How to install Exchange 2007 SP3 on SBS 2008

I posted a while back about Exchange 2007 SP3 being released.  This weekend I finally got the time to do the upgrade myself.  It went through seamlessly.  Here’s the procedure I used.

Make sure you have a backup of your server and that you have tested that it can restore.

Download the Exchange 2007 SP3 from Microsoft – here – you will want the 64bit version.

Stop all Antivirus Services – if you are using Trend – here’s the list that I stopped. If when you try to stop the services you find that the stop option is greyed out – check out this FAQ.image

Extract the Exchange 2007 SP3 to a folder location on your server.

Locate the setup.exe and Run As Administrator. Select Install Microsoft Exchange Service Pack 3 from the Install section of the screen.

Setup will go through some prequalification checks to ensure that you have all the right things ready for the service pack installation.  If there is a problem it will show you as per the screen below.image

Ok – so my readiness check failed – showing that the DataCollectorSvc was using some of the files that Exchange 2007 SP3 will need to replace.  A little digging with Task Manager shows that this is the Windows SBS 2008 Monitoring Data Collector Serviceimage

There is no such service per se in the Services MMC – it is in fact called the Windows SBS Manager Service. 

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I stopped the Windows SBS Manager service and clicked on the Retry for the Readiness checks and it’s all good to go once more.  Select the Upgrade button and we’re on our way.  Sit back, make yourself a cuppa coffee or tea or go have lunch. This will take a while.image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok – after 35 minutes now, my upgrade is complete with no errors

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Now to restart the services we stopped earlier – don’t forget now :-)

Once the services have restarted, do some testing.  I tested the following;

  1. Email in and out
  2. OWA access from a remote site
  3. ActiveSync from my HTC Windows Mobile phone

All looks ok – so the last thing to do is to do a server reboot.  The Exchange services pack didn’t ask for a reboot, but I make it a best practice that after anything major like this, to do a reboot.  This way if there are any issues relating to the service pack I will know about them sooner than later.

Update December 20, 2010: You will want to check out this blog post also for information on Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2007 SP3

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19 Responses to “How to install Exchange 2007 SP3 on SBS 2008”

  1. Graeme Says:

    August 2nd, 2010 at 7:44 am

    Can you tell me if SP3 is cumulative or wether I need to go through the process of installing SP1 and SP2 beofore going for SP3?

  2. Wayne Small Says:

    August 2nd, 2010 at 9:56 am

    Service packs are always cumulative – so you can apply SP3 right over the top over whatever you have now.

  3. Craig Watkins Says:

    August 2nd, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    Looking at your list of Trend Micro services, would I be correct in thinking you are running Worry-Free Business Security Advanced? If you are, what version is it as I was under the impression Trend Micro don’t support WFBS 6.0 on Exchange 2007 SP2+?

  4. Wayne Small Says:

    August 2nd, 2010 at 7:50 pm

    Craig,

    I was unware that they did NOT support SP2 or SP3 till I went to the Trend website – it does not mention SP2 or SP3 but I fully expect Trend to support it. I have asked them to rectify this ASAP.

  5. Craig Watkins Says:

    August 3rd, 2010 at 4:04 am

    Thanks Wayne. We have had direct confirmation from Trend Micro that WFBS 6.0 doesn’t support Exchange 2007 SP2/SP3. We have been informed that they will provide a license for ScanMail for Exchange 10 to customers running WFBS Advanced who want to install SP2/SP3 on Exchange 2007.

    They have told us WFBS 7.0 will introduce support for Exchange 2007 SP2/SP3.

    It is interesting that you have installed SP3 and not seen any issues though :)

  6. Wayne Small Says:

    August 3rd, 2010 at 6:10 am

    Craig,
    I have it from the head of engineering that WFBS 6.0 SP2 DOES support Exchange 2007 SP2 already – the readme file in the product reflects that. Exchange 2007 SP3 will be supported they are testing with plans to announce support for it with either WFBS 6.0 SP2 or SP3. Currently I’m running WFBS 6.0 SP3 beta on Exchange 2007 SP3 with no issues.

  7. Craig Watkins Says:

    August 3rd, 2010 at 11:10 am

    Thanks Wayne, that is great to know. We had been delaying installing Exchange 2007 SP2 because of misinformation from two sources we trusted.

    Where can I locate the readme file you are referring to?

  8. Paul Says:

    August 3rd, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    I had a strange issue affecting a client’s SBS 2008 system after the SP3 install. Sharepoint would not start and gave event ID 3760 – Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE.

