I have had a customer calling this week with a strange problem – when they are restting IOS devices after upgrading to IOS 11 iCloud restore option is no longer shown in the DEP enrollment process. Is was working if the devices was downgraded to IOS 10, but that was not a solution – because the new devices they got delivered was with IOS 11 and not possible to downgrade.
After som investigations and help from Microsoft we found that is was working as designed, and that it is possible to configure the DEP profile so the end-user have the possibility to use restore from iCloud as part of the DEP enrollment process.
Here is the reason:
In the Setup Assistant Settings for Apple DEP Enrollment Profile we normally are allowing restore on the devices on IOS 10 this will give the options to restore from iCloud
This is how it looks like after upgrading to IOS 11 – Restore from iCloud backup is not vissible
The solutions:
Apple has changed this in IOS 11 – that does not means that it is stopped working but that there is a extra requirement to allow restore from iCloud backup.
If there Apple ID is not showed as part of the Apple DEP enrollment process – the feature restore from iCloud backup is not show because it is requiring a Apple ID.
Change the Setup Assistant Settings to show Apple ID on the devices you need restore from iCloud feature.
And now Restore from iCloud Backup is visible again
Always remember to check with your company security guideline before allowing iCloud on Apple devices.
Cloud First 
Per. Is it possible to restore from a iTunes backup on DEP erolled devices?
Yes – if you allow it in your DEP profile
Per,
So I’ve migrated from Meraki to MS Intune and with the migration I’m upgrading folks from iPhone SE to iPhone 6s.
Is this best practice? I run a backup of the user’s old device (iPhone SE) to iCloud, then I’ve been doing a restore to the new device (iPhone 6s) that I have in DEP, then make sure it’s in MS Intune.
It was working fine for a bit, but I’ve noticed on some that if I do the restore on the new device it will skip the Device Management piece. Since I’ve noticed this I’ve then just setup the device, then logged the user into iCloud and turned on all the options to sync, BUT have noticed not everything will sync back from time to time.
Thoughts?
I was going to try what Alexander Bunk commented · November 8, 2018 8:01 AM had suggested at the bottom of the page…
https://microsoftintune.uservoice.com/forums/291681-ideas/suggestions/34053418-ios-backup-recovery-apple-dep-program-dep-prof
Thanks for any assistance you can provide!