Welcome to this weeks new blog post about How to Backup and Restore Microsoft Intune Configurations. Imagine spending hours fine-tuning your Microsoft Intune policies, only to lose them due to an accidental misconfiguration or system update. Without a backup, restoring those settings can be a nightmare. Fortunately, backing up and restoring Intune configurations is easier than you might think.
Not only does having a backup save you from unexpected mishaps, but it also makes setting up new environments with default configurations much faster and more efficient. Instead of manually recreating policies, you can deploy pre-configured settings, ensuring consistency across your organization.
In this post, we’ll show you step-by-step how to safeguard your Intune settings so you’re never caught off guard. Let’s dive in!
Table of Contents
What are we going to do
We will backup the Microsoft Intune Configurations with the help of PowerShell. We will use the Microsoft Graph Module. We will show you step-by-step how you can install the module, connect to the tenant and backup the Microsoft Intune Configurations. In the second step, we will show you, how you can import the configurations again. You can find more informations on the GitHub link: https://github.com/jseerden/IntuneBackupAndRestore
How to Backup and Restore Microsoft Intune Configurations
Step 1: Install the PowerShell Module
First we will connect to the Exchange Online PowerShell module. If you are experience problems, make sure you use PowerShell 7.
First we will install the MSGraphFunctions.
- Open PowerShell as an administrator
Run the following command to Install the Module. Accept with Yes to All.
Install-Module -Name MSGraphFunctions
Now we will install the IntuneBackupAndRestore. Run the following command to Install the Module. Accept with Yes to All.
Install-Module -Name IntuneBackupAndRestore
Last, Import both Module with the following command:
Import-Module -Name MSGraphFunctions Import-Module -Name IntuneBackupAndRestore
Step 2: Connect to MSGraph
Now we will connect to the Graph module. Make sure you have you Microsoft 365 administrator ready. We will need this to authenticate.
Run the following command in the PowerShell Session:
Connect-MgGraph -ContextScope Process
Your browser should open with a new Microsoft Login page. Login with your Administrator. When you have logged in, you will see something like this.
Step 3: Backup Microsoft Intune Configuration
We can now run the following command to Backup the Microsoft Intune Configuration. Just make sure, you change the path where it should store your backup. I created a new folder on C with the name temp.
Start-IntuneBackup -Path C:\temp\IntuneBackup
You might be asked to login again with your administrator. This is normal, it just need to verify it has its permission to Backup the policies. In your specified folder you will see the configuration saving.
Step 3: Restore Microsoft Intune Configuration
If you want to restore a configurations, login the same as in Step 1 and 2. To restore the configurations run the following command. Note: This command will only restore the configuration but not the Assignments of the policies / apps. We will add the assignments in the second command.
Start-IntuneRestoreConfig -Path C:\temp\
To restore the Assignments run the following command.
Start-IntuneRestoreAssignments -Path C:\temp\
Conclusion
In this blog post we Learn about How to Backup and Restore Microsoft Intune Configurations. In the first step, we installed the PowerShell Module of MSGraphFunctions and IntuneBackupAndRestore Module. After installation we connected to the Graph Module. Last, we created a Backup of the Microsoft Intune Configurations and restored it. Did you enjoy this article? Dont forget to follow us and share this article. If you have any questions or need further assistance, feel free to reach out or leave a comment below.
