The version of MS Excel is not supported ............ DMF Error on validation.

By default we may not have 64-bit Microsoft Excel Driver installed on the local machine which causes this issue even though you may have 32-bit Microsoft Excel Driver in place.
To resolve this we have to install 64-bit Microsoft Excel Driver on 64-bit machine (OS) with 'Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable' (AccessDatabaseEngine_x64.msi) by using "/passive" argument.

By default we may not have 64-bit Microsoft Excel Driver installed on the local machine which causes this issue even though you may have 32-bit Microsoft Excel Driver in place.
To resolve this we have to install 64-bit Microsoft Excel Driver on 64-bit machine (OS) with 'Microsoft Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable' (AccessDatabaseEngine_x64.msi) by using "/passive" argument.