Keeping your SharePoint installations Updated

James Waymire, a Microsoft SharePoint support engineer, has a great recent post on his blog talking about patching SharePoint. In this post he addresses a common question support guys get (not to mention consultants) from customers: What patches do I need to keep my SharePoint [WSS/MOSS] Updated?" While it is quite straightforward to may folks, it isn't to others.

I'd recommend this as a good read for anyone who's a bit fuzzy on the subject:

» Patching SharePoint: getting up to date with the moss and wss infrastructure updates

In addition I'd also recommend you check out Spencer Harbar's post SP1 update list page for links to available hotfixes, how to get them, the order to install them, and what's included in security rollups such as service packs or the recently releases Infrastructure Update.

» SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes

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posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 8:31 PM

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# re: Keeping your SharePoint installations Updated 8/29/2008 6:53 AM Michel

Hi,

The URL of Patching SharePoint doesn't work.

# re: Keeping your SharePoint installations Updated 8/29/2008 11:47 AM AC [MVP MOSS]

Michael-
Thanks... it's fixed.

# re: Keeping your SharePoint installations Updated 9/9/2008 10:48 AM Greg

Hi AC,

Thank you for all of your posts...very helpful!

Spencer writes "You shouldn't deploy these willy nilly unless you are experiencing issues - it's best to wait for the regular "roll up" packages."

We have MOSS 2007 and SP1, are the Infrastructure Updates recommended by Microsoft, like SP1 is recommended?

Thank you,
Greg

# re: Keeping your SharePoint installations Updated 9/9/2008 7:24 PM AC [MVP MOSS]

Greg-
Yes, IU is updated... strongly recommended. Please see the announcement on the SharePoint Team Blog.

# re: Keeping your SharePoint installations Updated 11/21/2008 4:03 AM rose

hi...

what if we mistakenly install MOSS IU before we install MOSS SP1 first? How do we go about this set-up? Can we still install SP1 on top of IU? Will there be issues?

Thanks,
Cors

# re: Keeping your SharePoint installations Updated 11/21/2008 7:42 AM AC [MVP MOSS]

Rose-
Just install SP1 then reinstall the Infra Updates.

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