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Recently, I've seen a lot (read: too many) posts about the release of SP1 for WSS3 and MOSS. I, however, wanted to post on the success of applying the upgrade. Often, people are concerned about patches and upgrades because they may have heard a story of a friend who knew this guy, whose sister's IT department applied an upgrade to a mission critical server and it caused the stock market to crash the oceans to rise two feet.
Well, no such luck with this set of upgrades. Everything went fine. Make sure you do your research and read the documentation available in the TechNet Service Pack 1 Resource Center, though. You don't want to be applying just anything people tell you to.
One thing cool that you may have heard people mention is that ajax.asp.net is now supported in WSS3 and MOSS. You still need to install and configure ajax.asp.net, which can cause problems if you don't do it complete and correct, but isn't too difficult. At least now if you have problems, you can go to MS Support for help. Here's the snippet from the SP1 Introduction Document about ajax.asp.net in wss/moss:
Beginning with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1, developers can use AJAX to create custom Web Parts. Developers can create Web Parts for asynchronous post back by using either the Microsoft AJAX 1.0 Control toolkit for Microsoft ASP.NET or the AJAX 1.0 Extensions for ASP.NET. See Microsoft Knowledge Base article 941955 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105778&clcid=0x409) for more detail on the workarounds necessary to add an UpdatePanel control to a Web Part allowing you to leverage the asynchronous AJAX postback. Note that. Service Pack 1 and the AJAX Extensions must first be installed and configured. Also, AJAX components are not included with Service Pack 1: You must download and install them separately. After you install the AJAX components and Service Pack 1, you can get help from Microsoft customer support for that configuration.
Beginning with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1, developers can use AJAX to create custom Web Parts. Developers can create Web Parts for asynchronous post back by using either the Microsoft AJAX 1.0 Control toolkit for Microsoft ASP.NET or the AJAX 1.0 Extensions for ASP.NET. See Microsoft Knowledge Base article 941955 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=105778&clcid=0x409) for more detail on the workarounds necessary to add an UpdatePanel control to a Web Part allowing you to leverage the asynchronous AJAX postback. Note that. Service Pack 1 and the AJAX Extensions must first be installed and configured. Also, AJAX components are not included with Service Pack 1: You must download and install them separately.
After you install the AJAX components and Service Pack 1, you can get help from Microsoft customer support for that configuration.
Also, I applied Service Pack 1 for the Office 2007 Suite without any issues, either. Hopefully, if there are issues with the upgrades, people will post what they find and how they resolved.