Worried about the token meter running? Windows 365 can run local AI on the Cloud PC itself. Use Foundry Local to run a small language model — Qwen, Phi — and both your AI-assisted coding and the app you build run against that local model on the Cloud PC's own drive, with no cloud token consumption. ▶ Full episode: https://youtu.be/MK-hCq7Su1w ▶ Get started: https://aka.ms/windows365 #Shorts #Windows365 #FoundryLocal #LocalAI #CloudPC

Windows 365 allows you to access Cloud PC experiences from almost any device. Now you can even use AI agents that work from inside your Cloud PC and interact with them from a Teams chat on your phone — finding downloaded files, editing documents, and drafting emails with your laptop lid closed. Microsoft Scout, a new Autopilot agent powered by the open-source OpenClaw project, runs on your own Cloud PC using your identity, your files, and your apps. Developers get a Developer Optimized Cloud PC preloaded with GitHub, VS Code, and Node.js that runs Foundry Local for token-free AI coding, and input and output protection capabilities black out the screen when anyone tries to capture a sensitive file. Bhavya Chopra, Windows 365 Partner Director, joins Jeremy Chapman, Microsoft 365 Director, to show how Windows 365 now covers every seat — end users, developers, admins, and the AI agents working alongside them. 👥 Who it's for: architects and IT teams deploying AI agents like Scout and Windows 365 for Agents, developers who want a pre-configured cloud coding environment with local AI, security and compliance teams enforcing data loss prevention on remote desktops, and admins managing Cloud PC connection health. ⏱️ Chapters: 0:00 What's new across Windows 365 Cloud PCs 0:59 Why Cloud PC adoption keeps accelerating 2:04 Healthcare and telecom Windows 365 case studies 3:14 Sign in to a full Windows desktop anywhere 4:10 Block screenshots with input and output protection capabilities 4:35 Pull table data from images with Click to Do 5:19 Resume your Cloud PC session on an iPad 5:52 Publish Cloud Apps with Windows 365 Flex 7:01 Give AI agents a dedicated Cloud PC 7:27 Run Microsoft Scout from a Teams chat 9:43 Code on a Developer Optimized Cloud PC 10:11 Run local AI with Foundry Local and Phi-4 11:57 Track Cloud PC connection health in Intune 13:03 Troubleshoot connection issues with an AI agent 14:03 What's next for Windows 365 Microsoft Scout takes instructions from a Teams chat and carries them out inside your Cloud PC — locating a report in the Downloads folder that never synced to OneDrive, summarizing it, appending the summary to the file, saving it, then drafting an email with the document attached and holding it for review. It reports progress back in Teams the whole time, so nothing requires touching the physical device. For agent workloads that need isolation instead, Windows 365 for Agents provisions a dedicated Cloud PC running Windows 11 with its own unique identity and scoped access, and the same agentic infrastructure powers Computer Use in Researcher. Developer Optimized Cloud PCs skip the environment build entirely: sign in to a machine already loaded with GitHub, VS Code, and Node.js, then run Foundry Local against the Phi-4-mini small language model to generate an app and run it — CPU spikes visible in Task Manager and Windows Machine Learning profiling in VS Code confirm inference is local, with no cloud tokens spent to code or to run the finished app. Input and output protection capabilities black out the Cloud PC screen the instant someone attempts a screenshot from the accessing device, and extends the same block to third-party screen recorders and key loggers. Alongside it, AI-enabled Cloud PCs running at least 8 vCPUs add Click to Do, which lifts text out of non-selectable images and graphical tables straight into Excel, plus Semantic Search across the desktop. Sessions roam: disconnect on a laptop, reconnect on an iPad, and apps and display settings come back as you left them. Windows 365 Cloud Apps with Windows 365 Flex publishes individual apps from a shared Cloud PC pool with user experience sync across Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and the browser. And in the Intune admin center, new monitoring dashboards track connection health, failures, round trip times, and license utilization in near real time, while an admin agent in preview triages issues to a root cause — like a regional cohort set to TCP-only transport instead of UDP with RDP Shortpath. 🔗 Related links: ► Check out https://aka.ms/windows365 ► See the latest Windows 365 updates at https://aka.ms/Windows365Turns5 ► Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? Microsoft's Official Video Series for IT - Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries - Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog - Podcast: https://microsoftmechanics.libsyn.com/podcast ► Join us on social: - https://twitter.com/MSFTMechanics - https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft-mechanics/ - https://www.instagram.com/msftmechanics/ - https://www.tiktok.com/@msftmechanics #MicrosoftScout #Windows365 #CloudPC #AIAgents

Can you drive an AI agent on your Cloud PC from a phone that doesn't have Windows 365 on it? Microsoft Scout takes instructions from a Teams chat and works inside your Windows 365 Cloud PC — reaching files the Downloads folder never synced to OneDrive, summarizing, saving, and drafting an email for review while the laptop lid stays closed. ▶ Full episode: https://youtu.be/MK-hCq7Su1w ▶ Get started: https://aka.ms/windows365 #Shorts #MicrosoftScout #Windows365 #CloudPC #AIAgents

What if you don't need a whole desktop — just one app? Windows 365 Cloud Apps with Windows 365 Flex goes beyond one user to one Cloud PC and publishes individual apps from a shared Cloud PC pool, so a Windows app opens full screen on a tablet like a native mobile app, with settings, files, and app data roaming with you. ▶ Full episode: https://youtu.be/MK-hCq7Su1w ▶ Get started: https://aka.ms/windows365 #Shorts #Windows365 #CloudPC #MicrosoftMechanics

The numbers you need are locked inside a picture. On an AI-enabled Windows 365 Cloud PC with at least 8 vCPUs, Click to Do — invoked with Windows key + Q — extracts text from any image, even a non-selectable graphical table, and copies it straight into Excel as live data you can calculate from. ▶ Full episode: [FULL EPISODE URL] ▶ Get started: https://aka.ms/windows365 #Shorts #Windows365 #ClickToDo #CloudPC #MicrosoftMechanics

How do you prove an AI model is really running locally? Task Manager shows the CPU spike and Windows Machine Learning profiling in VS Code confirms it — Foundry Local runs Phi-4-mini on a Developer Optimized Windows 365 Cloud PC to generate a meeting-summary app, and the finished app runs on the same local model, with zero cloud tokens spent to code it or to run it. ▶ Full episode: https://youtu.be/MK-hCq7Su1w ▶ Get started: https://aka.ms/windows365 #Shorts #Windows365 #FoundryLocal #CloudPC #MicrosoftMechanics

Users report connection problems — is it tenant-wide or one pocket? The new Windows 365 admin agent in preview takes the question in plain language, pulls the signals across regional cohorts and session configs, and comes back with the root cause: those users and devices were set to TCP-only transport instead of UDP with RDP Shortpath. ▶ Full episode: https://youtu.be/MK-hCq7Su1w ▶ Get started: https://aka.ms/windows365 #Shorts #Windows365 #CloudPC #Intune #MicrosoftMechanics

What can an AI agent actually finish while your laptop is shut? Microsoft Scout found a report sitting in the Downloads folder of a Windows 365 Cloud PC, appended a summary to the file, saved it, and left a drafted email with the document attached waiting in Outlook — all from one Teams chat sent from a phone. ▶ Full episode: https://youtu.be/MK-hCq7Su1w ▶ Get started: https://aka.ms/windows365 #Shorts #MicrosoftScout #Windows365 #CloudPC #AIAgents

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Microsoft has expanded Windows 365 Cloud PC capabilities for Windows 11 developers, streamlining cloud environments and workstation setup.