Got SP2?

[mmendes]

Has anyone installed the newly released SP2? Any issues/comments to share with us?

Thanks

 

[58sniper]

Anybody apply it to a server running Exchange 2000/2003/2007 yet?

Yep. We put it on 4 servers we were building for Exchange 2007. We had a problem with being able to communicate with DCs during the install of Exchange 2007. We were also unable to RDP to those DCs (from the four servers), or RDP into the Exchange servers. After hours of troubleshooting, including extensive time on the phone with PSS, we determined there was a problem with the embedded Broadcom NICs on the Dell servers. The PCI NICs, Intels, worked fine, but were slated to be part of the cluster heartbeat.

After even more troubleshooting, we removed SP2 and the problem went away. MS is still trying to find out what part of the SP breaks the communications, but at least we were able to move on with the servers.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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[porkchopexpress]

What model Dell servers and NICs Pat?

Cheers.

 

[58sniper]

Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers with the embedded Broadcomm NICs.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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[porkchopexpress]

Funny i've just had a Dell engineer on site and he was talking about that as the 2950 is the new version of the 2600 which we have a few of. Oddly he said that MS had a fix for it though.

 

[58sniper]

Well, the 2950 is a rack mounted server, and the 2600 is a tower server. The 2600 was replaced years ago by the 2700, then the 2800, and last year by the 2900.

The 2950 replaced the 2850...

Not too many similarities left between a 2600 and a 2950. They're both Dells.....

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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[Daveyd123]

I just got 4, 1950s in....they are pretty sweet. Gonna hold off a bit on installing SP2 until some kinks get worked out

 

[porkchopexpress]

Hmm i must have remembered the number incorrectly there must be a tower config with similar hardware. Or he was just plain mad

 

[58sniper]

The 2900 and 2950 are very similar. The 2600 and 2650 were, too. But there were differences, and the 2600 series and 2900 series are quite different from each other.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt