WSS 3.0 & SharePoint 2007

Updates:

The Tour Starts HerePresented by:JD WadeSharePoint Engineer, MCTS, MCSE

Mail: jd.wade@hrizns.comBlog: http://wadingthrough.wordpress.comTwitter: JDWadeFriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/jdwade

Agenda

• Overview of Updates

• Installation Recommendations

• Deployment Process

• Slipstream Process

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Overview•First security patch released in September 2007

•SP1 released in December 2007

•Infrastructure Update released in July 2008

•Security patch released August 2008

•August 2008 Cumulative Updates Released

•Security patch released October 2008

•October 2008 Cumulative Updates Released

•Security patch released November 2008

•Coming Soon: Dec. 2008 Cumulative Updates Released

•Coming Soon: Jan. 2009 -- Standard support for RTM (SP0) ends

•Coming Soon: Feb-April 2009: Service Pack 2

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SP1 Overview• Fixes Requiring Registry Change to Activate

• KB 932619: Case-sensitive web content crawling

• KB 937775: Search results for doc lib or lists not returned when using SQL query to sort

• KB 937039: Search content contain particular Chinese Traditional characters

•KB 931008: WSS 2.0 Upgrade, Application Pool set to “Network Service”

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SP1 Overview• Fixes Requiring Other Changes to Activate

• KB 934577: Support for crawls of FBA or cookie based authentication sites

• KB 934253: Web File Properties dialog box displays incorrect properties

• KB 934613: Fix for Features with UserSelectionMode or UserSelectionScope attribute

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SP1 Overview• New stsadm commands (WSS)

• KB 939035stsadm –o mergecontentdbs

• KB 939535 (for host-named site collections)stsadm –o renamesite

KB 942388: Object Model SPSite.Rename

made public

•KB 939809stsadm –o tzmove

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SP1 Overview• New stsadm commands (SharePoint)

• Technetstsadm –o peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilterstsadm –o peoplepicker-serviceaccountdirectorypathstsadm –o peoplepicker-setsiteaccountdirectorypathstsadm –o peoplepicker-getsiteaccountdirectorypath

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Infra Update Overview•New Features

•Search 2008 Functionality

•Change Logs Maintained

•Improved update speeds

•Support for Kerberos access to SSP Web Services

•Search crawl speed improved including incremental crawls

•Fixes•Content Deployment Updates

•BDC Fixes

•Issues•Reverse Proxy

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Infra Update Overview• Fixes Requiring Other Changes to Activate

• KB 953289: Support for declarative workflows to start automatically with e-mail

• KB 953630: A Declarative Workflow does not resume when a Delay activity is triggered

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August 2008 Security Patch

• Watch timer logging levels (MS KB 941789)

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August 2008 Cumulative Update Overview

•Numerous fixes

•Reverse Proxy issue fixed (MS KB 956248)

October 2008 Cumulative Update Overview

• Numerous fixes

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Recommendations• Install W2K3 Post SP1 or SP2 Hotfix 946517

•Prior to install of WSS/SharePoint fixes

•More stable OWS Timer, solves IIS Manager unresponsive issue, & prevents DCOM errors among other problems

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Recommendations•Install .Net Framework 3.5 SP1

•Prior to install of WSS/SharePoint fixes

•Must have WSS/MOSS SP1 installed to be supported

•Installs .Net Framework 2.0 SP1 & 3.0 SP1

•Installs AJAX components

•Multiple issues resolved

•Consider AjaxifyMOSS on Codeplex

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Recommendations•Install SharePoint Admin Toolkit 2.0

•Install after WSS/SharePoint Updates

•Requires WSS/MOSS SP1

•Adds Batch Site Manager

•Adds stsadm command to update alerts urls

•Adds Replication Manager

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Recommendations• Install Updated FoxIt PDF iFilter

•Install after WSS/SharePoint Updates

•Already have to reinstall after WSS/SharePoint fixes

•32-bit & 64-bit (May ‘08)

