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Intune baseline for Cloud PCs

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Intune baseline for Cloud PCs

A minimum viable Intune configuration for Windows 365 Cloud PCs: enrolment, compliance, configuration profiles, Autopatch, and the differences from laptops.

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Provisioning policy

Provisioning starts with a provisioning policy in the Intune admin center: which image, which network connection, which region, which user assignment. This is where the Cloud PC differs most from a physical laptop — you…

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Enrolment and identity

Cloud PCs auto-enrol into Intune. There is no separate enrolment restriction to configure — the provisioning policy is the gate.

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Compliance policy

Create a compliance policy targeted at Windows 365 devices (filter on model = Cloud PC — Cloud PCs identify themselves with a device model of Cloud PC Enterprise 2vCPU/8GB/128GB and similar). Baseline settings:

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Configuration profiles

The Cloud PC configuration surface is nearly identical to a laptop. The pieces worth explicitly setting:

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Apps

Assign apps through the same Managed Apps blade you use for laptops. The Cloud PC-specific twist: users can be re-provisioned onto a fresh Cloud PC in an incident (or when they upgrade the SKU), and every install has to…

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Autopatch

Enrol Cloud PCs in Windows Autopatch the same way you would enrol laptops. Autopatch's ring-based rollout works fine on Cloud PCs, and because Cloud PCs are effectively always online, the "test ring → broad ring" progre…

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Defender for Endpoint

Onboard Cloud PCs into Defender for Endpoint the same way you onboard any other Intune-managed Windows device. Defender treats Cloud PCs as regular Windows endpoints — the same EDR sensor, the same signals, the same aut…

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