Welcome to the one-hundred-and-fiftieth (150th) edition of the Windows 365 Community newsletter! We highlight weekly Windows 365 news, free events, tips, and tricks from the world of the Cloud PC.
Automatically remove licenses of unused Cloud PCs
Dieter Kempeneers has written a script that can help to optimize license assignment by removing licenses for Cloud PCs that are not used. It can be a great resource for Windows 365 Admins.
The script that I wrote will look at the current provisioned Cloud PCs and will remove the user from the license group if they haven’t used the Cloud PC for a specified amount of time. By default it’s set to 30 days before a license is removed, this value can be changed with the “daysSinceLastConnection” parameter.
Read the full post here: Dieter Kempeneers – Automatically remove licenses of unused Cloud PCs
Windows 365 powering your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans
Jon Towles has written a great post on the new cross-region disaster recovery add-on for Windows 365 Enterprise. The article explains the built-in in-zone BCDR features that are a part of Windows 365 by default and it elaborates how the newly released add-on enables cross-region disaster recovery for Windows 365 Enterprise.
Read the full post here: Jon Towles – Windows 365 powering your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans
What’s new by Microsoft
Microsoft announced the following in the week of July 15th:
Windows 365 Cloud PCs now support FIDO devices and passkeys for Microsoft Entra ID sign in on macOS and iOS.
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