Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Its Update time!

Today Microsoft team released Update Rollups for Exchange 2007 & Exchange 2010 and Security Updates for Exchange 2013 .



More information is available in the Exchange team blog

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/08/13/released-exchange-2007-and-exchange-2010-rollups-and-exchange-2013-security-updates.aspx

Also review the security updates released to address the vulnerabilities in Exchange server 2010

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/Bulletin/MS13-061

Security updates for Exchange 2013 CU1 and CU2 released separately and their download information is available in the Technet blog.

Additionally read this below two blog posts from Exchange MVPs Steve Goodman and Tony Redmond on this topic which throws some additional light on this

Critical security patches available for Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013. Why should you care?

http://www.stevieg.org/2013/08/critical-security-patches-available-for-exchange-2007-2010-and-2013/

Exchange and cloud application platforms - soon to be commonplace?

http://windowsitpro.com/blog/exchange-and-cloud-application-platforms-soon-be-commonplace

Red Alert ! 

Today one more blog post was written by Tony Redmond which update us about content indexing issue caused by installing the security update for Exchange 2013 and also Exchange Team blog post provides more information on this issue and the respective fix provided by Microsoft.

MS13-061 causes search controller headaches for Exchange 2013

 http://windowsitpro.com/blog/ms13-061-causes-search-controller-headaches-exchange-2013

Exchange Team blog

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/08/14/exchange-2013-security-update-ms13-061-status-update.aspx

Update:

On Aug 27 2013 MS has published the Updated Release of  MS13-061 Security Update for Exchange Server 2013

Review the below blog post

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/08/27/now-available-updated-release-of-ms13-061-security-update-for-exchange-server-2013.aspx

MS has tested this in their Dog food environment and suggest to test this in Lab before implementing in production even if you uninstall the earlier released patch you still need to follow the MS KB2879739 as it deals with the way search infrastructure is installed during the Cumulative Update and they are planning to resolve this with the next CU3 release.

Below is the link to the script created by MVP Michel de Rooij which automatically performs the fix by executing it right after installing the  MS13-061 security update provided in the above article stated by MS (KB2879739)

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Fix-for-MS13-061-breaking-e2923f46

Additional bytes

To know more on the Security updates released by Microsoft to address the vulnerabilities check the below post

Microsoft security Bulletin summary for August 2013

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-aug

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