Business Technology

Here is some more fun stuff to know about installing SP2 on your SharePoint server. Microsoft just posted some info on the SharePoint team blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx ) that talks about how after installing SP2 your SharePoint license key will expire and your product will revert back to evaluation mode. Everything should still function normally, but after 180 days it will stop working unless you fix the problem. To do this you just need to reenter your product key in Central Admin. MS is working on a hotfix that should be out soon. Hopefully they push out a new install for SP2 as well so no one else has to go through this.

As you know SP2 was just released not too long ago for Office Servers and the Office Suite. There are some big changes that are incorporated in this update especially for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. It includes an infrastructure change which mean there is no turning back after you install it. Be sure to backup all of you databases and files in case something goes catastrophically wrong and you need to restore everything. I'm in the process of running the update on my development box and have already run into an issue with SSPs . There was an error that occurred during the upgrade and now I can't get to the SSP admin screen. My resolution for that, since it is a dev box, is to delete the SSP and create a new one to associate my web applications with. I'll keep you updated on what I find out and any other issues I run into.