Friday, September 11, 2009

Service Packs for Project Server and Office Servers

You can find: SP1, IU, Aug CU, Oct CU, Dec CU, Mar CU, SP2, Apr CU download and KB information below.


SP 1

Overview and What's Included in SP1

For a description of SP1, please refer to the following knowledge base articles on http://support.microsoft.com/ :

  • 936984 Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 1
  • 936988 Description of the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1
  • 937154 Description of the Microsoft Office Project 2007 Service Pack 1
  • 937961 Description of the Office 2003 Web Components Service Pack 1 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

For a list of issues fixed in SP1, please refer to the following knowledge base articles on http://support.microsoft.com/http://support.microsoft.com/ :

  • 942386 Issues fixed in Project 2007 by 2007 Office suite Service Pack 1
  • 942387 Issues fixed in Project Server 2007 by Office 2007 Servers Service Pack 1
  • 942388 Issues fixed in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1
  • 942390 Issues fixed in Office SharePoint Server 2007 by 2007 Office System servers Service Pack 1
  • 942722 Issues Fixed in Microsoft Project Portfolio 2007 Service Pack 1

Critical Planning and Deployment & Installation Information

Next before installing read the following documents which will help you understand the deployment procedure as well as tips tricks and troubleshooting steps:

How to obtain and install SP1?

Patches for all products are available on http://www.update.microsoft.com/Microsoft Update (recommended), http://www.officeupdate.microsoft.comOffice Update and the http://www.microsoft.com/downloadsDownload Center with a few exceptions. Windows SharePoint Services and the WSS Language Packs are live on http://www.update.microsoft.com/windowsupdateWindows Update and Microsoft Update. For those customers with low bandwidth, CDs will be available for order after January 15th for a small shipping and handling fee from a link off the Download Details page.

For additional information on each release, please see the download details page, in English, for:

  1. Project (Project client only!)
  2. Project Language Pack
    1. Server Language Packs, x86
    2. Server Language Packs, x64
  3. Windows SharePoint Services
    1. Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack, x64
  4. Windows SharePoint Services with SP1 (slipstream)

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Infrastructure Update


Installation Instructions

It is strongly recommended that you:

  1. Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 and Office Servers Service Pack 1 before installing the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) and the Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695).

The installation process will incur server and farm downtime that you will need to plan for - the updates should be installed on all servers in a farm.


Downloads




August Cumulative Update

Installation Order

Assuming you are running the released version of Project Server 2007, here is a high level procedure, please refer to the TechNet articles for detailed deployment steps:


Step

Related Links

1. Deploy Service Pack 1

Announcing the release of EPM 2007 Service Pack 1 (includes links to KB, downloads and deployment documentation)

Deploy Service Pack 1 for Office Project Server 2007

2. Deploy the Infrastructure Update (IU). We recommend deploying the IU first because you will get all the latest updates for WSS and SharePoint Server.

Announcing the availability of the Project and Project Server 2007 Infrastructure Update

Microsoft Project Infrastructure Update Webcast Slides

Deploy the Infrastructure Update for Office Project Server 2007

Install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

3. Deploy the August Cumulative Update. Since the August CU are individually package (one EXE for Project Server and another one for SharePoint Server for instance), then you will have to deploy each one depending on the hotfix required.

4. Run hotfix EXE

5. Run PSCONFIG on each server within your farm to finalize the update

6. Verify Installation by verifying the version
of each of the four PS database using the following command:

SELECT * FROM VERSIONS

Result should be: 12.0.6327.5000

See links below


Update

KB article ID

Article link

Download Link

Cumulative update packages for August 2008 for the 2007 Microsoft Office core suite applications and 2007 Microsoft Office servers

957022

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957022

Description of the Project 2007 hotfix package: August 26, 2008

956060

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956060

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=956060

Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package: August 26, 2008

956061

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956061

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=956061

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: August 26, 2008

957109

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957109

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=956057

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: August 26, 2008

956056

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956056

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=956056


Announcing the release of the October Cumulative Update


Announcing the release of the August Cumulative Update for Project and Project Server 2007

Deployment guide: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239177.aspxDeploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007)

Knowledge Base Articles and Downloads

Title

ID

KB URL

Download URL

Cumulative update packages for the 2007 Microsoft Office core suite applications and for 2007 Microsoft Office servers: October 28, 2008

