Dude, where's my rollup?

re: Dude, where's my rollup?

Bhargav Shukla — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:47:22 GMT

I have written a script that accomodates both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. The script will check all 2007 and 2010 servers excluding Edge and Porivsioned servers.

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re: Dude, where's my rollup?

Brent — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:46:59 GMT

I'll be honest - the fact that you can't find out something as simple as a version / service pack level from the GUI just goes to show how far out of touch the MS development teams have become.

There is simply no way to defend the choice to leave out something as obvious as making it easy to see the version / service pack level of some installed software.

re: Dude, where's my rollup?

Art Braune — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:21:35 GMT

Tom - we appreciate these entries and also appreciate that you are actually filtering the feedback out of our replies here.

re: Dude, where's my rollup?

tkern — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:48:25 GMT

While I agree that not updating the values in AD can seem cumbersome to some admins the purpose of this post was not to give a history of the decision making process that went into not updating Active Directory each time a RU is installed but rather to clear up some misconceptions about the version numbers displayed in EMC/EMS and the registry in relation to roll ups as well as a quick and dirty method of getting the "true" value.
That said we are proactively listening to all your concerns with the RU process and working on addressing them.
Thanks for reading!

re: Dude, where's my rollup?

Art Braune — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:31:10 GMT

Played with the registry keys for the installed versions without successfully having it show the correct info in the Exchange Management Console. Curious as to where the EMC is pulling the displayed (GUI) info from?

re: Dude, where's my rollup?

Petri — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:18:37 GMT

In my mind the idea of the Blogs are share a bit deeper information for readers. So Where was the point on here?
Why you did not clarify the reasons to not show the version on the normal GUI. Perhaps the hotfixes does not need to update the number, but RUs atleast should do it.

Simple things makes life easier.

re: Dude, where's my rollup?

Ed — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:30:46 GMT

It certainly would be nice if you could see the list of versions in the GUI. That way you could check to make sure that all servers in an organization are up to date at a glance.
Having to check each one, one at a time is a disservice to Exchange Admins.
After all, what does the Server Version do for me?

re: Dude, where's my rollup?

hrongyorgy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:57:44 GMT

I just thinking why exchange not provides its version number via WMI. This is not AD-related, so it not must be replicated (it eliminates all replication argument) and can be unavailable if xch is offline or not installed (i think).

re: Dude, where's my rollup?

Art Braune — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:39:57 GMT

Seems to me that a simple reg update with the updated version numbers tacked onto the install wouldn't take all that much time to implement???

re: Dude, where's my rollup?

Bhargav Shukla — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:40:51 GMT