Title: A Guide to Sharing and Downloading Cloud PC Restore Points

Restore points are useful for recovering a PC to a previously working condition, whether it’s on a local or Windows 365 Cloud PC. You may want to share a Cloud PC and its contents in order to create a geographically distributed copy, make a copy during the off-boarding process, get a historical view for eDiscovery, or create a VHD that can be mounted on a physical device.

Here are the steps to follow:

1. Prerequisites:

– A Cloud PC with restore points

– An account that can manage Cloud PCs and has access to the Azure subscription (and create a storage account)

2. Share a single restore point:

– Sign into the Microsoft Intune admin center.

– Navigate to Devices > All devices > select a device > select the ellipses (…) > Share (preview).

– In the Select restore point (preview) area, choose a Subscription and Storage account.

– Select Share (preview).

– A folder will be created in the storage account with the same name as the Cloud PC. It will contain a VHD copy of the Cloud PC device disk.

3. Share multiple restore points:

– Sign into the Microsoft Intune admin center.

– Navigate to Devices > All devices > Bulk Device Actions.

– On the Basics page, select the following options:

– OS: Windows

– Device action: Share Cloud PC restore point to storage (preview)

– Specify date and time: Choose a date and time for the Cloud PC restore point you want to share.

– Select restore point time range: Choose one of the following options:

– Before specified date and time

– After specified date and time

– Whichever is closest (before or after specified date and time)

– Choose a Subscription and Storage account > Next.

– On the Devices page, select the Cloud PCs you want to share restore points for > Select > Next.

– On the Review + create page, confirm your choices > Create.

– A folder will be created in the storage account for each Cloud PC restore point shared. Each folder will contain a VHD copy of the Cloud PC device disk.

4. Download the restore point from the storage account:

– Sign in to the Azure portal.

– Go to the Storage accounts.

– Click on the storage account you used earlier.

– Click on Storage browser from the menu.

– From the Storage browser, select Blob containers to get an overview of the content.

– Click on the item to view the .VHD file and get more information.

– Click the Download button in the ribbon to start the download.

– Once the download is complete, use Hyper-V to create a new VM with the downloaded disk. You may need to convert the disk type from .VHD to .VHDX using the PowerShell command provided in the article.

To restore from a Windows Cloud backup, follow these steps:

– Sign into the Microsoft Intune admin center > Devices > Windows 365 > All Cloud PCs > choose the Cloud PC to restore.

– Select Restore (preview) > under Select restore point, choose the point you want to restore to > Select.

– In the confirmation dialog box, select Restore.

Windows 365 has a limit of 10 restore points for Frequency of restore-point service. Choosing a shorter frequency will result in a shorter overall history of restore points.