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Top 5 reasons to upgrade!

1. Performance Reliability/Stability Fixes

2. Browser support for IE 8 and improvements in tier 2 browsers (Firefox)

3. Reliability improvements in Indexing and Index Corpus

4. Security Improvements

5. New STSADM Commands including some to fix corruption and relationships (orphaning)

BONUS! Pre Upgrade Checker! – 960577 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960577/ ) List of all Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Server Pre-Upgrade Checker knowledge base articles. This WILL Be required for the next version. I use to LOVE Prescan with the previous version, you can guess this is going to be very HOT on my list and will add value even waaaay before you’re ready to upgrade to fix consistency issues and identify areas that will be challenges to upgrade.

WOW there’s a TON of SP2 information. Soooo much!!! You can find a choose your own adventure in reading these docs. I’ve pulled out what I think are the most relevant, but you’ll likely find many I didn’t find in my initial pass.

READ IT ALL and Test Test Test!!!

By the way, I’m sure the SharePoint Team blog will have some similar information to this blog. Be sure to visit http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint some time later today.

Information on Service Pack 2 (Most of this information is in the KBs, but just want to lay this out so it’s easy to understand.

Start Here:

NOTE: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 is required for 2007 Microsoft Office servers SP2.

968173 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968173/ ) Known issues that you may experience when you install the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2

968170 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968170/ ) List of all 2007 Office system Service Pack 2 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 packages

970359 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970359/ ) Technical details about the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (S)

970358 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970358/ ) Technical details about the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (S)

945013 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945013/ ) How to deploy the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and Office Server Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1

968170 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968170) Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack SP2

What is fixed! Thanks PFE’s for these Lists!

Download the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx package.

Download the 2007 Office servers Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx package.

WSS Specific Download Locations

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (x86)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (x64)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=085E5AC8-58F6-4CF9-8012-33B95EE36C0F

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x64)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2C2B6CAF-B46D-45EB-AC4D-DEAAA48C3A2C

MOSS Specific download locations are here:

2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082

2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x64)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082

2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x86)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01C6A3E8-E110-4956-903A-AD16284BF223

2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x64)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=66C5026F-9F47-4642-8378-2526918009FA

Office Suite (Client) and it’s language packs:

968170 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968170/) Description of 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) and of Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 SP2

List of Fixes

Download the 2007 Office Service Pack 2 Changes.xlsx package now.

Download

2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B444BF18-79EA-46C6-8A81-9DB49B4AB6E5 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B444BF18-79EA-46C6-8A81-9DB49B4AB6E5)

Microsoft Office Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E1203DB2-1CC9-4809-9B6E-3F232CB8899FEnjoy!Kristof Kowakski | kristof@kowalski.ms

Work In Progress

April 22, 2009 LookSee

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Back behind the computer and working it in anger again after a nice couple of weeks off travelling.

Work on the next revisions of LookSee are already under way and I moving ahead as scheduled. I’m going to try and release a new revision each month, we all know how everyone loves new features to play with.

The App as it stands is still rather simple in what it does. The 1.x versions will focus on getting the simple things right and making sure stability is paramount. On that note I really have to say it’s been really really stable. Not one issue that I’ve had has been down to the App. Can I just silently scream when dealing with WebClient/mrxdav.sys issues!! Aaaah!! Microsoft please fix the redirector! Good news is that Windows 7 seems to behave a whole lot better!

So as I was saying, version 1.x is about stability and the simple features. Version 2.x which hopefully will be out soon adds a little twist to the App. Its one I can’t wait to rollout as it’s nothing anyone is doing at present.

So for now. I’ll be redoing the manual as the feedback I’ve had is its not friendly enough and yep, agree! Ask and it shall be done.

Stay tuned for some more updates soon.

Kristof Kowalski | kristof@kowalski.ms

LookSee – The Missing Manual

April 8, 2009 LookSee

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So, LookSee has been out for a month now and all seems to be going quite well. Too well one might say.

I simply not ready for the uptake that the App would have and obviously with popularity you start to get the support emails. Now I’ve worked in a support role pretty much all my life, that is my bread and butter working life. Obviously over the years moving up the food chain you come across differing challenges that you have to meet head on and this is one of them

From what I can gauge at the moment I’m getting about 2% of people asking for the odd support or general tip on how to connect [Insert your Operating System] to LookSee and I’m well chuffed. This is not your simple fart application or some ambiance App which plays whales sounds whilst your in a state of Zen, this is quite complex for the average user. I’ve tried to simply things in the manual, but I’ll be the first one to put my hand up and say it can be better.

So there will be a total re-write of the manual when I come back from holidays.

For now I’ve written up some Step by Step guides on how to connect to LookSee. These guides are more concise then the manual that is provided with the App so hopefully it’ll help you guys when trying to get LookSee working.

So please check out the new Help section;

http://www.kowalski.ms/help

Kushdie!

Kristof Kowalski | kristof@kowalski.ms