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Free assessment
Find out what your desktop estate should actually cost
Whether you are choosing between Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 or already running one and paying more than you expected, this is the same review: what the estate is doing, what it costs, and what it should cost.
Who books this
- Your Azure bill has grown and nobody can explain the host pool sizing
- You are choosing between AVD, Windows 365 and traditional desktops
- Logon times have got worse and you do not know whether storage or images are the cause
- You inherited a virtual desktop estate from a previous provider
What you get
- Your pool sizing against measured concurrency rather than headcount
- A straight answer on AVD, Windows 365 or a mix, and why
- Where the storage tier and image strategy are costing you, in pounds
- Whether reserving capacity makes sense yet, and what to do before you commit
What we need from you
- Read access to the Azure subscription, or an exported cost breakdown
- A rough idea of concurrency: how many people are signed in at the same time on a normal day
- Which applications have to be there, particularly anything GPU-bound
When not to book this
If you have fewer than about twenty desktop users and no unusual application requirements, virtual desktop is probably the wrong shape for you and this review will say so. Well-managed laptops are cheaper and simpler at that size.
Other assessments
- Microsoft estate review: Forty-five minutes and a written summary. What you are licensed for, what is switched on, where the gaps are, and what we would fix first.
- Security posture review: Most of what we find is not missing products. It is features you already pay for that were never switched on. Forty-five minutes to find out which.
- Cloud cost review: Non-production running around the clock, orphaned resources nobody decommissioned, and licences still assigned to leavers. Forty-five minutes to quantify yours.
- Cyber Essentials readiness check: The five control themes, checked against what you actually run. Most first-time failures are the same handful of things, and all of them are cheaper to fix before you apply.
- Application compatibility assessment: Migrations do not stall on operating systems, they stall on a handful of applications nobody can account for. This sorts your estate into the four groups that actually matter, before you commit budget to any of it.
- Copilot readiness check: Copilot does not grant anyone a single permission they did not already have. It just makes what they already had very easy to find, which is why the permissions work belongs before the licences and not after.
- Backup and recovery review: Everyone has a backup. Far fewer have a restore. The question worth answering is not whether jobs are running, it is when somebody last proved one and how long the business would be down.
- Application and reporting discovery: Most bespoke software goes wrong at scoping rather than in the build, and the most valuable thing a first conversation can do is establish whether you should be commissioning software at all.
- Endpoint and Intune review: Not whether Intune says the estate is compliant, but whether that means what you think it means: what is enrolled, what has gone quiet, which policies are actually winning, and what you could prove if somebody asked.