Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Sahin Boluk — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:06:58 GMT

I see that SP3 is out for Exchange 2010, will SP3 get installed if a server has WMF 3.0?

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Bharat Suneja [MSFT] — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:57:39 GMT

@Pepper: Sorry you're having that unusual experience. I'd recommend contacting Support before you decide to rebuild a server. Additionally, if not already deployed, look into HA mechanisms like Database Availability Groups.

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Pepper — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:52:44 GMT

Now this is lovely. During this month's patch cycle I am trying to uninstall WMF from the Exchange machine. It says it is successful, then during the reboot it gets to 98%, fails, reverts all the changes back, reboots again, and when it's finally running, WMF is still installed.

It seems that every six months or so I end up building a new Exchange server and migrating everything for one reason or another. Here we go again.

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Pepper — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:52:49 GMT

About time Microsoft figured this out. When I encountered it several months ago, the guy over at http://exchangeblog.pl was the only crumb of information I could find on it.

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Bharat Suneja [MSFT] — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:15:08 GMT

@Jose: Thanks for catching that. The Library link has been updated.

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Jose Lopez — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:02:39 GMT

Hey Guys. Your menu item on this page: "Library +" >> "Exchange Server TechNet Library" points to technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996058(EXCHG.80).aspx, which is no longer available. Just an FYI.

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Karsten — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:46:41 GMT

After unistalling Windows Management Framework 3.0 I could install the RU5v2. But for some problems I had to remove my userprofile. After that the following Error still exists: In the Eventlog I always get an error If I open "Administrative Events". That Error says "at least one protokoll in the query contains an error". The Protokoll is "Forwarded Events". On our other Server this in German - probably the unsinstall routine changed that on the particular server to english.

Has anytone a solution for this?

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Kirk Lashbrook — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:05:52 GMT

Perhaps the Exchange Team should next publish an article describing the joys and benefits of testing patches/updates on your non-production Exchange servers... BEFORE deploying to your production environment.

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Jake — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:03:28 GMT

Is there any help out there for those who foolishly plunged into WMF 3.0? Does anyone have a backout procedure they could point me to? social.technet.microsoft.com/.../bbc0a9c2-ce30-465a-928d-39727f56fbbb

re: Windows Management Framework 3.0 on Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

Quazar — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:01:13 GMT

Updates frequently becoming bigger threat than hacks or virus attacks!