Exchange 2010 Rollups

Nikumba · 7 Oct 2013 at 15:49

I am hoping to get away with out doing some work, but can you apply a roll up to one exchange server in your organisation or do you need to do them all?

We have 4 mailbox servers, plus Edge, Hub, Cas all on their own servers.

We need the roll-up to fix an issues with OWA we are having, so can I just put it on the CAS server or does it need to go on all of them?

Cheers

Kimbie

Nikumba · 7 Oct 2013 at 16:01

Ah ok, so the CAS can goto Rollup 7, leave the rest on SP1 without the rollup and if we need to manage the CAS we have to do it on the CAS rather than from another server?

Second stage will be to move upto SP3, will it be better to get everyone on Rollup 7 then upgrade to SP3?

Nikumba · 8 Oct 2013 at 11:24

Thanks for the replies, well put the Rollup on and it did not fix the issue, so we are now looking at going to SP3 with RU2 at the same time, but trying to get a maintenance window outside of our usual monthly window is tricky.

Nikumba · 8 Oct 2013 at 19:29

We do not use DAG but that is handy to know, well I have got my window a mere 4 hours from 01:30 on Thursday morning, should be more than enough time I hope lol

Nikumba · 8 Oct 2013 at 21:14

Yeah we have CAS, HT, EDGE and 4 mailbox servers.

I believe Edge is before HT but I have budgeted about an hour a machine, but will run the mailbox servers at the same time.

They are beefy boxes all virtual, 32Gb RAM, 4 - 8 vCPU cores each

Kimbie

Nikumba · 13 Oct 2013 at 20:44

Well got it done, well the service pack not the rollup as over-ran my maintenance window.

No major issues, few niggles with the CAS server at teh start, but then the Mailbox servers threw a curve call, 1, 2, 3 all patched fine 4 had a error on the mailbox role big monstrous error that the link went no where, but turns out was to do the the Disocvery mailbox so had to delete it and the setup ran fine, and then recreate it, was odd that there were not all effected.

Doing the rollup in our usual monthly maintenance window