Software Update: Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 CU 8

Microsoft has released the seventh Cumulative Update for Exchange Server 2016. For a general discussion about Exchange Server 2016 you can visit our forum in The general Exchange 2016 topic. The KB article numbered 4035145 mentions the following changes:

Cumulative Update 8 for Exchange Server 2016

Cumulative Update 8 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 was released on December 19, 2017. This cumulative update includes fixes for nonsecurity issues and all previously released fixes for security and nonsecurity issues. These fixes will also be included in later cumulative updates for Exchange Server 2016.

Issues that this cumulative update fixes

This cumulative update adds support for .NET Framework 4.7.1. This cumulative update also fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

• 4056329 Can’t access EWS from Outlook/OWA add-ins via makeEwsRequestAsync in Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2013
• 4054516 “Your request can’t” error when accessing an archive mailbox via OWA in Exchange Server 2016
• 4055953 The recipient scope setting doesn’t work for sibling domains in Exchange Server 2016
• 4055435 No MAPI network interface is found after you install Exchange Server 2016 CU7
• 4056609 Event ID 4999 and mailbox transport delivery service does not start after you install Exchange Server 2016 CU7
• 4045655 Description of the security update for Microsoft Exchange: December 12, 2017
• 4057248 Many Watson reports for StoragePermanentException in Exchange Server 2016