2009

We recently had a couple of SharePoint support cases where customers reported hangs. When we analyzed user dumps of the affected processes we noticed that the application pool was in the process of recycling due to an exception that has caused the application pool to fail. Unfortunatelly the recycling never finished – instead a message […]

We have recently discovered a bug with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that affects all customers that have deployed it for SharePoint Server 2007.  During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation […]

A really nice new feature coming with MOSS 2007 is blob caching. A similar feature existed in MCMS 2002 was a predecessor of the WCM layer in MOSS 2007. Blob caching allows caching of binary objects like images, style sheets and documents on the MOSS front end server machine which heavily reduces the traffic to […]

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 including the service packs for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has just been released. Be sure to read the KB articles below as they contain important information about SP2 including known issues with these service packs.   KB Article Links Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of Windows […]