•Install MS Filter Pack (KB 946336)

•Install after WSS/SharePoint fixes

•SP1 already breaks a couple types (KB 943102)

•Same work, additional types enabled

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Deployment

Check Disk Space Backup and verify restore

Backup OOB Files

Deployment

Run DBCC CHECKDBon databases

Run Orphan Repair Tool

Stsadm –o databaserepair

Document content databases

Stsadm –o enumcontentdbs

Check database sizes

Deployment

Verify No Upgrade

Timer Jobs

Rename previous

upgrade logs

Disable anti-virus

software (KB 936867)

Defragment indexesin SQL (KB 943345)

Backup

Deployment

Stop WWW service

on all WFE

Preparetomove and Disconnect

Content Databases

Logon as Setup

Run packages

Cancel Wizard

Deployment

Run upgrade (KB 948780)

Using psconfig

Central Administration

Deployment

Verify upgrade

Deployment

Run upgrade

Using psconfig

1. Application

2. Web Front End

Deployment

Start WWW service

on all WFE

Attach databases

Install language pack

updates

Enable anti-virus

software (KB 936867)

Deployment

BackupComplete full crawl

Deployment ProcessPre-steps (complete prior to upgrade)

1. Check for adequate disk space for binaries, index files (2.85 times), SQL database files (incl. tempdb), temp file locations, and log files.

2. Backup farm and verify restore capabilities.See backup notes here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706876.aspx

3. Backup any SharePoint out-of-box files you have customized

4. Document content databases (stsadm –o enumcontentdbs)

5. Check content database sizes (<100GB, load balance Site Coll.)

6. Run orphan repair tool (KB 923904: stsadm –o databaserepair).

7. Run DBCC CHECKDB on all databases and address any errors.

8. Defragment databases (KB 943345).

9. Verify no upgrade timer jobs exist (see Deployment Guide).

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Deployment ProcessUpgrade steps

1. Backup farm just prior to upgrade

2. Rename upgrade log file on all servers (file is cumulative).

3. Disable anti-virus (KB 936867).

4. Stop the WWW service on all WFE.

5. To speed up upgrade or if content DBs are greater than 25GB, preparetomove and then disconnect databases (can use batch file).

6. Logged in as the Setup account, run appropriate packages. Cancel SharePoint Configuration Wizard each time.

7. Determine best first server to run upgrade (see Deployment Guide)

8. Run upgrade using “psconfig –cmd upgrade –inplace b2b” command line. Upgrade Process is fully described in KB 948780(Baretail can be used to monitor upgrade log).

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Deployment Process9. Verify upgrade was successful using the upgrade log. Check the

version number in CA (see Deployment Guide).

10. Complete upgrade on all other servers as described in above order

11. If you detached databases, begin attaching again one by one, upgrade process will be done when they attach. There is a more advanced parallel upgrade process for very large farms available in deployment document.

12. Install WSS and SharePoint Language Pack updates for both WSS and SharePoint.

13. Enable anti-virus (KB 936867)

14. Start the WWW service on all WFE

15. Complete a full crawl of all SharePoint content [New features and change log lost with detach (KB 949603)]

16. Backup farm

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Installation Order & Links• Infrastructure Update

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx

• August 2008 Cumulative Update http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/09/29/announcing-august-cumulative-update-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx

• October 2008 Cumulative Updatehttp://blogs.msdn.com/joerg_sinemus/archive/2008/10/29/the-october-cumulative-update-for-wss-v3-and-moss-2007.aspx

• Deployment Guidehttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkID=105621&clcid=0x409

• Updates Resource Centerhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx

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Slipstream

WSS-MOSS

Copy Source to Installation Point

Slipstream

WSS-MOSS

Updates

Extract the update package(s)

<package> /extract:<path>

Slipstream

WSS-MOSS

Updates

Delete the wsssetup.dll file(s)wsssetup.dll

Slipstream

WSS-MOSS

Updates

Copy the extracted files

to the Updates folder

Q & A