Before You Begin

Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Exchange Server version 5.5 is part of Microsoft’s commitment to provide important product refinements on a regular basis. This service pack includes significant new enhancements, including Microsoft Outlook 98, Microsoft’s premier messaging and collaboration client. In addition, Service Pack 1 includes many important new server features, which are described in the following sections.

Service Pack 1 includes fixes to server issues that were previously available as Microsoft Quick-Fix Engineering (QFE) patches. For a complete list of QFE patches included in this service pack, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q171593. Knowledge Base articles are available from the Microsoft support Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/support.

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This document has three main sections: “Installing Service Pack 1,” “What’s New in Service Pack 1,” and “Known Issues.” It contains information about this service pack release that is not available in the Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 documentation.


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