Microsoft 365 Groups

Procedure

Go to the IBM® Storage Protect for Cloud Recovery Portal, and follow the steps below to recover files from a Group where you are one of the Group owners or members:
Note: In IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365, the administrator can configure the end-user restore setting to control whether to allow Group owners and members to restore data from IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Recovery Portal.

  1. Click the Microsoft 365 Groups tile.
  2. Select whether you want to find the backup data of a Microsoft 365 Group team site or a Microsoft 365 Group mailbox.
  3. When you click the Group field, this field will list all Groups that you have joined. To search for a Group, you can enter keywords based on the Group name, and then select that Group from the drop-down list.
  4. To search for documents, choose one of the following methods:
    • If you want to search for documents in Group team siteby their names, or search for Group mailbox items by subject, enter keywords or subject in the search box.
    • If you want to narrow your search by additional conditions, click Advanced to expand the search panel and configure the following conditions:
      • Document name – Enter keywords of a Document name in Group team site or enter Subject keywords of a Group mailbox item in Group mailboxdocument name.
      • Folder name or location – Enter keywords of a folder name, or enter a folder location (example: folder name\subfolder name).
      • Created by – Enter keywords of the creator’s email address.
      • Modified by – Enter keywords of the editor’s email address.
      • Created date (from) / Created date (to) – Specify a time range.

    Click Search to search for the backup data. If you want to reset the search conditions, click Reset.

  5. The search results are listed in the table under the Backup data tab. A maximum of 2000 search results can be displayed. By default, the items listed in the search results table are the latest backup data. If your desired items are not in the table and the message Continue to search for more backup data by clicking here. is displayed at the bottom of the table, click here to continue with the search.
  6. Select the checkboxes next to the documents that you want to recover. If you want to select all documents, select the top checkbox next to Document name or Subject in the table.
  7. Click Restore to restore selected documents to their original locations, or click Export to download the selected documents to a local path.
    Note:
    • Both content and security of the selected items will be restored.
    • The current and previous versions will all be restored.
    • By default, sharing links for the content won’t be restored. When necessary, administrators can enable the restore of sharing links in IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365.
    • If the last modified time of the conflicting destination content is the same, the restore will be skipped; if the last modified time is different, the conflicting destination content will be kept, and the backup data of the conflicting content will be added to the destination with a sequential number suffix (for example, _1) added to the file name.
  8. Once the restore job starts, you can go to Request history to view the progress of the job. In Request history, you can also view jobs’ simple reports. For more details, refer to View Request History and Download Exported Data.