User Interface

The web-based user interface of Restore Portal is designed to let you quickly explore backed-up Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams data in one window. Also, it allows you to perform restore operations without using Veeam Explorers and view details about restore sessions progress and results and the restore sessions history.

The main window consists of the Explore, Restore Sessions and Restore List tabs.

Explore Tab

This tab contains the navigation and preview panes.

Navigation Pane

The navigation pane allows you to do the following:

  • Select a workload that contains backed-up data you want to explore and restore: Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, or Teams. For more information, see Selecting Workload.
  • Select a restore point from which you want to explore and restore data from backups created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 for the selected workload. For more information, see Selecting Restore Point.
  • Browse through the hierarchy of folders with backed-up data. Folders with backed-up data are available only if the selected restore point contains backups created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 for an object whose backed-up data is explored at the moment.

In the self-service restore scenario, the following data of a user object can be displayed:

  • Exchange Online mailbox and Archive mailbox
  • OneDrive for Business
  • Personal SharePoint site

In the operator restore scenario, Restore Portal displays backed-up data for the following objects if restore operators are allowed to manage them:

  • Users
  • SharePoint sites
  • Teams

Preview Pane

The preview pane allows you to view details about items that are contained in a folder you have selected in the navigation pane. Items are displayed according to the selected restore point. You can search items and select items that you want to restore or add to the restore list.

Note

Consider the following:

  • Restore Portal displays up to 2000 items, so search for specific items.
  • You can narrow your search results by specifying various search criteria using the criteria:value format. For more information about search parameters, see Appendix A. Item Search Parameters.
  • You can also use logical upper-cased operators such as AND, OR and NOT along with wildcard characters such as * and ?.
  • To search items by a specific date/time, specify the time in the UTC format. You can hover over the date in the Received column to view the UTC value.

Explore Tab

Restore Sessions Tab

On this tab, you view details about restore session progress and results.

You can do the following:

Restore Sessions Tab

Restore List Tab

On this tab, you view and edit the content of the restore list. This tab appears only if a restore list is not empty.

You can do the following:

Restore List Tab

Notification Pane

Notification pane is hidden in the upper-right corner of the Restore Portal window under the notification icon shaped like a bell.

To expand the notification pane, click the notification icon.

For more information, see Managing Notifications.

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