

In the Windows 365 web portal, the user would be notified that their Cloud PC will be de-provisioned within that time limit. In the MEM portal, the status of the Cloud PC will change to deprovisioning. If the original provisioning policy was replaced with a different policy, the Cloud PC will be reprovisioned with the settings in the new policy.The operating system and data are deleted from the Cloud PC.The Cloud PC will start deprovisioning.This grace period normally allows the Cloud PC to remain in this state for up to 7 days.Ĭonfirm your action by clicking Yes to the destructive action warning. To delete the Cloud PC as quickly as possible, click on the In grace period status. It will most likely show No Results, if so, remove the filter (red arrow).Īfter removing the Status Equal filter, you should see your Cloud PC in a Status of In Grace Period.

Check the new status of the Cloud PCīack in MEM, check the status of the Cloud PC that you have just removed the license from. You will be asked to confirm that you want to Unassign X licenses (depending on how many users you are removing the license from), click Unassign to continue.Īfter clicking Unassign the screen will be updated to reveal that fact. Log in to the Microsoft 365 admin center and expand the billing node (1), then select licenses (2) and finally select the Windows 365 License type (3), as shown here.Īfter selecting the appropriate Windows 365 license name listed, select the checkbox beside the user you wish to remove the assignment from and then select Unassign licenses. Remove the Windows 365 license from the target user

In the screenshot above we can see that the user is Step 2. Once you’ve decided that you want to delete a Cloud PC, the first thing to do is to remove the assigned license from the user of that resource. If the Cloud PC is in use and all is OK the Status will be listed as Provisioned. Once you’ve provisioned one or more Cloud PC’s they’ll show up in Microsoft Endpoint Manager in the Windows 365 node as shown below.

Verify the current status of the Cloud PC If you are new to Windows 365 then checkout this blog post series where myself and Paul explain what it is and how to get started. Note that Delete is not the same as re-provisioning a Cloud PC (which I’ll cover in another blog post). If you are testing Windows 365 and want to delete your Cloud PC in order to start over again from scratch, the process is (currently) not that straightforward, but that’s what I’ll cover in this blog post.
