Problems with Exchange 2007 SP1 UR6? Not here…

February 13, 2009 · Filed Under Exchange Server 2007 | 468 views

It seems like a good number of folks are saying they’re having issues with UR6 within their Exchange environments (pay no attention to the one who said it wouldn’t install on Exchange Server 2003…).

There are quite a few discussions going on currently about the effects of UR6, both at the MS Exchange team’s blog and on the TechNet forums.

All I can say, is that so far I’ve seen no issues. I do make it habit to run the updates using an account with Exchange Organization Administrator privileges though, so that explains away several of the complaints people have made (you’ve got to have that level of access for the scripts to run properly…).

I’ve put the update on 1 HT, 1 CAS and 2 SCR target nodes as well as a DPM 2007 SP1 server. I’ll be updating an additional 2 HT, 2 CAS and 4 CCR nodes shortly. So far, I wasn’t asked to perform any reboots and I had no issues. Yes, the update does take a long time to apply, but that’s been normal for the recent UR packages. As a general rule, even though a reboot was not requested, I ALWAYS make it a rule to reboot Exchange after applying any Update Rollup or Service Pack…consider that good advice that will go along way towards services that don’t start properly after an update.

Have you had any issues? I’ll post the results of my next round of updates after I complete them.