18 Mar 2011

Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 2 available

The rollup can be downloaded here.

To apply the update follow this order:

  • Edge transport servers
  • Client access servers
  • Hub transport servers
  • UM servers
  • Mailbox servers

If you have DAGs follow this procedure to upgrade all DAG members. (Thanks to Tim Harrington for original post)

Exchange 2010 SP1 provides some new scripts to help with performing maintenance on DAG members.  To apply the update to a DAG member, the following steps should be taken:

Step 1 – From the Exchange installation path (in my case C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts), run: .\StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 –ServerName “MBXServerName”

RU-DAG-StartMaint-markup

This script will:

  • Run Suspend-MailboxDatabaseCopy for each database copy hosted on the DAG member
  • Pauses the node in the cluster, which prevents it from being and becoming the PAM
  • Sets the value of the DatabaseCopyAutoActivationPolicy parameter on the DAG member to Blocked
  • Moves all active databases currently hosted on the DAG member to other DAG members

Step 2 – Install the update rollup as described above

Step 3 – From the Exchange installation path (in my case C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts), run: .\StopDagServerMaintenance.ps1 –ServerName “MBXServerName”

RU-DAG-StopMaint-markup

This script will:

  • Run Resume-MailboxDatabaseCopy for each database copy hosted on the DAG member
  • Resumes the node in the cluster, which it enables full cluster functionality for the DAG member
  • Sets the value of the DatabaseCopyAutoActivationPolicy parameter on the DAG member to Unrestricted

Step 4 – (Optional) Use the RedistributeActiveDatabases.ps1 script to re-balance the active database copies across the DAG