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If you decide to download the SP1 update make sure you select the right version for your Office installation, that is the 32 or 64 bit.
In other words, if you moved away from Edge Trasnsport, you made a smart move. Description of Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Read through it to see if you have SP1 installed & if not how to download & install it, if you want to. I would not expect to see significant feature improvements or investments in this role, either in SP1 or going forward," he wrote in his blog. Paul Robichaux, an Exchange MVP and master, doesn't believe Edge Transport's comeback is due to popular demand: "I presume this is being reintroduced to pacify a few large, noisy customers, because I haven't seen any signs of customers demanding it. If you don't feel like installing the update now, however, you should still get ready: Redmond says it will begin pushing it out to. Once installed, the Office applications will be at version.
(Edge Transport is a perimeter-based role for protecting your Exchange environment from spam and malware, and it's where perimeter transport rules are applied.) Office 2013 Service Pack 1 is available from Microsoft Download Center beginning on Tuesday in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. When Exchange 2013 was released, Microsoft told admins to use Exchange 2010 SP3 for their Edge Transport deployments, causing some admins to turn to other protection approaches instead. Known as KB 2817430, the update for the on-premises versions of Office has been widely anticipated. The other is the inclusion of the Edge Transport server role, omitted in the original Exchange 2013 release. In a move that shouldn't surprise anyone, Microsoft has released Office 2013 Service Pack 1. One is support for S/MIME in Outlook Web App. In Exchange 2013 SP1 (aka Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 4 - how confusing!), there'll also be two returning features removed from the original Exchange 2013. There will be fixes, improvements, and some schema updates, as expected. The SP1 versions will allow Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013 to be installed on Windows Server 2012 R2. Of course, it's not a sure thing that all the features found in Office 365 versions will be made available to the on-premises servers and applications Microsoft is not guaranteeing such parity as it tries to move customers to subscription-based cloud delivery. It appears that issuing periodic service packs is how Microsoft will keep the on-premises versions of its offerings at parity with the cloud-delivered Office 365 versions, whose changes come more incrementally but more often - and automatically. Early 2014 will see Service Pack 1 updates for Office 2013, SharePoint 2013, and Exchange 2013 (but apparently not Lync), bringing the on-premises versions of these servers and applications up to par with the then-current Office 365 versions.