Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

John T — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:37:29 GMT

Now that Office 2007 SP2 is available, can we discuss the various /admin install point methods?

Outlook 2007 Install only:

Since the Office 2007 setup uses "chaining" to run the patches post installation...I used the Original install + a 15 MB Feb. CU rollup.

Now...do I have to replace it with this 290 MB Full Office 2007 SP2? It REALLY increases the install time!! 3-5 times slower...

Grrrrrrr. I loved slip streaming the network install points...

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

LovnSP2 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:08:21 GMT

Looks like you can also install it from Microsoft Downloads

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

Pete-One — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:15:55 GMT

More than 2 years, I have a bug reported to the escalation support. This has not been fixed with SP1 and SP2 again not. It is not a trivial matter. Can I get an answer to my Question "why must users live with Bugs?", although this well known and has been confirmed by Microsoft.

Thanks

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

Yiannis Bourkelis — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:28:10 GMT

I installed the service pack and I noticed that outlook became much more responsive.

Clicking email subject loads the body faster, clicking on folders load faster, double clicking an email opens the mail window faster.

I just have to check one more think but it will take me 1-2 days to be sure...

After 2-3 power on - hibernate cycles on windows XP, outlook was almost freezing until mail send-receive was completed. If this issue is also fixed, well done guys!

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

AvG — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:50:51 GMT

I like the new speed improvements!

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

Jim — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:27:32 GMT

Actually, my speed decreased substantially. Vista SP1, 2 GB, AMD dual core system. Images load very slowly in messages, and switching between messages sometimes brings up the dreaded (not responding) parenthetical message in the title bar.

Another Topic: Archiving email without deleting them from the to do

archioutlook — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:01:56 GMT

Hi,

Apologies for leaving a comment on a different topic, but I just cannot find a way to post my question. Previously there was a post on how to keep to do items for emails that are archived. The explanation was good but as some people commented, I do not have a “Display reminders and tasks from this folder in the To-Do Bar” to check box in the "mailbox properties" dialog. I would like to know the cause for this. Could somebody help? I would find it very useful to be able to flag an email, mark it as completed, then archive the email without deleting it on my completed tasks to do list. Thank you very much in advance.

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

Jim Davenock — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:06:44 GMT

We have previously installed Office 2007 with SP1 by installing the SP via the updates folder. I am now looking for information regarding installing SP2 to my enterprises via SMS. I have extracted the SP but I can find no info on how to deploy SP2 using SMS

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

Brick ONeil — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:28:28 GMT

There haven't been any noticable speed differences in any of my Office 2007 programs with SP2. Related, IE8 doesn't open some websites (G-rated), or many links. I'm thinking of rolling back to IE7. At least it was stable.

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

Andrew — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:19:59 GMT

Are you aware of the issue of applying the Office 2007 SP2 and it breaking the Outlook Global Address list? Referenced Below:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/gigaom/big-tech

/2009_04_30_office_2007_sp2_breaking_corporate_email.html

I have seen the issues on Windows XP and Windows Vista clients. As soon as you remove the the Service Pack, all functionality is restored.

SP2 Breaks Outlook Desktop Alerts

Eric — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:57:44 GMT

Just a note that the Outlook community is finding out the SP2 breaks Desktop Alerts - they sometimes work after reboot, but most often not. Very frustrating.....

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general&tid=8597dd9d-da01-45a5-8b1b-defc4f1eeb83&cat=en-us-office-outlook&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

Pete-One — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:07:47 GMT

we have a german speaking help forum for Office 2007 and our Users posts a lot of problems. everyday we got more people they cant start outlook after installing SP2. Connect Exchange when Outlook runs on a Terminal Server 2003 impossible, after deinstalled SP2 it works again correct. it´s more than frustrating.....

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

Pete-One — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:38:54 GMT

now we get more feedback from our users. If they install the SP2 from the MS-Download Page, Outlook will not start again.

Deinstall SP2 and use the Windows-Update for install Office 2007 SP2, the Problem was fixed.

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Ray Tolley — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:06:42 GMT

I'm eagerly anticipating installing Outlook 2007 but am not sure if I will loose all my old e-mails and addresses when I upgrade. Can someone advise?

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Boro Bret — Sat, 09 May 2009 05:57:43 GMT

Wow....I am not quite sure, but it seems that when SP-2 was loaded, Outlook starts up really SLOW. Once it gets loaded, all is good. I have deleted a lot of my old E-Mails and created several .psts but to no avail. I am running Dual Core AMD (3800@2GHz) with Vista. This is really really slow. Any thoughts?

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Jason Hess — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:31:49 GMT

during this "one-time delay as Outlook optimizes your data files".. is it redownloading all the user's mail or reorganizing it locally? (we're worried about flooding the network if it's a redownload).

thanks!

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

Michelle Centofanti — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:44:30 GMT

I've tried installing Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 twice and the installation will not complete. Any idea why this is happening or what I can do to complete the install? This time, it's two thirds complete and appears to be hanging after 24 hours.

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outblog — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:09:32 GMT

Jason - the "one-time delay as Outlook optimizes your data files" does not re-download the mailbox over the network. As you suspected, Outlook is reorganizing data inside the local copy of the mailbox stored on the hard drive.

Tom O'Neill

Outlook Program Manager

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NealE928 — Mon, 25 May 2009 10:24:04 GMT

XP and Vista (x86 and x64):

SP2 - Address Book Issues. Cannot change to another address book.

SP2 - Cannot create a new profile (Will not validate name).

SP2 - Periodic freeze while Outlook is talking to the server. This often happens in the middle of typing something, not just at startup when you would expect it.

SP2 is much faster but we have a few bugs in Outlook that are driving the corporate types crazy.

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

lenen lening — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:55:56 GMT

The speed is much better. Still there are some minor issues.

re: Announcing the Release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2!

jonwaldner — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:40:01 GMT

The biggest change in SP2 that most users will actually notice is buried deep on line 481 of the changes spreadsheet:

"Users cannot select which pages to print in a message item."

The fact you couldn't do this previously in 2007 was a MAJOR flaw, and quite frankly made Microsoft look enviromentally unaware. Why should you have to print every page of an email if I only want the first, particularly as most emails have disclaimers about saving paper at the bottom that you couldn't avoid printing!

Well done for fixing it, but you should make more of a big deal about it...it doesn't seem to be in any of the release documentation for SP2 apart from the one line in a spreadsheet, meaning that people stuggling to work out why they can't print emails properly won't realize they have to download SP2. I trust you will allow this post through as this information is not anywhere else on the internet atm, it seems.

This practical change has saved millions of trees, so bravo!