I've come across this several times, where someone asks me a SharePoint question. Not that I want to answer a question with a question, but the first thing I ask is what version of SharePoint they are running.
Is it WSS 3.0 or is it MOSS 2007? Is it Standard or Enterprise? Is it 32-bit or 64-bit? And typically the answer I get back is: "I dunno". So, here's a post on how to determine what you have under the hood - hope someone finds it useful.
To determine whether you have WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007, look to see what Services are running in Central Administration. You'll notice some services missing if you are running WSS, specifically Office SharePoint Sever Search.
When you have a 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2003, programs that are 32-bit are installed into a separate directory. So, you can take a look at the file directory to see where your SharePoint installation has been installed:
There are a couple of ways to determine what version of SharePoint you have installed. By looking at the version numbers of the DLL's in the GAC (Global Assembly Cache), or in Central Administration. For a great compilation of the different version #'s of SharePoint, take a look at Penny Coventry's post at Mindsharp: http://www.mindsharpblogs.com/penny/articles/481.aspx
To determine whether you are running Standard or Enterprise, you can look in Central Administration where you would convert the current license.
- Dan
Very helpful. Thanks.
once you have the version number, you can easily look it up here : technet.microsoft.com/.../bb735839.aspx. Simply click in the cumulative update section on a KB link and you'll be provided with the version of that build.
For example, the June CU for MOSS 2007 is KB 2544398, which provides the following info : "Note This is build 12.0.6562.5000 of the cumulative update package. "
Great tip... Thanks.