Major Infrastructure Update to SharePoint 2007 Announced
An infrastructure update for SharePoint 2007 was released yesterday. This post will be number 10,001 on the topic, as I am sure it will be blogged about heavily. This update includes several things that are of interest to ISVs, especially the ability to federate searches. The release includes not only a rollup of hotfixes post SP1, but several platform performance improvements as well as search enhancements to support federated searching.
- Enterprise Search Feature enhancements include federated search capability and administration dashboard that unifies the experience between Search Server 2008, Search Server Express 2008 and SharePoint 2007.
- Several search related performance improvements as well as a new index format create more efficient and faster crawls and query speed.
- Several fixes have been made to the Content Deployment process. This improve reliability, content and settings fidelity and prevent import failures.
- The Profile and Profile Service have been improved to speed performance.
- Investments in the Upgrade and Path process have been made to improve the process for future updates. This should mean less downtime and a quicker upgrade process moving forward.
This should be considered an important update for all customers on the SharePoint platform.
For more information please refer to these KB articles:
Description of the Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951695
Fixes Included in the Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB953749)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953749
Description of the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951297
Fixes Included in the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB953750)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953750
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Anonymous
July 16, 2008
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July 17, 2008
So many good articles and resources I have found over the last month or so. Here is a good sampling of