ESR management completed the transition to Windows Backup for Organizations

🚨 The Signal: Enterprise State Roaming (ESR) management has fully transitioned to Windows Backup for Organizations. This change centralizes user setting synchronization under a new policy framework, impacting how IT manages device refresh and user experience consistency.

The Impact

Admins are affected by a change in management location, with a positive impact on user data backup and recovery.

  • Admins: Must learn new management portal for user settings.
  • Users: Benefit from more reliable and comprehensive setting restoration.
  • Security Teams: Gain better visibility and control over user state backups.
  • IT Operations: Streamlined device refresh and replacement processes.

The Action

  1. Review existing Enterprise State Roaming (ESR) configurations in the Microsoft Entra portal.
  2. Familiarize yourself with Windows Backup for Organizations policies and capabilities.
  3. Plan the transition of ESR management to Windows Backup for Organizations policies.
  4. Implement and test new backup and restore policies for user settings via Windows Backup for Organizations.
  5. Communicate changes to relevant IT and security teams regarding the new management location.

Domain: Intune · Impact: low · Workload: Other · Essential Eight: Regular Backups · ISM: ISM-1511, ISM-1515, ISM-1705, ISM-1706, ISM-1707, ISM-1708, ISM-1810, ISM-1811, ISM-1812, ISM-1813, ISM-1814