Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): December 16, 2008

This article describes the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package that is dated December 16, 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 packages.
• Whether you must make any registry changes.
• The files that the hotfix package contains.

Issues that this hotfix package fixes

This hotfix fixes the following issues that are not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

• Consider the following scenario:
  • You publish a SharePoint Portal Server 2007 publishing portal site through Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006.
  • The Web application that hosts the publishing portal site is configured to use Allow Anonymous Access and Windows Authentication (NTLM).
  • Output caching is enabled on the publishing portal site through ISA Server 2006, but output caching fails.
  If you press F5 in Internet Explorer to refresh the Web page, the date on the output page is updated. The date should remain constant for the period of time in which the cache is not invalidated. To see the date on the output page in Internet Explorer, right-click the Web page, click View Source, and search for the code that resembles the following:
  Rendered using cache profile:Public Internet (Purely Anonymous) at: 2008-10-10T12:00:57
• You add the Scheduling Start Date field and the Scheduling End Date field to a Web page. You try to publish a page with Immediately option, you may receive the following error message:
  You must specify a valid date within the range of xxx and xxx.
• When you review a document library through Site Content and Structure, filtering does not work when the column value contains a semicolon (;).
• If you configure the Max. Cache Size setting of the Site collection object cache to more than 2000, an integer overflow exception may occur. You may receive an error message that resembles the following:
  Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible HTML editor such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. If the problem persists, contact your Web server administrator.
• Non-core search Web part queries are not recorded into usage logs.
• You add the Scheduling Start Date field and the Scheduling End Date field to a Web page. You set the values for the Scheduling Start Date field and the Scheduling End Date field, and then you wait until the Web page expires. When you try to publish the Web page, you may receive the following error message:
  The end date of a page must be in the future. Please edit the end date and try again.
• Incremental crawls fail to be scheduled when you have multiple Shared Services Providers (SSPs), and one SSP contains many sources.
• You use the Team Site template as the template for the Top-level site in Office SharePoint Server 2007. A subsite owner of the top-level site does not have access permissions to the top-level site. When the subsite owner tries to create his own subsite, the owner may receive an "Access Denied" error message.
• You may receive an "ELEMENT NOT FOUND (COM-INTEROP): exception when you are running crawls that overlap. This issue causes the crawls to fail, and SharePoint server does not index any further documents.
• When you click the Local Office SharePoint Server Sites link in Content Sources, you may receive the following error message:
  Unexpected Error has occurred
• Search returns zero results during an index merge process.

This hotfix fixes the following issues:

• 959122  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959122/ ) Users cannot create a new variation of a page that they created in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site
• 960254  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960254/ ) Error message when you click Checked out to me in the "Manage Content and Structure" page after you filter the picture library by a custom column: "Cannot find column [repro]"
  
  

Known issue

Symptoms

After you apply this Cumulative Update, scheduled incremental crawls or full crawls never run.

Workaround

Create a new daily, weekly, or monthly schedule. Or, edit an existing daily, weekly, or monthly schedule.

• If the Repeat within the day check box is checked, and you already have a repetition interval, you do not have to do anything
• If the Repeat within the day check box is not checked, enter 5 minutes in the Run Every text box. Additionally, enter 6 minutes in the For text box.

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problems that are described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing the problems described in this article. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.

Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site: Note The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for installing this hotfix.

Restart requirement

You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix does not replace a previously released hotfix.

Registry information

To use one of the hotfixes in this package, you do not have to make any changes to the registry.

File information

This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build. This hotfix contains only the files that you must have to correct the issues that are listed in this article.

The global version of this hotfix package uses a Microsoft Windows Installer package to install the hotfix package. The dates and the times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in the following table. When you view the file information, the date is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

32-bit hotfix package

Download information



Microsoft Windows Installer .msp file information



After the hotfix is installed, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes, or a later version of the file attributes, that are listed in the following table:

64-bit hotfix package

Download information



Microsoft Windows Installer .msp file information



After the hotfix is installed, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes, or a later version of the file attributes, that are listed in the following table:

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