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Exchange 2010 SP2 Update-Rollup 4 Released

Michael Van Horenbeeck — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:39:00 GMT

Earlier today, Microsoft released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2.

The update includes a new feature as well as an important update that I would like to call out:

Calendar & Task (items) now support Retention Tags. Before this was not the case, as tags could only be applied to mail items/folders. Although tags for Calendar/Task (items) can only be configured by an Administrator (PowerShell), they will at least prove useful for companies that (heavily) rely on the use of Retention Policies to keep their mailboxes clean. If you are already using Retention Policies or are looking to implement them, there are some caveats to look out for when installing UR4. These items have been well described by Ross Smith IV in his article. I suggest you take a look at them.
a fix for a vulnerability in WebReady Document viewing that was recently reported. When the vulnerability was first reported, you were advised to temporarily disable this feature using the following command:
Get-OwaVirtualdirectory | ?{$_.OwaVersion –eq ‘Exchange2007’ –or $_.OwaVersion –eq ‘Exchange2010’} | Set-OwaVirtualdirectory –WebReadyDocumentViewingOnPublicComputersEnabled:$False –WebReadyDocumentViewingOnPrivateComputersEnabled:$False
After installing UR, you can safely re-enable the feature by using the following command:
Get-OwaVirtualdirectory | ?{$_.OwaVersion –eq ‘Exchange2007’ –or $_.OwaVersion –eq ‘Exchange2010’} | Set-OwaVirtualdirectory –WebReadyDocumentViewingOnPublicComputersEnabled:$True –WebReadyDocumentViewingOnPrivateComputersEnabled:$True

Other updates/fixes that are included are:

2536846 Email messages sent to a mail-enabled public folder may be queued in a delivery queue on the Hub Transport server in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2632409 Sent item is copied to the Sent Items folder of the wrong mailbox in an Exchange Server 2010 environment when a user is granted the Send As permission
2637915 "550 5.7.1" NDR when an email message is sent between tenant organizations in a multi-tenant Exchange Server 2010 environment
2677727 MRM cannot process retention policies on a cloud-based archive mailbox if the primary mailbox is in an on-premises Exchange Server 2010 organization
2685001 Retention policies do not work for the Calendar and Tasks folders in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
2686540 Journal report is not delivered to a journaling mailbox in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2689025 Performance issues when you use the light version of Outlook Web App in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2698571 Some email messages are not delivered when you set the MessageRateLimit parameter in a throttling policy in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2698899 Add-ADPermission cmdlet together with a DomainController parameter fails in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2700172 Recipient’s email address is resolved incorrectly to a contact’s email address in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2701162 User A that is granted the Full Access permission to User B’s mailbox cannot see detailed free/busy information for User B in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2701624 ItemSubject field is empty when you run the Search-MailboxAuditLog cmdlet together with the ShowDetails parameter in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2702963 The "Open Message In Conflict" button is not available in the conflict notification message in Exchange Server 2010
2707242 The Exchange Information Store service stops responding on an Exchange Server 2010 server
2709014 EdgeTransport.exe process crashes intermittently on an Exchange Server 2010 server
2709935 EdgeTransport.exe process repeatedly crashes on an Exchange Server 2010 server
2713339 Multi-Mailbox Search feature returns incorrect results when you perform a complex discovery search in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2713371 Throttling policy throttles all EWS applications in Exchange Server 2010
2719894 The Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access service consumes 100 percent of CPU resources and stops responding on an Exchange Server 2010 Client Access server
2723383 Incorrect time zone in a notification when the Resource Booking Attendant declines a meeting request from a user in a different time zone in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2724188 A subject that contains colons is truncated in a mixed Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010 environment
2726897 Event 14035 or Event 1006 is logged when Admin sessions are exhausted in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

Please have a look at KB2706690 and MS12-058 for more information regarding the update.

The update can be downloaded from the following webpage:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30478

You get and Autodiscover Error : Unhandled Exception "User setting 'PreferredSite' is not available. " after installing Exchange 2010 SP2 Update-Rollup 3

Michael Van Horenbeeck — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 07:08:15 GMT

After installing Exchange 2010 SP2 Update-Rollup 3, you might see the following error pop-up in the event logs: Unhandled Exception "User setting 'PreferredSite' is not available. "

Although at first not much information was available, Greg Taylor already said on the 13th of June that the error is known and they were looking into it.

Apparently, Scott Schnoll also mentioned this in his presentation @ TechEd, stating the following:

(I haven’t had the chance to view the recording, but thanks to my colleague Dave for pointing this out!)

