MS Exchange Server 2007 SP1 upgrade to SP2
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is the industry's leading server for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging. Exchange Server 2007 is the foundation for a dynamic and holistic unified communications experience, and has been designed to meet the challenges and address the messaging needs of today's businesses. Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) enables customers to increase their operational efficiency and it sets the foundation for the transition to Exchange Server 2010.
[B]What's New in Exchange 2007 SP2:[/B]
a. Deploying Exchange Server 2010 - You can deploy Exchange Server 2010 in your organization once all of the Client Access servers in your organization have been upgraded to Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
b. Exchange Backup Functionality - Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 includes a VSS plug-in for Windows Server Backup to support Exchange backups.
c. Enhanced Auditing - New Exchange auditing events and audit log repository enable Exchange administrators to more easily audit the activities occurring on their Exchange servers.
d. New Exchange auditing events and audit log repository enable Exchange administrators to more easily audit the activities occurring on their Exchange servers
e. Dynamic Active Directory Schema Validation - The dynamic AD schema update and validation feature allows for future schema updates to be dynamic deployed as well as proactively preventing conflicts whenever a new property is added to the AD schema.
f. Public Folder Quota Management - Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 provides a more efficient way to manage Public Folder quotas by improving the current cmdlets and removing the dependency on the Public Folder Distributed Authoring and Versioning Administration to perform management tasks.
g. Centralized Organizational Settings- There are several new cmdlet parameters that have been added that enable centralized management of many of the Exchange organization settings.
h . Improved Setup Program - Exchange 2007 SP2 includes changes to the Windows Installer Setup program.
[B]Installing Exchange 2007 SP2[/B]
You can use the following methods to install Exchange 2007 SP2:
[LIST][*]Upgrade a computer that is running the original release version of Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2007 SP2.[*][B]Upgrade a computer that is running Exchange 2007 SP1 to Exchange 2007 SP2.
[/B][*]Perform a new installation of Exchange 2007 SP2.[/LIST]
In this article i detail the steps to [B]upgrade a computer that is running Exchange 2007 SP1 to SP2[/B].
[B]Exchange Environment:[/B] We have an environment where there are a pair of CAS/HUB servers (CASHUB01 and CASHUB02) and a pair of Mailbox Servers in CCR (MBX01 and MBX02). The Cluster mailbox server name is CMMB01. Outlook Anywhere and OWA users connect through an ISA 2006 server in the DMZ to the CASHUB servers and then to Mailbox Sever CMMB01.
The Exchange environment is Exchange 2007 SP1 with update rollup 4.
[B]Sequence of upgrade[/B] will be CASHUB02, CASHUB01, MBX02, CMMB01 and MBX01.We will upgrade 4 physical servers (CASHUB01, CASHUB02, MBX01, MBX02) and one virtual server (CMMB01) from Exchange 2007 SP1 to SP2.
[B]Service Downtime:[/B] For those administrators who have to provide 99%++ of uptime of their Exchange servers please note there will be a service downtime when you will be upgrading your Cluster Mailbox server to Exchange 2007 SP2.
[B]Installation Files[/B]: You will need the following two installation files:-
a. Windows Installer 4.5 Redistributable - x64 Platform. File Name: WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x64.exe
Download location: [url=http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5A58B56F-60B6-4412-95B9-54D056D6F9F4&displaylang=en]Download details: Windows Installer 4.5[/url]
b. Exchange 2007 SP2. for x64 Platform. File name: E2K7SP2EN64.exe
Download location: [URL="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4c4bd2a3-5e50-42b0-8bbb-2cc9afe3216a&displaylang=en&Hash=RWe0QrK9cX2ok93g8kLN3+eN2ijX/6/OHRFLNVZzeUol/g0BX+2FA+bezuFC+jPLVbMyVOgT40maB+KWWMtULQ==#filelist"]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4c4bd2a3-5e50-42b0-8bbb-2cc9afe3216a&displaylang=en&Hash=RWe0QrK9cX2ok93g8kLN3%2beN2ijX%2f6%2fOHRFLNVZzeUol%2fg0BX%2b2FA%2bbezuFC%2bjPLVbMyVOgT40maB%2bKWWMtULQ%3d%3d#filelist[/URL]
[B]Sequence of Steps:[/B]
1. [B]Upgrade CASHUB02[/B] :
a. Install Windows Installer 4.5 on the operating system. Restart the server.
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b. Check whether there are any interim updates on the server. If yes uninstall interim updates. (Update rollups dont need any uninstallation)
c. Double click setup.exe from the installation folder. The following screen will be displayed. Click on Install Microsoft Exchange Service Pack 2.
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The installation will perform self check tests before starting the upgrade.
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The upgrade will consist of updating Active Directory Schema first and then exchange upgrade installation.
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Click Finish. Restart the server.
Note: Point to note after server restart, the Transport log search service may give errors while starting up automatically. To increase the service time out refer to the following technote.
[url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824344]How to debug Windows services[/url]
2. [B]Upgrade CASHUB01[/B] :
Steps 1 a,b and c will be performed in the same sequence as above.
Restrat the server.
3. [B]Upgrade MBX02[/B] :
The steps for upgrading an Exchange 2007 CCR to SP2 is different from the procedure that we follow for non clustered servers. We will describe the steps here for CCR servers.
You can only upgrade CCR nodes by using the exchange management shell. You cannot upgrade CCR nodes by using the GUI as detailed in steps above.
The process in a gist is to upgrade the passive node first, restart, move CMS and the cluster group to the passive node, upgrade the CMS which makes the node the active one & then upgrade the initial active node and restart.
a. Check with the cluster group command that the Server MBX01 is the active server. MBX01 will be servicing users during the upgrade process of the passive node.
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b. Execute steps 1a and 1b as above.
c. Launch a command prompt window and navigate to the exchange 2007 sp2 installation directory. Run the command
[B]Setup.com /Mode:Upgrade[/B]
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Setup runs the exchange pre-requisites check for the mailbox role.
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Once the installation is completed successfully as shown above restart the server.
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