🔹 Feature: Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus — Real DR for Cloud PCs
🔹 What It Does: Keeps three OS disk copies in different geographies and reserves compute capacity, ensuring successful restore during regional outages.
⚠️ The Compute-Shortage Problem — Microsoft Says So Directly:
Standard point-in-time restore and cross-region DR “depend on the target region/zone capacity” (official docs). Translation: during a true outage, thousands of Cloud PCs attempt to fail over simultaneously, the secondary region can run out of compute — leaving your restore to fail. Microsoft explicitly states DR Plus exists as “a secondary opportunity to restore the Cloud PC to the reserved capacity of the alternate region” when point-in-time restore fails due to capacity constraints.
What Is It Giving You:
✅ Capacity PRE-RESERVED in the Alternate Region: DR Plus allocates VM resources at configuration time — not at failover. The difference between hope it works and know it works.
✅ Three OS Disk Copies in Another Geography: Initial full copy takes up to 3 days; subsequent incremental copies take minutes.
✅ Real, Published Targets: RPO < 61 minutes, RTO < 31 minutes — numbers your compliance team can actually include in a runbook.
✅ Temporary Cloud PC During Outage: Spins up from the latest restore point — apps, settings, and data included. OneDrive continues syncing back to the primary device.
✅ Auto-Cleanup on Deactivation: When the outage ends and DR Plus is deactivated, the temporary Cloud PC is deleted — anything local outside OneDrive is lost.
💰 Paid Add-On: Real DR costs money. The alternative is hoping spare compute exists in someone else’s data center on the worst day of the year. 🚀
🌐 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/enterprise/disaster-recovery-plus
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