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Bulk & lifecycle

The Drift & Compare section is for working across many objects — or many tenants — at once: backup, restore, compare, and remediate.

  • Backup / Export — serialise tenant objects to files (Conditional Access exports resolve GUIDs to names so the backup is readable).
  • Restore / Import — recreate objects from a backup, including cross-tenant restores with an ID remap (a migration table rewrites group and reference ids for the target tenant).
  • Drift detection — compare the current tenant to a baseline or an earlier capture; differences are classified by severity.
  • Security baselines — compare against embedded OIB / CIS baselines.
  • Policy comparison — diff two objects or two snapshots directly.
  • Detection & remediation — push drifted objects back toward the baseline.
  • Assignment Explorer — report what a user, group, or device actually receives across the whole tenant (read-only — it changes nothing).
  • Bulk assign — apply assignments to many objects at once.
  • CA → PowerPoint — export Conditional Access as a presentable document.

You’ve reached the end of the tour. For the under-the-hood details, see the Reference.