Microsoft Entra ID
FundamentalsOverview
In brief
The documentation describes protecting supported objects from permanent deletion during the first seven days after soft deletion, enabling permanent protection, and viewing protected-object counts.
What Entra admins need to know
Administrators can review the linked configuration guidance to protect supported objects and monitor protected-object counts.
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- Create difference reports: Before recovering objects to a previous state, compare the current state of your tenant with a backup and review changed attributes and links.
- Recover objects: Recover all supported objects, selected object types, or specific object IDs.
- Review recovery history: View completed and in-progress recovery operations for your tenant.
- Configure Hard Deletion Protection (preview): Protect supported objects from permanent deletion during the first seven days after they're soft deleted.
- Backups: Browse available backups from the last seven days.
- Difference Reports: Create and review reports that compare a backup with the current tenant state.
- Recovery History: View completed and in-progress recovery operations for your tenant.
- Hard deletion protection (preview): Enable permanent protection for supported objects and view protected-object counts.
Prerequisites
Related content
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery lets you: - **Create difference reports**: Before recovering objects to a previous state, compare the current state of your tenant with a backup and review changed attributes and links. - **Recover objects**: Recover all supported objects, selected object types, or specific object IDs. - **Review recovery history**: View completed and in-progress recovery operations for your tenant.+- **Configure Hard Deletion Protection (preview)**: Protect supported objects from permanent deletion during the first seven days after they're soft deleted. > [!TIP] > To ensure you recover to the right backup, always run a difference report, review the changes, and then decide what to recover. The time to recover mostly depends on the number of changes in the recovery job.@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ To get started, browse to the [Microsoft Entra admin center](https://entra.micro - **Backups**: Browse available backups from the last seven days. - **Difference Reports**: Create and review reports that compare a backup with the current tenant state. - **Recovery History**: View completed and in-progress recovery operations for your tenant.+- **Hard deletion protection (preview)**: Enable permanent protection for supported objects and view protected-object counts. ## Prerequisites @@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ Use Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery as part of a broader approach to recover ## Related content +- [Configure Hard Deletion Protection](configure-hard-deletion-protection.md) - [View available backups](view-available-backups.md) - [Create and review difference reports](create-review-difference-reports.md) - [Recover objects](recover-objects.md)