14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is slowly making its way to the first service pack for Exchange Server 2010, but until the upgrade is delivered, the company is catering to customers running the RTM bits with update rollups. The forth update rollup for Exchange Server 2010 RTM has been released and is currently available for download. As per usual, Exchange Server 2010 Update Rollup 4 is designed to supersede all previous update rollups for the product, and Microsoft published a knowledge base article accompanying the release, set up to detail the changes introduced.
KB 982639 offers a complete description of Update Rollup 4 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release to Manufacturing. Most importantly, the article highlights all the issues that are simultaneously fixed with the release of Exchange Server 2010 Update Rollup 4.
“One unique thing added was [the] ability for an administrator to adjust filtering of XML attachments so an OWA user can save them. Some customers were facing a ‘compliance versus level of security’ tradeoff. We also included at least eight other fixes that some of you requested in this release which we already had worked on for a service pack but are able to deliver to you sooner,” Microsoft’s Nick MacKechnie stated.
Microsoft has recently released Service Pack 3 for Exchange Server 2007 and is working on the first service pack for Exchange Server 2010. At this point in time, early adopters can download and test Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta.
Microsoft’s Nick MacKechnie enumerated some of the most important improvements in Exchange Server 2010 Update Rollup 4 set up to deal with an array of crashes and various other issues:
“KB 980852 The RpcClientAccess process on an Exchange Server 2010 server crashes when you access a mailbox by using a MAPI application; KB 979801 An error message is generated in Exchange Server 2010 when you use Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant; KB 980364 The Exchange Transport service on an Exchange Server 2010 server crashes when a certain message is processed; KB 980353 A MAPI application that is used to access Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes crashes when the application accesses an address book;
KB 979790 An IMAP4 client crashes when accessing an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox;
KB 980149 The Add-MailboxDatabaseCopy command fails when it is used to add a database copy to a Database Availability Group in an Exchange Server 2010 environment;
KB 981961 Event ID 4033 is logged and the Free/Busy replication from an Exchange Server 2003 server to an Exchange Server 2010 server fails;
KB 979921 You cannot replicate a public folder from one Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 server to another, and Event ID 3079 is logged on the target server.”
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is available for download here.
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta is available for download here.