Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 KB2803727

The Exchange Team released Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 SP3.

After installation of Rollup 1 you will get version 14.3.146.0

Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 SP3 is available for download from:

Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (KB2803727)

 

Ex2010SP3RU1

 

 

Full details for this release you can find here:

Description of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3

Issues resolved by Rollup 1:

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Exchange 2010 SP3 Database copy status goes to failed after database move

If you have installed SP3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010 you can experience an issue with database copy status.

When activating a passive copy of an Exchange 2010 SP3 database via PowerShell or the Exchange Management Console, the mounted database will dismount without issue and the passive copy will mount. While at the initializing stage on the now passive copy, the database copy status  will change to a failed state.

The status message for the database copy shows failed, and the log indicates:

“The Microsoft Exchange Replication service encountered an error while inspecting the logs and database for DB\Server on startup. Error: File check failed : Logfile ‘f:\logs\DB\Enn.log’ is generation 2024; however the expected generation is 2004.”

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Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 OWA and Outlook Anywhere error HTTP 440 – 440 response was received from Unknown

After installation of Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010 some of you can expirience problem with remote connectivity to Microsoft Exchange.

When you run OWA or Outlook Anywhere you can get error like below:

HTTP 440 – 440 response was received from Unknown

 

You will see this problem on CAS servers where you have enabled HTTP Redirection in IIS on Exchange web sub directories like:

  • OWA,
  • RPC,
  • EWS,
  • Autodiscover

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Unable to soft delete messages after installing Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 or SP3

Finally, Microsoft has confirmed that what we wrote and many users wrote on the forums.

Namely, Microsoft admits that after installing Rollup 6 for Exchange 2010 SP2 or after the installation of Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010, there are problems with the removing some of e-mails using soft delete:

  1. Unable to soft delete messages that contain voice mail attachments.
  2. Unable to soft delete messages sent from FAX server, printer or scanner which have attachments (such as .PDF).
  3. issue occurs when you use Microsoft Outlook in Online mode or OWA

 

This issue does not happen with messages sent by a user instead of an application, or plain messages without attachments.

As workaround Microsoft recommends:

  1. Hard delete the message instead of soft deleting – to hard delete email using Microsoft Outlook, select the message and then press SHIFT+DELETE to delete it
  2. Use cached mode for Outlook – when using the cached mode of Outlook, the message can be soft deleted

 

All article is available here:

Unable to soft delete some messages after installing Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 or SP3

 

 

 

Exchange Server 2010 SP3 installation on Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Below we will shortly present how to install Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP3 on Microsoft Windows Server 2012.

Installation is quite simple.

First we need to install Microsoft Windows Server 2012 on server.

After installation get all updates from Microsoft provided for Windows Server 2012.

When you are sure that server has installed all updates, you need to install all required Windows Features for Exchange Server 2010.

Run Powershell console and write or paste:

Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Core,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,Web-Asp-Net,Web-Client-Auth,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Http-Redirect,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Static-Content,Web-WMI,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart

 

This will install all features provided for Exchange Server 2010. After installation server should be restarted.

Next you need to install:

both of them are required for Exchange 2010 SP3.

 

Now when Windows Server 2012 is prepared for installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP3 you can go on.

Installation of Exchange Server 2010 SP3 can be run from setup.exe, then you will use Installation Wizard, or you can open CMD as a Administrator, go to Service Pack 3 folder and run command like below:

setup.com /mode:install /r:ca,ht,mb

 

This will run unattended installation of Exchange Server 2010 SP3 with roles CAS, HT, and mailbox server.

 

 

Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3 (Service Pack 3) installation

Most of us will want to install Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010, mainly because it allows the coexistence with Microsoft Exchange 2013.

Unfortunately coexistence with Microsoft Exchange 2013 will be possible only after the release Cummulative Update 1 for Microsoft Exchange 2013 which is expected in the Q1 of 2013, but sooner or later it is worth to install SP3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010 to be prepared for the upcoming changes.

As usual, we should first install SP3 in test environment, not in production right away, because you never know what to expect when you install Service Pack 3.

Below we show the installation of SP3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010, on the server with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.

What you need to know before installation of Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010:

  1. SP3 require Active Directory schema update
  2. Exchange 2010 SP3 is listed as including all security bug fixes up to SP2 UR5-v2. It actually includes all security and bug fixes up to SP2 UR6
  3. SP3 you can only install on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 or Microsoft Windows Server 2012
  4. coexistence with Exchange 2013 will be possible after installation CU1 (Cummulative Update 1) for Exchange 2013

 

Servers Upgrade order:

Exchange servers should be upgraded in the following order:

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Microsoft Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) KB2808208 released

Finally Microsoft released Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010.

Installation of SP3 for Microsoft Exchange 2010, will rising the Exchange version number to: 14.3.123.4

 

Exchange2010SP3

 

Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Exchange can be downloaded here:

Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3

And description of SP3 you can find in this KB articles KB2808208:

Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3 description

 

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