..and moving to the new SharePoint Support blog, spblog .  Thank you for taking the time to view this blog, and looking forward to posting on the new blog along with support engineers from around the world!

We take product quality seriously and make every effort to avoid and resolve issues that adversely impact our customers.  Unfortunately, we have recently discovered a bug with Service Pack 2 (SP2) that affects all customers that have deployed it...

A newly published series of articles has been published to TechNet providing guidance on troubleshooting our old friend, Content Deployment.  The series is divided up into the following sections: · Determine sites and subsites · Plan content deployment...

A very nice guideline for, again, preliminary requirements for 2010 was put out by Richard Riley from the SharePoint Technical Product Management team .  There are some very big changes in store for the next release, the biggest being no more 32...

Update: The uber packages are now available as well: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 April cumulative update package http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=968850 Office SharePoint Server 2007 April cumulative update package http://support...

Here is a list of KB articles that may be of importance, both pre-deployment and post deployment of Service Pack 2.  This list will be updated as new KB articles come on-line. General: List of all 2007 Office system Service Pack 2 and Windows SharePoint...

953338 Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack SP2 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;953338 Download links: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (x86) http...

Description of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (SP2) and of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (SP2) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;953334 Download links: 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service...

You can stop holding your breath, as the release date for Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 was announced: April 28th is the big day!  Mark that day down in your calendars and get those browsers warmed up.  There are, of course, numerous fixes...

Over on the SharePoint product group blog , they’ve announced that, along with the name change to Exchange Server 2010, the next version of MOSS will be called Microsoft SharePoint 2010.  Check out the full details on the PG blog !

A new set of ten themes are available for use with Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint projects. System Requirements Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 or Office SharePoint Server...

When crawling content in a site collection that uses a host header, it will fail with the following error in your crawl logs:  “Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl...

Late update: The “uber” packages are now out.  Sorry for the late update, I was out sick all last week. Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961755 Description...

Recently we have seen more cases were customers are having problems with the synchronization of User info between the SSP and the content databases failing to sync properly; see below for an example of the information I am talking about. Username Tag...

A common issues administrators run into is broken propagation.  For a variety of reasons, propagation failures on one or more servers are very difficult to troubleshoot. However, following the process below has been very successful at resolving many...

Microsoft has announced today that FAST will be integrated with SharePoint, and released as FAST Search for SharePoint, which will be tied in very closely with the next release of SharePoint. More information will hopefully come out soon, but for now...

The dates of the 2009 SharePoint Conference has been announced!  Taking place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the conference is scheduled for October 19th through the 22nd.  Here are some key points about the event: “ SharePoint Conference 2009...

Announced today, SharePoint is going to integrate PerformancePoint, and really expand on our BI (business intelligence) offerings. Kurt DelBene said it best: “ PressPass: How will customers benefit from this decision? DelBene: It really gets back to the...

After setting up a SSL enabled site collection using SSL, with ISA running with a single rule, you are not able to browse to the SSL enabled site collection.  The cause for this is simple: each SSL enabled site collection must have it’s own rule...

After enabling Output Cache for site collections, you get the following error when browsing to it: "Error in '/' Application" message referring to an 'Attempt to release mutex not owned by caller. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x00000120)' Description...

After installing the Infrastructure Update (KBs 951695 and 951297) and successfully complete the upgrade, you note that, within the SSP Administration page, you do not see the “Search Administration” link.  Instead, you click on the “Search Settings...

Update: The issue has been corrected, and a new hot fix package has been uploaded. You only need to re-download the WSS December CU package, which can be found here: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package (WSS...

Just released, the WSS and Office Server Core CU packages are now out: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): December 16, 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;959644 Description...

I've had a couple of customer come across this issue, which is actually a limitation that is put in place out of box. By default, the web.config file is set to allow only 50 items to be displayed on the navigation menu chrome on the top of any portal...

We had reports of customers who are unable to install the x64 Thai Language pack. It will error out with the following error: An error occurred during the installation of the Microsoft Office Server Language Package 2007 - Thai. Error installing...