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E2K SP3 on FE/BE servers? Any gotchas?
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| Lanwench 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| I have only one client with a FE/BE setup, and want to install Exchange 2000
SP3. Anything I need to watch out for? Any particular order in which I ought
to do this? There are no mounted stores on the FE server - and we're using
SSL for OWA access. Advice is welcome.
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| Ronen Gabbay 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| · Update front-end servers to SP3 before updating back-end servers.
The setup program enforces this rule and produces an error if you attempt to
upgrade a back-end server before you upgrade all front-end servers (within
the local Administrative Group) to SP3.
SP3 and Front-End Servers
After you upgrade a front-end server running Exchange 2000 to SP2 or SP3,
the system attendant process no longer initializes the Recipient Update
Service, the offline address book generation process, free/busy publishing,
and Mailbox Manager. Ensure that only back-end servers are designated to run
the Recipient Update Service and offline address book generation process.
By default, the directory service proxy (DSProxy) process is not enabled on
SP2 or SP3 front-end servers. However, you can enable DSProxy after applying
a post-SP2 hotfix or after applying Exchange SP3. Additionally, you must set
a registry key on the front-end server. For more information, see Microsoft
Knowledge Base article Q319175, “XADM: You Cannot Perform a Check Names
Query Against a Front-End Exchange Computer.”
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"Lanwench" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.yahoo.com> wrote
in message news:O19jxkjaCHA.2208@tkmsftngp11...
> I have only one client with a FE/BE setup, and want to install Exchange
2000
> SP3. Anything I need to watch out for? Any particular order in which I
ought
> to do this? There are no mounted stores on the FE server - and we're using
> SSL for OWA access. Advice is welcome.
>
>
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| Lanwench 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| Thanks, Ronen. :-)
"Ronen Gabbay" <ronen@hi-tech.co.il> wrote in message
news:eyCEx5jaCHA.2080@tkmsftngp09...
> · Update front-end servers to SP3 before updating back-end
servers.
> The setup program enforces this rule and produces an error if you attempt
to
> upgrade a back-end server before you upgrade all front-end servers (within
> the local Administrative Group) to SP3.
>
> SP3 and Front-End Servers
> After you upgrade a front-end server running Exchange 2000 to SP2 or SP3,
> the system attendant process no longer initializes the Recipient Update
> Service, the offline address book generation process, free/busy
publishing,
> and Mailbox Manager. Ensure that only back-end servers are designated to
run
> the Recipient Update Service and offline address book generation process.
>
> By default, the directory service proxy (DSProxy) process is not enabled
on
> SP2 or SP3 front-end servers. However, you can enable DSProxy after
applying
> a post-SP2 hotfix or after applying Exchange SP3. Additionally, you must
set
> a registry key on the front-end server. For more information, see
Microsoft
> Knowledge Base article Q319175, "XADM: You Cannot Perform a Check Names
> Query Against a Front-End Exchange Computer."
>
>
> --
> Please do not send email directly to this alias.
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
>
> Ronen Gabbay MCT MCSE+I MCDBA Exchange MVP
> Hi-Tech College
> ISRAEL
> "Lanwench" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.yahoo.com> wrote
> in message news:O19jxkjaCHA.2208@tkmsftngp11...
> > I have only one client with a FE/BE setup, and want to install Exchange
> 2000
> > SP3. Anything I need to watch out for? Any particular order in which I
> ought
> > to do this? There are no mounted stores on the FE server - and we're
using
> > SSL for OWA access. Advice is welcome.
> >
> >
>
>
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| Rick Dademo 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| Here's a real gotcha...SP3 prevents compressed DBs larger=20
than 128MB from mounting. The folders that contain the=20
Exchange Informaton Store PRIvate and PUBlic DBS must be=20
uncompressed and an offline defrag of the DBs has to be=20
performed after the folders are decompressed.
Please refer to Q327772 for all details. Microsoft should=20
include this in Exchange SP3's Release Notes but failed to=20
do so.
=20
>-----Original Message-----
>=B7 Update front-end servers to SP3 before updating=20
back-end servers.
>The setup program enforces this rule and produces an=20
error if you attempt to
>upgrade a back-end server before you upgrade all front-
end servers (within
>the local Administrative Group) to SP3.
>
>SP3 and Front-End Servers
>After you upgrade a front-end server running Exchange=20
2000 to SP2 or SP3,
>the system attendant process no longer initializes the=20
Recipient Update
>Service, the offline address book generation process,=20
free/busy publishing,
>and Mailbox Manager. Ensure that only back-end servers=20
are designated to run
>the Recipient Update Service and offline address book=20
generation process.
>
>By default, the directory service proxy (DSProxy) process=20
is not enabled on
>SP2 or SP3 front-end servers. However, you can enable=20
DSProxy after applying
>a post-SP2 hotfix or after applying Exchange SP3.=20
Additionally, you must set
>a registry key on the front-end server. For more=20
information, see Microsoft
>Knowledge Base article Q319175, "XADM: You Cannot Perform=20
a Check Names
>Query Against a Front-End Exchange Computer."
>
>
>--
>Please do not send email directly to this alias.
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and=20
confers no rights
>
>Ronen Gabbay MCT MCSE+I MCDBA Exchange MVP
>Hi-Tech College
>ISRAEL
>"Lanwench"=20
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.yahoo.com>=20
wrote
>in message news:O19jxkjaCHA.2208@tkmsftngp11...
>> I have only one client with a FE/BE setup, and want to=20
install Exchange
>2000
>> SP3. Anything I need to watch out for? Any particular=20
order in which I
>ought
>> to do this? There are no mounted stores on the FE=20
server - and we're using
>> SSL for OWA access. Advice is welcome.
>>
>>
>
>
>.
>
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| Rich Matheisen [MVP] 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| "Lanwench" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.yahoo.com>
wrote:
>I have only one client with a FE/BE setup, and want to install Exchange 2000
>SP3. Anything I need to watch out for? Any particular order in which I ought
>to do this?
The SP installation forces you to install on the FE servers first.
--
Rich Matheisen
MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
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| Lanwench 2002-10-05, 8:31 pm |
| Coo' - thanks much.
"Rich Matheisen [MVP]" <richnews@rmcons.com.NOSPAM.COM> wrote in message
news:408npu0cqc1874s6d5oahv1ov
k00d399rp@4ax.com...
> "Lanwench" <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I have only one client with a FE/BE setup, and want to install Exchange
2000
> >SP3. Anything I need to watch out for? Any particular order in which I
ought
> >to do this?
>
> The SP installation forces you to install on the FE servers first.
>
>
> --
> Rich Matheisen
> MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
> MS Exchange FAQ at http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
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