Applies to: Exchange Server 2007 SP3, Exchange Server
2007 SP2, Exchange Server 2007 SP1
Topic Last Modified: 2009-01-22
The following list of hotfixes are required to be installed on all Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 servers deployed into Contoso's production environment.
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| This list is a sample list and must be updated to reflect the actual list of fixes that are required for your organization. The list you choose to deploy as part of your standard server build should always be validated in a lab environment to ensure that all functionality behaves as expected. |
Windows Server 2003
Install the hotfixes in the order listed. Hotfixes are ordered based on version numbers beginning with the lower versions and ending with the higher versions.
Be sure to install the service packs or hotfixes on the Client Access servers before upgrading the back-end servers.
Hotfixes
- Download all security hotfixes for the operating system from
Microsoft Security Bulletin Search.
- August 2008 cumulative time zone update for
Microsoft Windows operating systems
- Availability of a Volume Shadow Copy Service
(VSS) update rollup package for Windows Server 2003 to resolve some
VSS snapshot issues
- A Windows Server 2003-based computer becomes
unresponsive because of a memory manager trimming operation that is
caused by an indeterminate module that requests lots of
memory
- An update to turn off default SNP features is
available for Windows Server 2003-based and Small Business Server
2003-based computers
- A Cluster node may lose an MNS quorum, and the
Cluster service may stop on a Windows Server 2003, Enterprise
Edition-based computer
- A Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup
package is available for Windows Server 2003
- The system may not detect that a logical unit
was replaced on a Windows Server 2003-based computer
For clustered servers, download and install the following:
Windows Server 2008
Install the hotfixes in the order listed. Hotfixes are ordered based on version numbers beginning with the lower versions and ending with the higher versions.
Be sure to install the service packs or hotfixes on the Client Access servers before upgrading the back-end servers.
Hotfixes
- Download all security hotfixes for the operating system from
Microsoft Security Bulletin Search.
- December 2008 cumulative time zone update for
Microsoft Windows operating systems
- A memory leak occurs in performance counters
that are used to monitor Windows Server 2008-based
computers
- A handle leak occurs in a Server Message Block
(SMB) session between computers that are running Windows Vista or
Windows Server 2008
- A memory leak occurs on an RPC server that is
running Windows Server 2008 after the RPC server function runs an
RPC client callback function
- An application may crash when it uses legacy
methods to query performance counter values in Windows Vista or in
Windows Server 2008
- A Windows Vista-based computer or a Windows
Server 2008-based computer may stop responding during shutdown
after you install a series of hotfixes and then try to restart the
computer
- An application is unable to obtain an exclusive
lock to a volume after the system runs for several hours in Windows
Server 2008 or in Windows Vista Service Pack 1
- You experience a nonpaged pool memory leak when
you unmap and then remap Microsoft MPIO-based logical unit number
to a Windows Server 2008-based computer
- The DeviceType registry entry value is truncated
when the Microsoft Storport driver is installed on a computer that
is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista
- You cannot create multiple RMS Client sessions
for one user context on a Windows Vista-based computer
- The words "Friendster," "Klum," "Nazr," "Obama,"
and "Racicot" are not recognized when you check the spelling in
Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008
- Script output is not displayed as expected when
you run VBScript or JScript scripts in Windows Vista Service Pack
1, in Windows Server 2008, or in Windows XP Service Pack 3
- Description of the Jet 4.0 Database Engine
hotfix package for Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows
Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows
Server 2008: October 23, 2007
- An application that uses the ADO interface may
malfunction, or data loss may occur when the application connects
to SQL Server in Windows Vista, in Windows XP, or in Windows Server
2008
- The August 2008 Windows Vista and Windows Server
2008 Application Compatibility Update is available
- A hotfix is available that addresses a memory
leak in the Virtual Disk Service on a computer that is running
Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
- A Windows Vista-based or Windows Server
2008-based computer may stop responding during a storage stress
test or under similar conditions
- A hotfix rollup is available for the out-of-band
WebDAV module for IIS 7.0
For Failover Clustering, download and install the following:
- You cannot install device drivers in a Windows
Server 2008 cluster environment if the drivers contain
LZ-compressed files
- When you stop a node in a Windows Server 2008
failover cluster, the groups that are hosted on that node may fail
over to a random node instead of to the next available node
- When you run the Validate a Configuration Wizard
on a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Vista-based
computer, the validation does not pass
- Scheduled shadow copy creation tasks do not run
on a clustered Windows Server 2008 file server after a failover
occurs
- A physical disk resource may unexpectedly fail
or go offline when the IsAlive function is executed on a Windows
Server 2008 cluster node
- Incorrect status codes that are returned in
failover clusters may cause operations to fail on a Windows Server
2008-based computer
Exchange 2007
Install the hotfixes in the order listed. Hotfixes are ordered based on version numbers beginning with the lower versions and ending with the higher versions.
Be sure to install the service packs or hotfixes on the Client Access servers before upgrading the back-end servers.