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Christiaan Brinkhoff

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Morten Pedholt

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Windows 365 Government

Today, governments use some Microsoft cloud services such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft Azure as they comply with special certifications that are required to work with US governments. Now, Microsoft has ensured that Windows 365 also meets the required certifications.

This allows governments to extend their Windows devices into the cloud with the newest functionality and technology based on top of the newest version of Windows 11 installed on powerful and secure Cloud PCs.

Windows 365 Government gives federal governments, government agencies, and public entities the opportunity to support the hybrid world we live in today by creating Cloud PCs just like it would for any other organization. This is currently restricted to governments in the United States; however, governments outside the United States can apply to get approval to use the service.

Windows 365 Government is provided in two versions – Government Community Cloud (GCC) comes with support for FedRAMP High, DFARS, and DISA Level 2 Security Requirements, and complies with CJIS, IRS 1075. The second version is Government Community Cloud High (GCC High), which supports FedRAMP High, ITAR, and DFARS. All of these are security and compliance certifications that a provider needs to have to fulfill the requirements about structure and standardization that governments require.

For governments to get started with Windows 365, they must contact Microsoft directly or an approved partner.

At the publication of this book, there are some features for Windows 365 Government that are not supported in GCC or GCCH. Here are a few:

Unified dashboard
Support for endpoint analytics in GCCH
Windows 365 alerting in Microsoft Intune for Cloud PCs
Windows 365 Security Baseline
Conversion of Windows 365 licenses to higher licenses
User feedback in Windows 365 Web Client and End User portal
RDP Shortpath for public networks
Multimedia redirection
Resize Cloud PCs
Virtualization-based workloads
Windows 365 Frontline
Microsoft Dev Box
Citrix HDX Plus for Windows 365

The following figure shows an overview of how Windows 365 can help US governments:

Figure 1.5 – How Windows 365 can help government workforces

Now we know how Windows 365 can help US governments, let’s take a look at what the differences are between Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop.

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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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