Windows Device Recovery Tool goes 'offline', but there's a patch!
(All About Windows Phone)

As of a few days ago, Microsoft killed the Windows Device Recovery Tool (WDRT) on their servers. As I write this you can`t download the Windows application and if you try to run an installed copy of WDRT then it fails at the first hurdle when trying to check `home` for a possible application update. The good news is that there`s a patched version of the tool that still works just fine - at your own risk, of course!