Recently Released Post SP 1 updates for SharePoint

As most of you know SharePoint Service Pack 1 was released some time ago which included some must have updates for your deployment. If you still have not updated your servers to SP1 well.. better get on to it because it is something that should be done. Applying SP 1 should not be major task in fact it should be part of your routine maintenance to update your servers with service packs.

I also pointed out about the availability of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit which is a good addition to your deployment with more advanced admin releases on the way.

Since SP 1 there are some other significant updates that are available for your deployment that you should look at on a case by case basis.

I want to point out that these should be requested according to your own situation and then applied to your servers. if you have been getting a lot of 7076, 6398 and 6432 errors in your event log then you need a recently released IIS6 hotfix for Windows Server 2003. The KB is IIS6 946517. I previously posted this error and a resolution prior to this fix being released.

This problem is likely to occur for the SharePoint Timer service (OWSTimer.exe) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. When this occurs, you may find that:

In SharePoint Server 2007, tasks that are scheduled do not run.

When you try to manage IIS 6.0 by using Server Manager, you receive a blank page, or you receive the following error message: “the path specified cannot be used at this time”.

The Event ID’s 7076, 6398 and 6432 and memory error messages described above will also be recorded in the Application Event Logs.

Microsoft now has a KB article describing this problem http://support.microsoft.com/?id=946517 along with details of the fix and how to obtain it. This can be applied regardless of your SharePoint service pack level.

The following are the updates that are available from MSFT for download.

Thanks to Spence for posting the full list of the Post SP1 Update Releases in his blog.

One of the key post SP1 releases that relate to Content Deployment is the 952698 for WSS and 952704 for MOSS which was released on 20 May 2008 and is available on demand. You should consider this if you are experiencing issues with content deployment between your servers.