Users & Groups

Users and groups define who has access to your environment and how teams are organized. Losing them — even temporarily — can bring critical operations to a halt.

What Kasca backs up

Kasca captures a full snapshot of your users and groups, including their properties at the time of backup. This means not just the object itself, but the attributes, memberships, assignments, and configurations that make it useful.

For users, this includes profile information, account status, and assigned roles. For groups, membership and assigned permissions.

What happens when something goes wrong

Accidental deletions happen more often than most teams expect. A bulk operation targeting the wrong scope, a script with a missing filter, a junior admin with too much access — any of these can result in objects being removed that took significant time and effort to configure.

Microsoft provides a 30-day soft-delete window during which objects can be easily restored through the platform itself. The problem arises when that window has passed. Once an object is hard-deleted, native recovery is no longer possible.

This is where Kasca comes in. Using your backup data, Kasca can rehydrate hard-deleted objects back into your environment — something Microsoft cannot do on its own. Passwords will need to be set after restoration, but the backup retains all available profile and membership data, so you are not starting from scratch.

Restoring with Kasca

Restoration is granular — you can restore a single user or a specific group without touching anything else. For objects still within Microsoft's soft-delete window, Kasca uses the soft-deleted object. For everything else, Kasca's rehydration gives you a path back that would otherwise not exist.