News Use a Windows 365 cloud PC from a dedicated Windows, Mac, or iPad app

From the Windows 365 portal screen, click the "Remote Desktop Download" menu in "Quick Actions"

"Windows 365" launched by Microsoft in August 2021 is a full-scale remote decut stop service that allows you to use the Windows environment built on the cloud (hereinafter referred to as "cloud PC") from anywhere. The cloud PC can also be accessed using a dedicated app. [Image] If the authentication is successful, the dedicated application that displays the desktop of the cloud PC on the iPad screen is provided for Windows, Mac, iOS / iPadOS, and Android respectively. This time, I will introduce how to use a cloud PC with Windows, Mac, and iPad apps. Using a cloud PC with the Windows version of the remote desktop app First, let's access the cloud PC using the Windows version of the remote desktop app. Go to the Windows 365 portal screen and click the down arrow icon in the upper left or click the "Remote Desktop Download" menu in "Quick Actions". You should see a page called "Microsoft Remote Desktop App" as shown below. You can now download the app to connect to the remote desktop by clicking the 64-bit Download button in Microsoft Remote Desktop for Windows. When you execute the downloaded file, the installer will start. Follow the instructions on the screen to install it. When the installation is completed, the remote desktop application will be launched as follows. At first, nothing is registered such as the cloud PC to connect to. If you click the [Register by URL] button here, a field for entering the URL will be displayed on the right side as shown below. In this Email or Workspace URL, enter the URL of the workspace where your Windows 365 cloud PC is deployed. You can find the URL of the workspace in the Windows 365 portal. On the remote desktop app download page, you should see a link that says "Get a subscription URL," as shown below. When you click this link, the URL will be displayed in a dialog as shown below. This is the "workspace URL" that you register with the Remote Desktop app. If you go back to the Remote Desktop app and successfully register the workspace URL, you should see your Windows 365 cloud PC as shown below. In this example, only one cloud PC is created, but even if there are multiple PCs, all of them will be displayed here. Double-click the icon of the cloud PC you want to use. You will be prompted to enter your credentials, so enter the account and password you created when setting up your cloud PC and click OK. If the authentication is successful, the desktop of the cloud PC will be displayed via the Remote Desktop app (not the web browser). You can switch between full screen view and window view in the menu at the top. You can also end the use of the cloud PC by clicking the x icon at the right end of this menu. The following figure is an example of window display. You can see that you are accessing the cloud PC as a native application, not as a web browser.

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