We came across this offering over on Microsoft Technet by developer R. Bohodan. It looks like a personal recommendation rather a company line, but you might want to consider this as one way to do things in the connected and cloud services era. AJS
If you want to prepare for a disaster, I’d recommend a following strategy:
- Create a recovery drive to be used when you need to refresh or rest your PC
- Connect to your Microsoft account
- Turn on Sync your Settings
- Load apps from the Appstore
- Turn on File History
When your PC is replaced or needs to be reinstalled
- Use the recovery drive to restore the OS
- Connect to your Microsoft account
- Turn on Sync your Settings – this will bring your settings back
- Go to the Appstore – this will reinstall your modern apps
- Reinstall legacy apps
- Connect your old File History drive And restore everything – this will restore your personal files
It may require more steps than a file or image restore but has some clear benefits:
- You do not restore any c**p that was on your system
- You do not restore sources of some problems that you might have
- You do not restore settings that may cause your system to perform badly or fail
Nice blog over here! I’ll just wanna thank you for that.