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 February Cumulative Update. Currently the separate packages for the core products and for the language packs are available. Details and download locations can […]
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 December Cumulative Update. There is a chance to the way we will release cumulative updates from now on. In the past we shipped […]
Microsoft has released a security bulletin regarding a security fix for MOSS 2007 and Search Server 2008. This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow elevation of privilege if an attacker bypasses authentication by browsing to an administrative URL on a SharePoint site. A successful attack leading to elevation of privilege […]
When working on customer problems I often see that WSS and MOSS Service Pack 1 has not been applied. All customer which have not yet installed SP1 should be aware that support for systems without SP1 will end on January 13th, 2009. So in around 6 weeks. See here for details: https://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifesupsps#Office After January 13th, 2009 support […]
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 October Cumulative Update. My colleague Joerg Sinemus has created a nice article explaining each step required to download and install this update including […]
The Office Service Pack team officially anounced the upcoming Service Pack 2 for the Office 2007 suite including MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0. The expected release date will be between February and April of 2009. Here are some of the expected highlights for the SharePoint Area provided by the SharePoint Technical Product Managers: Improved Read-only […]
Nintex Workflow 2007 enables organisations to build complex workflow processes quickly and easily using a web browser interface.Recently Nintex released an update for their workflow solution which solves a problem that shows up after installing the WSS/MOSS infrastructure update. See here for more details:http://connect.nintex.com/forums/thread/886.aspx
We had a big number of cases where customers reported the following pattern: Event ID 7076 – Office SharePoint Server “Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt. ” “System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is […]
We will be releasing a security hotfix for Windows SharePoint Services MS07-059 on October 9th. Be sure to note that as Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is included with all editions of Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, and Performance Point Server as well as any others which include WSS 3.0 you need to apply this […]
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 […]
