Product Maintenance: While Microsoft continues to recommend that customers install the most current Service Pack/Release for non-Year 2000 reasons, we understand that, for many reasons, this may not be possible. In order to aid our customersÆ Year 2000 efforts, Microsoft intends to maintain Exchange Server-Standard 5.5 Service Pack 2 as compliant through January 1, 2001. Newer Service Packs are also to be maintained as compliant, and may include additional non-Year 2000 updates. This is intended to minimize the Year 2000 as a reason to upgrade.
Note 1: For the entire product to Compliant Exchange 5.5 Service Pack 2 is required. However, if the following components are not installed, Microsoft Exchange Connector for Lotus cc:Mail, Microsoft Migration Wizard for cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail DirSync, then Exchange 5.5 Service Pack 1 is Compliant.
Note 2: Please see the details on http://www.microsoft.com/technet/year2k/product/product.htm for the latest information on Windows NT Server. Exchange is Compliant when used with the Compliant or Compliant# version of Windows NT Server. This includes Windows NT Server Service Pack 3 with the latest hot fixes.
This document covers the products that are included in the Microsoft Exchange Server Enterprise edition, or that can be purchased separately. In addition, it covers the individual components that can be added to the Exchange Server Standard edition. The components combined together are referred to as Exchange. There are individual components that may be called out specifically, in order to give more details on how they use dates or how some features should be tested. Year 2000 information for the Exchange clients and Outlook are covered in their corresponding documents.
What are the prerequisites?
* Exchange 5.5 Service Pack 2 is required if any of the following components are used on the Exchange server.
- Microsoft Exchange Connector for Lotus cc:Mail
- Microsoft Exchange Migration Wizard for cc:Mail
- Microsoft Mail DirSync
Below are Knowledge Base articles that describe the problems in each component, not the fixes themselves. The fixes for the problems are contained in Service Pack 2. If any one of the above is installed on the userÆs computer, then Service Pack 2 needs to be applied.
Q193735 XFOR: Dates Incorrect After Migrating cc:Mail DB6 Bulletin Board
Q192595 XFOR: Incorrect Date on Message Sent Through cc:Mail Connector
Q193745 XFOR: Dates Appear Incorrectly After cc:Mail Migration
Q171593 XGEN: List of Bugs Fixed in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Packs
If none of these components are used, then Exchange 5.5 Service Pack 1 is sufficient.
Exchange 5.5 Service Pack 1 and Exchange 5.5 Service Pack 2 are located on:
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/55/downloads/SP2.htm
Microsoft Exchange Server Database:
Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) and the Exchange Server Database Engine use an internal date range in years from 1900 to 2156. ESE uses the JET_LOGTIME structure.
Date/Time structures for ESE:
JET_LOGTIME structure (8 char's (bytes) representing date-time)
Year is encoded as: char bYear; Date range for this structure is: 1900 û 2156.
Microsoft Exchange Information Store :
Internally the Exchange Information Store stores year dates in 4 digits using the types FILETIME or SYSTIME. There are a few cases in which the information store accepts a 2-digit year in those cases where other components hand the information store an Internet standard RFC 822 message. In this case the information store stores these dates as the number of seconds since Jan. 1, 1986. This gives the information store a range of 1986 û 2085.
In the cases where dates are passed to the information store as a UTC_TIME string, it will convert the 2 digits using 1951 as the cut off for the range. If the year is in the range 51-99 the date is converted to be 1951-1999. If the year is in the range 00-50, the date is converted to 2000-2050.
Date/Time structures the Exchange information store uses:
Filetime structure (two DWORDs representing # of 100ns intervals since 1/1/1601)
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Qword |
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Base Unit |
1.84467E+19 |
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Seconds |
1844674407371.0 |
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Minutes |
30744573456.2 |
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Hours |
512409557.6 |
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Days |
21350398.2 |
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Years |
58454.2 |
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Max Date |
600> |
| The product is compliant with recommended customer action. This indicates a prerequisite action is recommended which may include loading a software update or reading a document. |
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The product is compliant with an acceptable deviations from Microsoft's standard of compliance. An acceptable deviation does not affect the core functionality, data integrity, stability, or reliability of the product. |
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The product is compliant with pending Year 2000 software updates. Future maintenance actions will be recommended shortly. See Product Guide for further details. |
| Note: Compliance ratings given for each product assume that all recommended actions have been taken. |
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YEAR 2000 READINESS DISCLOSURE
ALL COMMUNICATIONS OR CONVEYANCES OF INFORMATION TO YOU CONCERNING MICROSOFT AND THE YEAR 2000, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THIS DOCUMENT OR ANY OTHER PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE INFORMATION REGARDING YEAR 2000 TESTING, ASSESSMENTS, READINESS, TIME TABLES, OBJECTIVES, OR OTHER (COLLECTIVELY THE "MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT"), ARE PROVIDED AS A "YEAR 2000 READINESS DISCLOSURE" (AS DEFINED BY THE YEAR 2000 INFORMATION AND READINESS DISCLOSURE ACT) AND CAN BE FOUND AT MICROSOFT'S YEAR 2000 WEBSITE LOCATED AT http://www.microsoft.com/year2000/ (the "Y2K WEBSITE"). EACH MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT IS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THE TERMS HEREOF, THE TERMS OF THE Y2K WEBSITE, AND THE YEAR 2000 INFORMATION AND READINESS DISCLOSURE ACT FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF ASSISTING THE PLANNING FOR THE TRANSITION TO THE YEAR 2000. EACH MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AND IS UPDATED REGULARLY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE. MICROSOFT THEREFORE RECOMMENDS THAT YOU CHECK THE Y2K WEBSITE REGULARLY FOR ANY CHANGES TO ANY MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT. EACH MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. CONSEQUENTLY, MICROSOFT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. MOREOVER, MICROSOFT DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF ANY MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT IN TERMS OF ITS CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY MICROSOFT OR ITS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY OR IN ANY WAY DECREASE THE SCOPE OF THIS WARRANTY DISCLAIMER. IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER REGARDING ANY MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN EACH MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENT IS FOUND AT THE Y2K WEBSITE AND IS INTENDED TO BE READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER INFORMATION LOCATED AT THE Y2K WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MICROSOFT'S YEAR 2000 COMPLIANCE STATEMENT, THE DESCRIPTION OF THE CATEGORIES OF COMPLIANCE INTO WHICH MICROSOFT HAS CLASSIFIED ITS PRODUCTS IN ITS YEAR 2000 PRODUCT GUIDE, AND THE MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 TEST CRITERIA.
ANY MICROSOFT YEAR 2000 STATEMENTS MADE TO YOU IN THE COURSE OF PROVIDING YEAR 2000 RELATED UPDATES, YEAR 2000 DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS, OR REMEDIATION SERVICES (IF ANY) ARE SUBJECT TO THE YEAR 2000 INFORMATION AND READINESS DISCLOSURE ACT (112 STAT. 2386). IN CASE OF A DISPUTE, THIS ACT MAY REDUCE YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS REGARDING THE USE OF ANY SUCH STATEMENTS, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED BY YOUR CONTRACT OR TARIFF.
