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As long as your account has Schema Admins rights, and Exchange Organization Management Exchange will do the ADPrep automatically when you are installing the CU8 update. <br />
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Will.
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As long as your account has Schema Admins rights, and Exchange Organization Management Exchange will do the ADPrep automatically when you are installing the CU8 update.

Will.

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Hi Will,<br />
im using my Administrator Account - member of Schema Admins.... So basically i can download the CU on my exchange server and just run the CU? so i don't need to do any prep AD/Schema on the DC at all?
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Hi Will,
im using my Administrator Account - member of Schema Admins.... So basically i can download the CU on my exchange server and just run the CU? so i don't need to do any prep AD/Schema on the DC at all?

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Hi All - my setup below:<br />
Server 2012 DC / &nbsp;Server 2012 with exchange 2013 no DAG - only server<br />
Im looking to upgrade to CU8 &nbsp;- do i need to run prep AD/Schema on the DC? or can i simply just run the setup installation file on the exchange server and the wizard will do this for me...?
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Hi All - my setup below:
Server 2012 DC /  Server 2012 with exchange 2013 no DAG - only server
Im looking to upgrade to CU8  - do i need to run prep AD/Schema on the DC? or can i simply just run the setup installation file on the exchange server and the wizard will do this for me...?

cumulative update 8 Exchange 2013

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

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