Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

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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 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2. 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 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles.

981832 

MS10-024: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service could allow denial of service

981706 

Exchange 2007 SP2 Rollup 1 or Exchange 2007 SP2 Rollup 2 does not install on a Spanish version of Exchange Server 2007 SP2

980639 

A user can only set the time zone to Bucharest in OWA after you update Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack1 to Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

Pre-Installation Tasks

If you are using 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 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2.

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 Server 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, 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 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2.

If you install Update Rollup 4 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 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2 was released on April 13, 2010. To obtain this update rollup from the Microsoft Download Center, see Update Rollup 4 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.