Restore The Contacts And Calendars To Any Microsoft 365 User Or The Local Computer

Xopero ONE allows you to secure 4 different resources of Microsoft 365, Contacts and Calendars are two of them. This article describes how to recover this data from the backup, what are the restore destinations, and what are the general possibilities while performing this process.

Restore view

To open the restore view go to the Microsoft 365 tab and click Manage & Restore button near your organization entry to see the list of organization users.

Find the user whose data you want to restore and click the Restore button in the same row.

That will display another aside, where you have to select a specific backup plan and version, then click the Restore button, which will lead to you Select data to restore view.

Contacts and calendars data restore

In the Select data to restore view, click the Contacts tab which will lead you to the list of secured directories with contacts. Select the directories you want to restore and move on.

And then, if you want to restore calendars as well, go to the Calendars tab. Select the calendars you want to restore and click the Restore selected button.

After selecting one of these options Xopero ONE will display another aside called Restore data, where you can select restore destination and additional settings.

Restore to any Microsoft 365 user

In order to restore the data to Microsoft 365 user click the Edit button(Step 1) next to the Restore to section and select Microsoft 365 account(Step 2).

Select the user, which will be the restore destination, and click the Save button.

In the next step, you need to select a directory on your device where the data will be restored.

The New directory option will create another directory with restored contacts called Xopero_, which will contain all the data you restored.

If you will restore also the calendars with the same option, all events from the selected calendars will be restored to one calendar named Xopero_ <current_timestamp>.

The Original directory setting, as the name suggests will restore the data to it's original location.

The next section is Restore settings, where you can Reduce bandwidth usage to the selected speed. A Device used to restore the data is the last step, where all you need to do is to select the device, which will be responsible for the restoration process. If you're willing to change the default one, then click the Change button and select the different device in the Select resource view.

After filling out the form click the Start now button, which will run the restore process. You can track the progress of this process through the Tasks tab.

Restore to the local computer

In order to restore the data to the local device click the Edit button (Step 1) next to the Restore to section and select Device (Step 2).

Select the device, which will be the restore destination, and click the Save button.

The next section, after selecting the device is Restore directory, where you can select the exact destination path of your data Click Select directory to restore the data to (Step 1) button.

Then select directory - the exact restore destination (Step 2) - and click Apply button (Step 3) The last section is Restore settings, where you can Reduce bandwidth usage to the selected speed.

After filling out the form click the Start now button to run the restore process. You can track the progress of this process through the Tasks tab.