 365 admin center, select Marketplace in the left navigation.
One the Marketplace page, select the All products tab.
On the All products tab, under View by Category, select Windows 365.
Under the Windows 365 Enterprise description, click on Details.
On the Windows 365 Enterprise page, click to expand the Select a plan menu.
There are a variety of plans available, enabling you to purchase the license and size of Cloud PC that fits your use case best. We will be selecting the 2vCPU/8GB/256GB plan, which includes Microsoft Teams, Outlook and the Office apps, making it suitable for Information Worker work from home scenarios.
Under Subtotal before applicable taxes, click the Buy button.
Review the details on the Checkout page and then click the Place order button.
You have successfully purchased a license for Windows 365 Enterprise and are now ready to assign that license to a user on windows365.microsoft.com. Select Go to Admin home to continue.
Congratulations on completing exerecise 1.
Choose an exercise to continue.
This exercise assumes that you have already purchased the appropriate Windows 365 license(s) in the Microsoft 365 admin center (https://admin.microsoft.com) . To learn more about the features and pricing for Windows 365 Enterprise consult this Microsoft site (Windows 365 enterprise plans and pricing | Microsoft).
In the Microsoft 365 admin center, select Show all in the left navigation, then select Endpoint Manager, to launch Microsoft Intune admin center.
In the Microsoft Intune admin center, click on Users in the left navigation.
On the Users page, locate the user that you want to assign a Windows 365 - Cloud PC license. In this case, select Allan Deyoung.
On the account page for Allan Deyoung, select Licenses in the left navigation.
On the Allan Deyoung | Licenses page, click the + Assignments button.
Select the checkbox next to Windows 365 Enterprise 2vCPU/8GB/128GB to assign that license to Allan.
Click the Save button to finalize the license assignment.
Once the changes have been saved, click the X in the upper right to close the update license assignments page for Allan.
You have now successfully assigned a Windows 365 Cloud PC license to Allan and are ready to provision his Cloud PC - Click anywhere on the screen to continue.
Congratulations on completing exerecise 2.
Choose an exercise to continue.
Cloud PCs are created and assigned to users based on provisioning policies defined in Microsoft Intune. In this exercise – you will be using the Microsoft Intune admin center to create and assign a Cloud PC provisioning policy. Provisioning policies allow you to define key parameters including which network will host the Cloud PC and whether it will be joined to the enterprise AD and synced to Azure AD (Hybrid Azure AD join) or joined directly to Azure AD (Azure AD 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.
Note: The administrator account being used in this demo has the Intune Service Admin role assigned.
Picking up in the Microsoft Intune admin center, logged in as Contoso’s administrator, select Devices in the left navigation.
On the Devices | Overview page, select Windows 365.
On the Devices | Windows 365 page, select the Provisioning policies tab.
On the Provisioning policies tab, click the Create policy button.
On the Create a provisioning policy page, in the Name field, type or copy/paste West US Cloud PCs and press Enter.
In the description field, type or copy/paste Provisioning policy for Cloud PCs provisioned for West US employees and press Enter.
Contoso will be taking advantage of the option to join Cloud PCs directly to Azure AD and host those Cloud PCs on Microsoft’s network. This is a great way to enable the benefits of Cloud PCs for your organization without the need to create and manage a connection to on-premises infrastructure.
Verify that the Join type is set to Azure AD join and then select Microsoft hosted network as the network.
If you select the combination of Azure AD Join and Microsoft Hosted network, you will need to select a geography and region. To ensure the best experience for Contoso’s employees, you will be creating a provisioning policy for each of the regions in which Contoso has branch offices and then assigning those policies to the users in those regions.
For this exercise, you will be starting with the US West. Click to expand the Geography menu and then click to scroll down and select US West.
Leave the Region set to the recommended default (automatic) and click the Next button at the bottom of the Create a provisioning policy page.
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 using a standard Windows 11 based image from the gallery, so leave Gallery image selected and 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 particular provisioning policy.
Windows 365 also supports Windows Autopatch, enabling you to shift the planning and operation of the Windows and Microsoft 365 update process from your organization to Microsoft. Contoso will be taking advantage of this service, so select Windows Autopatch and then click Next.
On the assignments tab, click the Add groups button.
On the select groups to include pane, click in the Search field to type and then type or copy/paste Seattle and press Enter.
