Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

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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 4 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) that is dated May 28, 2011. This article describes the following information about the update rollup:

  • The issues that the update rollup resolves

  • How to obtain the update rollup

Issues that the update rollup resolves

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 SP3 resolves the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:

2531208

You cannot synchronize a folder hierarchy by using Outlook for Mac 2011 in an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 environment

2528437

EWS applications cannot connect to Exchange Server 2007 servers after you make changes on accepted domains

2521063

You are incorrectly displayed as a meeting organizer after you synchronize the meeting by using your mobile device in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

2517337

You cannot open a mailbox that has a "#" character in the primary SMTP email address by using OWA in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

2515428

The MSExchangeMailboxAssistants.exe process crashes when the managed folder assistant tries to journal a message in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

2508872

The W3WP.exe process in the Autodiscover application pool consumes excessive CPU resources on the Exchange Server 2007 Client Access servers

2507374

"Cannot open this item" error message in Outlook online mode in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

2506827

A UM auto attendant times out and generates an invalid extension number error message in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

2502276

A meeting request series is deleted unexpectedly from the calendar in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

2498924

"Could not connect to a directory server" error message when you click the last page button in the search results in Exchange Server 2007 OWA

2498156

OLM/OLD incorrectly runs against databases in a RSG in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

2496806

A mobile phone times out when you use ActiveSync to synchronize the calendar on the mobile phone with an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox

2543879

A PDF attachment from a Mac Mail client is not displayed when you use Outlook 2010 to open the email message in an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 environment

2491751

The spelling checker does not work correctly in OWA when an S/MIME control is used and when SSL Offloading is enabled in Exchange Server 2007

2484147

"HTTP Error 400 Bad Request" error message when you use OWA to log on to a newly created Exchange Server 2007 mailbox

2466220

Question mark (?) characters appear in the subject of a reply email message in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

2223294

A new feature is available to disable the "No end date" check box in a recurring meeting item in OWA in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

977906

You receive an error message when you run certain commands in the EMS on an Exchange Server 2007 server

2495010

The EdgeTransport.exe process consumes 100 percent of CPU resources on an Exchange Server 2010 Edge Transport server or an Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server

2484817

A mailbox does is not shown in certain address lists after you run commands on an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox

Pre-Installation Tasks

Forefront Security for Exchange Server

If you are using Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server, you must disable Forefront Security for Exchange Server before you install Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 SP3. After you install the update rollup package, you must re-enable Forefront Security for Exchange Server. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. To disable Forefront Security for Exchange Server, run the fscutility /disable command.

  2. To enable Forefront Security for Exchange Server, run the fscutility /enable command.

Note

If you do not disable Forefront Security for Exchange Server before you install the update rollup, the Information Store service and the Transport service do not start.

Public Folders

If you are using public folders in your Exchange 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 4 for Exchange 2007 SP3.

If you are using 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 2007 continues to function correctly. In this case, you can 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 window, click Action, and then click Connect to.

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

  4. Expand the following list items 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, <OrganizationName> and <ServerName> represent the actual names of the organization and 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 2007 servers in the organization that host public folder databases are upgraded to Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 SP3.

If you install Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 SP3 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 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 was released on July 7, 2011. To obtain this update rollup from the Microsoft Download Center, see Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2509911)

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 SP3, see the "Update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3" 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, to Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1), or to Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2). The series of update rollup packages for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 is independent of the corresponding series of update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 RTM, for Exchange 2007 SP1, or for Exchange 2007 SP2.