Service Pack 2 - April 28th

Service Pack 2 for Office Products, due to ship April 28th...

Check out here for more detail...

Changes that will impact SharePoint:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms. SP2 provides the groundwork for future major releases of SharePoint Products and Technologies.

• An STSADM command line that scans your server farm to establish whether it is ready for upgrade to the next version of SharePoint and provides feedback and best practice recommendations on your current environment.
• SP2 offers support for a broader range of Web browsers.
• Substantial improvements to Forms-based authentication.

Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server R2 will be supported on their release.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

• The performance and stability of content deployment and variations feature has been improved.
• A new tool has been added to the STSADM command-line utility that enables a SharePoint administrator to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors.

Excel Services

• SP2 makes it easier to configure Excel Web Access Web Parts on new sites.
• Several rendering, calculation, and security issues have been resolved.
• Some display issues have been addressed.
• Improved compatibility with Mozilla Firefox browsers.

SharePoint Backup Failure

SharePoint Backup Failure - UnauthorizedAccessException

Check out the following post – worked for me ;o)

http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2008/05/08/sharepoint-backup-problem-post-sp1-osearch-dcom/

AJ..

SharePoint Sushi

For those of you who've missed it, SUSHI (SharePoint Utility with a Smart, Helpful Interface) is a great open source tool available on Codeplex. In a nutshell, you get a ton of time saving features for administrators. An example of some of the features:

• Security Reports - View all sites and lists a user has access to
  
• Copy View Copy a view from one SharePoint list to another
  
• Bulk Site Creation Create a large number of subsites based on a site template
  
• Themes Apply a Theme to many sites at once
  

You can get the download and more detailed info here , you can also visit http://www.sharepointsushi.net/

Thanks to the developer Joseph Fluckiger of Catapult Systems, you're a legend!

Cheers

Aj..