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MonitoringBackup, difference report, and recovery model in Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery
In brief
The recovery model documentation now lists agent user accounts, agent identity blueprints, agent identities, and agent identity blueprint principals among covered objects.
What Entra admins need to know
Administrators can more accurately identify which Agent ID-related objects are included when comparing tenant changes and recovering supported objects.
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Backup, difference report, and recovery model in Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery
Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery automatically backs up supported tenant objects so you can compare changes and recover to a previous state. Supported objects include:
UsersUsers, including agents' user accounts- Groups
ApplicationsApplications, including agent identity blueprints- Service principals, including agent identities and agent identity blueprint principals
- Conditional access policies
- Named location policies
- Authentication method policy
@@ -1,20 +1,22 @@ --- title: Backup, difference report, and recovery model in Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery description: Understand how Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery creates backups, generates difference reports, and recovers tenant objects to a previous state-ms.date: 03/02/2026+ms.date: 08/25/2026 ms.service: entra-id ms.topic: concept-article ai-usage: ai-assisted+ms.custom: msecd-doc-authoring-1023+#customer intent: As an identity administrator, I want to understand how backups, difference reports, and recovery work so that I can compare tenant changes and recover supported objects. --- # Backup, difference report, and recovery model in Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery automatically backs up supported tenant objects so you can compare changes and recover to a previous state. Supported objects include: -- Users+- Users, including agents' user accounts - Groups-- Applications-- Service principals+- Applications, including agent identity blueprints+- Service principals, including agent identities and agent identity blueprint principals - Conditional access policies - Named location policies - Authentication method policy