Section 6.4. Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1

6.4. Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1

Microsoft released the first service pack for Windows SharePoint Services on September 2, 2004. The service pack contains important security enhancements and fixes issues not covered in a Microsoft Knowledge Based article previously released. Service pack 1 fixes the following issues:

• A "Bad Request" error message is displayed when entering //localhost in Internet Explorer.

• A Web Part not being added to the online Web Part gallery.

• Restoring a SQL database causes links at the root of a web site to break.

• Relinking a form in SharePoint Services causes formatted text to move.

• Oldest items in threaded view in a discussion are listed first.

• Backing up SharePoint Services causes a "Write error" error message.

• An "Error 403.1" error message is displayed when you create a new SharePoint web site.

• Installing a language SharePoint template pack does not add the language to the Select Language list.

• A "Form Validation Error" error message is displayed when uploading a large file.

• A nonprovisioned web site is provisioned when installing or updating a SharePoint server.

• If you update SharePoint, IIS services that were originally stopped may be restarted automatically.

• Opening a SharePoint web page causes FrontPage to quit.

• Installing an update that contains the Mso.dll file may cause Microsoft Office programs to indicate an incorrect service pack level.

• Some SharePoint files have certificate expiration dates that are earlier than expected.

• Adding a user through Microsoft Windows groups corrupts the UserInfo field on the home page.

• Multiple threads accessing the same document at the same time on SharePoint causes an "Access Violation" error message.

• Entering //localhost in Internet Explorer on a Windows Server 2003 machine causes a "Not authorized" error message to be displayed.

• Pasting text in a new announcement that contains extended characters fails.

• If the file properties contain a nonbreaking space, it will corrupt the XML file in SharePoint.