Penny Coventry, MVP has a great post on How to find the level of SharePoint you are running, with the recent release of SharePoint 2007 Service Pack 2, we wanted to update this reference list.   Here is a summary of the latest version numbers: MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 SP2 - 12.0.0.6421 MOSS 2007 or WSS 3.0 Cumulative update (KB956056 & KB ...[Read More]

Microsoft has just released Service Pack 2 for SharePoint (both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007).  This update includes two main categories of fixes: Previously unreleased fixes that were made specifically for this service pack. In addition to general product fixes, this includes improvements in stability, in performance, and in security. All the ...[Read More]

Microsoft has released an excel sheet which lists the Issues Fixed by Service Pack 2 (SP2) in the 2007 Office Desktop Applications.  I just wanted to quickly outline, the SharePoint specific fixes for Microsoft Office desktop applications.    OneNote Before SP2, if you tried to create a shared notebook on SharePoint in a folder path where th ...[Read More]

I had been asked a question from a twitter follower if Microsoft Online Services product Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) supports Internet-Facing sites?   After a quick tweet, John Ferringer and Andrew Walmsley both stated the facts:   andrewwalmsley: @sharepointbuzz Don't think so.MSFT Online bus. model is Saas based ...[Read More]

Toronto SharePoint User Group's session tomorrow, Wednesday, April  22, 2009, is on "Taxonomy Management using MOSS 2007."   Shai Petel, a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Technology Specialist, will  review implementation scenarios, add-ons and explore the various taxonomy types (hierarchical, web 2.0 style). Shai Petel is also the Vic ...[Read More]

If you haven't read, the Microsoft SharePoint Team officially blogged / announced that the Official Name of Microsoft SharePoint “14” [Press Pass]is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010.   Why not Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010?   It's not that MOSS was a bad term but because customers were getting confused.    Let's hear it straigh ...[Read More]

One piece of the Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System due April 28th announcement from the Microsoft Update Blog is the information on the STSADM upgrade scanning tool. The Office Sustained Engineering Team Blog preannounced this Service Pack back in October. That post and this update are a part of their effort “to increase transparency ...[Read More]

The latest buzz around Microsoft Office is that the complete Microsoft Office Suite will be 32-bit and 64-bit.  After Ed Bott, unearthed clues to an upcoming x64 Office release are hidden in an obscure XML file (Migwiz.xml) used by the Windows Easy Transfer utility, which transfers settings for Windows and selected applications from an old P ...[Read More]

The Michael Sampson Company has launched The SharePoint for Collaboration: Business Impact Awards 2009.   About Michael Sampson As many of you know, Michael Sampson is the author of "Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (BP-Other)" (Microsoft Press, 2009 ...[Read More]

Microsoft Update Product Team Blog has just announced that the 2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 2 will be released April 28, 2009 Besides announcing the formal date and better documentation we can expect a some noteable areas: Ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and P ...[Read More]