The product group released the April 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations: KB 2799869 - WSS 3.0 KB 2799867 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for April 2013 CU are available...

I often receive questions on the patching process of SharePoint. The following white paper addresses the often-misunderstood subject of SharePoint Products and Technologies patching. It explains the various types of updates that are available, the release cycle for each type of update and how these...

As I received this question a couple of times in the past here a short summary of the different update types used with SharePoint: Service Pack What is it: A service pack is a combination of previously released fixes, fixes which have only been released in context of the service pack and potentially...

The product group released the February 2013 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles will be available in a couple of days at the following locations: KB 2760816 - WSS 3.0 KB 2760814 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for February 2013 CU are available...

The product group released the December 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2760571 - WSS 3.0 KB 2760570 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for December 2012 CU are available through the following...

The product group released the October 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2687535 - WSS 3.0 KB 2687533 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for October 2012 CU are available through the following...

The product group released the August 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2687331 - WSS 3.0 KB 2687330 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for August 2012 CU are available through the following links...

Recently I had another service request where a customer reported high memory consumption in combination with the famous " Potentially excessive number of SPRequest objects (1007) currently unreleased on thread 17 " message. You might notice the very high number (1007) in the message. While analyzing...

Today I analyzed a memory dump which showed an interesting pattern. Based on the dump several hundred SPRequest objects had been allocated on a single thread for a single request. Each SPRequest object has a pretty large unmanaged COM object behind which controls the connection to the SQL database...

Microsoft released a security update for SharePoint 2007 and 2010. You can find more details about the security update in the following articles: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-050 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2596911 (2007) http://support.microsoft.com/kb...

The product group released the June 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2687257 - WSS 3.0 KB 2687256 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for June 2012 CU are available through the following links...

In case that the answer to the question above is "Yes" - be aware that mainstream support for this product will end at October 9th, 2012 (see on the official support lifecycle page ). Extended support will be provided till October 10th, 2017. That means that no new hotfixes will be created for WSS...

The product group released the April 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 and 2010 product family. The April Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 is a Post-SP1 hotfix. That means that you should ensure that SP1 is installed before the April CU. The April Cumulative Update for SharePoint...

The product group released the February 2012 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2597959 - WSS 3.0 KB 2597958 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for February 2012 CU are available through the following...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things which I would like to share with you on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this week: Consuming Webservices over HTTPS (SSL) SSL can be used for different things, e.g. Server...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things which I would like to share with you on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this week: MOSS Warmup script for FBA based Internet facing site Warming up sites with FBA authentication...

We sometimes see customers running into problems when using the "Sign in as Different User" feature in SharePoint. Common problems are Documents opened in external applications are saved with an unexpected user account because the external application runs under the windows account logged in...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things which I would like to share with you on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this week: Plan for Desaster Recovery Aside of other informaiton this document contains a list of SharePoint...

The product group released the December 2011 Cumulative Update for the SharePoint 2007 product family. The KB articles can be found at the following locations: KB 2596987 - WSS 3.0 KB 2596986 - MOSS 2007 The Full Server Packages for December 2011 CU are available through the following...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things which I would like to share with you on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this week: Calling SP UI Modal dialog from Update Panel The Update Panel control allows to change regular...

In the last couple of years I received several cases related to problems when using "stsadm -o restore" or "Restore-SPSite" commands. The users received an error message similar to the following: Your backup is from a different version of Windows SharePoint Services and cannot be restored to a...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things which I would like to share with you on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this week: How to change the Spell Checker Language Ever had a need to force the spell checker in SharePoint...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things which I would like to share with you on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this week: Whitepaper: Delivering Business-Critical Solutions with SharePoint 2010 A new whitepaper...

During my daily work I quite often find an article which highlights interesting things - which are not worth a separate post to talk about. To still share them with you I have decided to publish such articles as a link list on my blog in the Picks of the week category. Here are the picks for this...

In an earlier post I outlined problems when installing October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 on top of Service Pack 3. Meanwhile October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 has been rereleased. If you are going to download October 2011 CU for SharePoint 2007 now you will not have problems when trying to install...