System Requirements

This section lists system requirements for Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange.

The set of supported Microsoft Exchange versions depends on the product Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange is installed with: Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.

Product

Requirement

Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange supports restore of the following Microsoft Exchange versions:

  • Microsoft Exchange 2019
  • Microsoft Exchange 2016
  • Microsoft Exchange 2013

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange supports restore of the following Microsoft Exchange versions:

  • Microsoft 365 Exchange Online

Microsoft 365 and Office 365 service families, standalone services and plans for Business, Education, and Government* hosted by Microsoft are supported. For more information about system requirements and limitations for Microsoft 365, see this Microsoft article.

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 (on-premises)
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 (on-premises)
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (on-premises)

*Government support is experimental.

Consider the following:

  • To work with database files, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange requires a dynamic link library ese.dll supplied with Microsoft Exchange. The ese.dll file must be of the same version as that of Microsoft Exchange in which database files were created.
  • To restore mailbox items from a server running Microsoft Windows ReFS, the backup server or Veeam Backup & Replication console must be installed on a machine that runs Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or later.
  • To restore mailbox items from a server running Microsoft Windows ReFS 3.x, the backup server or Veeam Backup & Replication console must be installed on a machine that runs Microsoft Windows Server 2016 or later, and the ReFS version must be supported on this machine.
  • To restore data that was backed up by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 using PowerShell, make sure to install Windows PowerShell 5.1 or later.