Service Pack 1 for MOSS and WSS is out.. what now?

As you most probably are aware by the recent high number of posts in the SharePoint Community the service packs for WSS and MOSS are available for download.

A few people have asked me if they should immediately apply SP 1. Well yes you should BUT, you should first read the following TechNet article specific to WSS and MOSS SP1 before you start applying the updates on your servers. Links to WSS SP1 and MOSS SP1 can be found on the SharePoint Team Blog. There is also a comprehensive change log of what’s included in the Service Pack on the SharePoint Team Blog.

And as with any Service Pack make sure that you apply and test service pack to your development or staging server before committing a production SP1 deployment. Make sure that you plan this SP1 deployment after reading the TechNet article. Watch out for posts on Bill Baer’s blog in the coming weeks as he will most probably report on any known issues that is encountered.