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Exchange CU14 changes in AD
Hi all,
We see that Microsoft has released its latest CU that is CU14, our Org s getting updated from CU13 to CU14, the prereq here is, we will have to run the PrepareAD in order to proceed with the updation.
However, what is being changed at AD level is what i am not able to understand, can someone share these updates?
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- The tables in the following sections contain the Exchange objects in Active Directory
that are updated each time you install a new version of Exchange (a new installation or a CU).
You can compare the object versions you see with the values in the tables to verify
that Exchange successfully updated Active Directory during the installation.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/plan-and-deploy/prepare-ad-and-domains?view=exchserver-2019#exchange-active-directory-versions/?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-5002523- TaeYounAnn
I saw those things and realised about the object version changes, however why is the object version changing and what are the actual changes that are happening is what i am unable to understand.
Since we are running the PrepareAD cmdlet to update the Object version there should be some changes happening in the backend, this info is hard to find- With the schema extended, the next step is to add all of the containers, objects, attributes, and other items that Exchange uses to store information in Active Directory. Most of the changes made in this step are applied to the entire Active Directory forest. A smaller set of changes are made only to the local Active Directory domain where the /PrepareAD command was run (or where the first Exchange server was installed using the Exchange Setup wizard).
Prepare Active Directory containers, objects, and other items
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/plan-and-deploy/active-directory/ad-changes?view=exchserver-2019/?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-5002523
