Extended Protection Warning Displayed in Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell After Installing RU2 for Exchange 2007 SP3

After installing Rollup Update 2 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 on a machine running Windows Server 2008 R2, Administrators may receive the following warning when launching the Exchange Management Console (EMC) or when running get-OWAVirtualDirectory or get-OABVirtualDirectory commands in the Exchange Management Shell (EMS):

During initialization of EMC, or running get-OWAVirtualDirectory or get-OABVirtualDirectory commands, channel binding is used to create a COM object to manage one or more Metabases on remote servers. This error messages occur when a firewall is turned on and the COM call fails to create the object.

To resolve this issue, install the following update rollup:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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