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• Delayed February 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 is now available

  Finally also the February 2011 CU for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released. The MOSS 2007 fixes have been released rougly two weeks ago. Some of the KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these... Posted Mar 04 2011, 12:52 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• February 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 has been released today

  Yesterday the product group released the February 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The Februray 2011 CU for SharePoint 2010 will be released in a couple of days. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take... Posted Feb 23 2011, 06:43 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• December 2010 CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has been released on Friday

  Yesterday the product group released the December 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process... Posted Jan 03 2011, 03:48 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• October CU for SharePoint 2010 has been rereleased

  The product group has released updated packages for the October 2010 Cumulative Update. The new packages contain a fix for the problem reported earlier . The updated fixes can be be found at the following locations: KB 2394323 - SharePoint Foundation... Posted Nov 18 2010, 02:08 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• Critical Information about a problem with the October 2010 CU for SharePoint Server 2010

  Recently we discovered a problem related to user profiles when installing the October 2010 CU for SharePoint Server 2010. The October Cumulative Update makes some changes and updates to the user profile database. Unfortunately there are certain situations... Posted Nov 07 2010, 10:34 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• October 2010 CU for SharePoint 2007 and 2010 has been released yesterday

  Yesterday the product group released the October 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process... Posted Oct 27 2010, 01:03 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• Important Out-of-band security update to address ASP.NET issue will be released today

  Cross posting info about an important update for ASP.NET which will address an issue that affects all ASP.NET applications including SharePoint and MCMS. [cross post from Microsoft Security Response Center blog ] Today we provided advance notification... Posted Sep 28 2010, 04:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: .NET, MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, MCMS, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• August 2010 Cumulative Update for SharePoint has been released

  Yesterday the product group released the August 2010 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The KB articles are not yet available (as usual it will take a couple more days to get these through the required release process)... Posted Sep 02 2010, 12:50 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• Waiting for August cumulative Update for WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 - do you have SP2 installed?

  In case you are waiting for August CU for WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007: be aware that this update will not install if SP2 is not installed. Support for SP1 was retired on 13th July: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&p1=12200&x=12&y=12... Posted Aug 26 2010, 08:02 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• The first cumulative update for SharePoint 2010 family has been released

  Yesterday the first cumulative update for the SharePoint 2010 product family has been released as a delayed June 2010 CU. Unlike the WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 cumulative updates this first cumulative update is not available as server package but has been... Posted Jul 22 2010, 05:49 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hotfix Info, SharePoint 2010

• Updated retirement date for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP1

  Microsoft has communicated an update on the retirement date for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. The official retirement date is July 13th. That means roughly 3 additional months compared to the normal retirement timeframe of "Next Service Pack release date... Posted Mar 23 2010, 05:35 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• The February 2010 cumulative update for WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday

  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 2010 Cumulative Update. It is highly... Posted Feb 24 2010, 02:14 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Hotfix Info

• December cumulative update for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday

  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. It is highly recommended... Posted Dec 16 2009, 02:18 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• October 2009 CU for WSS and MOSS has been released yesterday

  The October cumulative update for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday here are the KB article links for these fixes: KB 974989 - WSS 3.0 October 2009 CU KB 974988 - MOSS 2007 October 2009 CU The fixes can be downloaded using the following... Posted Oct 29 2009, 03:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Important: Be careful when installing WSS August Cumulative Update

  Last week we discovered a problem with the WSS August CU. Due to schema and stored procedure changes coming with the August CU databases with a patch level older than the August CU cannot be upgraded to August CU through database attach method. That means... Posted Sep 14 2009, 03:25 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• The June cumulative update for WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday

  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 April Cumulative Update. The so called "Uber"... Posted Jul 01 2009, 02:39 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Hotfix for SP2 issue that reverts SharePoint products to Trial Version has been released

  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... Posted Jun 25 2009, 04:30 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

  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... Posted May 22 2009, 01:36 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Uber packages for April CU for MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday

  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... Posted May 13 2009, 05:39 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• FAQ concerning WSS 3.0 and MOSS SP2 and the April 2009 Cumulative Updates

  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... Posted May 07 2009, 03:46 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Where to look for information about Updates for SharePoint?

  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... Posted May 06 2009, 02:52 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• MOSS 2007 SP2 - a must have for everyone who uses Variations on his site

  The Variations feature uses one specific list to link items in the different labels together: the Relationships List . The caveat is that as soon as an inconsistency exists in this list Variations will no longer work correctly. The problems that can occur... Posted May 03 2009, 11:04 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, Variation Feature

• Red is Green, Up is Down and the Unsupported suddenly becomes Supported!

  As I discussed in an earlier article backup/restore between farms for publishing sites was unsupported due to the fact that MOSS often stores absolute URLs to the Page Layout in the properties of a Publishing Page. Workarounds had to be used to adjust... Posted May 01 2009, 02:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info, Backup / Restore

• The April cumulative update for WSS V3 and MOSS 2007 has been released yesterday

  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 April Cumulative Update. The so called "Uber"... Posted May 01 2009, 02:51 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info

• Office release date for WSS 3.0/MOSS Service Pack 2 has been announced

  The Office Sustained Engineering Team officially announced the release date for SP2 of the Office 2007 Suite. SP2 will be released on April 28th, 2009. Further details about new features provided in SP2 have been announced as follows: Windows SharePoint... Posted Apr 16 2009, 06:53 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0, Hotfix Info