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Microsoft continues to take what's familiar to ordinary users and offer it to enterprises. The latest functionality is Windows Backup for Organizations. First, it's important to clarify that this is not a comprehensive backup solution for a device. It won't image a disk, send copies of files to another location, or enable a …

  1. cyberdemon Silver badge
    Linux

    > Not a disaster recovery option, but bad enough for a migration

    Away from Windows?

    1. Jou (Mxyzptlk) Silver badge

      Re: > Not a disaster recovery option, but bad enough for a migration

      Not even to Windows... Not even Windows 11, since the dependency tree has way too many predetermined breaking points.

  2. Jou (Mxyzptlk) Silver badge

    make life easier for admins

    No it won't. Microsoft has a long history of making admins life needlessly difficult.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Happy

      Re: make life easier for admins

      On the positive side, if it's difficult then it keeps us all in jobs!

      1. Jou (Mxyzptlk) Silver badge

        Re: make life easier for admins

        Linux can be annoying too, but it is less "needlessly annoying". M$ annoying has to many half-arsed points. Only a few things are done really well and the base why MS still exists (NT base set by Dave Cutler. AD base set by ? The luck that powershell made it from a script-hobby to an actual very good shell in v3 and reasonably useful with 5.1. And the Start menu except Windows 8 and 11 - though even the old start menu has a half-arsed quirk when you drag and drop an icon to the desktop it disappeared from the start menu - especially annoying for "all users" start menu on servers when somebody moved the management tools to his personal desktop)

  3. seven of five Silver badge

    A big name for very little.

    So all it does is -for a very specific set of source devices- reinstall some applications to a very specific set of target devices.

    rrright. That is mightily useful.

  4. xanadu42
    Facepalm

    "Microsoft is aiming the tool at administrators who deal with resetting or migrating devices (assuming users are running apps from the Microsoft Store) ..."

    Surely ANY SysAdmin would deny use of "Microsoft Store" apps for storing of important data!!??

    Seems more like a disaster creator than a "solution"

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Windows backup won't image a disk

    > Windows Backup .. won't image a disk ..

    I've noticed. No doubt I would have to license the industry standard version /s

    > It will also back up the list of installed apps from the Microsoft Store and will restore them to the user's Start Menu.

    But not any third party apps installed in C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming. I suspect it's to make the process so convoluted that no third party companies can enter the market.

  6. Richard 12 Silver badge
    Mushroom

    So it's not a backup at all

    As it doesn't back up anything.

    It's just a list of the applications installed from the Windows Store, that the Windows Store already has.

  7. Henry Wertz 1 Gold badge

    windows store?

    how many enterprise users (let alone other users) install anything from there?

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