FEB 2009 Office CU Released

The OFF2K7 CU for Feb 2009 is expected to be released Tuesday 23^rd

Product Group WANTS people to install this ASAP

Bulk of SP2 bug fixes are in this CU.

963654 Cumulative update packages for the 2007 Microsoft Office core suite applications and for 2007 Microsoft Office servers: February 24, 2009

963656 Cumulative update packages for Office 2003 SP3, Project 2003 SP3, Project Server 2003 SP3, Visio 2003 SP3, SharePoint Services SP3, and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP3: February 24, 2009

Here is a short summary of the fixes. I’ve highlighted what I thought would be useful to mention to our clients.

Performance Improvements

Startup:

· Unnecessary operations removed or deferred) 2x speed increase over RTM or SP1

General:

· Outlook index speed up w/folder switches/sorts [new index used]. This WILL launch a new screen as this new index is created (Preparing Outlook for First Use) Must Run - Expect this to take minutes to 10 of minutes per OST/PST. Runs per profile - per PST/OST - per PC. No way to turn this off. Cached Mailboxes in the OST will also be indexed. For me this tool 42 mintues for my 1 GB OST and 22 GB of PSTs. Obviously mileage may vary.

· Improvements for SSD (solid state drives)

· PST/OST write changes may cause PST/OST to grow up to 5% - 20% (can be turned off)

Shutdown:

· Outlook never closes (thus you get the OST/PST check @ next startup) - we no longer wait for external references - so 3rd party solutions may be effected - controlled by the registry. 

· New ICON in taskbar (Outlook grayed with an X in it). This means OL has exiting (shutting down).

Calendar improvements

· ALL resiliency bug fixes included (70 bugs - kb968009 is public list)

· New Sync Order

1. Security settings

2. calendar

3. Selected folders

4. Contacts

5. Drafts

6. Inbox

....

· Conflict resolution changes (prevents many of the "cannot save changes" errors before due to open windows or multiple updates out of order) - basically we save before sending meeting request - May still happen in Online mode

New Logging

· EnableCalendarLogging (DWORD) 1 in ETL format in the \%temp%\OlkCalLogs folder

New Switch

· /reportleakedrenitems ran during OL is running (ghost calendar entries held in memory preventing updates to meetings)

Time Zone tool removed

· use the new timezone tool instead.

New file extensions blocked

· 4 Files (.osd .hpj .cnt .vbp)

New Junk E-mail functionality

· New infobar txt advising who (What) moved the message to Junkmail folder, such as Outlook Junk e-mail filter, Server-side anti-spam application, or undetermined.

From 963656 (for Office 2003):