Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 to be released on February 10th 2009

We have Forefront running on a CCR cluster. Has anyone else seen the issues identified by Klaus? We're running on Sp1 rollup 3 in production and don't have a test environment up yet. Apart from a relatively minor issue with OWA fixed in rollup 5, its been working fine. We were looking at updating all our boxes the week on 2/23, but would rather not roll the dice if issues are prevalent.

SBS 2008 - I just spent the last two hours uninstalling RU 6, re-enabling services,  restarting the services, starting IIS sites...and I just hope I got them all correct!

Should I re-install RU6 and re-enable the services as I did this time?

Any help is appreciated.

Hi there!

Tried RU6 on a HT-only server with the marvelous product called ForeFront installed on it today.
Not bad since it did't destroy the box.
Not perfect though since it didn't restart the services.
Even worse since it didn't present any errors.

Interesting lines from the servicecontrol.log:
[07:34:56] 0: Service 'FSEIMC' failed to start. Check the event log for possible reasons for the service start failure.
[07:34:56] Unable to restore service 'MSExchangeTransport'.
[07:34:56] Unable to restore all services for 'Bridgehead'.

BTW - the eventlog is plain blue, no FSEIMC-related entries.
The last one was 7:30 - FSEIMC service stopped.
So "failed to start" is somehow true. To be more specific: The setup didn't ask the service to start.

Regards,
Klaus

I deployed Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 SP1 in my test lab and it breaks the system. Now no test users are able to send and receive emails. There is an error in even log every time when someone tries to send and receive.

Source: MSExchange Store Driver
Event ID : 1011 and 1012

The store driver encountered a poison message during message submission. The submission will be stopped for event 1469 on mailbox f6238ff5-abe3-4555-b1ec-8c8e93d85609 Mdb d274a90c-0495-4029-8b11-a4e068115bc5.


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The store driver failed to submit event 1469 mailbox f6238ff5-abe3-4555-b1ec-8c8e93d85609 MDB d274a90c-0495-4029-8b11-a4e068115bc5 and couldn't generate an NDR due to exception System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Mapi.ExRpcPerf' threw an exception. ---> Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionLowLevelInitializationFailure: MapiExceptionLowLevelInitializationFailure: ec=-2147467259 (0x80004005)
  at Microsoft.Mapi.ExRpcModule.Bind()
  at Microsoft.Mapi.ExRpcPerf..cctor()
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at Microsoft.Mapi.ExRpcPerf.ConnectionCacheBirth(Int32 maxConnections)
  at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.ConnectionCachePool.GetConnectionCache(String server, ConnectFlag connectFlags)
  at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.ConnectionCachePool.OpenMailbox(String serverDn, String userDn, String mailboxDn, Guid mailboxGuid, Guid mdbGuid, Object identity, ConnectFlag connectFlag, OpenStoreFlag openStoreFlag, CultureInfo cultureInfo, String clientInfoString, Boolean secondTry)
  at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.ConnectionCachePool.OpenMailbox(String serverDn, String userDn, String mailboxDn, Guid mailboxGuid, Guid mdbGuid, Object identity, ConnectFlag connectFlag, OpenStoreFlag openStoreFlag, CultureInfo cultureInfo, String clientInfoString)
  at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.MailboxSession.Initialize(LogonType logonType, ExchangePrincipal owner, DelegateLogonUser delegateUser, Object identity, OpenMailboxSessionFlags flags)
  at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.MailboxSession.CreateMailboxSession(LogonType logonType, ExchangePrincipal owner, DelegateLogonUser delegateUser, Object identity, OpenMailboxSessionFlags flags, CultureInfo cultureInfo, String clientInfoString)
  at Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.MailboxSession.OpenAsTransport(ExchangePrincipal mailboxOwner)
  at Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxTransport.StoreDriver.SubmissionItem.OpenStore()
  at Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxTransport.StoreDriver.SubmissionItem.LoadFromStore()
  at Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxTransport.StoreDriver.MailItemSubmitter.<SubmitNdrForPoisonMessage>b__5()
  at Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxTransport.StoreDriver.StorageExceptionHandler.RunUnderExceptionHandler(IMessageConverter converter, StoreDriverDelegate workerFunction)
  at Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxTransport.StoreDriver.MailItemSubmitter.SubmitNdrForPoisonMessage().

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Its good that I have not deployed it in production.
Stupid rollup.

Yes Dont update to RU 6. OWA failed with error

Event code: 3005
Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.
Event time: 2/12/2009 7:58:03 AM
Event time (UTC): 2/12/2009 12:58:03 AM
Event ID: 1d6f1cee07ab4092a5e2cfe0e72a3a1d
Event sequence: 2
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0

Related to ASP.NET.

This is unacceptable, before RU 4 make error too.

Do not update to RU 6 yet. Services , OWA  are not working ..

Anyone have the download link to rollup 6? i cannot find it on MS site..

I had to roll back to rollup5 becuase no one could use their calendars anymore and there were all these dcom errors, but i would like to download it manually and try it again as it is a security related fix.

You do not have to uninstall previous Update Rollups - they will install over each other just fine.  What you DO have to uninstall before installing any rollup is what we call an Interim Update.  This is a patch you would get from CSS for a server-down critical type of issue that you could not wait until the next rollup to get a fix for.  Very few people have (or need) these, but they are available for emergencies.

Can you clarify what you mean by "Remove all interim updates for Exchange Server 2007 before you apply this update rollup." in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959241.  Does this mean we have to remove the previous roll ups or just the hotfixes that were released in between the roll ups to address specific issues?

gmiga76, as I interpreted the installation guidelines for rollup 6, I uninstalled all previous rollups starting with 5 and working back to 1. Then I installed rollup 6.  I've encountered no problems (or reboots) with this procedure on two of our servers that have the CA and HT roles.