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Published inSep 2023

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Christiaan Brinkhoff

Sandeep Patnaik

Morten Pedholt

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Windows 365 Business and Enterprise

Before jumping straight into the editions of Windows 365, we’d like to make you aware of recent product name changes around Azure Active Directory becoming Microsoft Entra ID. Most of the screenshots in this book will be listed as Azure AD, as the book was written in the middle of the name change, and not all product pages in, for example, Microsoft Intune and Windows 365 received those changes.

Please use the following table to convert from the old names to the new ones moving forward:

Old name	New name
Azure Active Directory	Microsoft Entra ID
Azure Active Directory join	Microsoft Entra join
Hybrid Active Directory join	Hybrid Microsoft Entra join
Azure AD Conditional Access	Microsoft Entra Conditional Access
Azure AD tenant	Microsoft Entra tenant
Azure AD account	Microsoft Entra account
Azure AD Connect	Microsoft Entra Connect

Table 1.1 – Azure AD becomes Microsoft Entra

Windows 365 is available in two editions – Windows 365 Business and Windows 365 Enterprise.

Windows 365 is a solution that aims to offer benefits to businesses of various sizes, ranging from small enterprises to large corporations. Companies can purchase subscriptions through windows365.com by using credit cards or other local payment methods supported in their country.

The Windows 365 Business Edition caters to the needs of small and medium-sized organizations, with up to 300 users. It offers a straightforward approach to purchasing, deploying, and administering Cloud PCs. Business owners can easily manage their company’s Cloud PCs using the Windows 365 Business Admin Portal.

Figure 1.3 – Windows 365 Business Admin Portal

Windows 365 Enterprise is for organizations that want to manage their Cloud PCs with Microsoft Intune and take advantage of integrations with other Microsoft services, such as Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint:

Figure 1.4 – Windows 365 Enterprise Intune admin center

We’ve now explained the high-level differences between Windows 365 Business and Enterprise. Let’s take a bit of a deeper dive and go over a cheat sheet table explaining both services in more detail:

	Windows 365 Business	Windows 365 Enterprise
Domain join	Azure AD join with Virtual Network (VNet) is not supported.	Azure AD join with VNet is supported. Azure AD join without VNet is supported. Hybrid Azure AD join with VNet is supported.
Purchase channel support	Microsoft 365 Admin Center or the Azure AD portal.	Microsoft 365 Admin Center or the Azure AD portal.
License portal	There are no licensing pre-requirements to buy and deploy Windows 365 Business. Other features, such as device management, can be used if users are licensed for Microsoft Intune.	Users must be licensed for Windows 10 or 11 Enterprise (when available), Microsoft Intune, and Azure AD P1.
Seat limit	300 seats per tenant	No limits
Provisioning	Provisioning is simpler through the use of default configurations. Cloud PCs are automatically set up with a Gallery image.	Provisioning can be tailored to meet the needs of the organization. Admins choose network and user permissions and assign a policy to the Azure AD group. Cloud PCs are set up with Gallery images or custom images.
Policy management	Not supported	Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and Intune MDM policy are supported
Monitoring	Not supported	Reporting with Endpoint Analytics Monitoring and operational health alerts
Universal Print	Not supported	Supported
End user management	Users are able to troubleshoot, reset, restart, and rename their Cloud PCs on the Windows 365 home page	Users are able to troubleshoot, restart, restore, and rename their Cloud PCs on the Windows 365 home page
Conditional Access	Policies in Conditional Access can be deployed only from Azure AD. Requires an Azure AD P1 license.	Policies in Conditional Access can be deployed from Azure AD or the Intune admin center.
Security baselines	Not supported	Dedicated security baselines can be edited and deployed by using Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint	Supported if the customer separately has the requisite E5 license.	Integration with Defender for Endpoint. If the customer has an E5 license, all Cloud PCs will respond to Defender for Endpoint policies and show up in MDE dashboards.

Table 1.2 – Windows 365 Business and Windows 365 Enterprise comparison

In the next section, we will be talking about Windows 365 for governments.

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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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