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Exchange 2010 Update Rollup 6

Those of us who have bought in to the Microsoft experience also buy in to the regular updating of our servers and the software that runs on them. Updating is a good thing and needs to be done regularly, but for many, myself included, it can be an incredibly stressful experience after so many failed updates and upgrades, roll back and long nights recovering from a bad patch or uppdate, not just to Microsoft products but also to others applications, drivers and in the case of EqualLogics firmware. One bad update can bring hours or days of fun. Down to the nitty, gritty of the problem. We have an Exchange 2010 system which has taken around 12 months to get to an almost usable state. The main problem has been the way our Domain is made and the requirement to set up a very resilient infrastructure spread across 4 sites in the UK. The root .com domain is in the US and there are 5 sub-domains for each country below that. Each country is fairly autonomous and t...