How to Restore from Microsoft Exchange 2007 with Veeam Backup and Replication

This KB article documents the procedure for restoring Exchange 2007 application items using a Surebackup job with export to PST.
 
Please note that as of April 2017, Microsoft no longer supports Exchange 2007. As such, steps 7 and 8 of this process are no longer supported by Veeam Technical Support.

Please Note: 

• Veeam Backup & Replication must have an Enterprise or Enterprise Plus license to perform this restore.

1. Create a Virtual Lab.

• On the proxy tab: Put the production NIC of the Virtual lab on the same network as the Veeam server, and either use DHCP if available in your environment or assign it an unused production IP.
• On the networking tab: You will want to use "Advanced Single Host".
• You'll want to configure the internal NIC in the "Network Settings" tab with the same IP address as the production default gateway on the network that the mailbox server and domain controller are connected to.

2. Create an application group.
3. Create a Surebackup job.  
4. Run the Surebackup job.
5. Wait for the job to report that all VMs in the SureBackup job are “Started”

6. Ensure Exchange Services are running.
7. Make sure Outlook is installed on the CAS server.
     The export-mailbox cmdlet that will be run later requires it.

8. Launch the Exchange Management Console PowerShell window run the following command to export the desired mailbox as a .pst file

• export-mailbox –id ‘John Doe’ -PSTFolderPath z:\John.Doe.pst

When the export is finished, you can copy the file via Windows Explorer from the Veeam server by connecting to the CAS server using its masquerade IP (The first octet(s) can be obtained in the “vNIC Connection Settings” on the “Network Settings” page of the Virtual lab settings. The last octet(s) will be the production machine’s last octet(s)).
 
Common issues:
 

Reference KB’s
 
https://www.veeam.com/kb2047
 
https://www.veeam.com/kb2059