958847

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958847

Description of the Project 2007 hotfix package (Project.msp): October 28, 2008

958138

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958138

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=958138

Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp.msp, Pjsrvwfe.msp): October 28, 2008

957696

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957696

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957696

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: October 28, 2008

957691

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957691

(not published yet)

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957691

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): October 28, 2008

957693

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957693

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957693


Announcing the release of the December Cumulative Update

Name

KB ID

KB URL

Download Link

Description of the Project 2007 hotfix package (Project.msp): December 16, 2008

959643

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959643

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=959643

Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp.msp, Pjsrvwfe.msp): December 16, 2008

960313

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960313

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=960313

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services



3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): December 16, 2008

959644

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959644

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=959644

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): December 16, 2008

959637

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959637

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=959637


"October Cumulative Update" (fixes) available for Project and Project Server

Cumulative update packages for the 2007 Microsoft Office core suite applications and for 2007 Microsoft Office servers: October 28, 2008

KB: 958847: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958847

Description of the Project 2007 hotfix package (Project.msp): October 28, 2008

KB: 958138 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958138

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=958138Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp.msp, Pjsrvwfe.msp): October 28, 2008

KB: 957696: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957696

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957696

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: October 28, 2008

KB: 957691: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957691

(not published yet)

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957691

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): October 28, 2008

KB: 957693 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957693

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=957693

Project Server Service Pack 1: Dec 11, 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD59175C-AD6A-4027-8C2F-DB25322F791B&displaylang=en


December 2008 Cumulative Fixes

Description of the Project 2007 hotfix package (Project.msp): December 16, 2008 / KB: 959643

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959643

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=959643

Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp.msp, Pjsrvwfe.msp): December 16, 2008 / KB: 960313

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960313

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=960313

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): December 16, 2008 / KB: 959644

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959644

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=959644

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): December 16, 2008 / KB: 959637

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959637

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=959637

Related links:

* Announcing the release of the October Cumulative Update for Project and Project Server 2007

<http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2008/10/29/announcing-the-release-of-the-october-cumulative-update-for-project-and-project-server-2007.aspx>

* Announcing the release of the August Cumulative Update for Project and Project Server 2007

<http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2008/09/26/announcing-the-release-of-the-august-cumulative-update-for-project-and-project-server-2007.aspx>

* Upcoming Microsoft Project 2007 and Project Server 2007 Service Pack 2

<http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2008/10/25/upcoming-microsoft-project-2007-and-project-server-2007-service-pack-2.aspx>

* Cumulative updates are available from the Microsoft Office team to deliver hotfixes for reported problems

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953878>

* Project Server TechCenter

<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/projectserver/default.aspx> (TechNet)


March 2009 Cumulative Fixes

Guidance on loading Project Server 2007 Cumulative Hotfixes

Description of March 2009 Project Server Hotfixes

Download March 2009 Project Server Hotfixes

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 cumulative update package (MOSS server-package): February 24, 2009

Download of the SharePoint Server 2007 cumulative update package (MOSS server-package): February 24, 2009


Service Pack 2 (April, 2009)

Service Pack 2 (SP2) Description

Description of Office Project 2007 Service Pack 2 and Office Project Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 2

953326

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953326

Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 and of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2

953338

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953338

Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2

953334

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334


Service Pack 2 (SP2) Download Center Page

Office Project 2007 (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C126FA4A-B43F-4F7E-A9D4-522E92A6CFEE

Office Project Language Pack

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7DF323E-73B8-4344-826A-A01E6F920B1B

WSS (both x86 and x64)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B&displaylang=en

WSS Language Pack (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=085E5AC8-58F6-4CF9-8012-33B95EE36C0F&displaylang=en

WSS Language Pack (x64)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2C2B6CAF-B46D-45EB-AC4D-DEAAA48C3A2C&displaylang=en

Office Servers (x86 and x64)(contains Project Server SP2)

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

Office Servers Language Pack (x86)

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

Office Servers Language Pack (x64)

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


Service Pack 2 (SP2) Deployment Resources

Deploy Service Pack 2 for Office Project Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd637740.aspx

Deploy Project Server 2007 updates

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd630752.aspx

Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288269.aspx

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx

Create an installation source that includes software updates (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287882.aspx

Create an installation source that includes software updates (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261890.aspx


Service Pack 2 (SP2) Related Technical Resources

Issues Fixed by Service Pack 2 (SP2) in the 2007 Office Desktop Applications (Excel 2007 format)

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

Customers can also go to this KB article for a full list of downloads for Office System 2007 SP2.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968170

