Resize Cloud PCs in bulk

2025-04-28

You can resize Cloud PCs in bulk using Microsoft Intune.

Resizing in bulk can have large scale impact. Before resizing a large group of Cloud PCs, try resizing a small group. This step helps familiarize you with the process.

Up to 5,000 Cloud PCs can be resized at a time.

For more information about resizing a single Cloud PC, see Resize a single Cloud PCs.

For more information about resizing, see Cloud PC resizing overview.

Requirements

Role requirements

To resize a Cloud PC, the admin must have certain built-in Microsoft Entra roles.

For a Cloud PC provisioned with a direct assigned license, at least one of the following roles
- Intune Service Administrator
- Intune Reader + Cloud PC Admin roles
- Intune Reader + Windows 365 Administrator
For a Cloud PC provisioned with a group-based license, at least one of the following roles
- Intune Service Administrator
- Intune Reader + Windows 365 Administrator
- In addition to one of the previous three roles, a role with Microsoft Entra group read/write membership and licensing permissions, like the Windows 365 Admin role.

Alternatively, you can assign a custom role that includes the permissions of these built-in roles.

IP address requirements

When you resize a Microsoft Entra hybrid join bring-your-own-network Cloud PC, a second IP address must be available in the subnet for the Cloud PC to be resized.

During the resizing operation, a second IP address is used when moving to the new size. This precaution makes sure that the Cloud PC can be rolled back to the original should an issue occur.

To account for this precaution, you can:

Make sure that adequate IP addresses are available in the vNET for all Cloud PCs to be resized, or
Stagger your resize operations to make sure that the address scope is maintained.

If inadequate addresses are available, resize failures can occur.

Other requirements

In order to use Resize there must be available licenses in the inventory for the resized Cloud PC configuration.

To Resize a Cloud PC, it must have a status of Provisioned in the Windows 365 provisioning node.

Bulk resize Cloud PCs originally provisioned with directly assigned licenses

Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center, select Devices > All Devices > Bulk device actions > OS (Windows) > Select device type (Cloud PCs) > Device action (Resize).
On the Basics page, select the Source size for the Cloud PCs to be resized.
Select the Target size for the resized Cloud PCs > Next.
On the Devices page, choose Select individual devices across your environment > Next.
Under Select devices, choose the devices that you want to resize > Next.
On the Review + create page, select Create.

Bulk resize Cloud PCs originally provisioned with group-based licenses

Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center, select Devices > All Devices > Bulk device actions > OS (Windows) > Select device type (Cloud PCs) > Device action (Resize).
On the Basics page, select the Source size for the Cloud PCs to be resized.
Select the Target size for the resized Cloud PCs > Next.
On the Devices page, choose Apply this action to the devices registered to its group members > Next.
Under Select groups to include, choose the groups containing the users who own the devices that you want to resize > Next.
On the Review + create page, select Create. The user’s Cloud PC is placed in the Resize pending license state as can be seen in the Windows 365 provisioning blade.
Select Groups > select the group that your changing > Licenses > select the old license > Remove license > Yes > Save. Repeat this step for each group that you want to change.
Select Assignments > select the license that you want to resize the Cloud PCs to > Save. The users' Cloud PC starts resizing, which you can check in the Windows 365 provisioning blade.

Bulk resize a subset of Cloud PCs originally provisioned using group-based licenses

Create a new target Microsoft Entra group. Add the users from the source Microsoft Entra group that you want to resize. Alternately, you can use existing Microsoft Entra groups if you're mapping the groups to individual Windows 365 license types.
Assign the existing provisioning policy targeting the original source Microsoft Entra group to the new target Microsoft Entra group. You only need to do this step if you don't have a discrete Microsoft Entra group for your provisioning policy assignment. If you have discrete Microsoft Entra groups to manage your provisioning policy assignments, you can omit this step.
Sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center, select Devices > All Devices > Bulk device actions > OS (Windows) > Select device type (Cloud PCs) > Device action (Resize).
On the Basics page, select the Source size for the Cloud PCs to be resized.
Select the Target size for the resized Cloud PCs > Next.
On the Devices page, choose Apply this action to the devices registered to its group members > Next.
Under Select groups to include, choose the groups containing the users who own the devices that you want to resize > Next.
On the Review + create page, select Create. The user’s Cloud PC is placed in the Resize pending license state as can be seen in the Windows 365 provisioning blade.
To retrieve the old license, remove the users from the original source Microsoft Entra group. If you don’t perform this step, a new Cloud PC is provisioned with the original source license after you assign the target license.
- When using Microsoft Entra ID hybrid in your environment, after removing the user from the original group, you must wait until Microsoft Entra Connect synchronizes your on-premises Active Directory with your Microsoft Entra ID. This synchronization can take up to 30 minutes. Then you can add the user to the new group.
Assign the target license to the new target Microsoft Entra group. The resizing process now begins.

Next steps

For more information on Cloud PC sizes, see Cloud PC size recommendations.