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Upgrade to Exchange 2010 SP3 fails with CSCRIPT error

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Recently I was upgrading my Exchange 2010 SP2 combined CASHUB servers (four servers in a load balanced array) to SP3. Two servers went fine, but two servers failed with a CSCRIPT error:

Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the ‘cscript’ () process (ID: 5652) has open files. Close the process and restart Setup.

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When looking with task manager several script processes were indeed running. It turned out to be the System Center Management client that was performing all kinds of activities.

Stop the System Center Management agent (via the Services MMC Snap-in) and the upgrade runs fine.

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Upgrade Windows Standard to Enterprise

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Note. When Exchange is installed on this particular server you can use this procedure only in a lab environment. To change an Exchange server is not a supported scenario!

When installing an Exchange 2010 environment in my lab I discovered that the Fail Over Clustering bits were not available on my planned DAG members. It turned out that I installed Windows 2008 R2 Standard Edition instead of Enterprise Edition. Even worse, Exchange Server 2010 SP2 was already installed as well.

On TechNet there’s an article that explains how to Upgrade Windows 2008 R2 without using the installation media (i.e. reinstall Windows 2008 R2 from scratch) using DISM, the Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool.

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