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by shawnasea

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Hi,

How can I determine which version of service pack, that I have installed on my Microsoft Exchange Server. I want to make plans to install the next service pack available, mainly because we have been experience server related errors on the network.

Not only am I a newbie, under 3 years, but I have only been at my current location, less than a year and was not around with the set up of the server.

Thanks
Shawn Miller
shawnasea@angelfire.com

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by rdunn

run 'winmsd' from the command prompt - not only will it tell you your service pack level, but it will also tell you many other goodies about your system that is good to know.

not only this, but you can (from any winnt PC) run winmsd \\servername
good luck!

by rdunn

I also should add you can run this from any W2k PC or server as well...

hope this helps!

by vinnyd

In Exchange 5.5 go into the Exchange Server Admin program.

Go to Help and About

That shows the version and service pak number.

In Exchange 2000 to into the Exchange Server Manager.

Open up the +Server item

You should see you exchange server name.

Right click on the name and go to properties

That is where you will find the sp that is install.

by mdelyea

Also, when you boot the computer you will see the service pack # at the blue screen where it says Microsoft Windows NT.

by redviking

Hi Shawn

Allthough WINMSD will tell you what SP that you have on your system it will not tell you wether it is SP6 or SP6a!
For that you will have to use WINVER.
WINVER will tell that.

You will have to do this physically on each machine thatyou wanna check.

wr
Thomas

by shawnasea

This jazzed, very thoughtful forsight into what I might be dealing with regarding the Microsoft products. Also, helpful, though did not need it at the time. Shawn

by curlergirl

Although all the other answers are correct, they don't address a main point - you don't need to know which service pack you're on to install the "next one". Just install the latest one, which is SP6a, and you will have all the updates available. IOW, service packs are cumulative, you don't have to have the previous one installed to install the latest one. Hope this helps!

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