First looks at resizing Frontline Dedicated Cloud PC’s

Posted on March 22, 2026 by ncbrady

Introduction

In a previous blog post I showed you how you can resize Enterprise Cloud PC’s, you can review that here. In this blog post myself and fellow MVP buddy Paul Winstanley teamed up again to look at the resize ability provided by Microsoft for Frontline Cloud PC’s and show you how you  can use this new feature (new to Frontline). Microsoft announced this new ability a couple of weeks ago here.

Admins can now resize Frontline Dedicated Cloud PCs after provisioning to adjust compute and storage configurations without reprovisioning. This capability provides greater operational flexibility when user requirements change and helps reduce the overhead of managing capacity. Admins can respond more easily to evolving performance needs while keeping existing Cloud PCs intact. For more information, see Resize Windows 365 Frontline Cloud PCs in dedicated mode.

Why resize?

Imagine you have a user that has a Frontline Dedicated Cloud PC assigned, with the following SKU.

  • Cloud PC Frontline 2vCPU/8GB/128GB

This may have been good enough for the tasks that that user was initially doing, but let’s imagine that they got access to new tasks that demanded more CPU/ram/storage, or that they simply noticed that the Cloud PC they were given was under powered. Now multiply that user by 10 or hundreds of users.

With this new ability you can resize Frontline Dedicated Cloud PCs on the fly.

Identifying low utilization

You can now identify low utilization on Windows 365 Cloud PCs in the Intune portal directly. In the Reports node, expand Windows 365, select Cloud PC Overview and then select Cloud PC recommendations.

Unfortunately this report only seems to cover Enterprise Cloud PC’s and we are focusing on Frontline Dedicated in this blog post. But there’s another way, in Devices, expand Device Onboarding, select Windows 365 and select Resource performance.

This brings up Endpoint analytics with lots of resource performance details.

You could click on the highlighted Insights and recommendations

or click on the Model performance or device performance tabs to get more details.

And sure enough, there’s our Frontline Dedicated Cloud PC showing as needs attention due to CPU spike time and to a lesser degree, RAM spike time.

Now that we’ve spotted the Frontline dedicated Cloud PC’s that need help, it’s time to fix  the problem.

Resizing

So let’s take a look at the new feature. Take note of the role, ip address and other requirements as detailed here.

To resize a Frontline Dedicated Cloud PC, locate it’s provisioning policy, and scroll down to Assignments, click Edit.

Click on Cloud PC size highlighted in blue.

 

This will bring up a Select Cloud PC size window where you can select from available sizes.

From there, pick an option to fix the problem, in this case we’ll resize the current Frontline Cloud PC from one sku to another via the Available sizes drop down, as it’s only an example of the resize operation.

Note: In reality, to fix this problem you’d want to resize to a vCPU with more power and possibly more RAM too based on the endpoint analytics report, however we don’t have either of those available in this tenant.

Also to note, downsizing is not supported for lower storage or GPU.

Take note of the warning, which states that All the Cloud PCs provisioned from this assignment will be resized to the selected size. Connected Cloud PCs will be disconnected, and unsaved changes might be lost. This is important and you should most likely only resize when your Frontline users are not actually using these Cloud PC’s if possible.

Finally, click Next and click Update to update the provisioning policy assignment with the new resized SKU. You can see the entire operation in the GIF below.

and after a while, the Windows app shows the new Cloud PC size, in this case we upgraded the Storage from 128GB to 256GB.

Job done!

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Summary

Resizing Frontline Dedicated Cloud PC’s is now a reality and available today in the Intune console. You have to modify the provisioning policy to resize the Cloud PCs which can mean several Cloud PC’s being impacted from this change, rather than just one.

The resize operation also logs off the user(s) while operations are underway, so it’s advisable to do these resize operations on a weekend or during planned downtime. The new resize ability is a welcome change and we are glad to see it.

See you in the next one!

 

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