14 DAY TRIAL // The latest version of Exchange Server has been released to manufacturing in the first half of October 2009 and made available to customers the next month. Last week, the Redmond company also made available an update package for Exchange Server 2010 offered through the Microsoft Download Center. Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB976573) is a standalone download up for grabs since December 9th, and is designed to resolve a range of issues discovered in the latest iteration of Exchange Server after the product RTM’d. Customers that have already left Exchange Server 2007 behind and moved to Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise or Exchange Server 2010 Standard, are advised to deploy the refresh package as soon as possible, as Microsoft notes that installation is highly recommended.
“When you install the update on a computer that is not connected to the Internet, you may experience long installation times together with a corresponding message that states, “Creating Native images for .Net assemblies." This is caused by network requests to connect to “http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/CodeSigPCA.crl ” Web site and look up the certificate revocation list for each assembly that Native image Generation(NGen) compiles to native code. Because the Exchange Server is not connected to the Internet, each request must wait to time-out before it moves on. To resolve this problem, you must turn off “Check for publisher’s certificate revocation” on the server that is being upgraded,” Microsoft revealed.
The Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 needs to be installed on top of Exchange Server 2010 RTM. The software giant also informed that customers will need to delete all interim updates for Exchange Server 2007’s successor starting to integrate the update rollup.
Microsoft has provided an exhaustive list of all the issues that Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 is designed to resolve:
"977439 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977439/ ) Exchange Server 2010 users cannot open certain attachments when they access their mailboxes by using Outlook Web App
977551 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977551/ ) Meeting requests that are sent to a room mailbox are not processed in Exchange Server 2010
977552 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977552/ ) Exchange RPC Client Access service crashes in the Handler.dll that is located on an Exchange 2010 Client Access service server
977553 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977553/ ) Exchange RPC Client Access service crashes in Parser.dll on the Exchange Server 2010 CAS server
977554 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977554/ ) The subject or body of a message that is hosted in an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox is not set as expected
977555 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977555/ ) The message body is inaccessible when the property conversion from PR_BODY_HTML to PR_BODY fails
977556 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977556/ ) The body text of an e-mail message is invisible after you create exceptions for a recurring appointment or for a recurring meeting by using a CDO application together with Exchange Server 2010
977557 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977557/ ) An E_FAIL error occurs when you create an exception to a meeting request by using a CDO application for a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 mailbox
977558 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977558/ ) A folder name is not changed when you try to move and then rename the folder in an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox by using the CopyFolder method of the IMAPIFolder interface
977559 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977559/ ) The location of a meeting or an appointment is not updated on an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox
977560 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977560/ ) Update fails when you use a CDO application to update a recurrence task on Exchange Server 2010
977561 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977561/ ) VSS backup process stops responding when you try to perform a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backup for Exchange Server 2010 databases."
Exchange Server 2010 is available for download here.