Description of Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 will reach end of support on April 11, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

 

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This topic describes the following:

  • Issues that the update rollup fixes

  • How to obtain the update rollup

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Issues That the Update Rollup Fixes

Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles.

976108 

"451 4.4.0 DNS Query Failed" status message in an Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server

976460 

Later updates do not match a calendar item that an Exchange Server 2007 user updates by using Exchange ActiveSync on a mobile device

977179 

You receive an "0x800423f0" error message when you perform system state backups on the passive node of Windows Server 2008-based Exchange Server 2007 CCR clusters

977531 

An external recipient misses the last occurrence of a recurring meeting request or a recurring appointment that is sent from an Exchange Server 2007 user

977923 

The Edgetransport.exe process crashes when it processes meeting requests in Exchange Server 2007

978137 

The subject of a confirmation message is garbled for certain languages when a remote device wipe operation is performed in Exchange Server 2007

978200 

The sender address of a forwarded meeting request does not include "on behalf of" as expected in an Exchange Server 2003 organization and an Exchange Server 2007 organization mixed environment

978253 

A SSL certificate validation error is generated on an Exchange Server 2007 server when you run any test commands after you run the Test-SystemHealth command

978469 

A mailbox that was moved from an Exchange Server 2007 server to an Exchange Server 2010 server cannot be accessed by using Outlook

978517 

The Exchange Information Store service stops responding on an Exchange Server 2007 server

978521 

The synchronization and the reconciliation between Microsoft Office Outlook and a BlackBerry mobile device fails when a mailbox is moved around between two Exchange Server 2007 servers

978528

The Exchange Information Store service crashes on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 server when a user tries to access a specific calendar item

978832 

Read items are marked incorrectly as unread items in an Exchange Server 2007 public folder

979055 

A delegate cannot save three settings of Resource Settings for an Exchange Server 2007 resource mailbox in OWA

979170 

You receive an error message when you use ExBPA to schedule a scan on an Exchange Server 2007 SP2 server

979219 

The store.exe process hangs on an Exchange Server 2007 server

Pre-Installation Tasks

If you use public folders in your Exchange Server 2007 organization, and if you have set the retention period on the public folder database to a value that is greater than 123 days, you must follow the steps in the following procedure before you install Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2.

If you use public folders, and if you have set the retention period on the public folder database to a value that is less than or equal to 123 days, you receive a warning message. However, Exchange Server 2007 continues to function correctly. In this case, follow these steps to fix the issue.

  1. Click Start, type adsiedit.msc in the Start Search box, and then press Enter.

  2. In the ADSIEdit MMC, click Action, and then click Connect to.

  3. In the Well-known naming context list, click Configuration.

  4. Expand the following list item and subitems in this order:

    • CN=Configuration,DC=Contoso,DC=com

    • CN=Services

    • CN=Microsoft Exchange

    • CN=<OrganizationName>

    • CN=Administrative Groups

    • CN=Servers

    • CN=<ServerName>

    • CN=Information Store

    • CN=Second Storage Group

Note

In this list, replace <OrganizationName> and <ServerName> with the actual names of the organization and the server.

  1. Double-click CN=Public Folder Database.

  2. Double-click msExchOverallAgeLimit.

  3. Change the existing value from seconds to days by dividing the existing value by 86,400.

Note

You must repeat these steps on all public folder databases in the Exchange 2007 environment.

Important

These changes take effect after all Exchange Server 2007 servers in the organization that host Public Folder databases are upgraded to Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2.

If you install Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2 without performing these steps, and if you then try to access the public folder settings by using the Exchange Management console, you receive the following error message:

TimeSpan overflowed because the duration is too long

Also, when you try to access Exchange by using Outlook Web Access, you receive the following error message:

Exception
Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa.Core.OwaInvalidConfigurationException
Exception message: TimeSpan overflowed because the duration is too long.

Update Rollup Information

Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2 was released on March 11, 2010. To obtain this update rollup from the Microsoft Download Center, see Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2.

Important

Before you install an update rollup or a service pack, see How to Install the Latest Service Pack or Update Rollup for Exchange 2007 for prerequisites, installation instructions, and known issues. Before you apply an update rollup to clustered Mailbox servers, see Applying Exchange 2007 Update Rollups to Clustered Mailbox Servers.

For more information about the Exchange 2007 servicing model, see Exchange 2007 Servicing.

For a list of update rollups that apply to Exchange Server 2007 SP2, see the "Update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2" section in How to Obtain the Latest Service Pack or Update Rollup for Exchange 2007.

This update rollup does not apply to Exchange Server 2007 release to manufacturing (RTM) version or to Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The series of update rollup packages for Exchange Server 2007 SP2 is independent of the corresponding series of update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 RTM or for Exchange 2007 SP1.