In Veeam B&R 5 file level restore has always been managed by IT admins. The need to look for a specific backup set, to mount related disks and final copy/paste to conclude the restore process were actvities hardly delegatable directly to users.
With version 6, these limitations has been nicely eliminated thanks to a new restore architecture. It’s clearly explained in this part of the introduction video:
Restore is done via a web interface, where we can set different access levels also to end users. From here, is possible to search for a file or files, and easily restore them with a right click on them.
Here is how the interface will be: