As you probably have read regarding the SharePoint SP2 bug which reverts your license to the trial license which would expire after 180 days, and causes your existing license to expire in 180 days after the upgrade.  You could have fixes the problem by re-entering your license key into the system.

Microsoft has released a fix for this, this could be applied before or after the SP2 upgrade.

The 32-bit version can be downloaded here.

The 64-bit version is here.

For more information, you can read the kb article here:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971620

Chris O'Brien has compiled a detailed checklist on optimizing SharePoint sites, it is a great reference if you are tweaking performance on site.

Click here to read his article.

If you have downloaded and installed the Service Pack, please take note that Service Pack 2 will reset your product license key and product expiration date as though you are running on a trial license, which will expire in 180 days.  Though the expiration date will not affect the functionality of SharePoint until the expiration date.

For more information on this, check out the post by the SharePoint Team at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

It is that time of the year again, where the different user groups come together and brings you a full day of technical sessions.  This year, SharePointPROs.SG has prepared a full track of SharePoint contents.  And this year, we are lucky to have Randy William, a SharePoint MVP, who is in town, to present.

Here are the details of the SharePoint sessions on that day:

10:00 – 11:15   A Close Look at the SharePoint Engine (Randy William (MVP), SyntergyOnline)

11:30 – 12:45   Basic Developer Knowledge Every Admin Must Know (Randy William (MVP), SyntergyOnline)

13-45 – 15:00   Supercharge Office Collaboration on MOSS (Tan Lip Joo, K2)

15:15 – 16:30   Inside MOSS 2007 Security & Permissions (Razi in Rais, MVP)

For more details, please visit http://ctu.geeksengaged.com

To register for the event, register here.

The SharePoint Team has just released the preliminary requirements for SharePoint 2010.  And yes it will be 64 bit only as you probably have heard before.  However, there are other requirements as well now.  Most prominently is that it will require:

• Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 x64
• SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005 x64
• Require Internet Explorer 7 and above for content authoring

So if you are planning to deploy a new SharePoint environment now, you should plan for these requirements now for future upgrades to the next version and it will definitely reduce future upgrade acitivites.  More details on the preliminary requirements could be found at the SharePoint Team Blog :

 http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/07/announcing-sharepoint-server-2010-preliminary-system-requirements.aspx

Service Pack 2 for Office System 2007 and Office Server 2007 has been released on April 28th.

For more details on what is in the Service Pack 2 could be found here:

• Description of WSS 3.0 SP2
• Description of MOSS 2007 SP2
• Description of SharePoint Designer 2007 SP2

More information could also be found at Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products & Technologies

There is no media for the SP2, below are the links to download the binaries:

• WSS 3.0 SP2
• MOSS 2007 SP2
• SharePoint Designer 2007 SP2

There is a new release of the SharePoint SDK, version 1.5 which contains the following updates:

• A new of version of the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor
• A few new search samples with regards to Federated Search:
  • Custom federated search web part with a credentials UI
  • Federated search SQL Server Connector
  • Federated search HTML to RSS Connector
  • Federated search Virtual Earth Map connector

The new SDK can be downloaded at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en

It is official now that the next version of SharePoint, which we used to call SharePoint 14 or SharePoint v.Next will be called SharePoint 2010.  You may notice that the term “Office” has been removed from the name.  So the MOSS acronym does not fit anymore.  You can read the details @ http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx

These modules includes document and videos that explain SharePoint Web Content Management (WCM) architecture, bulding content management sites, server infrastructure and deployment.  So if you are learning or working on SharePoint WCM, these modules are definitely a good starting point.

A total 6 of modules are available for download:

• Module 1 - Web Content Management Overview
• Module 2 - Architecting Content Management for your web site
• Module 3 - Server Infrastructure and Content Deployment
• Module 4 - Securing a Web Content Management System
• Module 5 - Optimzing Performance for Web Content Management
• Module 6 - Extending Web Content Management

More details

Microsoft has expanded its Window Server family with Windows 2008 Server foundation, which is mainly targetted at small businesses with 15 or fewer employees.  And of course it can grow with the business by providing the ability to upgrade to other editions of Windows Server.  Applications that have been certified for Windows Server 2008 can be deployed on Windows 2008 Server Foundation as well.

Windows 2008 Server Foundation can be deployed for the following uses:

• Core Infrastructure
• Active Directory
• Terminal Services
• Applications

More details could be found on Windows 2008 Server Foundation Home