It’s good to see that the errors (although presenting them as critical), do no harm. Unfortunately, the more mailboxes you have, the more errors you’ll have in your event log. From what I can see, there might even be an error every few seconds; therefore possibly flooding your event log.

Microsoft will make an Interim Update available. However; at time of writing no fix was available yet.

Cheers!

Michael

Exchange 2010 SP2 UR1 released!

Michael Van Horenbeeck — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:37:00 GMT

Today, Microsoft released the first Update Rollup for Service Pack 2.

This update rollup contains a lot of updates, amongst also the following:

New updates for Dec DST - Exchange 2010 - SP2 RU1 - Display name for OWA.
2616230 Exchange 2010 CAS server treats UTF-7 encoding NAMESPACE string from CHS Exchange 2003 BE server as ASCII, caused IMAP client fails to login.
2599663 RCA crashes when recipient data is stored in bad format.
2492082 Freebusy publish to Public Folders fails with 8207 event.
2666233 Manage hybrid configuration wizard won't accept domains starting with a numeral for FOPE outbound connector FQDN.
2557323 "UseLocalReplicaForFreeBusy" functionality needed in Exchange 2010.
2621266 Exchange 2010 Mailbox Databases not reclaiming space.
2543850 Exchange 2010 GAL based Outlook rule not filtering emails correctly.

Update 2666233 relates to an issue that I reported earlier in the following article:

http://www.pro-exchange.be/blogs/exchange2010/archive/2012/01/24/hybrid-configuration-wizard-fails-when-using-a-wildcard-certificate.aspx

Furthermore, this UR also includes update 2579051, which relates to an error that was described in the following article:

http://www.pro-exchange.be/blogs/exchange2010/archive/2012/01/13/exchange-2010-sp1-moverequest-fails-with-mapiexceptionnosupport.aspx

For more information and a full overview of the included updates, have a look here

Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Update-Rollup 6 released

Michael Van Horenbeeck — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:26:57 GMT

Microsoft just released Update Rollup 6 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1.

This Update Rollup includes a lot of hotfixes for the following issues described in the following Microsoft KB articles:

2431609 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2431609/ ) An update is available that updates the message of a retention policy in OWA for Exchange Server 2010
2449266 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2449266/ ) EWS drops the TCP connection to the EWS client application without any error message in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environment
2480474 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2480474/ ) A Users do not receive quota warning messages after applying SP1 for Exchange 2010
2514820 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2514820/ ) An incoming fax message is not delivered to the recipient in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
2521927 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2521927/ ) Disabling the Exchange ActiveSync Integration feature for OWA does not take effect in OWA Premium clients in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2528854 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2528854/ ) The Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Replication service crashes on a computer that has Exchange Server 2010 SP1 installed
2535289 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2535289/ ) The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes occasionally when you run an antivirus application on an Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox server
2536313 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2536313/ ) Slow message delivery and mailbox access for journaling mailboxes on an Exchange Server 2010 server
2544246 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2544246/ ) You receive a NRN of a meeting request 120 days later after the recipient accepted the request in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
2548246 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2548246/ ) The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes occasionally when a folder view is corrupted on an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox server
2549183 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2549183/ ) "There are no objects to select" message when you try to use the EMC to specify a server to connect to in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
2549289 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2549289/ ) A RBAC role assignee can unexpectedly run the Add-MailboxPermission command or the Remove-MailboxPermission command on an Exchange Server 2010 server that is outside the role assignment scope
2555851 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2555851/ ) A mailbox does not appear in certain address lists after you run commands on the mailbox in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
2559814 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2559814/ ) A user cannot add or remove delegates from a mailbox by using Outlook in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2561514 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2561514/ ) Exchange Server 2003 user cannot view the free/busy information of a user in a different federated organization
2563860 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2563860/ ) You cannot create a new mailbox database if you already have 1000 mailbox databases in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2567409 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2567409/ ) Certain free/busy messages are not replicated from an Exchange Server 2010 server to an Exchange Server 2003 server
2571791 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2571791/ ) Retention policies are applied to Contact items unexpectedly in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2572052 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2572052/ ) Certain properties of a recurring meeting request from external email accounts are missing in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
2575005 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2575005/ ) You cannot start the EMC or the EMS in an Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 environment
2578631 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2578631/ ) Certain users cannot send email messages to a mail-enabled public folder in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2579172 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2579172/ ) Items that are deleted or moved still appear in the original folder when you use Office Outlook in online mode to access an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox
2579671 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2579671/ ) No results returned when you use the ExpandGroup method in EWS to retrieve a list of members of a Dynamic Distribution Group in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2582095 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582095/ ) The SmtpMaxMessagesPerConnection property of a send connector is not replicated to the subscribed Edge Transport server in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2600835 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2600835/ ) The RPC Client Access service crashes when you delete an attachment of an item by using Outlook in online mode in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
2601701 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2601701/ ) The memory usage of the MSExchangeRepl.exe process keeps increasing when you perform a VSS backup on Exchange Server 2010 databases
2616127 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2616127/ ) "0x80041606" error code when you use Outlook in online mode to search for a keyword against a mailbox in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
2617126 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2617126/ ) The Store.exe process crashes when you send an email message that has attachments in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
2627769 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2627769/ ) Some time zones in OWA are not synchronized with Windows in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

