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Notes on the recently released Infrastructure Update for SharePoint

Chandima Kulathilake — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:22:09 GMT

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As previously mentioned here in my blog the infrastructure upgrade installation should be be planned since it will essentially take your SharePoint farm offline until the updates have been applied. The services that will be affected with this update include IIS, SharePoint Timer Service and the SharePoint Administration Service. These services will be stopped and started by the setup wizard during the update process.

Things you Must do when updating an existing SharePoint deployment

It is highly recommended that you have upgraded your server farm to WSS and MOSS Service Pack 1 level. (Honestly I think you must upgrade to SP1 before applying these updates)
You have to first install the WSS V3.0 update before installing the MOSS update.
Ensure that you use the correct version of each update on your farm. (Make sure to download the x86 update on x86 servers and x64 for the x64)

Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (32-bit, 64-bit)

Logon with the "Setup Admin" account to each server when installing this update. This is the account that you used when you first installed SharePoint. If you don't know what this account is then it's time to find out. Don't even attempt to install this update if you don't have this account details. This should be a domain account in a farm deployment.
This update *must* be installed to all servers in your SharePoint server farm before running the configuration wizard. The recommended order for each server roles are as follows: Index server, Query server(s) and finally all Web front end servers.
Backup all of your Databases via your preferred backup method
Backup all of your Custom solution files that are deployed to your Web front end servers

This is an update and not a Service Pack ~~hence the requirement to update WSS first then MOSS~~. You can skip the Config Wizard after the WSS install and install the MOSS update and run the wizard at the end.

If all goes well you should see the version number 12.0.0.6318 in the Servers in Farm page in Central Administration after the Config wizard finishes applying the updates.

Resources

On TechNet: Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies

Issues that are fixed in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by the Infrastructure Update

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed by the Infrastructure Update

Technorati Tags: SharePoint,WSS,Infrastructure,Updates,MOSS,Administration,Deployment,IT Pro

Published: 22/07/2008 5:22 p.m.

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Categories: Administration;Deployment;SharePoint 2007

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SharePoint Developer Tour - Coming soon to a city near you!

Chandima Kulathilake — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:47:12 GMT

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Big Kudos to Matt Smith for organising the upcoming SharePoint developer tour in New Zealand by SharePoint developer whiz kid Gavin Barron !

Tour dates and venues

Auckland: Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Time: Drinks + Snacks from 5:15PM, Talk from 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Location: Level 7 Fronde House, 131 Queen Street

Join and RSVP: http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz/Auckland/

Tauranga: Thursday, 24 July 2008
Time: Drinks + Snacks from 5:30PM, Talk from 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Location: EnvisionIT, Level 5 Westpac Building, 2 Devonport Road, Tauranga

Join and RSVP: http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz/BayOfPlenty/

Christchurch: Monday, 28 July 2008
Time: Drinks + Snacks from 5:30PM, Talk from 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Location: Canterbury Innovation Incubator (CII), 200 Armagh Street (opposite Centennial Leisure Centre)

Join and RSVP: http://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz/christchurch/

The Show

Collaborative construction of custom SharePoint artifacts

See how business users, business analysts, developers and IT Pros can all come together to create new SharePoint artifacts for your business. In this session Gavin Barron will show how users from differing disciplines can all work together. Ensuring that an emerging business need is addressed quickly while following a number of SharePoint best practices. During this session Gavin will also discuss the development lifecycle as it exists in this context.

Presented by: Gavin Barron, Intergen Wellington

Rock on SharePoint!

Technorati Tags: User Group,SPUG,SharePoint,Development,Events,WSS,MOSS

Published: 17/07/2008 8:47 p.m.

BlogTitleForUrl: sharepoint-developer-tour-coming-soon-to-a-city-near-you

Categories: User Group;Development;Events

Infrastructure Updates for SharePoint (KB951297 - MOSS and KB951695 - WSS)

Chandima Kulathilake — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:42:46 GMT

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Via the ECM Team and SharePoint Team Blog

SharePoint related Infrastructure updates are now available for download.

To understand the issues fixed in these releases please read the following blog posts.

Content Deployment and Infrastructure Update - ECM Team Blog

It is strongly recommended that you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 and Office Servers Service Pack 1 before installing the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) and the Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695).

The installation process will incur server and farm downtime that you will need to plan for – updates should be installed on all servers in a farm. Please refer to the TechNet SharePoint Service Pack 1 deployment article.

The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) applies to:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
Microsoft Search Server 2008
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

The Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) applies to:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB951547) applies to:

Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007

Read the detailed post about the Infrastructure update on the SharePoint Team Blog.

Here is a summary of the Content Deployment issues addressed in the Infrastructure Update:

Incremental bug fixes:

Incremental import can fail if a feature with a custom content type has been reactivated on the destination.
Unpublished pages do not get unpublished on the destination.
Reinheriting permissions on the source does not propagate incrementally.
Deleting a permission level on the source causes a "Permission level cannot be found." exception during incremental import.
Incremental behavior with the Recycle Bin improved. Incremental import fails with a "FatalError: You cannot perform this action on a checked out document." exception.
"Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint" error during export.
Document "Title" field does not get deployed by incremental deployment in some cases.
In some cases, making permissions changes on the source or destination will result in a "The specified name is already in use." error.
Deleting or renaming an item then creating one with the same name causes incremental deployment to fail.
Incremental deployment fails when pages have independent permission settings.
Deleting a file and folder can cause incremental deployment to fail in some cases.

Other bug fixes:

Removing a User from a group does not propagate to the destination during incremental deployment.
Some source web settings related to search are not propagated to the destination.
Content Deployment can time out incorrectly on large deployment jobs.
Miscellaneous SQL deadlocks.
Quick deployment jobs behave incorrectly when Variations is used.
Quick deployment fails when pages are Quick Deployed while the Quick Deploy job is running.
Running One-time jobs manually can fail.
In some cases, a content deployment job can get stuck in a "Preparing" state forever.
Deployment sometimes unghosts items that are ghosted on the source.
Custom master page settings on the source are not propagated to the destination during deployment.
Content deployment fails when compression is disabled.

Published: 16/07/2008 11:42 p.m.

BlogTitleForUrl: infrastructure-updates-for-sharepoint-kb951297-moss-and-kb951695-wss

Categories: Administration;Deployment;Planning;SharePoint 2007

Chandima.Net Blog for SharePoint solutions: Posts

Notes on the recently released Infrastructure Update for SharePoint

Things you *Must* do when updating an existing SharePoint deployment

Resources

SharePoint Developer Tour - Coming soon to a city near you!

Tour dates and venues

The Show

Infrastructure Updates for SharePoint (KB951297 - MOSS and KB951695 - WSS)

Things you Must do when updating an existing SharePoint deployment