Welcome to the one-hundred-eighty-fourth (184th) edition of the Windows 365 Community newsletter! This week, we bring you the latest Windows 365 news, free events, and expert tips & tricks from the world of Cloud PC.
What’s new – Service release 2506
Two new display language packs for Cloud PCs
English (Ireland) and English (Australia) are now available as language packs that you can use in provisioning policies to set up a default display language for Cloud PCs
Intelligent pre-start for Windows 365 Frontline in dedicated mode (preview)
Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs have the ability to predict when a user connects and pre-start their Cloud PC before they connect . This prediction improves connect times for such users’ Cloud PCs.
Here is more information on how this works (provided by Microsoft):
Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode can predict when a user connects and pre-start their Cloud PC before they sign in every day. This prediction improves start up times for such users’ Cloud PCs. For instance, if a user connects to their Cloud PC every day at 9 AM, the system will recognize that after a few days. When it does, the system will start up that user’s Cloud PC around 30 minutes before 9 AM each day and keep it powered on for two hours waiting for the user to connect. Thus, when the user connects at 9 AM, their Cloud PC is already started and they can connect quickly. If the user connects outside their regular start up time, the user must wait for the Cloud PC to start up.
For the prediction to work appropriately, users must connect to their Cloud PCs for at least three days in the past 30 days. If the user doesn’t have a pattern of connecting, the prediction might not be accurate and the pre-start won’t behave as expected.
Pre-started Cloud PCs don’t consume the license for session connection until the user connection is complete. If the user doesn’t connect within two hours, the Cloud PC automatically shuts down.
Intelligent pre-start is in public preview. During this time, it’s applied to the entire tenant and is on by default (and can’t be turned off by admins).
Configure non-UTC time zones for bulk reprovisioning for Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode
You can now configure non-UTC time zones when scheduling bulk reprovisioning for Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in shared mode.
Read the full update here: Windows 365 Enterprise – What’s new?
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