On April 14th 2009 the Microsoft Update Product Team Blog has announced the release date and content of Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System. On April 28th 2009 the MOSS 2007 SP2 and WSS 3.0 SP2 will be published with:

• more informative and user-friendly KB articles and more information at TechNet and
• a spreadsheet listing all bugs that were fixed.

I’m looking forward to those new KB articles since the old ones where not bad but sometimes I had to search by myself for more details.

Updates for SharePoint 2007

Although there are a lot of updates to the whole 2007 Office System here is a summary of the most important ones:

• “Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms.”
  
  
• “SP2 provides the groundwork for future major releases of SharePoint Products and Technologies.”
  
  
• “An STSADM command line that scans your server farm to establish whether it is ready for upgrade to the next version of SharePoint and provides feedback and best practice recommendations on your current environment.”
  As I have written in one of my previous posts WSS 4.0 – New information about Windows SharePoint Services 4.0 / SharePoint 2010 there will be an upgrade checker checking your SharePoint 2007 environment for potential upgrade issues if you want to upgrade to the next version of SharePoint.
  
  
• “SP2 offers support for standards-based documents formats and compatibility with a broader range of Web browsers.”
  
  
• “Substantial improvements to Forms-based authentication.”
  
  
• “Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server R2 will be supported on their release.”

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

• “The performance and stability of content deployment and variations feature has been improved.”
  
  
• “A new tool has been added to the STSADM command-line utility that enables a SharePoint administrator to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors.”

Hmm this is just a summary and regarding to the Update Product Team Blog there will be more details in the future… Looks promising but I will wait and see what comes around. Nevertheless it is very important to me since I’m writing a concept for a new intranet and I don’t want my customer calling me at night after running the upgrade checker ;)