Obviously I'd say try this in a test environment first, but given that you can use database portability to move an Exchange 2007 RTM database to a server running Exchange 2007 SP1 I don't see why this is much different. As far as I can tell there are no updates to the database.
-alex On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Sobey, Richard A <r.so...@imperial.ac.uk>wrote: > Hi all > > > > One of our mailbox servers (Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 6) has a suspected > hardware fault and we were planning to use database portability to mount the > databases on a standby server. The “live” server is running RU6, but the > standby is at RU7. I figured since we’re going to RU7 soon anyway, I didn’t > want to give my users necessary downtime. > > > > Is this is a safe thing to do, or should the new mailbox server run the > same RU version? Are the databases very twitchy in this respect? > > > > Thanks for any advice. > > > > Richard > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~