For more information on how to deploy the update, please take a look here.

Exchange 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 5 Released

Michael Van Horenbeeck — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:13:55 GMT

Today, Microsoft published Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the download center.

The Update Rollup includes some fixes amongst which are:

PDF attachments sent from a Mac Mail Client are not shown in
OWA .zip-file download not always working
Unable to delete a folder with a certain character set
…

The next Update Rollup is expected somewhere in October 2011.

For a more detailed overview of the updates and fixes that are included in this update rollup, please check:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582113

To download the update rollup, check the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27193

If you want to see the original announcement from Microsoft, click here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/08/23/released-update-rollup-5-for-exchange-2010-sp1.aspx

Exchange 2010 Rollup Update 4 re-released

Michael Van Horenbeeck — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:22:00 GMT

This morning, Microsoft re-released their previously withdrawn Update Rollup 4 to the download center.
The re-release fixes the issue with subfolders and content being deleted when trying to move or copy a folder using Outlook.

More details about the issue can be found here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/07/13/exchange-2010-sp1-ru4-removed-from-download-center.aspx

The re-release update can be downloaded from Microsoft's Download Centrum here:

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26910

For more technical and background information on the re-release, please take a look at the following posts:

The Exchange product team anounces enhancement foreseen in the future Exchange 2010 SP1

Cedric Depaepe — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:57:00 GMT

SP1 will include fixes and tweaks in areas you've helped us identify, including a roll-up of the roll-ups we've released to date. I also wanted to flag some of the feature enhancements we're excited to bring to you with SP1 including: archiving and discovery enhancements, Outlook Web App (OWA) improvements, mobile user and management improvements, and some highly sought after additional UI for management tasks. This is not an all-inclusive list, so stay tuned for the detailed list coming soon!

A beta of SP1 for download in parallel with TechEd North America this June. This will give you a chance to test drive SP1 and prepare for its official release.

Archiving and Discovery Enhancements

With the release of Exchange Server 2010 last November, we introduced integrated archiving capabilities aimed at helping you preserve and discover e-mail data. In SP1, we've enhanced this archiving functionality based on the great feedback you've given us since our launch. This includes adding the flexibility to provision a user's Personal Archive to a different mailbox database from their primary mailbox. This means your organization can now more easily implement separate storage strategies (or tiered storage) for less frequently accessed e-mail. And, we didn't just stop there! We've also added new server side capabilities so you can import historical e-mail data from .PST files, directly into Exchange, as well as IT pro controls to enable delegate access to a user's Personal Archive.

To help streamline the implementation of retention policies, SP1 updates the Exchange Management Console with new tools to create Retention Policy Tags, so you can automate the deletion and archiving of e-mail and other Exchange items. New optional Retention Policy Tags give you even more flexibility in defining your organizations retention management strategy.

Lastly, we've made several improvements to the Multi-Mailbox Search features, which can be used to conduct e-Discovery of e-mail for legal, regulatory or other reasons. A new search preview helps with, for example, early case assessment by providing you an estimate on the number of items in the result set-with keyword statistics-before e-mail located in the search are copied to the designated discovery mailbox. And, you now have a new search result de-duplication option, that when checked, only copies one instance of a message to the discovery mailbox. This can help you reduce the amount of e-mail you need to review following the search. Finally, added support for annotation of reviewed items means you can make your e-Discovery workflow even more efficient and less time consuming or costly.

For those of you that have been holding your breath for this one, we're also happy to let you know that in SP1 timeframe, there will be an update which will enable us to support access to a user's Personal Archive with Outlook 2007.

