Building a new server today for a client, and as part of patching we manually installed Exchange 2013 Service Pack 3, and then of course the latest update rollup – which happens to be UR6. UR6 came out in May this year, so it’s not all that new. The Exchange 2013 SP3 went on without a problem – right click, run as Administrator and it was away. It took maybe 30 minutes or … [Read more...]
SBS 2011 Essentials Updates are out
Microsoft have released a number of updates specifically for SBS 2011 Essentials today. These updates fix specific issues that have been seen out there in the field by end users and resellers. The first one here is Update Rollup 1 for SBS 2011 Essentials and includes fixes for 8 issues including migration issues, RWA domain name issues, Alerting issues, and some … [Read more...]
Microsoft pushes Office 365 to everyone
I was writing this blog post over the weekend and downloading Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 and could not help but notice, that Microsoft is now pushing Office 365 to you even when you go to patch your Exchange server. They really are desperate to get you to move to the cloud even if it’s not the right thing for your business. See the … [Read more...]
Update Rollup 5 for SBS 2008 available
Microsoft last week released Update Rollup 5 for SBS 2008. If you have default settings for your SBS 2008 patch management then it will automatically download it for installation on your SBS 2008 server as per my screenshot below. Installation for me did not require a reboot and took only a few minutes. The list of things fixed by this is documented here … [Read more...]