Microsoft makes Windows settings backup the default in 26H2
You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed. Users with up-to-date versions of 25H2 will unlikely notice much difference – 26H2 has the same code base, delivered via an enablement package. It even has the same set of known issues, although all are now "mitigated" in one way or another.However, administrators will spot several important changes.
- ▪You're up to date, so nothing seems to have changed.
- ▪Users with up-to-date versions of 25H2 will unlikely notice much difference – 26H2 has the same code base, delivered via an enablement package.
- ▪It even has the same set of known issues, although all are now "mitigated" in one way or another.However, administrators will spot several important changes.
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