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October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

The server-packages of October 2009 Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download. October 2009 Cumulative Updates introduce more rules on Pre-Upgrade Checker, which can help customers to prepare the upgrade of their SharePoint farm to SharePoint 2010.

Download Information

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=974989

Office SharePoint Server 2007 October 2009 cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=974988

Detail Description

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974989 (link may not be live yet)

Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 October 2009 cumulative update package
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974988 (link may not be live yet)

Installation Recommendation for a fresh SharePoint Server

To keep all files in a SharePoint installation up-to-date, the following sequence is recommended.

  1. Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and language packs
  2. Service Pack 2 for Office SharePoint Server 2007 and language packs
  3. October 2009 Cumulative Update package for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  4. October 2009 Cumulative Update package for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Please note: Start from April 2009 Cumulative Update, the packages will no longer install on a farm without a service pack installed. You must have installed either Service Pack 1 (SP1) or SP2 prior to the installation of the cumulative updates.

After applying the preceding updates, run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard or “psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait” in command line. This needs to be done on every server in the farm with SharePoint installed.

The version of content databases should be 12.0.6520.5000 after successfully applying these updates.

You can also refer to April Cumulative Update post for deployment guides, slipstream how-to links and FAQs.

Jie Li

Technical Product Manager, SharePoint

Published Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:38 AM by sptblog

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# re: October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

I have a question - do these cumulative updates cover security patches? We are running a farm w/ SP2 V 12.0.0.6421. Our Retina Vulnerability scanner shows that our front end servers are affected by the Excel Remote Code Execution (969462). MS09-021 documentation says to install KB969679 and KB969682, and that SharePoint is affected. Those patches find no products affected (running 2008 server). Any tips?

Friday, November 13, 2009 12:33 PM by hypnos

# re: October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

The KB says:

"Cumulative update packages for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 contain hotfixes for the SharePoint Server 2007 issues that were fixed since the release of SharePoint Server 2007. "

But you say the SP2 is required before this. As you see, I read the KB text that this update covers SP2 as well? Or should the text on the KB says, it contains hotfixes after the SP2?

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 4:17 PM by Petri

# re: October 2009 Cumulative Update Packages for SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

@hypnos

Hi - thanks for bring the issue up. We have checked the OCT cu packages and found an issue that dropped Excel Services updates from the package. We will bring it back in December 2009 CU. Meanwhile, you could apply the Excel fix seperately to get it updated.

@Petri

CU packages is not a replacement of Service Packs. Although you can apply CU without a SP, but install Service Pack first is recommended for reliability. After Apr 2009 CU, we added the requirement for SP1 because RTM is not in support lifecycle anymore.

Friday, November 20, 2009 12:49 PM by Jie Li

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