Last week Microsoft announced three new updates for the following products:
- SharePoint Server 2007
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- Project Server 2007
- Search Server 2008
- Search Server 2008 Express
- Project Professional 2007.
These infrastructure updates are more than just hot fixes. The updates include hot fixes and platform improvements. There is a WSS and MOSS version of the updates and the WSS version should be applied prior to the MOSS version. Both x86 and x64 is available
The Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) applies to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
The Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) applies to the following server products:
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
- Microsoft Search Server 2008
- Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express
- Project Professional 2007 (client)
Key features in the Infrastructure Updates include new search features and functionality from Microsoft SharePoint Search Server 2008, Content Deployment fixes, improved performance for profile import, and improvements to updating and patching.
The SharePoint Team Blog post has some KEY information that you should read before you install these updates. You can find out more from the SharePoint Team blog at:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint
Here are the download links for the WSS/MOSS infrastructure updates:
Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) - x86
Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) - x64
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x86
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x64
The Project Professional 2007 client update is located at: www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F385ADB8-0425-4BA4-BECE-7664B8F49D12&displaylang=en
I just happen to be building a brand new development server and I plan to apply these updates after the build is complete.