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To help in your readiness and planning, this page lists Windows 365 updates and features that are in development but not yet released. In addition to the information on this page:

  • If we anticipate that you need to take action before a change, we publish a complementary post in Office message center.
  • When a feature enters production, the feature description moves from this page to What's new.
  • This page and the What's new page are updated periodically. Check back for more updates.
  • Similar features might be announced at different times for Windows 365 Business.

Note

This page reflects our current expectations about Windows 365 capabilities in an upcoming release. Dates and individual features might change. This page doesn't describe all features in development.

This article was last updated on the date listed under the title above.

Device management

Support for symmetric NAT with RDP Shortpath

In a future update, RDP Shortpath in Windows 365 will support establishing an indirect UDP connection using Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) for symmetric NAT. TURN is a popular standard for device-to-device networking for low latency, high-throughput data transmission with Azure Communication Services. For more information about TURN and Azure Communication Services, see Network Traversal Concepts. For more information about RDP Shortpath, see Use RDP Shortpath for public networks with Windows 365.

Manage redirections for Cloud PCs on Android devices

In a future update, you'll be able use the Intune admin center to manage redirections for Android users who access their Cloud PCs using Microsoft Remote Desktop.

Device provisioning

New Cloud PC images aligned with Microsoft 365 apps images

In a future update, new Cloud PC optimized images aligned with the Microsoft 365 apps images will be available in the gallery.

In a future update, gallery images for Windows 365 Cloud PCs won't pre-install Microsoft Teams (classic). Instead, these images will install the new Microsoft Teams. All new devices created from these gallery images will have the new Teams pre-installed. For more information, see Gallery images.

Miscellaneous

Upgrade Windows 365 licenses in Microsoft admin center

In a future update, customers that have Modern Microsoft Cloud Agreements will be able to upgrade their existing Windows 365 licenses in the Microsoft Admin Center.

New Windows 365 Frontline offers for GCC

In a future update, new Windows 365 Frontline offers will be available for Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers using the Azure Commercial cloud.

Monitor and troubleshoot

End user manual connectivity check

End users will be able to manually run connectivity checks on their Cloud PCs from windows365.microsoft.com.

Provisioning

New health check: UDP TURN (preview)

A new UDP TURN check will be added to the Azure Network Connections health checks. For more information about health checks, see Azure network connections health checks.

Security

FQDN requirement changes

In a future update, Windows 365 will remove a large number of FQDNs from the current published list and move them to the existing *.infra.windows365.microsoft.com wildcard FQDN. This change will reduce the initial configuration requirements and the change rate of connectivity requirements. For Windows 365 Government, the FQDNs will be moved to *.infra.windows365.microsoft.us.

New settings for Windows 365 security baselines

New configuration settings will be introduced for the Windows 365 security baseline.

Next steps

For details about recent developments, see What's new in Windows 365.