As discussed earlier the original SP2 release reverted the MOSS license to trial during installation. Microsoft now released an updated version of SP2 which does not have this problem. More details can be found on the SharePoint Team blog. For those of you who already installed SP2 and would like to get the separate fix […]
Microsoft has just made a Sneak Peek of SharePoint 2010 available on http://sharepoint.microsoft.com: 2010 Sneak Peek Home: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/default.aspx 2010 Sneak Peek Overview Video: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Overview-Video.aspx 2010 Sneak Peek IT Pro Video: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/IT-Pro-video.aspx 2010 Sneak Peek Developer Video: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Developer-video.aspx 2010 Sneak Peek Get Ready: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/Get_Ready.aspx 2010 Sneak Peek FAQ: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010/Sneak_Peek/Pages/FAQ.aspx More details are available on the SharePoint […]
As discussed by the Office Sustained Engineering group cumulative updates for all Office Products including WSS 3.0 and SharePoint 2007 will be released every second month. Yesterday we released the so called June Cumulative Update. The so called “Uber” packages for MOSS will be released in a couple of days. Currently you can download the […]
Microsoft has released a fix for the SP2 problem that reverts the license into a Trial version after installing Service Pack 2. More details can be found in the following KB article: 971620 – When you install the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2, the product expiration date is activated incorrectly For your convenience […]
Technet now hosts a technical reference for the available STSADM commands based on Silverlight. Beside a view that shows all the commands you can choose a view that only displays commands new in SP1 or SP2 or commands that offer operations which are not available in the UI. You can also change the view between […]
STSADM -o export/import is often used to split site collections into multiple pieces when they reached a certain limit. Or to do the vice versa and consolidate multiple site collections into one larger one. Both of these actions work fine as long as the migrated content does not use the publishing feature. For site collections […]
We recently received a couple of questions regarding support for SPS 2003 and IE 8. The supported browsers for SPS 2003 are listed on the following page:http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/techcenter/HA011605151033.aspx?pid=CH011719821033 As mainstream support for SPS 2003 has already ended it is unlikely that support for additional browsers will be added to the product. If support for IE 8 […]
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 […]
Finally also the Uber package for MOSS has been released which simplifies the patching process for MOSS 2007 to April CU. More details on the SharePoint Team blog:http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/13/april-cumulative-update-packages-ready-for-download.aspx
Many of our customers have questions on the relationship between the set of hotfixes released in the Cumulative Updates (CU) for April 2009 and Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Office servers. This post from the Office Sustained Engineering Team will aim at answering those questions.
We often receive questions about how to install Service Packs or patches, about which patches are available, what they include and so on. Microsoft has a central page available that covers all kind of Updates topics: Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies
