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I would like to upgrade our 2007 Exchange server from the initial release (RTM) to SP1, or if it makes sense to a later SP. I would appreciate an order of magnitude kind of estimate, is it an hour, 6 hours, a weekend?

It's running on a Dell Server PE 2950, with a Xeon 5130 CPU (2 GHz) with 4 GB of RAM. Windows 2003 SP2 x64. We have about a TB of disk running with Dell RAID. Unfortunately, the C drive only has about 5 GB free; it was set up by a consultant years ago as only a 20 GB drive. The data stores for Exchange are around 600 GB on a separate D drive.

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Applying a Service Pack to an Exchange Server should not take more than 2 hours time on reasonable hardware. Make sure you have a current backup before you start! I'd also recommend to apply the latest Service Pack (SP3, I think), as well as the latest Update Rollup.

See the Release Notes for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 for more information on compatibility and so on.

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  • I did this last November, it took me about an hour I think on some decent hardware. I believe there is a later service pack and also an update rollup available. Jul 23, 2012 at 13:23
  • Can I go straight to SP3 without having to go through the intermediate SP1, 2, etc?
    – Knox
    Jul 23, 2012 at 13:24
  • I think you have to go to SP1 first, then you can skip SP2 and go right to SP3, then apply the update rollup. It's documented somewhere you'll find it. Jul 23, 2012 at 13:26
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    You can go to SP3 directly, and then apply the rollup: You can use the following methods to install Exchange 2007 SP3: On a computer that is running the original release version of Exchange 2007, upgrade the program to Exchange 2007 SP3. On a computer that is running Exchange 2007 SP1, upgrade the program to Exchange 2007 SP3. On a computer that is running Exchange 2007 SP2, upgrade the program to Exchange 2007 SP3. Perform a new installation of Exchange 2007 SP3. Release Notes for Exchange Server 2007 SP3
    – MichelZ
    Jul 23, 2012 at 13:28

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