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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Service Pack 2 is now available!

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Description of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (SP2) and of 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (SP2)

https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;953334

Download links:

2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x86)

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082

2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x64)

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082

2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x86)

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01C6A3E8-E110-4956-903A-AD16284BF223

2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x64)

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=66C5026F-9F47-4642-8378-2526918009FA

Downloadable list of issues that are fixed:

https://download.microsoft.com/download/C/2/C/C2C36159-600C-4EEA-B80A-F988EE7A418F/2007%20Office%20Service%20Pack%202%20Changes.xlsx

Service Pack 2 includes all public updates, security updates, cumulative updates, and hotfixes that were released through February 2009. It is recommended that you have 5x to 6x the size of the package free to have a successful deployment; this has increased from the requirements needed for SP1.

Service Pack 2 has some areas of improvement. These include:

IE 8 is now a Level 1 supported browser

Mozilla Firefox V2 and V3 have been added to the Level 2 supported browser list

SSP databases are no longer deleted when running the following command:

Stsadm –o deletessp –title <SSPTitle> -force

Stsad, -o migrateuser is improved when migrating from one user to another user who has been deleted from the SharePoint site

Improved error messages and permissions handling in the Business Data Catalog

The Profile Change Cleanup job should no longer cause the transaction logs to grow to a large size

Long URLs are now logged correctly by Usage Analysis

A sub-site owner who has no permissions to the top level Team Site is able to make sub-sites under his own site

Search stability and speed is improved

Forms-Based Authentication search is now supported by search.asmx

You can reinitialize a query server for only 1 SSP so that you have zero search downtime:

Stsadm –o osearch –reprovisionindex –ssp <sspname>

Backup and restore of search has improved

If a crawl is stopped, the next crawl will be forced to do a full crawl even if an incremental crawl is set

Please take note of the following KB article:

Known issues that you may experience when you install the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 2 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2

https://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;968173

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