SharePoint bonanza: SP2 and Dev kits released

MCP Magazine | at | by Mike

Microsoft announced some SharePoint product updates that may have gotten trampled under a stampede of information flowing out of Redmond this week.

The dust is now settling from this week's release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, Vista SP2 and Windows 7 release candidate. Amidst all of the excitement, many may not have noticed that Microsoft also released SP2 product updates for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

For those IT pros looking to apply SP2 to MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, Microsoft explained that you do not need to have Service Pack 1 installed first. The new service pack contains SP1, along with a number of fixes and performance improvements, which are described here.