Browsing, Searching and Viewing Items

You can use Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Teams to view the contents of a backup file, view team properties, open posts and files, search for teams and for items in a backup file as well as customize criteria of your search.

Searching for Teams

You can use keywords to search for teams in the database structure containing your Microsoft Teams objects. To do this, enter a search query in the search field at the top of the navigation pane.

To remove a keyword, click the cross mark.

Searching for Teams

Browsing Backup Content

To view the contents of a backup file, you use the navigation pane which displays the database structure containing your Microsoft Teams objects: teams, channels and channel tabs. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Teams groups channel tabs in the following nodes of the navigation pane:

After you select an object in the navigation pane, you can see its content in the preview pane.

Browsing, Searching and Viewing Items

Viewing Team Properties

You can view properties of a backed-up team. This may be useful, for example, in case you want to decide whether to restore team properties during restore of a team.

To view team properties, in the navigation pane, right-click a necessary team and select View properties.

Viewing Team Properties

Opening Posts and Files

You can use Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Teams to open backed-up posts and files.

To open a post or file, do the following:

  1. In the navigation pane, browse to the channel whose post or file you want to open and click the necessary node: Posts or Files.
  2. In the preview pane, right-click a post or file and select Open.

Browsing, Searching and Viewing Items

Searching for Objects in Backup File

The search mechanism allows you to find items (posts, files and tabs) matching specified search criteria.

To search for required items, do the following:

  1. In the navigation pane, do one of the following:
  1. Enter a search query in the search field.

Consider the following:

For example:

  • meeting AND author:"Administrator" — returns objects that include both specified keywords.
  • meeting OR author:"Administrator" — returns objects that include one of the specified keywords.
  • NOT author:"Administrator" — excludes objects specified by a keyword.
  • hasattachment:compar* — returns all objects that contain an attachment and the attachment name is started with compar.
  • ?all — returns all objects that contain the specified keyword with any alphabet in the first position.

Browsing, Searching and Viewing Items

Using Advanced Find

The Advanced Find mechanism allows you to define your search criteria more precisely.

Note

The Advanced Find mechanism is supported for posts and files only. The mechanism is not supported for tabs.

For example, to find a file whose name starts with comparison, do the following:

  1. In the preview pane, select a node and click Advanced Find on the ribbon.
  2. In the Define search criteria section, select Category > File fields.
  3. From the Field list, select Name.
  4. From the Condition list, select starts with.
  5. In the Value field, specify a file name.
  6. Click Add to List and then click Start.

To remove a filter, click the cross mark next to it. To remove all configured filters, click Reset.

Browsing, Searching and Viewing Items