Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 hotfix package: May 29, 2008

• The issues that the hotfix package fixes.
• The prerequisites for installing the hotfix package.
• Whether you must restart the computer after you install the hotfix package.
• Whether the hotfix package is replaced by any other hotfix package.
• Whether you must make any registry changes.
• The files that the hotfix package contains.

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List of issues that this hotfix package fixes

• You enable BlobCache in the Web.config file for a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site. The configuration in the Web.config file resembles the following configuration:

  <BlobCache location="C:\blobCache" path="\.(gif|jpg|png|css|js)$" maxSize="10" enabled="true" /> 

  When you try to view a .jpg image or a .gif image on the SharePoint Server 2007 Web site, you may receive an error message resembles the following:
  Updates are currently disallowed on GET requests. To allow updates on a GET, set the 'AllowUnsafeUpdates' property on spweb.
• You create a Custom Dictionary in SharePoint Server 2007. You add some characters to the Custom Dictionary. Then, you spelling check an article. However, words that were added in the Custom Dictionary are detected as misspelled words if the words contain any extended characters.
• You publish a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site that is installed through Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006. However, you find that the thumbnails in the picture libraries of the SharePoint Web site are not visible.
• In the Shared Services Administration page of your shared services, you click User Profiles and Properties to import user profiles. You set the Data source field to map option for one of your user profile properties to Not mapped. For example, you set the Name property. Then, you import the user profiles. However, the Name property is still updated even though the Data source field to map option is set to Not mapped.
• When you create a SharePoint Server 2007 subsite, you set the Use the top link bar from the parent site? option to No. In this subsite, you can add links and delete links under Global Navigation. However, you cannot delete the last remaining link.
• After you perform a crawl on a computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007, you may receive an error message in the crawl log that resembles the following error message:
  Filtering of this file ended because the file reached the maximum filter output limit. Check that the filter does not generate a large amount of data relative to the size of the document.
  Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  322756  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756/ ) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows
  To work around this issue, follow these steps:
  1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.
  2. Locate the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager\MaxGrowFactor
  3. Double-click MaxGrowFactor, type 4096, click to select Decimal, and then click OK.
  4. Exit Registry Editor.
• You install the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 (SP1) on a computer that is running the release version of SharePoint Server 2007. However, the DCOM permissions for the WSS_ADMIN_WPG security group and for the WSS_WPG security group are removed from the OSearch DCOM application. Additionally, if the SharePoint Server service is running under an account that is not in the Administrators group, the search function will not work.
  
  Note To work around this issue, you can manually add DCOM permissions for the WSS_ADMIN_WPG security group and for the WSS_WPG security group. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Click Start, click Run, type dcomcnfg, and then press ENTER.
  2. Expand Component Services, expand Computers, expand My Computer, and then click DCOM Config.
  3. In the details pane, right-click OSearch, and then click Properties.
  4. Click the Security tab.
  5. Under Launch and Activation Permissions, click Customize, and then click Edit.
  6. Click Add to add the local WSS_ADMIN_WPG security group and the local WSS_WPG security group, grant them Local Launch and Local Activation permissions, and then click OK.
  7. Under Access Permissions, click Customize, and then click Edit.
  8. Click Add to add the local WSS_ADMIN_WPG security group and the local WSS_WPG security group, grant them Local Access Activation permission, and then click OK two times.
  9. Restart the computer.
• Consider the following scenario. You try to publish a page in a SharePoint list. Before you publish the page, you click the Close button on the upper-right corner while you are editing the page. A pop-up dialog box appears. Then, you return to the page that you are editing by clicking Cancel in the pop-up dialog box. The pop-up dialog box shows the following message:
  Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?
  Then, you again click the Close button on the upper-right corner. However, you do not see the pop-up dialog box. In this scenario, if you browse directly to the page that you just created, and then you click Publish, you can publish the page without any required fields.
• Consider the following scenario. You try to publish a page in a SharePoint list. Before you publish the page, you click the Close button on the upper-right corner while you are editing the page. A pop-up dialog box appears. Then, you return to the page that you are editing by clicking Cancel in the pop-up dialog box. The pop-up dialog box will show the following message:
  Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?
  Then, you again click the Close button on the upper-right corner. However, in this scenario, you do not see the pop-up dialog box, and you are redirected to the home page.

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Hotfix information

Prerequisites

Restart information

Hotfix replacement information

Registry information

File information

32-bit hotfix package

64-bit hotfix package

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