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Tag: Roll-up Update

  • Thoughts on Exchange’s new cumulative update model

    Today’s announcement by Microsoft of a new approach to updates for Exchange is welcome in many respects. A new system of cumulative updates issued on a quarterly basis and applied to servers via Exchange’s B2B (build to build) installation program will be used to keep on-premises deployments updated at the…

  • Analyzing Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5

    Microsoft has re-released Exchange 2010 SP2 RU5 (v2) – This update should fix the DAG problem that was reported soon after the original release. However, protect yourself by making sure to test RU5 thoroughly before it goes anywhere near a production server! RU5 V2 does not include KB2748870 and it seems…

  • Analyzing what’s in the Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 update

    Microsoft released Exchange 2010 SP2 RU1 (roll-up update 1 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2, or version 14.2.283.3) on Monday, February 13, 2012. As you probably know, a roll-up update provides a complete set of fixes for a software product and once applied, brings a product as up-to-date in terms…

  • Installing an Exchange 2010 Roll-up Update

    Microsoft announced roll-up update 2 (RU2) for Exchange 2010 SP1 amongst the set of updates for different versions of Exchange that the CXP team released in December 2010. I believe that CXP means “customer experience”; in previous times this team might have been known as “ongoing support” or “maintenance engineering”.…