MC1269727 – M365 Change Digest

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The Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant (SaRA) utility is deprecated; migrate to the Get Help command-line tool before SaRA is removed from Windows on March 10, 2026.

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Migrate away from the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant utility (SaRA). This command-line utility is deprecated to help secure and harden your environment. The Get Help command-line tool has similar capabilities and is recommended as a replacement for the SaRA utility. You’ll need to download it and use GetHelpCmd.exe to run your scenarios.

When will this happen:

March 10, 2026: Microsoft has officially removed the SaRA utility from all in-support versions of Windows.
The Get Help command-line tool has been available for some time now.

How this will affect your organization:

The infrastructure powering GetHelpCmdLine includes improved security. The core functionality of GetHelpCmdLine and SaraCmdLine remains the same. All the scenarios supported in SaRACmdLine tool are supported as-is in GetHelpCmdLine. All SaRA scripts are migrated to GetHelpCmdLine. These scripts no longer work in the SaRACmdLine environment.

What you need to do to prepare:

As your next steps,

Download the Get Help command-line tool.
Use GetHelpCmd.exe to run your scenarios.

Additional information:

Read the announcement in Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant (SaRA) command-line utility removal from Windows.
Command line version of Get Help.
Download the Get Help command-line tool.

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