🔹 Feature: Windows Cloud New Features
🔹 What It Does: A wave of new Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop capabilities that improve Cloud PC user experience, security, and manageability.
What Is It Giving You:
✅ Teams RemoteApp / CloudApp Support (SlimCore / VDI 2.0): Native Teams optimization for RemoteApp scenarios — better audio/video quality inside published apps.
✅ Windows 365 Migration API: Programmatically migrate Cloud PCs between provisioning policies and configurations at scale.
✅ Windows 365 Cloud Apps: Deliver individual Windows apps to any device via Cloud PC — full desktop no longer required.
✅ Disaster Recovery Plus: Paid DR add-on with pre-reserved capacity in the alternate region — real cross-region failover for Cloud PCs.
✅ External Identities Support: Provision and assign Cloud PCs to external / guest identities via Microsoft Entra External ID.
✅ Token Protection for Windows App: Binds authentication tokens to the device — mitigates token theft attacks against the Windows App client.
✅ Multiple Personal Desktop Assignment (AVD): Assign more than one personal desktop to a single user for role-based scenarios.
✅ Health Checks in Sovereign Clouds: Built-in AVD/Cloud PC health-check telemetry available in Gov clouds.
✅ Windows App on the Web for GCC: Full browser-based Windows App experience for U.S. Government Community Cloud tenants.
✅ Teams RemoteApp / CloudApp Support for GCC / GCCH: Optimized Teams RemoteApp/CloudApp scenarios in GCC and GCC High.
✅ Windows 365 for Agents: Dedicated Cloud PC profile for AI agents to run desktop tasks on your behalf in an isolated environment.
✅ Context-Based Redirections (CBR): Redirect devices (USB, printers, cameras) selectively based on app, URL, or session context — instead of all-or-nothing.
✅ Power Platform Connector: Automate Cloud PC lifecycle (provision, assign, reset, resize) directly from Power Automate flows.
✅ Autopilot Device Preparation (DPP): Faster, more reliable device preparation flow for Cloud PCs — reduced time to first sign-in.
✅ Azure Compute Gallery Custom Image Import: Import golden images directly from Azure Compute Gallery into Windows 365 provisioning policies.
✅ RemoteApp Enhancements (RAIL v2): Next-gen Remote Application Integrated Locally protocol — better window management, notifications, and integration with local shell.
✅ Keyboard Input Protection: Blocks keyloggers and malicious input capture in the remote session — protects credentials and sensitive input.
✅ AI-Enabled Cloud PCs (Frontier): Cloud PC SKU with dedicated NPU/GPU for on-device AI workloads (Copilot+, local models, media processing).
✅ Windows 11 Developer Optimized Image: Pre-configured Windows 11 image tuned for developer workloads — dev tools, containers, VS/VS Code, SDKs ready out of the box.
🌐 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/
🌐 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/
