Cumulative Update 23 for Exchange Server 2016 (KB5011155)

Cumulative Update 23 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 was released on April 20, 2022. It 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. 

This update also includes new daylight saving time (DST) updates for Exchange Server 2016. For more information about DST, see Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center.

New features in this cumulative update

• To prevent misuse of UNC paths by attackers, parameters that take UNC paths as inputs will no longer be usable in Exchange Server PowerShell cmdlets or the Exchange Admin Center. For more information, see the following Knowledge Base article:
  
  5014278 Changes in Exchange Server PowerShell cmdlets and Exchange Admin Center for UNC path inputs

Known issues in this cumulative update

• The MSExchangeServiceHost service crashes repeatedly and Event ID 4999 is logged in the Windows Application event log. For more information, see Exchange Service Host service fails after installing March 2022 security update.

• Symptom:
  The Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus cmdlet from an Exchange Server 2013 server fails against databases on Exchange Server 2019 and 2016 servers and returns Error 0xe0434352 from RpccGetCopyStatusEx4.
  
  Workaround:
  Run Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus from an Exchange Server 2019 or 2016 server.

• Symptom:
  Checking the Exchange Server 2019 or 2016 database status from the Exchange admin center (EAC) might fail and return an "HTTP 500" or "Your request couldn't be completed. Please try again in a few minutes" error message.
  
  Workaround:
  Make sure that the admin mailbox is on an Exchange Server 2019 or 2016 server. If the admin account has no mailbox, make sure that all arbitration mailboxes (especially the “SystemMailbox{bb558c35-97f1-4cb9-8ff7-d53741dc928c}”) are on an Exchange  Server 2019 or 2016 server.

• The UM Voicemail greetings function stops working and returns error "0xe0434352."

• The Get-EmailAddressPolicy cmdlet fails and returns "Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.BlockedDeserializeTypeException."

• "Cannot Send Mail - Your mailbox is full" error when you use iPhone mail to send very large attachments. For more information, see KB 5004622.

Issues that this cumulative update fixes

This cumulative update also fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

• 5012757 "Migration user... can't be found" error when using Start-MigrationUser after batch migration fails

• 5012760 You can't access OWA or ECP after installing the July 2021 security update

• 5012761 External attendees see “Send the Response Now” although no response was requested in Exchange Server

• 5012765 Email stuck in queue starting from "2022/1/1 00:01:00 UTC+0" on all Exchange on-premises servers

• 5012768 Start-MigrationUser and Stop-MigrationUser are unavailable for on-premises Exchange Server 2019 and 2016

• 5012774 Can't change default path for Trace log data in Exchange Server 2019 and 2016

• 5012779 Invalid new auth certificate for servers that are not on UTC time zone

• 5012780 Disable-Mailbox does not remove LegacyExchangeDN attribute from on-premises Exchange 2019

• 5012781 Exchange Server 2019 and 2016 DLP doesn’t detect Chinese resident ID card numbers

• 5012782 MS ExchangeDiagnostic Service causes errors during service startup and initialization in Microsoft Exchange 2019

• 5012783 Can't restore data of a mailbox when LegacyDN is empty in the database

• 5012784 Exchange 2016 CU21 and Exchange 2019 CU10 cannot save "Custom Attributes" changes in EAC

• 5012786 Forwarded meeting appointments are blocked or considered spam

• 5012787 Download domains created per CVE-2021-1730 don’t support ADFS authentication in OWA

• 5012789 Can't use Copy Search Results after eDiscovery & Hold search

• 5012791 MailboxAuditLog doesn't work in localized (non-English) environments

• 5012829 Group metrics generation fails in multidomain environment

Get Cumulative Update 23 for Exchange Server 2016

Volume Licensing Center

To get Cumulative Update 23 for Exchange Server 2016, go to Microsoft Volume Licensing Center.

Notes

• The Cumulative Update 23 package can be used to run a new installation of Exchange Server 2016 or to upgrade an existing Exchange Server 2016 installation to Cumulative Update 23.

• You don't have to install any previously released Exchange Server 2016 cumulative updates or service packs before you install Cumulative Update 23.

Cumulative update information

Prerequisites

This cumulative update requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8.

A component that's used within Exchange Server requires a new Visual C++ component to be installed together with Exchange Server. This prerequisite can be downloaded at Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013. For more information, see KB 4295081.

For more information about the prerequisites to set up Exchange Server 2016, see Exchange Server 2016 prerequisites.

Restart requirement

You may have to restart the computer after you apply this cumulative update package.

Registry information

You don't have to make any changes to the registry after you apply this cumulative update package.

Removal information

After you install this cumulative update package, you can't uninstall the package to revert to an earlier version of Exchange Server 2016. If you uninstall this cumulative update package, Exchange Server 2016 is removed from the server.

File information

File hash information

File name	SHA256 hash
ExchangeServer2016-x64-cu23.iso	B25A265D8A90C2E069B051C5E6839767143E5512B9224F7E5B8BB875A0CACE41
UMLanguagePack.en-US.exe	C82E34915B2950AF6846043A1BD320D6276A990699FC4CE51D26E59CAEDD2F4C

More information

For more information about the deployment of Exchange Server 2016, see Release notes for Exchange Server 2016.

For more information about the coexistence of Exchange Server 2016 and earlier versions of Exchange Server in the same environment, see Exchange Server 2016 system requirements.

For more information about other Exchange updates, see Exchange Server Updates: Build numbers and release dates.

References

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Change history

 The following table summarizes some of the most important changes to this topic.

Description
August 30, 2021	Added a "New feature in this cumulative update" section.
September 28, 2021	Added "Notice" at the top of the article.