Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 Release Notes
August 22, 2007 at 6:36 PM
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Microsoft finally published Release Notes for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2. You may have noticed that they were "published" earlier but the they were Beta 1. A must read before implementation! Do NOT install it in production environment since it is not supported.
Some of the important things from release notes:
- You must prepare Active Directory as a prerequirements to introduce Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 into environment.
- You can either perform a clean install or upgrade RTM version or SP1 Beta 1 to SP1 Beta 2.
- You can NOT uninstall Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2. The only way to remove it is to uninstall Exchange 2007 from server and then reinstall RTM version of Exchange Server 2007.
- You can not use existing version of Forefront Security for Exchange. You must install Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 Beta 2 version.
- Remote Streaming backups are disabled by default in SP1!
- There are also some known issues with specific tasks in SP1, see Release Notes for details.
- In SP1 new High Availability Scenarios are introduced.
- You can only install Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 on Windows Server 2008. There are also some issues with specific server roles. In my case with Mailbox Role.
I will post more details about installing Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 on Windows Server 2008 later.