Released: Exchange Server 2007 Update Rollup 6

Exchange Server 2007 Update Rollup 6 is now publicly available. This update is for Exchange Server 2007 RTM - you do not need to install it on servers running Exchange Server 2007 SP1.

Description of the rollup can be found in KB 942846.

In keeping with the new servicing model for Exchange server (read previous post " Changes to hotfix/patching model for Exchange Server 2007"), rollups are cumulative. They include all the fixes included in previous rollups (Exchange Server 2007 Rollups 1-5 in this case). Update Rollup 6 includes fixes for the following issues:

• - 942814 The account test process is failed when you try to configure an Outlook 2007 client to connect to an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox by using a POP3 connection or an IMAP4 connection
• - 943163 The Test-OwaConnectivity cmdlet and the Test-ActiveSyncConnectivity cmdlet do not run successfully on a computer that is running Exchange Server 2007
• - 943394 Some e-mail messages become stuck in the submission queue in Exchange Server 2007
• - 945428 An e-mail message is in disorder and is unreadable in a Exchange Server 2007 environment
• - 945141 IMAP4 clients may experience latencies or slowness when the clients are running against Exchange Server 2007-based servers
• - 945046 You receive an NDR message when you send an e-mail message by using a Exchange Server 2007 Edge server
• - 941805 Error message when you try to schedule a yearly recurring appointment on the 31st day of certain months: "The recurrence date is invalid"
• - 944451 Only the entries in the MailSubmission log are returned when you run the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet against an Exchange 2007 server that hosts both the Hub Transport role and the Mailbox role
• - 944333 The store event sink does not run as expected in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
• - 942374 Legacy free/busy information no longer appears for appointments that are booked against a mailbox in Exchange Server 2007
• - 940053 Error message when a user tries to access a mailbox and download e-mail messages by using a DAV e-mail client program: "HTTP 500 - Internal server error"
• - 941655 The Store.exe process stops responding, and event ID 9659 is logged on an Exchange 2007 server
• - 942424 On an Exchange Server 2007-based computer, the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service stops unexpectedly when you start the service or when you mount a database store
• - 941851 An HTML e-mail message appears garbled in Outlook when you send the message to an Exchange 2007 user
• - 935894 Web beacons and HTML forms in e-mail message attachments are blocked regardless of the FilterWebBeaconsAndHtmlForms parameter setting for the Outlook Web Access virtual directory in Exchange 2007
• - 943264 The IMAP service returns an untagged EXISTS response before the EXPUNGE command in Exchange 2007
• - 943149 You cannot type the Polish character "?" in the Subject box, in the To box, or in the Cc box when you compose an e-mail message in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2007
• - 943371 Event IDs 8206, 8213, and 8199 are logged in an Exchange 2007 environment
• - 942647 The display name of an e-mail address is not encoded correctly according to RFC 2047 when you use extended characters in Exchange 2007
• - 943479 Some source mailboxes are merged into one target mailbox after you use a Move-Mailbox cmdlet to migrate the mailboxes from an Exchange 2003 organization to an Exchange 2007 organization
• - 944321 The Edgetransport.exe process may stop unexpectedly on an Exchange Server 2007-based edge server
• - 938957 The GetItem operation in Exchange Web Service obtains duplicate strings in Exchange 2007
• - 942418 The Subject line of a delegate e-mail message is corrupted in Outlook 2007
• - 925252 The Store.exe process uses almost 100 percent of CPU resources, and the size of the public folder store increases quickly in Exchange 2007

Exchange Server 2007 Rollup History

At 24 new fixes, this is the biggest rollup of them all. Here's what the previous rollups fixed:

Rollup 1 (4/18/2007): This is a minor rollup with 3 issues fixed - 932487, 929756, 930572
Rollup 2 (5/8/2007): Released within 3 weeks of the previous Rollup, it fixes a security issue mentioned in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-026 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Could Allow Remote Code Execution (931832)
Rollup 3 (6/28/2007): 14 issues fixed - 931328, 930468, 931842, 932207, 932515, 934887, 936337, 932905, 934402, 935412, 934259, 932605, 932661, and 935202
Rollup 4 (8/23/2007): 11 issues fixed - 930463, 937656, 936300, 932561, 937861, 938359, 940052, 933314, 939560, 938698, and 936716
Rollup 5 (10/25/2007): 14 issues fixed - 940051, 940058, 936734, 938130, 940080, 940632, 940757, 940764, 941104, 940259, 941774, 940710, 940329 and 941552
Rollup 6 (2/21/2008): 24 issues fixed, as listed in the above section.