Microsoft’s new enterprise backup arrives as a focused, cloud-first tool designed to preserve user settings and Microsoft Store app manifests during device refreshes — but it’s narrowly scoped, Intune‑managed, and explicitly engineered to accelerate migrations to Windows 11 rather than replace...
Microsoft’s new Windows Backup for Organizations lands in the enterprise as a tightly scoped, Intune-integrated way to preserve Windows settings and Microsoft Store app lists in the cloud — but it is not a replacement for disk imaging, file-level backups, or full disaster recovery.
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cloud backup
conditional access
data residency
device enrollment
device provisioning
disaster recovery
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intune
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migration tools
oobe
oobe restore
rbac
settings restore
store app manifest
store app manifests
tenant-scoped backup
win32 apps not included
windows 10 11 migration
windows 11
windows 11 22h2
windows backup for organizations
windows backup prerequisites