Select Seattle Area Employees from the search results and then click Select at the bottom of the pane.
Note: Every employee in the group with a Cloud PC license assigned will receive a Cloud PC provisioned based on the image and network/directory configuration. In this demo, Allan Deyoung is a member of the Seattle Area Employees users group.
Verify that the Seattle Area Employees group is listed under Groups on the Assignments tab and then click the Next button.
Review your settings and then click the Create button. After clicking Create, the new Cloud PCs will start to provision directly for the Azure AD group members that you assigned to the provisioning policy.
Once you get confirmation that the provisioning policy has been created, select the All Cloud PCs tab.
On the All Cloud PCs tab, you can see that Allan Deyoung’s Cloud PC has been provisioned (recall that we already assigned a Windows 365 Enterprise license to Allan in exercise 1) and is ready to use.
When you are ready, select Allan’s Cloud PC to open the detailed view for that Cloud PC and learn more about the management capabilities in Intune.
In addition to viewing more detailed information regarding the Cloud PC, Microsoft Intune supports quick access to a number of management actions for Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PCs, including:
- Sync
- Restart
- Restore
- Reprovision
- Resize (preview)
- Collect diagnostics
- Quick scan
- Full scan
- Update Windows Defender security intelligence
- Rotate local admin password
More information on the various device management actions can be found here. In this interactive demo, we are going to look more closely at restore and resize specifically.
Point-in-time restore 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. To learn more about point-in-time restore configuration, consult this Microsoft Documentation
In this interactive demo – the administrator for Contoso has configured short-term restore points every 6 hours.
To begin restoring Allan’s Cloud PC, select Restore in the toolbar.
In accordance with Contoso’s policy, short-term-restore points have been generated every 6 hours for Allan’s Cloud PC. Long-term restore points will also be automatically created every 7 days (though this is not admin configurable). Ideally, you will select a restore point as close to the present as possible while still resolving the underlying issue.
In Allan’s case this is the 7/29/2023 12:05:35 PM restore point, so select that restore point and then click Select.
Review the ‘Restore this Cloud PC to the selected point’ dialog box and then select Restore.
Congratulations – you have successfully restored Allan’s Cloud PC to a previous point-in-time.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue to review the experience when resizing Allan’s Cloud PC.
The Resize remote action, which preserves user and disk data, lets you:
- Upgrade the RAM, CPU, and storage size of a Cloud PC.
- Downgrade the RAM and CPU of Cloud PC.
These operations allow you to adjust to employee's needs without requiring reprovisioning of the Cloud PC - enabling you to accommodate scenarios such as:
- Higher RAM and vCPU cores to run CPU intensive applications.
- More disk space for file storage.
Note: in order to resize a Cloud PC there are a few requirements:
- An admintrator account with one of the following roles (or a custom role that includes the requisite permissions)
- Global Admin
- Intune Service Admin
- Intune Reader + Cloud PC Admin roles
- Intune Reader + Windows 365 Admin
- A license for the target Cloud PC size.
In this interactive demo, we’ll be reviewing a scenario where Allan Deyoung needs additional RAM to run business-critical applications on their Cloud PC.
Starting on the management page for Allan’s Cloud PC, select Resize in the toolbar.
On the Resize panel, select the radio button next to 2 vCPU.
Click to expand the RAM dropdown menu and then select 8GB.
Click Resize at the bottom of the panel, then review the ‘Resize Cloud PC?’ dialog and click Resize again.
Congratulations, you have successfully resized Allan’s Cloud PC.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue.
Congratulations on completing Exercise 3.
Select an Exercise to continue.
The Cloud PC Performance tab (currently in preview) in the Microsoft Intune admin center provides access to reports to help you assess key Cloud PC performance and utilization metrics.
To view these reports for Contoso, select the Cloud PC Performance tab on the Devices | Overview page.
Contoso does not currently have any Frontline Cloud PCs active, so we will focus on the Connection quality and Cloud PC utilization reports.
Begin by selecting View report under Connection quality.
The Cloud PC connection quality report helps you evaluate your users’ connection experiences on their Cloud PCs. The device list shows the individual Cloud PCs with key metrics and information including:
- Device name
- Key connectivity information : client IP, protocol, connection gateway
- Round-trip time (RTT): The number of milliseconds it took to establish the user connection to the Cloud PC. Lower values indicate better round-trip connectivity.
