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Service Pack 2 Update

AMazaheri — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:05:00 GMT

The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download.

The update can be applied before or after Service Pack 2 installation. If the update is applied prior to installing Service Pack 2 it will prevent the expiration date from being improperly activated during installation of Service Pack 2, if it is applied after Service Pack 2 it will remove the expiration date incorrectly set during installation of Service Pack 2.

More info here.

Important Information on MOSS 2007 Service Pack 2

AMazaheri — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:14:00 GMT

If you are planning to install MOSS 2007 SP2 or already installed it please read the following important announcement which just posted by SharePoint Team Blog:

Attention: Important Information on Service Pack 2

WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 SP2

AMazaheri — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:19:00 GMT

Just a quick note that the SP2 for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 will be available on April 28th 2009! More information can be found here.

December Cumulative Update for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 is now available for download!

AMazaheri — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:45:00 GMT

December Cumulative Update for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is now available for download:

December Cumulative Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
December Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office Servers

More information can be found here.

Support for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 withouht SP1 will end on January 13th 2009

AMazaheri — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:03:00 GMT

Per our "Lifecycle Supported Service Packs" link the support for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 without SP1 will end on January 13th 2009 and it is recommended to apply SP1 before the deadline to be in supported state.

Getting 5762 error moving site collections to separate database using STSADM mergecontentdbs

AMazaheri — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:34:00 GMT

Mergecontentdbs is a new stsadm extension (part of WSS 3.0 SP1) which allows SharePoint administrators to easily move site collection(s) between different content databases, this is really handy when you migrating a monolithic SPS 2003 content db to MOSS 2007 and trying to separate MySites and Team Sites and host them under different Web applications. One caveat of running the tool is that you need to either be a site collection admin of the site collection being moved or need to run the command under farm admin account or you will get a nasty 0x80070005 error in the middle of the process:

12/21/2007 13:39:16.68 STSADM.EXE (0x13C8) 0x1704 Windows SharePoint Services General 8e11 High Deleting the site at http://sharepoint/personal/user1 and not deleting AD accounts.

12/21/2007 13:39:16.68 STSADM.EXE (0x13C8) 0x1704 Windows SharePoint Services General 8e2s Medium Unknown SPRequest error occurred. More information: 0x80070005

and a related 5762 error in the event log :

Event Type:     Error
Event Source:     Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category:     Database
Event ID:           5762
Date:                     12/21/2007
Time:                     10:57:11 AM
User:                     N/A
Computer:          xxxxx

Description:

Duplicate unique index on SQL Server instance 'SqlShareDev' in database 'SharePoint_Config'. Additional error information from SQL Server is included below.

Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.SiteMap' with unique index 'IX_SiteMap_ApplicationId_Path'.

The statement has been terminated.

MOSS 2007 with SP1 Released (Trial version)

AMazaheri — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:08:00 GMT

MOSS 2007 with SP1 (Trial version) just released and can be downloaded here:

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (32 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2E6E5A9C-EBF6-4F7F-8467-F4DE6BD6B831&displaylang=en

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (64 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3015FDE4-85F6-4CBC-812D-55701FBFB563&displaylang=en

Note:
The trial period for either product is 180 days. You can convert to a licensed installation at any time during the trial or after the trial has expired by entering the appropriate product key.

WSS 3.0 with SP1:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 (32 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=EF93E453-75F1-45DF-8C6F-4565E8549C2A&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1 (64 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9FB41E51-CB03-4B47-B89A-396786492CBA&displaylang=en

Event ID 10016, 6482 and 6398 after installing SP1

AMazaheri — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:06:00 GMT

Issue:

You are getting lots of 10016 DCOM errors and possibly related 6482 and 6398 after installing MOSS SP1:

Event Type: Error

Event Source: DCOM

Event Category:                None
Event ID:              10016
Date:                     12/14/2007
Time:                     9:54:49 AM
User:                     LITWAREINC\SP_AdmWorkerProcess
Computer:          LITWARESERVER

Description:

The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{3D42CCB1-4665-4620-92A3-478F47389230} to the user LITWAREINC\SP_AdmWorkerProcess SID (S-1-5-21-410547914-1611941820-4061089552-1204). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Solution:

Run the following command to restart the Search service:

stsadm -o osearch -action start