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 & KB95 ...[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]

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]

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]

Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow ProjectThis is the 3rd part of our Beginners Guide to SharePoint 2007 Workflow Development.   You understand the workflow development scenario and how to create an InfoPath web-based form.  Now in this part of the series, we will be Preparing your Visual Studio 2008 Workflow Project for workflow develop ...[Read More]