Microsoft fixes year-change Exchange bug that blocked emails

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Microsoft fixes year-change Exchange bug that blocked emails

Microsoft offered a solution to a bug that caused some email messages to become stuck on its Exchange platforms due to what it said was a new-year-related date checking failure.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Rickster]

Can I assume Windows Server 2008 R2 is unaffected?

 

[Aquila ka Hecate]

Can I assume Windows Server 2008 R2 is unaffected?

It's a legacy coding problem - or rather a legacy coder problem. Someone in the '90s thought it was clever to format the date as a long integer and it never got fixed - so that ancient server might still be affected.