Step 4. Specify Restore Options

At the Options step of the wizard, configure the restore options, such as how to restore users, default password and others:

In the Restore mode section, specify whether to overwrite users or skip restore of the already existing users.

When you select the overwrite option, Veeam Backup & Replication updates fields present in the backup. If a field in the backup is empty, it will be restored as empty. However, Veeam Backup & Replication does not update read-only fields (the ID, creation date and so on) and fields that are not present in the backup.

In the Password section, configure new passwords for the restored users:

To set the default password for all users, specify it in the Set a default password for the user field.
To set a password for each user, click Set temporary password(s). In the Set temporary passwords window, specify your own passwords or use auto-generation.
To force the restored users to change their password after the first logon, select Request the user to change the password at first logon.

Tip

Consider the following:

You can set the default password and also specify temporary passwords for individual users. Users for whom you do not specify a temporary password will have the default password.
At the Summary step, you will be able to export passwords specified in the Set temporary passwords window.

In the Advanced options section, configure the following:

To restore relationships of users within the current tenant, click Keep Relationships. Veeam Backup & Replication will restore the following relationships: assigned roles, group memberships, group ownerships, admin unit memberships, application ownerships, user manager and direct reports for the user. Note that Veeam Backup & Replication restores only relationships — if a role, group or admin unit does not exist, it will not be restored.

If you have selected to overwrite the users, Veeam Backup & Replication will restore the relationships from the backup and will remove the relationships not present in the backup.

To restore users from the Entra ID recycle bin instead of the backup, click Restore from Entra ID Recycle Bin. In this case, if the users exist in both the recycle bin and the backup, they will be restored from the recycle bin and will preserve their object IDs. Otherwise, users will be restored from the backup and get new object IDs.