Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Updates are not available via PME

Last Modified

Thu Sep 17 08:10 GMT 2020

Description

  • Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Updates are not available via PME
  • The Microsoft Documentation says that the Cumulative Updates are available to download through the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center
  • Why is PME not able to detect and install these patches?

Environment

  • N-able RMM
  • N-able N-central
  • Patch Management

Solution

  • Microsoft Volumetric Licensing Center is a store of patches, providing customers the ability to download them
  • Microsoft does not provide any mechanism to automatically scan for those patches, even within its own Windows Update, SCCM, WSUS or Microsoft Intune systems
  • The patch also would not be able to be installed automatically because:
    • It is an ISO - a full Exchange Server 2019 image which you perform an "in place" upgrade of your existing server
    • It requires instance-specific parameters, depending on the environment where it is installed
  • Thus, these patches are required to be installed manually, please see this guidance from Microsoft: