I was going to write up a nice succinct description of the reasons and then I read SharePoint Joel’s and said, these will do just fine! Thank you again Joel.
In quotes as it was copy/pasted with respect. Go read the rest at Joel’s blog.
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WSS & MOSS SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install It’s nice when things happen as expected. Five No Brainer Reasons to Install SP2 (When you are ready!!!) 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) “
WSS & MOSS SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install
It’s nice when things happen as expected.
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)
WSS & MOSS SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land