windows backup for organizations

  1. September 2025 Windows 10 22H2 Patch Tuesday: Backup for Organizations, ESU Block & SMB Hardening

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday lands for Windows 10 with a mix of stability fixes, enterprise controls and a new organizational backup capability — but the rollout is as much about operational discipline as it is about fresh features. The September 2025 cumulative updates bring build bumps...
  2. August 2025 Windows Update Roundup: 25H2, AI, and Enterprise Readiness

    Microsoft’s August rollout tightened the screws on enterprise readiness while pushing AI deeper into Windows’ DNA — security hardenings, lifecycle milestones, and practical tooling dominated the month as Microsoft readied Windows 11 version 25H2 for general release. The update cadence in August...
  3. August 2025 Windows Servicing Wave: OOBE Patches, AI, and Backup GA

    Microsoft’s August 2025 servicing wave is the most operationally significant Windows 11 release window in months: it moves day‑one patching into the Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE), promotes Windows Backup for Organizations to general availability, extends hotpatching across server and (limited)...
  4. Windows 11 August 2025 Update: On-device AI, Copilot, and Admin Guidance

    August closed out with a busy month for Windows 11: Microsoft shipped the August Patch Tuesday rollups and an optional non‑security preview that together folded in a mix of productivity‑focused on‑device AI, UI polishing, enterprise housekeeping, and several reliability and recovery improvements...
  5. Windows 11 24H2 Preview (KB5064081): AI features, UI polish, Task Manager fix

    Microsoft’s optional August preview for Windows 11 24H2—packaged as KB5064081 and advancing eligible systems to OS Build 26100.5074—arrives as a substantial mix of staged AI features, UI polish and reliability fixes, plus an updated servicing stack that administrators should treat carefully...
  6. Windows 11 24H2 Preview: KB5064081 (26100.5074) SSU + AI Features

    Microsoft released an optional Preview update on August 29, 2025 — KB5064081 (delivered as OS Build 26100.5074) — that packages an updated servicing stack plus a broad set of consumer and enterprise-facing changes for Windows 11 (24H2). The package continues Microsoft’s pattern of shipping...
  7. Windows 11 24H2 Preview KB5064081: AI Features, Backups, Secure Boot

    Microsoft has published the August 2025 non‑security preview update for Windows 11, version 24H2 — delivered as KB5064081 and shipping an updated servicing stack that identifies as OS Build 26100.5074 — packing a mix of staged AI features, UI polish, reliability fixes, and several...
  8. Windows Backup for Organizations: Cloud-Native Restore for Entra + Intune

    Microsoft’s new Windows Backup for Organizations arrives as a focused, cloud‑native lifeline for IT teams wrestling with mass device refreshes and the ongoing Windows 10 → Windows 11 migration — but it’s important to understand exactly what it does, what it doesn’t, and how to deploy it safely...
  9. Windows Backup for Organizations GA: Enterprise Settings Restore with Intune

    Microsoft’s Windows Backup for Organizations has moved out of limited preview and into general availability for commercial customers — a tenant-scoped, Intune-integrated service that captures curated Windows settings and Microsoft Store app manifests to accelerate device refreshes, reimages, and...
  10. Windows Backup for Organizations: Intune-Integrated Enterprise Settings Restore

    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...
  11. Windows Backup for Organizations: Tenant-Scoped Restore with Intune

    Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows Backup for Organizations, a tenant‑scoped, Intune‑integrated backup and restore capability designed to capture user preferences and Microsoft Store app lists so IT can restore a familiar Windows experience on Microsoft Entra‑joined devices during...
  12. Windows Backup for Organizations: Release Preview Adds Tenant‑Gated Restore

    Microsoft’s August preview updates quietly deliver a major new enterprise capability: Windows Backup for Organizations has been promoted into Release Preview and is being positioned as the supported, tenant‑gated path for backing up and restoring user settings and Microsoft Store app lists in...
  13. Windows 10 KB5063842: ESU Outbound Block & Windows Backup for Organizations GA

    The last months of Windows 10’s lifecycle are producing a flurry of modest but strategically important updates — and Microsoft’s September preview, rolled out as KB5063842, reads like a maintenance and migration playbook rather than a feature-packed refresh. The patch fixes a handful of...
  14. Windows 11 23H2 KB5064080 Preview: Windows Backup for Organizations GA & Enterprise fixes

    Microsoft has published its August 2025 non-security preview update for Windows 11 version 23H2 — KB5064080 (OS Build 22621.5840) — and it brings the long-awaited general availability of Windows Backup for Organizations along with a collection of quality fixes spanning Copilot reliability...
  15. Windows 10 19045.6276 Release Preview: ESU network control, Backup GA, Secure Boot expiry

    Microsoft’s Release Preview push for Windows 10 Build 19045.6276 (KB5063842) is a terse but consequential update: delivered as an optional, non-security cumulative preview, it bundles a set of targeted reliability fixes while surfacing two management-facing capabilities that matter to IT teams —...
  16. Windows Backup for Organizations Hits Release Preview with KB5064080

    Microsoft has quietly moved Windows Backup for Organizations from preview into the Release Preview channel with the optional, non‑security cumulative update KB5064080 (Build 22631.5837 / OS Build 22621.5840), pairing a cluster of targeted reliability fixes with a strategically important...
  17. KB5064080 August 2025 Preview: Windows 11 23H2 Enterprise Backup & Management

    Microsoft has published a non‑security preview update for Windows 11, version 23H2 — KB5064080 — delivered as an optional Release Preview package that bundles a set of targeted reliability fixes, a servicing‑stack refresh, and an enterprise‑facing capability that Microsoft calls Windows Backup...
  18. Windows 11 KB5064080 Release Preview: Reliability fixes & Windows Backup for Organizations

    Microsoft has pushed a targeted Release Preview update identified as KB5064080 into the Windows 11 servicing stream, delivering incremental reliability fixes across File Explorer, storage (ReFS), networking (SMB over QUIC), input/IME handling, device‑management policy enforcement and more — and...
  19. Windows 11 23H2 Build 22631.5837 Release Preview: Key fixes & Backup for Organizations

    Microsoft has quietly pushed a quality update to Windows 11 Insiders that packs a slate of targeted bug fixes — including remedies for USB/removable‑storage policy enforcement, File Explorer slowdowns, and several enterprise‑grade reliability issues — as part of Build 22631.5837 (KB5064080)...
  20. Windows Backup for Organizations Now GA in Release Preview

    Microsoft's Windows Backup for Organizations has taken a major step toward mainstream deployment: reports indicate that a Release Preview build for Windows 10 (OS build 19045.6276) — surfaced under the label KB5063842 — includes the feature marked as generally available for enterprise customers...