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Cloud Desktop Advisor

Windows 365 or Azure Virtual Desktop? Answer a few questions about your users, apps, devices and team, and get a recommendation with the reasons, a starting size for both platforms, and how your users should connect.

Based on Microsoft's published sizing, licensing and network guidance. Everything runs in your browser; nothing you enter is sent anywhere. Already know what you want? Go straight to deployment.

Windows 365

A Cloud PC per user at a fixed price, managed in Intune like any PC, with Windows 365 Link and Boot for the best sign-in experience.

Deploy with W365 Deploy ↗

Azure Virtual Desktop

A platform you run in Azure, with multi-session Windows, published apps and autoscale: cheaper at scale, but more to run.

Deploy with AVD Deploy ↗

Your users

How many users do each kind of work? Rough numbers are fine.

Task workers: one or two apps, data entry, a browser

users

Office, Teams, Outlook and web apps all day

users

Many apps at once, large files, analysis

users

Developers, engineering, design, data science

users

How they work

Apps

Delivering desktops or apps to people outside your organisation

Identity, network and team

Devices

Where will users connect from? This drives the connection recommendations, including Windows 365 Link and Boot.

Client devices
Peripherals and local needs

Some of these rule out Windows 365 Link for the users who need them.

Priorities