Learn more about our approach to archiving by reading the Archiving with Exchange 2010 whitepaper.

Outlook Web App - Better Than Ever

We didn't stop working with archiving and discovery, OWA gets a significant facelift with SP1 as well. With new work to pre-fetch message content, the OWA reading experience becomes faster. With delete, mark as read, and categorize operations running asynchronously, these actions feel instantaneous to the user. We've also made sure that certain long running operations, such as attaching a very large file, will not block the rest of the OWA experience, protecting the user from irritating web UI hang-ups. You'll see a number of other UI improvements as well to de-clutter a bit; helping make it easier to find common tasks with updated action icons and menus. The simpler UI will make OWA much friendlier to the smaller screens of ever popular Netbooks. Users will also be able to share their calendars to anonymous viewers via the web, assuming you enable this functionality as the admin.

In RTM, we delivered Information Rights Management (IRM) capabilities in OWA, allowing you to read and compose IRM-protected messages just like you've been able to do with Outlook in the past. In SP1, you'll be able to add Web-Ready Document Viewing of IRM-protected documents as well and you'll be able to do so in Safari on a Mac as well as in Firefox or IE on a PC.

Finally, for those of you who have been dying to change the look and feel of OWA, we're bringing OWA themes back; adding several OWA themes so you can match the OWA experience to your particular style. Oh yeah, and yes, the reading pane can be placed on the bottom or the right side.

All The Mobility, All the Time

While Exchange Active Sync (EAS) has become the de facto standard for mobile communication, there is no resting on any laurels in Redmond here either. In SP1, mobile users will be treated with tether-free IRM support in EAS, enabling you to send and receive IRM-protected mail without having previously connected your device to Windows Mobile Device Center to provision IRM. Updated EAS capabilities also enable support for send-as, support for notifying the user if their device has been placed on block or quarantine by their admin, full implementation of conversation view including the ability to sync only unique parts of messages. Also, for those users who need help setting up their mobile device to access mail via POP/IMAP/SMTP, we've added information in OWA to provide them the server names for these services. For those of you who haven't already seen Michael Higashi's blog post from March, take a look to read about all the updated Outlook Mobile capabilities already delivered.

New Management UI

We know you all love PowerShell, as do we, but SP1 will bring several new management UI enhancements to enable a number of management tasks in the Exchange Management Console (EMC) and Exchange Control Panel (ECP). Here's a taste:

Create/configure Retention Tags + Retention Policies in EMC
Configure Transport Rules in ECP
Configure Journal Rules in ECP
Configure MailTips in ECP
Provision and configure the Personal Archive in ECP
Configure Litigation Hold in ECP & EMC
Configure Allow/Block/Quarantine mobile device policies in ECP
RBAC role management in ECP
Configure Database Availability Group (DAG) IP Addresses and Alternate Witness Server in EMC
Recursive public folder settings management (including permissions) in EMC

Many of the improvements we are delivering in the SP1 are in direct response to the feedback you've provided since RTM. I am excited about how, in a very short period time, we've been able to quickly respond and introduce these improvements and innovation to Exchange 2010. A full list of what's coming in SP1 will be on TechNet soon.

As always, let us know what you think!

-- Michael Atalla

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Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB979611)

Tonino — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:21:00 GMT

Overview

Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2010 customers.

For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB979611.

This is a cumulative update rollup and replaces the following:

KB976573 Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 (KB976573)

Issues that the update rollup fixes

Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:

977633 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977633/ ) Certain third-party IMAP4 clients cannot connect to Exchange Server 2003 mailboxes through an Exchange Server 2010 CAS server

979431 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979431/ ) The POP3 service crashes when a user connects to a mailbox through the POP3 protocol and the user is migrated from an Exchange Server 2003 server to an Exchange Server 2010 server

979480 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979480/ ) Users cannot receive new messages if they access mailboxes that are moved to another Exchange Server 2010 RU1 server by using IMAP4 clients

979563 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979563/ ) Exchange Server 2010 Push Notifications does not work

979566 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979566/ ) A 0x85010014 error is generated when linked mailbox users try to synchronize their mailboxes with mobile devices in a CAS-CAS proxying scenario in Exchange Server 2010

980261 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980261/ ) This fix introduces the supports for Exchange Server 2010 page patching when a "-1022" disk I/O error is generated

980262 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980262/ ) Event ID 2156 is logged on a computer that is running Exchange Server 2010

NOTE: Review closely the important information to discover issues with servers not connected to the internet or customizations done to the Outlook Web App