Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop, designed and run by our UK team.
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In short: Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop, designed and run by our UK team. Choose on who will own the ongoing decisions rather than on a feature comparison: Windows 365 is close to administering a subscription, AVD is running infrastructure.
Who this is for
The problem
Laptops scatter your data across the country and put it one theft away from an incident.
What we would do
Choose on who will own the ongoing decisions, not on a feature comparison. Windows 365 is close to administering a subscription; AVD is running infrastructure, with host pools, scaling plans, profile storage and image versioning all needing revisiting as usage changes.
- If you need multi-session density and are prepared to tune it, AVD is materially cheaper at scale and that gap is real.
- If your users need a persistent machine each and nobody has time to tune infrastructure, Windows 365 will cost more per seat and less in total.
When we are not the answer: If your people work in one office on machines that never move, a cloud desktop adds cost and a dependency on your internet connection for no clear gain. Physical desktops are still the right answer for plenty of businesses.
What is included
- Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop design, build and migration
- Host pool sizing, user density and autoscale scaling plans
- FSLogix profile containers and Azure Files storage design
- Golden images versioned through the Azure Compute Gallery
- Application delivery, including MSIX packaging and App Attach
- Intune, Microsoft Entra ID and Conditional Access integration
- Cost review: right-sizing, pooling, storage tiering, reservations
- Ongoing management, monitoring and performance tuning
What the last 12 months looked like
0 P1 incidents in 6 months
How moving a client from Azure Virtual Desktop to Windows 365, and fixing long-standing shared mailbox faults, drove priority-one incidents to zero.
Read what we actually didA UK client. Our case studies are anonymised at our clients’ request, so they name no client and no sector.
What it costs
Scoped and quoted against your estate rather than sold from a rate card. We price what you already run, including the parts that are working and do not need replacing, and the quote itemises what is included so it can be compared line by line with anyone else’s. Managed IT support starts at £40 per user, per month if that is the wider question.
Three questions people ask
What's the difference between Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop?
Windows 365 gives each user a dedicated Cloud PC at a fixed per-user, per-month price, with no infrastructure to size.
Do we need Intune and Entra ID to run Windows 365?
It depends on the edition. Windows 365 Business is capped at 300 users with no infrastructure prerequisites, so a small team can run without Intune or a domain.
What is FSLogix, and do we still need it?
FSLogix stores a user's Windows profile in a VHD(X) container on a file share and mounts it at sign-in, so someone landing on a different session host each day still gets their own settings, Outlook data and personalisation.
Tell us what you need
A short call to talk through how your IT works today, what your team handles, and what you need from a provider. We will tell you plainly how we would approach it.
Prefer to talk now? Call us on +44 (0)1482 770583.