Description of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 8 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) that is dated August 13, 2012. This article describes the following information about the update rollup:

• The issues that the update rollup resolves
• How to obtain the update rollup
• The prerequisites to install the update rollup

Issues that the update rollup resolves

Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 resolves the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

• 2699574 Microsoft Exchange Information Store service may stop responding when you perform a search on Exchange mailboxes in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
• 2701037 Events 4999 and 7034 are logged and the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes on an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox server
• 2730089 Microsoft Exchange Information Store service may stop responding when you perform a search on Exchange mailboxes in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
• 2732525�Outlook keeps prompting you for credentials and incorrectly connects to an out-of-site global catalog after you install Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3.

Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 also resolves the issue that is described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-058.

For more information about Security Bulletin MS12-058, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Update rollup information

To download and to install Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3, go to the following Microsoft Update website: Note Microsoft Update does not detect update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 on clustered Exchange Server 2007 systems.

Note 32-bit versions of Exchange Server 2007 are supported for testing only. However, this update rollup contains a known issue in the Transcoding feature that prevents the validation of 32-bit versions of Exchange Server 2007. This issue will be fixed in a future update. If 32-bit validation is a critical scenario for you, please contact Microsoft Support Services for a supported hotfix that addresses this issue.

You may want to deploy Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to multiple computers that are running Exchange Server 2007. Or, you may want to deploy Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to clustered servers that are running Exchange Server 2007. The update rollup is also available from the Microsoft Download Center.

The update rollup is available for download from the following Microsoft Download Center website: Release Date: August 13, 2012

Important

• Before you install these update, we recommend that you read the prerequisites, installation instructions, and known issues for the update. For more information, go to the following Microsoft website:
  How to install the latest service pack or update rollup for Exchange Server 2007
• Before you install an update rollup to clustered Mailbox servers, we recommend that you go to the following Microsoft website:
  Considerations before you apply an Exchange Server 2007 update rollup to clustered Mailbox servers
• For more information about the Exchange Server 2007 servicing model, go to the following Microsoft website:
  General information about the Exchange Server 2007 servicing model
• This update rollup does not apply to Exchange Server 2007 release to manufacturing (RTM) version, to Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1), or to Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2). The series of update rollup packages for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 are independent of the corresponding series of update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 RTM, for Exchange Server 2007 SP1, and for Exchange Server 2007 SP2.
  
  For a list of update rollups that apply to Exchange Server 2007 RTM, to Exchange Server 2007 SP1, or to Exchange Server 2007 SP2, go to the following Microsoft website:
  How to obtain the latest service pack or update rollup for Exchange Server 2007

Restart requirement

The required services are automatically restarted when you apply this update rollup.

Removal information

To remove Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3, use the Add or Remove Programs item in Control Panel to remove update 2734323.

For more information about terminology that Microsoft uses to describe software updates, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: