💻See app testing on persistent Windows 365 Cloud PCs
There’s a quiet lie at the heart of most application testing: the clean machine.
Until now, app validation — ours included — ran on a pristine Cloud PC, restored to a clean snapshot after every test. Beautiful. Repeatable. And nothing like the machines your users actually work on.
Real machines have history. They have last year’s version of the app still installed. They have settings someone changed in 2023 and forgot about. They have the residue of every update, every install, every “I’ll fix that later.” And when an upgrade fails in production, it almost never fails on a clean machine — it fails on a real one.
This release closes that gap.
With our new Windows 365 Validation Ring, your application tests now run on persistent Cloud PCs that keep their state — existing apps, existing versions, real history. Instead of installing fresh onto a blank slate, the new version installs on top of the old one, exactly the way it will in your production estate.
That means the failure modes that only show up in the real world — version conflicts, leftover registry state, in-place upgrade quirks — now surface in a true-to-production smoke test before deployment, not in a flood of service desk tickets after.
For endpoint management, EUC, and desktop engineering teams, this is the difference between “it passed testing” and “it will pass on Monday morning.”
Evergreen patching was supposed to be set-and-forget. Mostly, it was — except for one thing: the old versions.
Superseded app versions lingered in Intune and in your storage accounts with no retention control. Cleanup was manual, easy to forget, and storage isn’t free. “Hands-off patching” came with a hidden chore.
Not anymore. Patch360 now includes:
Automatic cleanup of superseded versions. Set how many versions you want to retain, and Patch360 removes the rest as new versions supersede them — in Intune and in storage. No more version pile-up, no more manual housekeeping.
Multiphase evergreen templates, end-to-end. Create or edit evergreen templates with multiple deployment phases for proper ring-based rollout — with better sequence control and improved stability throughout.
Evergreen patching is now truly evergreen: new versions flow in, old versions flow out, and nobody on your team has to think about either.
Intune Clarity now feels like part of the main platform, not a side door. This release brings unified login, consistent navigation, and a UI that matches the rest of WorkspaceDNA — so moving between Clarity insights and the rest of your workflow is seamless.
Storage: MPO support for existing storage accounts.
Windows 365 Validation Ring
1. Request access to the Cloud PCs feature.
2. Make sure you have Windows 365 licenses available.
3. Provision a persistent Cloud PC and add it to your validation workflow.
Patch360 Evergreen Enhancements
1. Update your existing active subscriptions with the new cleanup setting
2. Specify how many versions to keep
3. Create new — or edit existing — evergreen templates to include multiple deployment phases.
Clarity360
1. Just log in.
2. The unified experience is live today.
Want to see it in action? Watch the demo or book a session with our team to walk through validation rings on your own application portfolio.
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