Before you begin restoring Microsoft 365 Teams data, ensure you have met the necessary requirements:
Requirements
The following account types are required:
- A Security Officer role (for initiating a restore)
- A Global administrator account for Microsoft 365
Instructions
- Log in to the Management Console as a user with Security Officer permissions
- Open the action menu for the domain and click Restore Teams
- Connect to the Microsoft 365 Teams account with administrative account credentials
- Accept the required permissions
- You will receive a confirmation that the connection has been successful for the restore, click Next to proceed
- Select the Team you wish to restore from and click Next
You will see the list of backed up teams, the backup status of the team, the time and date of last backup, number of users and number of owners
- Select the backup session using the date and time pickers
- Select the channels to restore from the backup tree
- Create a new Team Name of the recovery location where you would like to restore the selected items to
By default, the new Team Name will take the format of
[Restored], followed by the channel name being recovered. - Click Next
- Confirm your intention to start the recovery by selecting Restore
It is possible to see a list of the channels selected for recovery by clicking the number of channels in the Restore Selection section of the Review and confirm window.
- Click Finish to close the wizard.
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