Windows 365 Flex

Make Flex capacity easy to explain.

Check an existing environment or plan backward from target dedicated users, shared users, and peak active sessions.

Your environment

Flex licenses purchased

Licenses for this specific vCPU/RAM/storage size. Dedicated Cloud PCs

Dedicated Flex machines already created or provisioning. Shared pool Cloud PCs

Cloud PCs backing regular shared pools. Cloud Apps pool Cloud PCs

Cloud PCs backing Windows 365 Cloud Apps pools.

Dedicated users

Users who each need their own assigned Cloud PC. Dedicated users active at peak

Expected dedicated users signed in at the same time. Shared users

People who can use the shared pool. Shared users active at peak

Shared pool Cloud PCs needed for expected peak demand. Cloud Apps users active at peak

Cloud Apps pool Cloud PCs needed for expected peak app demand.

License units used

License units left

A remaining unit can become 1 shared PC or 3 dedicated PCs.

More shared PCs

Shared pools use one full license unit each.

More dedicated PCs

Dedicated capacity fills 3 slots per license unit.

Cloud Apps pool PCs

Cloud Apps pools use one full license unit each.