Quest had a blog up a while back on what most Entra ID recovery strategies are missing,...

Quest had a blog up a while back on what most Entra ID recovery strategies are missing, and it's still the conversation I have most often with IT directors who think they're covered. https://blog.quest.com/entra-id-recovery-what-your-current-recovery-strategy-might-be-missing/ Here's the pattern I see. A company has solid backups for servers, endpoints, and even SharePoint. Ask them what happens if a bad actor or a bad script wipes out conditional access policies, app registrations, or a few thousand group memberships, and the answer gets quiet. The soft-delete window helps with users. It does not help with the configuration layer that actually runs the business. When we walk leadership through it, the cost framing usually clicks faster than the technical one. A full Entra rebuild from scratch is a multi-week event with the entire workforce locked out of something every day of it. Compare that to the price of a tested recovery plan and the conversation tends to end quickly. The part I'd push on if you're an IT leader: when was the last time anyone actually restored a tenant configuration in a lab, not just exported a backup file. Exporting is not recovery. Recovery is a tested runbook with a clock on it. What's the longest Entra outage your business could absorb before it stops being an IT problem and starts being a board problem?