In the past I have heard lots of complaints that it is required to open a support case just to receive a hotfix from Microsoft. A colleague just pointed me to a new webform which allows customers to request a hotfix without calling Microsoft support: https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1410&WS=hotfix
Customers reported the following problems with the MCMS security update: Issue 1 Symptoms: Resource Gallery Items show up as red-X after installing the update the DCA does not start Site Manager won’t start and throws an error indicating a missing satellite dll (NrMsgRes.dll) when done locally. Site Deployment results in an unspecified XML parser error […]
A security fix for MCMS 2001 and 2002 has been released this week. It is mandatory to install this fix on all production machines to fix a known security hole which exists in all edition of MCMS. Be aware that the MCMS 2002 version of this fix can only be installed on SP2. As older service […]
Now that WSS and MOSS are available for download (at least the Trial version of MOSS is available for everyone) the following instructions might be helpful: Upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to Release Version Upgrading from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to Release Version Setup, Administration and […]
A short note for all customers who have not yet upgraded to MCMS 2002 SP2. As outlined on the Microsoft support lifecycle page for service packs support for MCMS 2002 SP1a will end at January 9th, 2007. Support for SP1 already ended on July 11th, 2006. Customers requiring support for their MCMS environment will have to […]
Some post SP2 hotfixes install an old version of the nrdhtml.cab file The installer of the affected hotfixes contains a problem that causes the nrdhtml.cab file to be replaced with an old version (version 5.0.4526.0). This can cause performance problems during authoring as the cab file is downloaded for every placeholder control again and again. […]
A couple of customers reported problems when using the Source Control feature in VS.NET 2005 of Team Foundation Server to check in files. The MCMS product team has investigated this issue and identified this as a design limitation. MCMS 2002 was not designed to work with Team Foundation Server. MCMS 2002 was released several years […]
The german and french version of MCMS 2002 SP2 ship with the US-english version of the nrdhtml.cab file. This can lead to US-english messages showing up in web author. The hotfix for this problem has been released and can be requested from Microsoft Support as KB 917509
Requested since MCMS 2002 SP2 has been released was a possiblity to install MCMS 2002 with VS.NET 2005 without a need to install VS.NET 2003 first. As SP2 is a service pack that only updates installed components it was necessary to install VS.NET 2003 first to ensure that the MCMS development tools could be installed […]
Postbacks on Firefox and Netscape browsers do not work correct This will only happen if the <base> tag rendering using the RobotMetaTag control has been disabled. As a workaround either enable the <base> tag rendering or (if this is not an option) add the following javascript code behind the form tag of your template: <script language=”javascript”> […]
Problem 1: Developer tools for VS.NET 2003 disappear after installing MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 We are currently investigating this problem. As a workaround please change the user locale in regional options to US english. Problem 2: Developer Tools for VS.NET 2005 do not work with some regional settings If the regional settings are different […]
Clearing Hyperlinks does not work after installing SP2 Before installing SP2 it was possible to clear a hyperlink by selecting the hyperlink text, clicking on the hyperlink button and clearing the URL part. After installing SP2 the hyperlink is not cleared. The product team is currently building a fix for this. Workaround: remove the whole […]
