Rereleases of Exchange 2010 SP1 RU8 and 2007 SP3 RU7

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

Besides Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2, the Exchange team also released updates of the following Rollups:

The KB article reads that, “This update resolves an issue in which the digital signature on files that are produced and signed by Microsoft expires prematurely as described in Microsoft Security Advisory 2749655.” However, that should have already been fixed already in the v2 updates (refer to the same Security Advisory).

The Exchange Versions, builds & dates page has been updated accordingly, including updated product version numbers.

With all this subversioning of rereleases, one may wonder why they didn’t release Rollup 5 for Exchange as Rollup 4 v3, which perhaps would be less confusing.

Rereleases of latest Exchange 2010 and 2007 Rollups

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

The Exchange team rereleased the following Rollups:

Exchange 2007 SP3 RU8 v2
Exchange 2010 SP1 RU7 v2
Exchange 2010 SP2 RU4 v2, including fix for KB2756987

These v2 updates solve an issue with a prematurely expiring certificate used to sign the update (see KB2749655), i.e. no code changes (apart from KB2756987).

The Exchange Versions, builds & dates page has been updated accordingly, including updated product version numbers.

Important Hotfix for Outlook 2013 Preview

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

Microsoft released a quick fix for a nasty bug in Outlook 2013 Preview, part of the Office Professional Plus 2013 Preview. The related knowledgebase article is kb2737132.

Note: Despite the warning that goes with pre-release software about not using it in production environments, I assume Microsoft knows people will and decided to produce a hotfix so quickly, which is quite unusual for preview software, also looking at the potential consequences.

The bug causes everything, i.e. e-mail, contacts, appointments and tasks, to be deleted permanently from an Exchange server when using the Cleanup Tools from Outlook. Nothing is recoverable through the Recover Deleted Items option.

To install the hotfix, follow one of the links below, depending on your architecture:

Exchange 2010 SP2 Language Pack Updated

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

The Exchange team updated the Exchange Server 2010 2 Language Pack.

As you may or may not know, installing SP2 on Client Access Servers introduced the breadcrumb issue which I reported here.

Unfortunately, the Language Pack (included in SP2) which was updated to fix this issue introduced an annoyance on SP2 RU1 multi-role servers, by flooding the Eventlog with 10013 error messages for non-“en-us” users after installing SP2 RU1:

The Active Directory entry for mailbox CN contains an invalid locale for attribute MsExchUserCulture: nl-NL

You can download the updated language pack bundle here. Note that you only need to apply the update on Client Access Servers.

Fix for Dutch “Global Addresslist” issue w/Exchange 2010 SP2

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

Today Microsoft released a fix (kb2677598) for a small cosmetic imperfection which shows up when using Outlook Web Access in Dutch, after installing Service Pack 2 on Exchange 2010.

Instead of showing up “Mail”, OWA displayed “Globale Adreslijst” (Global Addresslist) which might be confusing to end users.

To implement the hotfix, you need to apply the , dated 20 Feb, 2012, on your Exchange 2010 SP2 Client Access Servers.

You can download the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Language Pack Bundle (219 MB) here.

(Thanks to Jetze for the heads-up).