Exchange 2010 SP3 was released yesterday, here is a very quick walk through of the installation process in case you don’t have a test environment to hand.
The whole SP3 installation tool under 30 minutes from start to finish on a vm workstation based SBS 2011 server with 8GB of Ram and a single vCPU. Granted my Exchange database size is small at only a few 100MB, but looking at the release notes unless you are upgrading from the RTM version is shouldn’t take much longer.
Edit: Review the notes on how to install Service Packs and Update Rollups for Exchange here: Exchange 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 1 Installation tips.
1. Download the Service pack from here.
1a. Close the SBS Console.
2. Run the Exchange2010-SP3-x64.exe and extract the files.
2a. Stop any Backup Exec services if you have it running locally.
3. Browse to the location where the files are and run setup.exe
4. Click the Install Microsoft Server Upgrade link.
5. Accept the license agreement and click next.
6. Wait for the Readiness Checks to complete.
7. Click Upgrade.
8. Once complete, check the setup log, and click Finish.
9. Finally check the version of Exchange is correct, and email services are working correctly.
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Good blog. I will bookmark it.
Just heads-up, you also have to close the SBS Console else the install will fail.
May be a good idea to temporarily disable or redirect your inbound port 25 while doing the upgrade. If you are running Trend WFBS on the box, the prereq’s will hang on the SMEX Master service so if you’re shutting down Trend (or whatever security product), disabling port 25 during the upgrade seems prudent to me. Just don’t forget to re-enable your firewall port afterwards! Great write-up, accurate step-by-step.
Peace,
Mike
Hi, nice instructions
one question, In my SBS installation my Exchange Database lives on another partition
I moved it using the SBS Wizard, to keep it of C:
Will this have any effect upon the upgrade from SP1 to SP3?
Thanks
Hi Paul, it doesn’t matter where the database is.
Cheers,
Carl
I also had to stop the “Windows SBS Manager” service to pass the Readiness Checks. It complained that the DataCollectorSvc process has open files.
Installing SP3 from SP1 I got this error: Hub Transport Role Failed: The certificate with thumbprint {GUID} was not found. This was a fix that several others needed: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/85607d12-cabb-42b9-9335-3e0883555260/failure-installing-sp3-on-exchange-2010?forum=exchangesvrdeploy