The SharePoint Product Group has provided us with some further guidance on what is currently needed to build a server up so that it is running the most up-to-date code. To get the details, read: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/09/29/announcing-august-cumulative-update-for-office-sharepoint...

Some of you may have noticed that in August my title changed to Senior Escalation Engineer. As I look back over the past four years as an Escalation Engineer for SharePoint, I can't say that I disagree... I certainly am old enough in this product to start getting some discounts at lunch :). More seriously...

You may have noticed the post on the SharePoint Team blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/18/update-on-virtualization-support-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx ) announcing support for Hyper-V based virtualization. There are however many things to know about the extent...

We got the video of my patching presentation posted from the SharePoint 2008 conference. There truely is a lot of great information here, and this download will be referenced from many Microsoft locations as a must see when it comes to patching SharePoint. Here are the links: News Story - http...

Please notice that the Infrastructure Update KB has been updated to include the following: Known issues discovered after release of this update Installing the Infrastructure Update in a SharePoint farm that uses Alternate Access Mapping with a reverse proxy or a network load balancer, such as in...

It was just announced over on the SharePoint Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx This is an important update and is publically downloadable using the links on the SharePoint team's blog entry. We are recommending that...

http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=898631 Here's the meat, I have highlighted the key points: Supported scenarios When you work with custom site definitions or custom area definitions, the following scenarios are supported: • To create a custom site definition or...