Exchange 2010 SP3 Released

[DrCheese]

This is *finally* out!

Download Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP3 from Official Microsoft Download Center

 

This means that those of us with exchange 2010 can finally start planning our migrations to Exchange 2013. (SP3 is required before you can install 2013 if you already have 2010....)

[Arthur]

I think I will wait a week or two before updating (just in case there are any issues).

 

Release Notes / What's New / Exchange Team Blog

 

A word of caution!. It seems that Service Pack 3 will also update the database schema of your databases. Once a database schema has been updated to SP3 you can no longer mount them on a pre-SP3 Mailbox Server. This means that you have to be particularly careful when updating Mailbox server that are part of a Database Availability Group! (Source)

 

@DrCheese. Now we just have to wait until Exchange Server 2013 CU1 is released.

 

Note. Exchange 2010 SP3 allows Exchange 2010 servers to coexist with Exchange 2013 CU1, which is also scheduled to be released in Q1 2013. Customers can test and validate this update in a representative lab environment prior to rolling out in their production environments as an important coexistence preparatory step before introducing Exchange Server 2013 CU1. (Source)

Edited February 12, 2013 by Arthur

[DrCheese]

Ya likewise

 

I've got to wait until Backup exec is compatible with 2013 anyway, but this is one more thing to cross off the list.

[Domino]

Wow, it'd be great if they didn't start referring to it as sp2 half way through.

 

I know MS are a pretty small company, so can't afford a proof reader or anything....

[FN-GM]

Wow i was just googling the release date. Creepy.

[DrCheese]

Having said the above... You still can't install Exchange 2013 into your enviroment yet, as you require 2013 CU1 for it to work with 2010 SP3 first. Guess what's not released yet ?

 

Description of Exchange Server 2010 SP3

[Arthur]

you require 2013 CU1

Indeed you do.

[RabbieBurns]

Hopefully this will let me install the EMC on windows 8 / 2012 Server.

 

Have no plans to move to 2013 Exchange for a long while, its horrible IMO, but the above I'm looking forward to.

[RabbieBurns]

testing this on my dev domain. Its messed up OWA and outlook anywhere.

 

Fun.

[RabbieBurns]

outlook, outlook anywhere and activesync are working fine but OWA is messed up.

 

Ive reset the IIS dirs, can get to the login page, but then it just goes to /owa/auth.owa and no further ..

 

Anyone else testing SP3 yet?

[SYNACK]

outlook, outlook anywhere and activesync are working fine but OWA is messed up.

 

Ive reset the IIS dirs, can get to the login page, but then it just goes to /owa/auth.owa and no further ..

 

Anyone else testing SP3 yet?

 

Planning on the next move being to 2013 which I hear you have had bad experiences with too. Sorry for going off topic but would be interested in the faults that would cause you to persist with 2010, I know the migration stuff requires SP3 and 2013 (something not released yet). Currently running SP2 and updates as I usually hold back for a while on the major ones due to this very kind of situation.

 

We don't have a test environment so stuff has to work, or at least be fixable in production.

Edited February 21, 2013 by SYNACK

[RabbieBurns]

No bad experiences with 2013 per se, it installed fine on a test domain, I just don't like the OWA, the fact that the management console is now web based, etc. Have you seen/used it?

 

I wont be putting SP3 on my live environment for quite a while for sure, just testing it in one of the development domains.

[SYNACK]

No bad experiences with 2013 per se, it installed fine on a test domain, I just don't like the OWA, the fact that the management console is now web based, etc. Have you seen/used it?

 

I wont be putting SP3 on my live environment for quite a while for sure, just testing it in one of the development domains.

 

Haven't messed with it yet. TBH they have managed to make the console so slow and limited in Exchange 2010 that making it web based is not that much of a downgrade. Their control systems have been getting worse lately in their quest to make people use powershell as they have destroyed the GUIs.

[RabbieBurns]

Right think i figured this out. The Microsoft Exchange Forms Based Authentication service wasn't starting automatically. Ive started it and seem to be able to get OWA Working as expected. It didnt survive reboot so Ive set it to Automatic Delayed start and it seems to work OK.