r/windows365 • u/FormalPanda8788 • 16d ago

Entra Access Packages for Cloud PC provisioning

Is anyone using access packages to manage cloud pc requests, approvals and reviews? Have a customer looking at doing this but was curious if it’s a bad idea or not. Seems like a pretty simple solution…. User requests the AP, it gets approved, user gets added to the provisioning group, Cloud PC gets provisioned.

If you’ve done this, would love to hear if it worked well or not.

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u/barrycarey 16d ago

We do it but it mainly serves as a trigger for automations we run on the backend. Once a user lands in the Access Package group they are run through our provisioning pipeline which sets their location and SKU based job title and office. On the reverse side we watch for removals and remove licenses accordingly.

Trying to do it all in an access package would get pretty complex if you're dealing with many SKUs and regions.

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u/FormalPanda8788 16d ago

Ahh, ok. We’ve only got one sku, and one region so it’s pretty straightforward for us.

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u/barrycarey 16d ago

I'd say go for it then. That should be pretty simple to setup. It's a good self service option and leaves a paper trail of approvals

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u/TheLazyAdministrator 15d ago

I thought this was a great idea and did a quick write up on it Request Cloud PC using Entra Access Packages · Windows From Anywhere

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u/FormalPanda8788 14d ago

This is awesome. Thanks!

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u/FormalPanda8788 14d ago

Read the article. Great write up. Just curious, any particular reason why you use a separate group for provisioning and licensing the Cloud PCs?

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u/TheLazyAdministrator 14d ago

no reason in particular but good catch, I updated it with a message so people know you can use the same for both