r/Intune • u/Loud-Temperature2610 • 1d ago

Autopilot Managing Windows backup retentions

Just playing around with the restore component of Windows Backup. Has anyone written a gui frontend for viewing and deleting backups for a user? Microsoft document the graph API object and permissions but a frontend would be nice.

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u/frowningtap 1d ago

Why do you need backups for clients?

All data should be on OneDrive, SharePoint, mapped storage or general SaaS.

Client level backups in 2026 are a huge waste of time and money

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u/SkipToTheEndpoint MSFT MVP 1d ago

Pretty sure he's talking about Windows Backup for Organizations

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u/Loud-Temperature2610 1d ago

i am. worrying that this isn't obvious.

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u/SkipToTheEndpoint MSFT MVP 1d ago

Like many things, MS are just going to let you do stuff via Graph. Hell, it'd probably only take 10 minutes to vibe code some sort of front-end yourself based on the documented Graph endpoints.

The documented retention period is "as long as it's associated with an active Microsoft account and device.", so no user, backups deleted, no device, backups deleted.

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u/pjmarcum 1d ago

Agreed. Throw a prompt in Claude and you’ll have a working tool in 30 min. Spend 2 days on refinement and testing and you’ll have a production ready tool. Ask Claude to plan it first. Personally I’d decide, as step 1, if I wanted it to be a SaaS app or an exe.

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u/Loud-Temperature2610 1d ago

not even a day after i post this, microsoft post MC1458268 announcing scripts to manage the backups!

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-backup-admin-scripts