Posted by: kurtsh | April 23, 2026

RELEASE: Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery

Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery (Preview) is a native service inside the Entra admin center (in preview) that provides “identity resilience” for those concern about unintentional or unauthorized modifications to Entra. 

Entra Backup & Recovery provides:

  1. daily backups with 5-day rolling retention
  2. object-level restore
  3. reporting that provides insight into what will change when a restore is executed. 
  4. recovery audit logs for compliance  

Entra Backup & Recovery comes at no additional cost for either the service or the storage of Entra backups.

For more information on Entra Backup & Recovery, visit:


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