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Q: We’re looking into replacing our current Exchange Server 2003 SP1 server with new server hardware. Do you know of any problems we might encounter with having a mixed environment of servers running Exchange 2003 SP1 as well as Exchange 2003 SP2? Going straight to SP2 on new hardware will save us work down the road.

A: I haven’t heard of any problems with running a mixed . . .

After adding the recent DST patch to my front end OWA server with SP2, it stopped connecting to the one backend SP1 Exchange server I had. Other Exchange servers that were at SP2 were OK. Applying SP2 to the SP1 machine fixed it.

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