Installing Exchange 2003 SP2 and Current Patches

Written by Nathan Winters | 17 March 2010

After installing Exchange 2003, the next step is to patch it to the latest version. The biggest patch is SP2. Download this from the MS Downloads site and install as follows.

Double click E3SP2ENG.EXE

Choose a location to Extract the files and click OK

The files will begin extracting

Once complete click OK

Next locate the extracted files and run \E3SP2ENG\setup\i386\update.exe

On the first setup page click “Next”

Accept the license and click “Next”

See how update is selected for all the installed components. Note you can change the install location if required (for example if you changed it during the Exchange install).

Once you are happy with the selections click “Next”

Verify the setting and click “Next”

Installation will begin and will likely take several minutes (approx 20)

When complete click Finish

You have now completed SP2 install and notice, that a reboot is not required!

The next step is to install any post SP2 patches. At time of writing (30/12/2006) this means the following:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=41275dec-4c01-4c41-aa64-c9dbe5ea3f7e&DisplayLang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82ae4397-0982-4585-84c1-dc1af6944a0f&DisplayLang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c777bc9f-52b7-4f17-96c7-daf3b9987d70&DisplayLang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c16aea4a-ed33-4cd9-a7c3-8b5df5471b7a&DisplayLang=en

The first one is an update to ensure OWA works with IE7. The second and third are security patches and the fourth sets up daylight saving time changes for 2007.

Download the patches from the above locations and then install as follows:

Double click the exe file to launch the patch installer

Click “Next” at the first screen