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Published inSep 2023

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Christiaan Brinkhoff

Sandeep Patnaik

Morten Pedholt

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Creating custom images

When configuring your provisioning policy, you will be able to choose between gallery images and custom images. This section will describe and show you how to create a custom image for your Windows 365 environment.

Even though a custom image sounds like a good idea at first, always remember to consider the management overhead you will create by using custom images. We recommend using the gallery images because that will simplify the overall management of the Windows 365 environment. The gallery images will be updated monthly after the security patch release schedule of Windows servicing and delivery. The components that will be updated are as follows:

Windows 10/11 monthly image updates
Microsoft 365 apps security and feature updates
Microsoft Teams updates
WebRTC Redirector Service updates

If the built-in gallery images do not meet your needs and you do need to deploy Cloud PCs with a custom image, don’t worry, we have got...

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837637966

Authors (3)

Christiaan Brinkhoff

Christiaan Brinkhoff works as a Principal Program Manager and Community Director for Windows 365 and AVD at Microsoft, in his role at Microsoft, he works on features such as Windows 11, Windows 365 app, Switch and Boot. Christiaan is also an Author (3 books) and Inventor (3 patents). His mission is to drive innovation while bringing Windows 365, Windows, and Microsoft Intune closer together, drive community efforts around virtualization to empower Microsoft customers in leveraging new cloud virtualization scenarios. Christiaan joined Microsoft in 2018 as part of the FSLogix acquisition. He has also been rewarded with the Microsoft MVP, Citrix CTP, and VMware vExpert community achievements - for his continued support in the EUC community.
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Sandeep Patnaik

Sandeep is a virtualization veteran with nearly two decades of experience in the industry. He has shipped multiple billion-dollar products and cloud services for Microsoft to a global user base including Windows, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Windows 365. His contributions have earned him multiple patents in this field. Currently, he leads a stellar team that is responsible for building the product strategy for Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop services and shaping the future of end-user experiences for these services.
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Morten Pedholt

Morten works as a Cloud Architect for a consultant company in Denmark where he advises and implements Microsoft virtual desktop solutions to customers around the world, Morten started his journey as a consultant over 8 years ago where he started with managing client devices but quickly found a passion for virtual device management. Today Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop are the main areas that are being focused on alongside Microsoft Intune. Based on all the community activities Morten has done in the past years, he got rewarded with the Microsoft MVP award in the category of Windows 365 in March 2022.
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