Step 1. Sign into the backup portal
Open your web browser and go to the following address: https://shield-cloud.nexetic.com/
Select Sign in with Microsoft 365. Insert your Microsoft 365 admin credentials for the tenant you want to restore data from.
Resellers can also sign in via Nexetic Portal.
Step 2. Select Backup for Entra ID
Click the icon in the top-left corner of the page and select Backup for Entra ID.
Step 3. Select the Device configurations page
Click Devices -> Device configurations in the top navigation. You can see the list of all device configurations that have been backed up from the Entra ID tenant.
Step 4. Locate the device configuration(s)
You can sort the device configurations by their Name, Device Configuration Id or Last modification date. You can also filter the configurations by typing any part of the Device Configuration Name or Device Configuration Id in the Search box.
Step 5. Select the device configurations
You can select all or single/multiple device configuration(s) to be restored by checking the respective boxes. Then click the Restore selected button.
Next proceed to Step 7 of this support article to see how to select the restore options.
When you click any device configuration name, you can view attributes that have been backed up for the selected item. Check Step 6 of this support article for more info about the backed up device configuration details.
Step 6. View the device configuration attributes, assignments and versions
Select a device configuration by clicking it's name. You can see all the attributes that exist for the selected device configuration. The latest version from backup is always displayed by default. You can click the arrows to browse the different time points / version dates for the object. The version from the selected time point is always displayed. Red font indicates a changed value for that attribute; i.e. object attributes marked with red font are changed in this version from the previous version.
There is a link View configuration assignments. From there you can see configuration targets for the object.
Step 6.1. View configuration assignments
You can filter the Configurations targets view by date and time. You can select any day and time from the calendar to view the list of assignments as it was on the selected time point. If the list is empty, there were no device configuration assignments at the selected time.
Changes to the assignments are recorded in Configuration targets log. From there you can detect the timing of the changes, which will help you to choose the correct version date & time from the calendar.
You can proceed to start the restoration by clicking Restore this version (you may need to scroll down to see the Restore button).
Step 7. Select restore options
After clicking Restore selected or Restore this version, select the snapshot date & time from the calendar. You can still change the date & time even if you already chose them on any of the previous screens.
Make your choices for the following options:
- With object is already pre-selected. It means that the device configuration policy is being restored with it's attributes, current name and Device Configuration Id. I.e. if the device configuration policy doesn't exist in Microsoft Intune Admin Center, it will be recreated. If the configuration policy already exists, the existing one will be overwritten.
- If you select As new, a new device configuration policy with a new Device Configuration Id is created during the restore process. You need to input a name for the object that will be created. If you don't select 'As new', the restoration target is the already existing device configuration policy in Microsoft Intune Admin Center in Entra ID.
- NOTE: The restore 'As new' option is not available when you restore multiple device configuration policies at a time.
- If you want to restore the objects to another Entra ID tenant, select To another tenant.
- First you need to add the target tenant where you want to restore the data to - check the instruction.
- Now you can see the existing target tenant(s) in the 'To another tenant' drop-down menu - in case of having multiple target tenants added, select the one you want to restore the data to.
- The available domain names for the selected target tenant can be seen under the 'With domain' menu and you can select the domain from there. Screenshots can be found from the above mentioned support article.
- Once you have selected the options, start the restoration by clicking Restore.