I have a colleague that installed Office 2013 on our BR server years ago and when I asked why, said it was required for restoring some office application items... I didn't challenge him more than that as he's usually correct. Now that we're a few more years down the line I'm wondering if this is accurate? His reply this morning when I asked if I could remove Office Professional Suite was "application aware restores requires it". I've searched the Veeam requirements etc, but cannot find anything that confirms this, so I'm reaching out