    I rebooted before installing SP3 and afterwards. No other programs were run and no other patches installed. I’m not entirely convinced that an Exchange SP would cause this but just in case anybody else get’s it, the solution is here – http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/35827564/eventid-3760-error.aspx

    Hope it helps somebody.

  9. Chris Says:

    August 9th, 2010 at 10:14 am

    Thanks Wayne (not Alex ;¬), great post.

    Only one thing to add – doesn’t hurt to upgrade the schema and AD explicitly in preparation:
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224(EXCHG.80).aspx
    All of which sieves down to running two commands from an elevated command prompt on SBS 08 (no reboot required to install SP3 afterwards):
    setup /PrepareSchema
    setup /PrepareAD

    Stunned that TM don’t support SP2 or SP3 – been running WFBS 6.0 with Exch 2007 SP2 installed for months without a single issue. SP3 has also reared no issues.

    I had issues installing Exchange Service Packs on one SBS 2008 (also on an EBS setup), never found the cause of the issue, but all Anti-Virus and health/monitoring services were stopped beforehand. The installation failed during the preparation step of the installation phase, but after stopping and disabling all related services, leaving them in a limbo state that a restart won’t fix. To resolve this run the following sets of commands from an elevated command prompt to set them back to their default states (can copy and paste):

    sc config remoteregistry start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeMonitoring start= demand
    sc config MSExchangeTransport start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeADTopology start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeRepl start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeMailSubmission start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeServiceHost start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeEdgeSync start= disabled
    sc config MSExchangeTransportLogSearch start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeAntispamUpdate start= auto
    sc config msftesql-Exchange start= demand
    sc config MSExchangeSearch start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeMailboxAssistants start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeFDS start= auto
    sc config MSExchangePOP3 start= demand
    sc config MSExchangeIMAP4 start= demand
    sc config IISAdmin start= auto
    sc config W3Svc start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeIS start= auto
    sc config MSExchangeSA start= auto
    sc config wsbexchange start= demand

    Then, start the services by running:

    net start remoteregistry
    net start MSExchangeMonitoring
    net start MSExchangeTransport
    net start MSExchangeADTopology
    net start MSExchangeRepl
    net start MSExchangeMailSubmission
    net start MSExchangeServiceHost
    net start MSExchangeTransportLogSearch
    net start MSExchangeAntispamUpdate
    net start msftesql-Exchange
    net start MSExchangeSearch
    net start MSExchangeMailboxAssistants
    net start MSExchangeFDS
    net start MSExchangePOP3
    net start MSExchangeIMAP4
    net start IISAdmin
    net start W3Svc
    net start MSExchangeIS
    net start MSExchangeSA
    net start wsbexchange
    net start TSGateway
    net start Pop3Connector

    Retry the installation, and if it fails again, re-run the commands, restart the SBS 08 and retry installing SP2/SP3. Worked for me – no damage, save my nerve-ends.

    Hope that helps.

    Cheers,

    Chris

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  13. Abdul Hamid Says:

    December 24th, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    Thank you Wayne. I am not IT person, but with help from your article, I upgraded exchange 2007 t0 SP3 without any issue. Many thanks.

  14. Stephen Says:

    November 27th, 2012 at 1:36 am

    Many thanks for this.

    My system also failed the readiness check initially. The extra services I had to stop were: “GFI Mail Essentials” and “Kaseya Agent” which is a piece of monitoring software loaded by our server support people. Incidentally, the “Kaseya Agent” was causing “rundll32″ to lock some files and it took me quite a long time to track it down.

  15. Chris Francis Says:

    January 10th, 2013 at 4:07 am

    Hi Wayne

    Mine did the same as yours above on the pre-checks and stopping SBS Manager allowed the checks to pass and I continued with the upgrade.
    Unfortunately, it then stopped asking for location of exchangeserver.msi file. I browsed it to my folder where the extracted files are but it just comes up with the same thing saying a network source is not available for exchangeserver.msi

    Any ideas?

    Chris

  16. Stuart Landells Says:

    January 28th, 2013 at 6:39 pm

    @Chris Francis

    I am going through this hassle as the moment, as I’m hoping to migrate away from a dying SBS 2008. If you’re having that error, check through the ExchangeSetup logs and you will most likely find issue with “Exchange2007-KB981407-x64-EN.MSP”, or something similar. It appears to be an issue with Service Pack Rollups (#10 in my case), and this will need to be re-installed, and then you’ll be good to go…

    Cheers,
    Stuart.

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