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title: "Adding Credentials"
description: "If you want to manually add credentials under which recovery plan steps will be launched: Switch to the Administration page. Navigate to Credentials. Click Add. In the Add Credentials window, click Browse."
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vro/userguide/adding_credentials_manually.html"
breadcrumb: "User Guide > Configuring Veeam Recovery Orchestrator > Managing Credentials > Adding Credentials"
dateModified: "2026-08-26"
---

# Adding Credentials

If you want to manually add credentials under which recovery plan steps will be launched:

1. Switch to the **Administration** page.
2. Navigate to **Credentials**.
3. Click **Add**.
4. In the **Add Credentials** window, click **Browse**.
5. In the **Browse for Account** window: 

   1. In the **Location** field, select whether the account that you want to add belongs to a domain or to a local OS workgroup.
   2. In the **Account** field, enter the account name.
   3. Select the account and click **Add**.

6. In the **Add Credentials** window, enter a password for the account that you want to add, provide a description for future reference, and click **Save**.

::: tip

You can also add any credentials of your choice, even those that do not exist yet. To do that, enter an account name and a password for the account in the **Add Credentials** window and click **Save**.

:::

[![Managing Credentials](images/add_creds.png "Managing Credentials")](images/add_creds.png){.toggle scale=55}

By default, all credentials are not added to newly created scopes; only the *Default* *Scope* has all credentials added. To edit the list of credentials available for a scope and to add the new credentials, follow the instructions provided in section [Managing Inventory Items](managing_inventory_items.md).