Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 on your Exchange 2010 Servers
February 11, 2011 By Paul Cunningham
Update: the Microsoft Exchange Team has announced that it is supported to run the following Exchange versions on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1:
Exchange 2010 SP1 Exchange 2010 RTM Exchange 2007 SP3
The best news of all is that Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 now includes
all of the pre-requisite hotfixes for Exchange Server 2010 SP1, so no
more manually downloading and installing the 6 or 7 patches that were
previously needed.
Original post below:
Henrik Walther has answered the question from many Exchange 2010
administrators as to whether it is supported to run Windows Server 2008
R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1 has just been released) on Exchange 2010 servers.
From Henrik’s blog:
I see more and more questions from folks asking whether
it’s supported to install Exchange 2010 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 R2
with the new SP1 applied or even upgrade an existing server Exchange
2010 SP1 server running on Windows Server 2008 R2 to this new service
pack.
There’s still no information about this in the Exchange Server 2010
Supportability Matrix, but according to the Exchange team this is not
supported with the current Exchange 2010 SP1 build but will be with
Exchange 2010 SP2 (or with some luck with a future Exchange 2010 SP1
roll-up update).
So if you were considering the upgrade its best that you hold off until an official support statement is made.
Windows 2008 R2 SP1 general availability and what it means for Exchange
Now that you might have seen the announcement for general availability of Windows 2008 R2 SP1, we wanted to get ahead of the inevitable question: "Is Exchange supported running on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1?"
We
wanted to let you know that we've completed testing with Windows 2008
R2 SP1 and the following versions of Exchange are supported to run on
Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (the RTM version of SP1):
Exchange 2010 SP1
Exchange 2010 RTM
Exchange 2007 SP3
Please note that Exchange 2007 was not supported to run on Windows 2008 R2 at all before Exchange 2007 SP3 release.
Also note, Windows 2008 R2 SP1 includes the hotfixes required to install Exchange 2010 SP1 (listed in Exchange 2010 SP1 FAQ and Known Issues
— 979744, 983440, 979099, 982867 and 977020). If you're installing
Exchange 2010 SP1 on a server running Windows 2008 R2 SP1, you don't
need to install these hotfixes separately.
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