In development for Windows 365 Enterprise

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'll need to take action before a change, we'll publish a complementary post in Office message center.
• When a feature enters production, the feature description will move 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 may 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.

Move Cloud PC

Today, when changing the region definition or Azure network connection (ANC) in a provisioning policy, only newly provisioned Cloud PCs are created in the new region. Existing Cloud PCs remain in the original region or ANC.

In a future release, a new option will be added to provisioning policies. This new option will let you define a new region or ANC for the provisioning policy, and trigger existing Cloud PCs to move to the updated region. When you initiate the move:

1. All Cloud PCs in the provisioning policy that no longer match the updated region or ANC will be shut down.
2. All such Cloud PCs will be moved to the new region or ANC.

It may take several hours for the moves to complete.

New Cloud PCs created by the provisioning policy will be created in the new region or ANC.

Device provisioning

Cloud PC custom name template

You’ll be able to create a template to automatically create unique names for new Cloud PCs.

End user experience

Windows 365 app: pin Cloud PC to task bar

End users will be able to pin their Cloud PC to the task bar in the Windows 365 app. This will let them launch the Cloud PC from the task bar icon without going into the connection center.

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.

Miscellaneous

FQDN tags

In a future update, FQDN tags will be available to help customers simplify the creation and maintenance of the necessary rules for outbound network traffic through Azure firewalls.

Next steps

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