Microsoft Entra Backup and Recovery entered preview on March 19, 2026, bringing native rollback for users, groups, Conditional Access policies, and other critical directory objects. After testing a real recovery against a cloud-only user with a single attribute change, the restore itself took seconds. The difference report that preceded it took over an hour. This article explains why that timing is expected, what the five-day retention window actually means for your recovery posture, and where the feature falls short of being a complete answer.