- Available bandwidth: Internet bandwidth during the user's attempt to connect to their Cloud PC.
- Remoting sign-in time: The number of seconds it took the user to complete the sign-in process.
In this case, we’re going to focus on identifying users with high sign-in times, so click on the Remoting sign-in time column header to sort that header.
We can see that Allan’s median sign in time is 45.77s – notably longer than other Cloud PCs with even higher current and median round-trip times.
Select Allan’s Cloud PC (CPC-alland-C4X0B) to open the management page for that device.
The Collect diagnostics remote action lets you collect and download Windows device logs without interrupting the user.
Select Collect Diagnostics in the toolbar, then review the text on the dialog and select Yes to access logs that may assist in troubleshooting the issues on Allan’s device.
Once you have successfully initiated collection of the diagnostics logs, we’ll return to the Cloud PC Performance page to view the utilization report.
Select Devices in the left navigation to return to the Devices | Overview page, then select Cloud PC Performance (preview).
Select View report under Cloud PC utilization.
The Cloud PC utilization report helps you make sure that your licenses are assigned to active users. By reviewing Cloud PCs with low usage, you can decide if a Windows 365 license would better serve other users who might use these resources more often. You can see from the report that several users have not used their Cloud PC in the past 4 weeks. You can export this data to aid in following up to re-allocate or otherwise adjust Contoso’s Windows 365 licenses.
Select Export and then review the information in the dialog and select Download to generate a csv file containing the information from this report.
You have successfully reviewed and exported the Cloud PC utilization report data. That concludes the review of the Cloud PC Performance reports in Intune admin center.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue.
Congratulations on completing the interactive demo for Windows 365 Enterprise.
You can click on the Home button on the toolbar to return to the initial menu.
Employees can access their Cloud PCs in any of 3 ways:
- windows365.microsoft.com web client
- Windows 365 app
- Microsoft Remote Desktop
This interactive demo walks you through the employee experience viewing and managing their Cloud PCs for each of the 3 options for accessing Cloud PCs.
You can use the interactive experience by following the prompts to click and fill out highlighted links and form fields. To get started, choose a topic at left.
windows365.microsoft.com provides a simple experience for launching any of your Cloud PCs in the browser. Accessing your Cloud PC is possible from modern browsers including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, or Mozilla Firefox (v55.0 and later). In this exercise, you will be using Microsoft Edge.
In Microsoft Edge, click in the address bar and then type or copy/paste https://windows365.microsoft.com
Sign in using Allan Deyoung’s credentials:
- Username: type or copy/paste alland@contoso.com and press Enter or click Next.
- Password: type or copy/paste password and press Enter or click Sign in.
Click through the introductory content as Allan’s Cloud PC is being provisioned.
Click Next on the 'Your cloud PC is ready for you' bubble.
Review the information on how to connect to your Cloud PC from your browser and then click the Next button.
Note how to access the Settings menu to manage the Cloud PC, then click Got it.
Now that Allan’s cloud PC is ready, click to expand the Manage this Cloud PC menu to explore the available options. Note that you can restart, reset, restore, rename and troubleshoot your Cloud PC from this point.
- Restart - Restarts the Cloud PC.
- Reset - Reset does the following:
- Reinstalls Windows.
- Removes all personal files (OneDrive data remains).
- Removes any changes you made to settings.
- Removes any apps installed by the user.
- Restore - Point-in-time restore lets an administrator restore a Cloud PC to the exact state it was at an earlier point in time.
- Rename - Changes the name of the Cloud PC shown to the user on windows365.microsoft.com.
- Troubleshoot – Makes it easy to review your Cloud PCs connectivity and get steps for resolving any issues discovered.
- System information – Provides basic information about the Cloud PC, user and license assigned.
When you are ready – click anywhere on the screen to collapse the menu.
Having reviewed the Cloud PC management options available from windows365.microsoft.com, you are ready to launch the Cloud PC. Click Open in browser to launch the Cloud PC.
Click in the password field to type, then type or copy/paste password and press Enter or click the Sign in button.
Once the credentials are verified, you will be logged on to Allan’s Cloud PC – clientless via the browser!
You are now in a Cloud PC session running in the browser. The background wallpaper and icons are preloaded from your physical desktop PC. All of your apps and configuration policies are automatically assigned via Microsoft Intune. There is no need to install any applications beforehand, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and your other key applications are available out-of-the-box!
