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Hi,
Is there any Pro and Con by updating the Exchange CU traditional update vs "Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows" on the Windows server update setting?
Any comment will greatly appreciated.
Tee
Hi ZhengqiLou-MSFT,
Thanks for your response. One more question; we already have Exchange 2016 with CU 20. If we want to update to the latest CU, will checking "Other Microsoft products updates" be sufficient to get us to the latest CU? Or we have to down the latest CU and manually install it?
Thanks
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Hi @Tee356 ,
No the Windows Update will not be able to help you on installing a CU.
And yes you should download the CU iso file and install it by running the Setup.exe or on powershell.
Note that if you wanna go with powershell, you should first run /prepare Schema/AD/alldomains to make sure the AD has been modified for the new Exchange server.
The latest CU is CU22, and with sevral security updates(SUs), you could use "Check Other Microsoft Products updates" to install these SUs or download the msi file and run on PowerShell(admin) manually.
Best regards,
Lou
Hi @Tee356 ,
The CU packages are full installations of the Exchange server which means you could install any CUs to a fresh server.
And the "Other Microsoft products updates" means some patchs to the products, this will not help you install the product itself.
For Exchange, this means the Security updates(SU) like:
Best regards,
Lou
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Hi Lou,
Thank you very much.