Installing the SharePoint Infrastructure Update

I finally got around to installing the SharePoint infrastructure update on MOSS dev machine. Everything went very smoothly ... I had SP1 already installed (yes that's a prerequisite) so just three steps for me

1. First installed the update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695). Cancel out of the "SharePoint 3.0 Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard".
2. Install Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)
3. Run the "SharePoint 3.0 Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard".

What's included in the Infrastructure update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server:

• The new Enterprise Search features which were shipped with Search Server 2008 - e.g. the new federated search capability.Read more about the new Search features here.
• Fixes related with content deployment - Read more about the Content Deployment updates here.

For detailed information take a look at:

• Announcing : Availability of Infrastructure update
• Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x86
• Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297) - x64
• Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) - x86
• Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695) - x64
• Infrastructure Update - SharePoint IT Pro Documentation Blog

Be aware though that there are also some things that you have to watch out for when deploying these updates - I  think these are the main problem areas:

• Problems with Alternate Access Mapping  in an extranet deployment scenario with a reverse proxy or a network load balancer. Some people reported that this does not affect a deployment which uses ISA Server - Problem with SharePoint Infrastructure Update
• Problem with custom code which uses impersonation - take a look at this code snippet from Daniel Larson - KB: When is the SPContext.Current available ? (SharePoint dev)
• Infrastructure update kills view functionality in picture libraries
• Infrastructure update issues - informal interview with Troy

 

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