When you are ready - click anywhere on the screen to continue to the next exercise.
Congratulations on completing exerecise 1.
Choose an exercise to continue.
Supported by all Windows 11 devices, the Windows 365 app provides a direct path to your Cloud PC from the taskbar or start menu. 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.
The app delivers high-performing and reliable experiences for Microsoft Teams and your other Microsoft 365 apps. Regular and automatic app updates mean you’re always using the most up-to-date version of Windows 365.
To simplify the process of getting started, windows365.microsoft.com provides a shortcut to download and begin using the app to access your Cloud PC. The Windows 365 app can also be downloaded and installed from the Microsoft Store simply by searching for ‘Windows 365.’
Starting in windows365.microsoft.com, signed in as Allan Deyoung, click the Download (down arrow) button on the left of the screen.
The ‘Download an app to use Windows 365 from your device’ page provides quick access to the Windows 365 app (as well as the Microsoft Remote Desktop client for a variety of platforms). Click Go to Microsoft Store to continue.
Click Install on the Windows 365 app page in the Microsoft Store.
Once app download and installation has completed, click Open.
Sign in using Allan Deyoung’s credentials:
- Username: type or copy/paste alland@contoso.com and press Enter or click Next.
- Password: type or copy/paste password and press Enter or click Sign in.
Review and click through the introductory content.
Once you have clicked through the first-run experience and the application is ready, click Connect to launch Allan’s Cloud PC.
Type or copy/paste password as Allan’s password and press Enter or click OK.
Allan’s Cloud PC is now open in full screen mode. Click on the Windows Start button to review the Microsoft 365 applications that have already been installed and are ready to use.
Click anywhere on the screen to continue with the interactive demo.
The Windows 365 App also makes it easy to pin any of your Cloud PCs to your taskbar in Windows 11.
Click on the 3 dots next to ‘Allan Deyoung – Cloud PC’ to expand the Manage this Cloud PC menu.
The Windows 365 App supports a number of management actions for Cloud PCs.
- Restart - Restarts the Cloud PC.
- Reset - Reset does the following:
- Reinstalls Windows.
- Removes all personal files (OneDrive data remains).
- Removes any changes you made to settings.
- Removes any apps installed by the user.
- Restore - Point-in-time restore lets an administrator restore a Cloud PC to the exact state it was at an earlier point in time.
- Rename - Changes the name of the Cloud PC shown to the user on windows365.microsoft.com.
- Troubleshoot – Makes it easy to review your Cloud PCs connectivity and get steps for resolving any issues discovered.
- System information – Provides basic information about the Cloud PC, user and license assigned.
In this exercise, we will be reviewing the experience when pinning a Cloud PC to the taskbar, so select Pin to taskbar.
Once the Cloud PC has been pinned, you will see the corresponding Cloud PC icon added to the Windows taskbar. Click on the Cloud PC icon to launch that Cloud PC directly.
Allan’s Cloud PC is now open in full screen mode. Click anywhere on the screen to continue with the interactive demo.
Congratulations on completing exerecise 2.
Choose an exercise to continue.
Windows 365 Cloud PCs also support the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client. You can download the client for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android from windows365.microsoft.com, or by navigating to https://aka.ms/CPCClient.
In this exercise, we will assume that the client has already been installed and review Allan Deyoung’s experience accessing their Cloud PC via the Remote Desktop client on Windows.
Staring in windows365.microsoft.com, click the down arrow next to Open in Browser to expand the menu and then select Open in Remote Desktop app.
As noted previously, Allan has already installed the Remote Desktop app, so click the Open in Remote Desktop app button in the dialog.
Sign in using Allan Deyoung’s credentials:
- Username: type or copy/paste alland@contoso.com and press Enter or click Next.
- Password: type or copy/paste password and press Enter or click Sign in.
- On the ‘Allow remote desktop connection?’ page, click Yes.
You are now in a Cloud PC session running in the Remote Desktop client. The background wallpaper and icons are preloaded from your physical desktop PC. Furthermore, all of Allan’s apps and configuration policies are automatically assigned via Microsoft Intune. There is no need to install any applications beforehand, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and your other key applications are available out-of-the-box!
Click anywhere on the screen to continue with the Interactive demo.
Congratulations on completing the interactive demo for the Windows 365 employee experience.
You can click on the Home button on the toolbar to return to the initial menu.