I generally like to wait a month before installing Exchange rollups. If you’re running SBS 2008 and Exchange 2007, you may have noticed that Rollup 11 for Exchange 2007 was released on August 13, 2013.
As with all previous Exchange rollups, you can install it via WSUS, or you can install it manually – which is my preference. There is a small trick you need to know to install the rollup manually, so let’s jump in:
- Go ahead and download the latest rollup. Rollup 11 can be found here.
- You will be asked to select whether to download the 32-bit (x6) or 64-bit (x64). For SBS 2008, you want the x64 version.
- Download and save the file to your preferred folder on your server.
- Now, if you simply click on the downloaded file and try to install it, it’s not going to work! you will get the following error message “The Installer has insufficient privileges to modify this file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange server\RelNotes.htm”.
- So you say to yourself, “Oh, I guess I need to right click on the file and ‘run as’ administrator”.
Go ahead, and try it, and you will be in for a surprise – you won’t find a ‘run as’ option, because this is a .msp file.
What are you going to do now? - Kudos to my good friend and MVP buddy, Philip Elder, who discovered the following trick to get around this issue:
Start up a command prompt window using the ‘run as’ administrator, and then within the command prompt window, navigate to the folder where the Rollup file was stored, and type in the full name of the file (including the .msp suffix)
- You can now proceed to install the rollup. Be sure to reboot your computer after the installation is completed.