Service Pack 2 for SharePoint Products and Technologies (whitepaper)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=148374

Issues Fixed by Service Pack 2 (SP2) in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Excel 2007 format)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/A/3/7A3E2E01-5454-4427-95CB-28CE84523B0A/Windows%20SharePoint%20Services%203.0%20Service%20Pack%202%20Changes.xlsx

Issues Fixed by Service Pack 2 (SP2) in the 2007 Office Server Products

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/1/F/41F3A698-55E8-40B4-A306-AD6CF1F95394/2007%20Office%20Servers%20Service%20Pack%202%20Changes.xlsx

Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products and Technologies

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx

Project Service Pack 2 High Level Benefits

Project Standard and Project Professional

  • The scheduling engine, Active Cache, and Gantt charts all have improvements.
  • There is additional reliability with earlier versions of the .mpp format.

Project Server

  • Better memory management in the queue service.
  • Performance to certain database table indexes is improved.
  • Resource plans, build team, cost resources, and the server scheduling engine have improved.

Once your farm has been properly updated the new SP2 product version will be: 12.0.6422.1000 (please refer to the TechNet deployment article for instructions on how to verify an installation).

Getting Ready for Project Server 2010

As part of the SP2 release Microsoft announced the following requirements for the next release of SharePoint and Project Server: Windows Server 2008 and 64 bit.

Microsoft will be publishing guidance on how to upgrade your existing Project Server 2007 farm to Windows Server 2008 64 bit in the coming weeks on TechNet.

Expect full system requirements for Project Server 2010 at a later date.

Microsoft expects to release a Service Pack 2 for Project Portfolio Server 2007 by June 2009


April 2009 Cumulative Fixes

Please refer to this TechNet article for deployment guidance: Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007)

After applying the April CU, the database version should be: 12.0.6504.5000 (see article above for instructions on how to verify the installation).

Please refer to this post from the Office Sustain Engineering team for more information about SP2 and the April CU: FAQ concerning Service Pack 2 and the Cumulative Updates for April 2009 for the 2007 Microsoft® Office System and Microsoft Office servers

Knowledge Base Articles and Downloads

Title

ID

KB Url

Download URL

Description of the Project 2007 hotfix package (Project.msp): April 30, 2009

969409

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969409

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=969409

Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp.msp, Pjsrvwfe.msp): April 30, 2009

968860

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968860

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=968860

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package: April 30, 2009

968850

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968850

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=968850

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 cumulative update package (MOSS server-package): April 30, 2009

968859

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968859

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=968859

Related links:

Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239177.aspx

Checklist for deploying Project Server 2007 updates

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd630729.aspx


Project Portfolio Server 2007 SP2

If you are using Project Portfolio Server 2007, then you'll be happy to hear that Service Pack 2 is now available.

Key new features:

  • Support for SQL 2008
  • Support for Portfolio Server on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Plus:

  • Over 40 fixes which are described here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971363

Go to the


Project Portfolio Server 2007 SP2 download page to access the service pack. If you have trouble with that page, get the download directly from here
here.


A description of the service pack can be found at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971205

Important Note about Service Pack 2May 27, 2009Before you install SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2), read important information about SP2 in the SharePoint Team Blog.

For detailed information about these hotfixes and improvements, see KB 970946.

June Cumulative Update (CU) for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0Released June 30, 2009The June CU includes hotfixes and improvements for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB 971538).

June Cumulative Update (CU) for Office SharePoint Server 2007Released July 15, 2009The June CU includes hotfixes and improvements for Office SharePoint Server 2007. For detailed information about these hotfixes and improvements, see KB 971537.

August Cumulative Update (CU) for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0Released August 25, 2009The August CU includes hotfixes and improvements for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For detailed information about this update, see KB 973400.


August Cumulative Update (CU) for Office SharePoint Server 2007Released September 9, 2009The August CU includes hotfixes and improvements for Office SharePoint Server 2007. For detailed information about this update, see KB 973399.

Important Note about August Cumulative Update (CU)September 16, 2009There is a known issue with installing the August CU for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 farms. This relates to detaching content databases when installing the CU. For more information, see the following blog posts:

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2009/09/14/important-be-careful-when-installing-wss-august-cumulative-update.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/joerg_sinemus/archive/2009/09/11/wss-august-cu-and-re-attached-content-databases.aspx


Hope this is useful –


Gokul Rajan



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